'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I want to see Contagion, but I would unnerve the other people in the theater in my current coughing and dripping state.
I started sneezing in the theater. P looked over at me and then I had to try and stop laughing too.
Allyson, My take on it is that humans cause it because we never consider consequences of things like destroying habitat. And forget that, to viruses, we're just made of meat.
I need to get my flu shot.
Allyson, yeah.
Good grief, I had no idea posting a missed connection on craigslist was so COMPLICATED these days--write it, put your email address in twice, get an email, click on the link, put in your PHONE NUMBER, get a code, put in the code, AND then a captcha? Jesus.
I'm not. even. clicking.
Stands in "No Oxford Comma" corner and scowls.
(Is there a No Oxford Commas t-shirt? Because I would buy it.)
ETA: OK, I clicked. Cute. But I maintain my position: serial commas are to be used in certain sentences, like that one, for meaning, but not in "I went shopping for condoms, KY, and bananas."
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Erika!
Went to the MD Renaissance Festival today. Saw some good acts, and the weather was decent.
Happy Birthday Erika.
In terms of Oxford comma. I'm fine either way, as long as you are inconsistent. Yes inconsistent, because either way has exceptions. "I want to thank my parents, Jesus, and Ayne Rand" needs the serial comma, unless you are of very UNusual parentage. "A Panda walks into a bar, eats shoots and leaves" needs to omit the Oxford comma unless the Panda was armed.
The advantage of the Oxford comma is that it requires fewer exceptions than omitting it. An Oxford comma user will be more consistent. Omitting the Oxford comma and putting it in only when needed means having to make more exceptions, but overall involves typing fewer commas over a lifetime.
"A Panda walks into a bar, eats shoots and leaves" needs to omit the Oxford comma unless the Panda was armed.
That sentence is ungrammatical as written. It's not a question of Oxford comma. It's a comma splice.
My problem is that it was drilled into my head that comma=pause. So if I read "....Buffy, Xander and Willow" I read it as "Buffy (pause) Xanderandwillow." Which I realize is kind of weird.
I just met Joe Morton.
And I comported myself with dignity!
Did I even mention he's on my "National Treasure" list of American actors? No?
