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- digga, on 10/12/2007, -6/+83Thanks Ether3al for submiting this story*.* Sometimes*,* I forget to look over my work for things like this. I guess I*'d* better start!
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59Ether3al: Digg for ending your title with a period. Subtle.
- eybear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34New record for most expensive grammar lesson?
- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28"Woman, without her man, is nothing."
"Woman! Without her, man is nothing." - shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -20/+47"I helped my uncle Jack, off a horse."
"I helped my uncle jack off a horse."
Commas are funny little bastards. - FolicAcid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Odd - I'm half Canadian, and wasn't aware that Canadians had different ways of spelling any of the words in that article.
Cue ignorant Canadian stereotypes of Americans?
Geaux Canada! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32People wonder why I'm such a spelling, grammar and punctuation nazi. This is exactly why I'm like that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28When hunting lions, hide in the brush
When hunting, lions hide in the brush.
Punctuation, is very important. Especially if you're hunting lions, a comma equals life or death. - strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -11/+35@*****:
Uhmm... you're a little mixed up. Those sentences are used to show how capitalization is important, not how commas are important. There is no comma needed in the sentence "I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse." - databasecowboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Wouldn't it be more polite to simply say "I helped my Uncle harvest semen from his horse"?
- litolist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Hah, that reminded me of this:
Business card before:
Works on contingency
No money down
Lionel Hutz: "Oh, they got this all screwed up." (writes on card)
Business card after:
Works on contingency?
No, money down! - MindReaver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21The comma makes the "unless cancelled with a years notice" part, apply to both parts of the sentence equally. Now, they can not only cancel the evergreen part of the policy, but can cancel the original 5 year policy with one year notice. Pretty clever of them to spot that, actually.
- ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Capitalization is just as important. There is a very big difference between 'I helped my uncle Jack off his horse" and "I helped my uncle jack off his horse".
- p1mpjuice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18In some parts of the world, you do not need a comma before the and in a multi-item list. But if he's American, he fails at his Nazi-ness.
- HanSolo69, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20So a panda walks into a bar and sits down and orders some food.
after eating his meal, he gets up to walk to the door, but before leaving, pulls out a gun and fires two shots into the air. A confused server simply asks the panda "Why?"
To which the panda replies, "I'm a panda, look it up." and throws the man a wildlife guide. The server turns to the appropriate entry and reads "Panda: Large black and white mammal native to Asia. Eats, shoots and leaves."
everybody go read the book "Eats Shoots and Leaves". - Fett101, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Isn't it? "I helped my uncle, Jack, off his horse"
- iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17"You mean proper spelling... American is the only country I know with their own form of English."
American eh? Where do I find the country American on the map? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Ouch. This better not raise my cable bill.
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11yeah, because rogers is going to get the extra money from the money fairie.
- Zenithan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@HydroWizard:
Actually, it works both ways. In a list, the last 'and' doesn't need to be preceded by a comma, although it can be. - cybrjoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"This is exactly why I'm like that."
It may not be why, it simply provides justification..... - Valence, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19Who, would worry this much, about punctuation: thats stupi.d
- terinjokes, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17Thanks Ether3al for submiting this story, Sometimes I forget to look over my work for things like this. I guess I better start!
- commiecat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Actually that should probably read:
Thanks, Ether3al, for submiting this story. Sometimes I forget to look over my work for things like this. I guess I'd better start!
You could get rid of "Ether3al" entirely and the second sentence doesn't need a comma after "sometimes". Sentences two and three could probably be joined into one sentence by replacing the period with ", so ".
I'm no expert, though. My fiancee is an editor but I think it's too much work to send her a Digg comment to look over. :) - sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"People wonder why I'm such a spelling, grammar and punctuation nazi."
Shoudn't "Nazi" be capitalized? In fairness, I guess you didn't claim to be a capitalization Nazi. - david76, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17A panda walks into a bar. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at all the other patrons.
