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| 576.1 | a, b, and c | AITG::DERAMO | Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo | Wed Oct 26 1988 22:27 | 8 |
| >> He said this, that, and the other thing...
>> or
>> He said this, that and the other thing.
>> Personally, I abhor the latter.
I [also?] prefer the former.
Dan
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| 576.2 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Wed Oct 26 1988 23:09 | 3 |
| The comma represents a pause in speach and therefore seems
appropriate. There are always exceptions and this is a good place
for someone to put one forward ! Letsby Avenue
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| 576.3 | Use no commas before and,but,or,nor and however... | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | Prussiking up the rope of life! | Thu Oct 27 1988 01:08 | 18 |
| G'day,
Yerst, now in the case of scribing spoken text, one may well put
commas, colons, semi-colons or dashes to indicate the speaker taking
a breath and breaking up the sentence. However, in the way of lists
in written text, I was always taught that it was infra-dig to place
a comma before a conjunction. For example
'The colours of a rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
indigo and violet.' would be correct. If that were the hesitant
speech of a schoolboy recalling the colours in a test it could
reasonable be punctuated thus:-
"The colours of a rainbow are red, orange, yellow; green; blue,
indigo - and violet!"
My 2� worth
Derek
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| 576.4 | Here a comma, there a comma... | IOSG::LAWM | Normal service will NOT be resumed... | Thu Oct 27 1988 11:16 | 13 |
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re: .3
I think I read a discussion about this somewhere else. As far as
I remember, it turned out to be a matter of style whether you use
a comma before the `and'.
I might be wrong though, as I have a tendency to use too many commas
anyway!
Mat.
*:o)
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| 576.5 | the other conference | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom,293-5358,VAX&MIPS Architecture | Thu Oct 27 1988 13:39 | 1 |
| Se also JOKUR::grammar topics 6 and 106.
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| 576.6 | By their commas ye shall know them | CLOSET::T_PARMENTER | Tongue in cheek, fist in air! | Thu Oct 27 1988 18:16 | 14 |
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The title is an old, true saying.
Commas function both as breathing spots and as sentence stitchers.
This is utterly baffling to the crowd who think that sentences are
equations.
The equation crowd doesn't like the comma before the conjunction,
but most professional writers prefer to place it there. The reason
is so we can write sentences like
The racecars were red, green and white, and orange.
The other reason is that writers like to put the comma there.
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| 576.7 | Otay, Buckwheat! | SAACT0::SAKOVICH_A | Keep RIGHT except to PASS! | Thu Oct 27 1988 20:27 | 9 |
| RE: .5
� Se (sic) also JOKUR::grammar topics 6 and 106.
Thanks, Tom. The grammar conference helped a lot. Strongly suggest
anyone else wondering about this nit take a look at the referenced
topics.
Aaron
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| 576.8 | the lonely comma | WARDER::SACKFIELD | keep on trucking .... | Tue Dec 20 1988 11:45 | 10 |
| My English teacher always said that commas get lonely - and you
should put them in pairs to keep each other company.
I am a firm believer in using commas, semi-colons etc. as I think
it's sheer lasiness that's causing our language to decay.
Regards
Janice Sackfield
Warrington UK
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| 576.9 | La"z"iness........ | WHEEL::SWINIARSKI | NANcy--*NANSKI*--SwiniarSKI | Wed Feb 15 1989 18:01 | 9 |
| Yes Janice, I agree that our language is decaying.
However, in America, we spell it with a "Z"
"laziness". (-:
Is it different in the U.K.? I'm not being sarcastic or anything. I
just couldn't find the word lasiness in my "American Heritage Dictionary"
"Nanski"
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