Serial commas suck. They're for fuddy duddys and maiden aunts and licorice eaters and people who have hard candy in cut glass bowls that melts together into one lump and collects dust.
I just figure they're for Americans.
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Serial commas suck. They're for fuddy duddys and maiden aunts and licorice eaters and people who have hard candy in cut glass bowls that melts together into one lump and collects dust.
I just figure they're for Americans.
::pppllbbtt::
::notes licorice stain down the middle of tongue::
::gives david the finger::
::notes distinct hard candy/dust combo on fingertip::
t rolls eyes forever at Hec
I write historical fiction. It's supposed to be old-school.
::notes licorice stain down the middle of tongue::
I can't stand licorice, I'll have you know.
::hides candy dish::
Wow, talk about your grim fandangos: Suicide Mistaken For Halloween Decoration
Joe sent that link to me earlier.
Ick. Poor woman.
They're for fuddy duddys and maiden aunts and licorice eaters and people who have hard candy in cut glass bowls that melts together into one lump and collects dust.
Those who don't use them are the sort of naive futurists who think that we'd have banned war, poverty, and crappy popular music by now. They are intellectual failures, clockcuckooland residents, and the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
So THAT's why I married a curry-hating fruitcake-lover! He is wise in the ways of commas.
Hey! What's wrong with a curry-hating fruitcake-lover!?
Erika, great interview. You made me laugh out loud and think at the same time, which is pretty impressive.
Those who don't use them are the sort of naive futurists
Naive? Sir, the word you were looking for there is "visionary."
who think that we'd have banned war, poverty, and crappy popular music by now.
Again, you have to have a vision to even attempt to face the future. Instead you clutch the mouldering past to your bosom and litter the language with the clinging ivy of needlessly fussy punctuation.
They are intellectual failures,
So say the "we like it the old way" fustidarians. Do you also intend to argue that plural possessive must employ the unsightly "s" apostrophe "s" construction?
clockcuckooland residents, and the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Revolution? Sir, you are on the reactionary side of the argument, not the revolutionary.
The serial comma will be jettisoned into the past as the English language roars into the future. You may keep yours in a small box with your antimacassar collection.