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Hee hee hee hee hee. Hee.

Goats.

Also, heh @ Pravit. And heyyyyyy. I like joysof's pedantry. It saves me from having to be the pedant. Just when I'm itching to stab the screen with my red...

OH SNAP :!:

I'm a child of the eighties, sorry

It probably would make more sense, yes. However, punctuation is a capricious mistress. There may be a good reason for it; if I find it out, I'll let you know.

The comma always goes inside, yep.[/quote]
Actually this topic is controversial. I even seem to recall that BrE and AmE have it differently. Either way, commas rarely make sense inside quotes,...

The comma always goes inside, yep.

In American standard punctuation, the comma goes inside. For example:

Pravit said, "I desire to learn more about punctuation," to which I responded, "I think that is an admirable goal."

Mind you, I believe that overseas, conventions differ. I myself go by the AP style guide, as I am a proto-journalist. Here is what it has to say on the subject:



The second bullet point there...

This just in, guys: commas aren't that important.

What is important about commas is not, in fact, PROPERLY using them, but how much you use them. Use them moderately. If you think you have too...

Yeah, and, like, if you can't remember how to properly use commas, just forget 'em. For real, just do whatever you feel like doing. And don't bother to spell anything correctly, either. And by all...

"Who are you talking with" and "Who are you talking to" are both conversational although technically unsound. Correct variants would be "To whom are you talking?" "You are talking to whom?" "With...

Pravit, your English is fine. Jeeeeeez.

And your punctuation is divine. I do appreciate some good punctuation, and you, my good sir, have it in spades.

What about "Whom did you give the book?" :D[/quote]

Indeed. I have no major quibble with "Who did you give the book?" or even "Who did you give the book to?" in conversation, although I do think...

It sounds wrong because prepositions then cannot go at the end of sentences. I would say "You are with whom?" See? Normal. :D

Who vs. Whom:

http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20021113.html

That's the funny thing - I automatically use it after a preposition, so if it was "he gave genital herpes to whom?" I would defnitely use it. But your construction, I'm not sure. Now that I'm...

Granted, I work in communications, but most everyone I know uses "whom" even in informal emails. Now that I think about it, most of my friends even use it in speech, at least when following the word...

Any idiom involving goats is automatically funny.

My useless two cents? No one should have to dumb-down their language unless they're a kindergarden teacher. There's nothing wrong with sounding...

Wow. A world where the word "invent" is snobby is a world I don't want to live in.

2 putt it anohter way oddo, wud U turn in a profesional paper writtn like this. if no why Not? u say there r only CONVENTIONS an this seem like convention 2 me. well i sure C a lot of it on the...

:?: I was referring to joysof's post about French, not the posts correcting you.[/quote]

oops .. sorry[/quote]

:) No problem

Speaking of innumeracy, I don't think you can have a 101% literacy rate. :?:

PS: one of the definitions of "illiteracy" is "ignorance resulting from not reading." I would say that poor grammar...

:?: I was referring to joysof's post about French, not the posts correcting you.

joysof, you make me happy. You're the only person I know who's a bigger language snob than I am. :)

According to AP style it's "Ukraine" not "The Ukraine," and as I have mentioned before, the AP stylebook is my Bible. But in this case I can take or leave the "the."



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