2010-01-09 Sat - The Frozen Bridges - Winter Edition - VIII - West to East

Fuck you all.

^^...ergo, I love this place.

(^_^)/

People you are ridiculous...

neb light another one

I must say old chaps, one does enjoy such witty banter.

Thank you mc_nebula. It may have some minor gramatical imperfections but at least I understood it!

Anyway, I still can't recall anyone speaking in that stylee when I worked for 22 years in Peckham. Maybe it's the well known Camberwell-Peckham divide again? (Or maybe I'm about 22 years too old to understand)

Pedant, I was always taught not to use ", and" in sentences.

http://bartleby.com/141/strunk.html#4

Discuss.

Pedant, I was always taught not to use ", and" in sentences.

http://bartleby.com/141/strunk.html#4

Discuss.

There are very few hard and fast rules about commas in English and much is really a matter of opinion.

I imagine that you may say this because of this sentence in Pedant's post:

Also, repetition of the words enjoy and gentlemen in the first paragraph grates slightly, and does not scan well - although this is hardly of concern for one hunting out errors in spelling and grammar.

I would put a comma there, as well, as I would imagine pausing slightly before 'and' when saying this out loud, and then giving the 'and' more emphasis: '... grates slightly, AND does not scan well'. If you wanted to make both points more casually, you would not pause for breath there.

Coming from German, where as far as I'm aware the rules for commas cover every possible instance, I tend to place more commas than most native speakers, and I would certainly generally separate a clause that could stand as a complete sentence (like this one) from its preceding clause by a comma. In fact, I think that the insertion of 'and' is actually the main addition here, rather than the insertion of a comma, up from the casual style in which many people string sentences together as clauses: 'I think I saw him in town, I could swear he had a new haircut.' I often use this option, too, as it sometimes just seems natural when approximating spoken language. We should of course post everything here in an elevated literary style, but hey.

In fact, I think that the insertion of 'and' is actually the main addition here, rather than the insertion of a comma

Agreed.

We should of course post everything here in an elevated literary style, but hey

repped

That's basically what the Strunk article said. I wouldn't use a comma there but it's a bit random.