Just for a laugh

[John K]

An ex-editor,
John K

 

[John_B]

I note that you favour the Oxford comma before 'and'. It is unnecessary in this example.
Dave

I disagree. I don't think its use fits the definition of an Oxford comma, as it wasn't used in a list of three or more items. It was used to emphasise that while in common situations pedantry can be useful, sometimes it can be of massive importance, maybe to the point of averting disaster. Commas were inserted where there would be a pause if the sentence was spoken.

 

[alastairq]

I have real issues erasing what I see as unwanted commas! Often created by fat-finger syndrome.

All too often I find my erroneous commas are actually dead harvest flies stuck behind the monitor screen....

 

[Eastsidepilot]

 

[michael mott]

Shorts weather is here again today
only -8C

 

[Wagonman]

I note that you favour the Oxford comma before 'and'. It is unnecessary in this example.
Dave

Surely in that instance it's a parenthetical sub-clause and correctly delineated by common-or-garden, not Oxford, commas.

 

[John_B]

Surely in that instance it's a parenthetical sub-clause and correctly delineated by common-or-garden, not Oxford, commas.

I think that's what I said, but it's a very long time since I passed my English Language O Level!

 

[Jordan or Plymouth Mad]

On the importance of punctuation...

 

[NHY 581]

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[Brian McKenzie]

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If it's Annual, how can it be occasional?

 

[michael mott]

I guess our BBQ plans for this evening have been scuppered.
Cold cuts again tonight!

 

[Jordan or Plymouth Mad]

I guess our BBQ plans for this evening have been scuppered.

Why...??

Sprinting for exit......

 

[Wagonman]

I think that's what I said, but it's a very long time since I passed my English Language O Level!

More a response to Daifly really. What are these new fangled things called O levels?

 

[alastairq]

I had an English language O level! Cannot for the life of me think, ''why?''

 

[Osgood]

Moving the clocks forward one hour at Stoneghenge:

 

[Eastsidepilot]

Somethings in this country do make you feel like we live in the stone age ! but why do we still change the clocks ?


Col.

 

[John_B]

Somethings in this country do make you feel like we live in the stone age ! but why do we still change the clocks ?


Col.

Do we? Not really following what's going on in the world, I haven't seen any announcement of when they are changing, but I had a feeling it might have happened by now. All my clocks seem to be showing the same time, and the time seems to match up with what's going on with the world, but I haven't changed any of them!

 

[alastairq]

My Not-mi-cats' tummy clocks haven't changed! They still move forward yet another hour, approximately every other week!

 

[Bigjohn]

I thought commas was to do with world trade……..

 

[CrankyChris]

And I thought it was a state of unconsciousness!