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Nathaniel Lambert
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:07 pm    Post subject: ALL APOLOGIES Reply with quote
Is anyone else a liberal comma-kazi like myself? I, just, can't, say, enough, is, enough,,. It's a terrible habit. I have an overall idea of when to use one and when not to (Elements of Style), but, for pete's sake, it's like an addiction. I'm going to wrap a rubberband around my wrist. Everytime I add an extra comma, I'll snap the rubberband,,like now,,
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Phil Kuhlman
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ARGH! I know the feeling! It's so hard to not put commas in all the spaces where my brain would pause in a sentence, but I love them!


ARGH! I DID IT AGAIN! Damn tasty commas...
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Natalie L. Sin
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have the opposite affliction. The way I used them, you would think they were charging me per comma.
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John P. Wilson
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm not a big comma fan either. Especially with dialogue.
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shroud
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am a huge fan of the em-dash.
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KevinLucia
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 2:00 pm    Post subject: My addiction.... Reply with quote
I like semi-colons, adverbs, and unnessecary parenthetical expressions (because they're cool like that).
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Nathaniel Lambert
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What about dangling participles?
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KevinLucia
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:26 pm    Post subject: Hmmmmm Reply with quote
Writing quickly like that, dangling particples happen.

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Nathaniel Lambert
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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:02 am    Post subject: Re: Hmmmmm Reply with quote
KevinLucia wrote:
Writing quickly like that, dangling particples happen.

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I don't see anything wrong with the sentence below:

I climbed a tree this morning wearing my pajamas.
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Phil Kuhlman
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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It would sound better if Yoda said it, you know?


In pajamas this morning a tree I climbed.

wow, imagine a whole book like that? English majors would go insane half way through.
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Scott
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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
shroud wrote:
I am a huge fan of the em-dash.


I'm a HUGE em-dash fan, too!
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