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**SadieKate** · 09-24-2009, 11:43 AM

Celebrate the comma today on National Punctuation Day!

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

Down with apostrophe abuse!

**tulip** · 09-24-2009, 11:52 AM

Yes!

**jobob** · 09-24-2009, 12:00 PM

Heh, I heard about that on the radio this morning and thought immediately of you, SK.

**SadieKate** · 09-24-2009, 12:04 PM

Heh, I thought of bikerZ!

**divingbiker** · 09-24-2009, 12:29 PM

I loooove me some punctuation!!!!

**Owlie** · 09-24-2009, 12:47 PM

But how about some love for the semicolon?

**TsPoet** · 09-24-2009, 12:47 PM

I just got an email from a company about a product I ordered. The last line is:

"If we met your expectations tell others, if we didn't tell us!"

missing a comma, right?

"If we met your expectations tell others, if we didn't, tell us!"

This has been driving me nuts.

**Owlie** · 09-24-2009, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by TsPoet

I just got an email from a company about a product I ordered. The last line is:

"If we met your expectations tell others, if we didn't tell us!"

missing a comma, right?

"If we met your expectations tell others, if we didn't, tell us!"

This has been driving me nuts.

Shouldn't it be "If we met your expectations, tell others. If we didn't, tell us"?
Comma splices! Eek!

**SadieKate** · 09-24-2009, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by Owlie

But how about some love for the semicolon?

Send one some hugs and kissies from me!

**tulip** · 09-24-2009, 01:34 PM

Can we work in the difference between less and fewer while we're on the topic?

**Zen** · 09-24-2009, 01:52 PM

You go first.
Personally, I have a beef with the use of pick and choose.

**OakLeaf** · 09-24-2009, 01:58 PM

I'm still trying to get over "which/that."

**Geonz** · 09-28-2009, 10:59 AM

SNORK! Another grammar thread

Indeed, that "sentence" needed a period or a semicolon.

I worked with a student last week who thought sentences weren't allowed to be too short. I suspect a teacher had told her that because she was supposed to write more, but I also speculated that children in homes with fewer books (and less emphasis on literacy and love of reading) might have much less experience with simpler sentences in writing, tho' they generally used them in their everyday language.

I need to find _Eats, shoots and leaves_

**Pedal Wench** · 09-28-2009, 11:08 AM

Where do imaginary words fit in? Alot and abit bother me every time I see them.

**TsPoet** · 09-28-2009, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Pedal Wench

Where do imaginary words fit in? Alot and abit bother me every time I see them.

I've been trying to come up with potential names for my next dog.
"Abit" just got put on that list.
Thanks,

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