Confused, the waiter asks, "Why?"
"Well, I'm a panda," he says, tossing a wildlife manual to the waiter. "Look it up."
The waiter finds the entry for panda and finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves." - noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Are the losing company now going to claim that this was a comma-unist plot to destroy free trade?
- Endymion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7With the second comma the contract can either run for five years, be renewed for another five years, or be canceled at any time with one year notice given.
Without the second comma the contract runs for five years and will be renewed for an additional five years unless there is one years notice given.
At least that's what I got from it. :) - pt4117, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@strictnien
It could have a comma. Actually it would have two.
"...my uncle, Jack, off..." - just_chris, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@HydroWizard
Actually that last comma you corrected is known as a "serial comma" which is not used in many styles of writing. I always use it, but some people were taught that it is not needed. - passion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7There's a hand-painted sign hanging in my neighborhood. Everytime I see it, I'm thankful that the person who created it knew their grammar.
Because "Slow, children playing" is different from "Slow children playing". - johnmalc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Versus
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Is the comma really just a smudge? Changes the entire meaning of the 2nd Amendment. - Metman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6LOL - I have the same sign in my neighborhood and it is a NY DOT sign that reads, "SLOW BLIND CHILD IN AREA". I always thought to myself, "Damn good thing he is blind because I am sure he would not be very happy about being called slow!".
- p1mpjuice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7When you say Uncle Jack, you are giving him a title. This is still treated as one object.
"I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse," is grammatically correct, but the shorter, and more appropriate way to say it is, in fact, "I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Paranthetical commapwnned
- jamsea, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11You mean proper spelling... American is the only country I know with their own form of English.
- pagit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Punctuation aside, it is really nice to see Rogers get it bad after all the years of reverse billing and trespassing on people's property to see if there are 2 families living at a residence. Yes, they will go into a person's yard and look in the basement window and see if there is a separate suite.
Rogers has a monopoly on the East coast for Cable-vision and Shaw has a monopoly on the West. - johnmalc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Thanks, anon. I guess I did screw it up, as the questionable comma is the one that falls after "militia", according to Wikipedia.
Then again, the population of African Elephants has also tripled over the past 10 weeks. - lukehudson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5without the comma the " terminated by one year" would only apply to the subsequent 5 years, but with the comma "terminated by one year" applies to the original 5 year period.
the added comma basically is the same as adding in brackets
"...shall continue in force for a period of five years from the date it is made (and thereafter for successive five year terms) unless and until terminated by one year..." - david76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been arguing that for ages. Apparently the NRA doesn't understand punctuation very well.
- NathanLoehlein, on 07/27/2009, -4/+8@crawfishsoul:
The title actually should not end in a period because it is a title and not a sentence. Notice the capitalization of the words "Importance" and "Punctuation." In such cases you don't end titles with periods. - BrokenBeta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What do you mean? The offending line is given, why do you want the surrounding page?
- HeaDiggrNCharge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@ FolicAcid
You get a digg just for saying Geaux.
Ahhhh I miss Louisiana... :( - meatbites, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It should, in fact, have those two commas, as the ownership term for 'uncle' was provided -- that being 'my'.
'I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse.'
Removal of the word 'my' ought to produce its proper noun form: 'I helped Uncle Jack off a horse.' - HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Score one for the grammar nazis! They are only trying to protect us from this nonsense. :P
Seriously, details matter. I don't hear any programmers getting upset because debuggers point out missing parantheses... - anonydigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You didn't get it right. Look up "2nd Amendment" in Wikipedia and you will see both versions.
- waltsjc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4So the entity that is supposed to be working to make sure that the public's interest is best served (the CRTC) instead is screwing the public by ensuring that rates will go up.
Way to go. - dubbin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A victory for Grammar Nazi's everywhere :)
- nogoodreason, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hooray!
Score one for the English buffs! :D -
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