"Serial comma? New York Times Stylebook, bitches!"
That would be AWESOME.
It makes it SO much easier to identify crackpots.
Sweet lumpy minion, you're the only one that understands. Probably 'cause I haven't sucked the brain out of you yet.
Glory ,'Potential'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2009 9:43:28 am PDT #978 of 3094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
brenda m - Oct 11, 2009 11:14:45 am PDT #983 of 3094
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
It could be worse. I'm now in a position where I have to be the one pruning them all out. It was one of the hardest things to get used to at this job, seriously.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2009 11:38:40 am PDT #984 of 3094
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had a boss who told me it was perfectly understandable that I might make the mistake of thinking that the serial comma was necessary. That was much more irritating than having her just tell me they were wrong. I'm pretty sure I just became passive aggressive about the whole thing, instead of sucking it up.
davers - Oct 11, 2009 11:47:05 am PDT #985 of 3094
Yeah, well....
t sits in corner, gently patting the ellipsis and crooning "there, there, don't mind the serial comma talk, I think you're very special...."
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2009 12:24:21 pm PDT #986 of 3094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My career currently requires me to follow the AMA Manual of Style, which is pro-serial comma.
t makes AMA gesture of solidarity
Shir - Oct 11, 2009 12:31:07 pm PDT #987 of 3094
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
sits in corner, gently patting the ellipsis and crooning "there, there, don't mind the serial comma talk, I think you're very special....">
Don't die, davers. Seriously.