This delurker is loving the debate!
Up with the serial comma!
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
ehab - Oct 11, 2009 9:25:48 am PDT #973 of 3094
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
Dana - Oct 11, 2009 9:27:45 am PDT #974 of 3094
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
HA HA the lurkers support us in the thread.
DavidS - Oct 11, 2009 9:32:24 am PDT #975 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My t-shirt:
"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"
Matt H - Oct 11, 2009 9:38:53 am PDT #976 of 3094
Musikalicen Opfer
HA HA the lurkers support us in the thread.
...but rarely, seldom, or never in email.
clutches serial comma and holds it tight.
;)
P.M. Marc - Oct 11, 2009 9:42:53 am PDT #977 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
"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"
Newspapers have a lot of inane rules that boil down to saving column inches for the actual text and do nothing for clarity. Your point being?
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2009 9:43:28 am PDT #978 of 3094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"
That would be AWESOME.
It makes it SO much easier to identify crackpots.
erikaj - Oct 11, 2009 9:44:32 am PDT #979 of 3094
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm confused by the comma thing. But I may have a parenthetical addiction(Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Sometimes there is, though.
SailAweigh - Oct 11, 2009 10:04:21 am PDT #980 of 3094
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hec, I'll prouldy support you and order a t-shirt in size large, please!
Shir - Oct 11, 2009 10:21:32 am PDT #981 of 3094
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Mocking me using a Billy Joel reference is just weird. Just like comma hating.
Also, people, do you think Oz was pro serial comma or against it?
"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"
My shirt will just have to be "Pro serial comma, bitches". [Shir Stylebook]
Polter-Cow - Oct 11, 2009 10:56:39 am PDT #982 of 3094
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
When P-Cow's career advances to where he's the science writer for the New York Times, he can twist in consistent agony as his editor prunes all the serial commas out.
My career currently requires me to follow the AMA Manual of Style, which is pro-serial comma. I wrote a whole musical comedy about it.