Your parents, God and Ayn Rand, clearly warped you as a child, David.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
P.M. Marc - Oct 11, 2009 7:45:03 am PDT #940 of 3094
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Polter-Cow - Oct 11, 2009 7:48:37 am PDT #941 of 3094
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The rule is - and should be - use the comma only as necessary.
That's not a rule; that's a recipe for disaster. The serial comma provides consistency.
Barb - Oct 11, 2009 7:50:44 am PDT #942 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Your parents, God and Ayn Rand, clearly warped you as a child, David.
::snickers quietly in the corner::
DavidS - Oct 11, 2009 7:51:33 am PDT #943 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Look, ya'll can make up a broadly generalized rule that has limited application and stick it all over your sentences.
For example, any sentence with Billy Joel in it requires a semi-colon; he's just that awesome!
But you don't need a generalized rule about serial commas. You use the commas when it properly helps to convey the meaning you intend.
And it is nothing less than fustian to put a comma in before "and" in most cases.
DavidS - Oct 11, 2009 7:53:26 am PDT #944 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's not a rule; that's a recipe for disaster. The serial comma provides consistency.
::Extends Hobgoblin Extractor into the narrow corridors of P-Cow's mind::
Glamcookie - Oct 11, 2009 7:57:08 am PDT #945 of 3094
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Up with the serial comma!
Amy - Oct 11, 2009 8:00:09 am PDT #946 of 3094
Because books.
And it is nothing less than fustian to put a comma in before "and" in most cases.
So, so sadly wrong.
::makes out with serial comma AND semi-colon::
Polter-Cow - Oct 11, 2009 8:00:41 am PDT #947 of 3094
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And it is nothing less than fustian to put a comma in before "and" in most cases.
You know what's fustian?
Using words like "fustian."
tommyrot - Oct 11, 2009 8:01:38 am PDT #948 of 3094
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I hope we're not frightening the lurkers away....
Barb - Oct 11, 2009 8:03:02 am PDT #949 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
The sad part is, if we made a punctuation thread, it would languish in obscurity, desolate, little tumbleweeds of serial commas and semi-colons rolling past...