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JJuggle
2006-10-17, 02:13 PM
I stumbled upon this while browsing Podcasts:

Grammar Girl (http://www.qdnow.com/)
iridemymuni
2006-10-17, 02:14 PM
haha
Borges
2006-10-17, 09:23 PM
Miss Ayelery and Grammar Girl.

I like the sound of that. They could be the Batman and Robin of spelling and punctuation.
j-n
2006-10-17, 09:38 PM
Wow! It's quite amusing to see the difference between mistakes made by native english speakers and non-native ones. :)
There are many mistakes made by natives which seem quite obvious to me and I'd never make them and vice versa: I make lots of mistakes which are probably totally inconceivable to natives.

-Jedrzej
johnfoss
2006-10-18, 03:11 AM
Don't label me an expert, but didn't Grammar Girl leave out a comma in her thread title?
JJuggle
2006-10-18, 11:14 AM
Don't label me an expert, but didn't Grammar Girl leave out a comma in her thread title?
I will confess to not being entirely certain but, based on Grammar Girl's podcast about commas, I believe the right choice was made. At the very least I'm confident that even among experts there would disagreement.
BillyTheMountain
2006-10-20, 11:58 AM
I will confess to not being entirely certain but, based on Grammar Girl's podcast about commas, I believe the right choice was made. At the very least I'm confident that even among experts there would disagreement.

I'm confident that even among experts there would disagreement.

I'm confident that even among experts there would disagreement.

I'm confident that even among experts there would be disagreement.

Is grammar the sole domain of women? Where's grammar boy? Where's Mr. Ayelary?
JJuggle
2006-10-20, 01:04 PM
I'm confident that even among experts there would disagreement.

I'm confident that even among experts there would disagreement.

I'm confident that even among experts there would be disagreement.

Is grammar the sole domain of women? Where's grammar boy? Where's Mr. Ayelary?
Oops.

At least I admit to my mistakes. Do you?
BillyTheMountain
2006-10-21, 01:15 AM
Oops.

At least I admit to my mistakes. Do you?

Very funny! :D

I notice you veered away from my feminist agenda, too!
JJuggle
2006-10-21, 02:46 AM
I notice you veered away from my feminist agenda, too!
According to the Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/Commas/Commas14.html) the comma preceding "too" is unnecessary. A comma is necessary, however, to set off a word used as a direct address, bitch.
UniBrier
2006-10-21, 03:32 AM
Where's grammar boy?That would be James J. Kilpatrick (http://www.uexpress.com/coveringthecourts/), you may not have heard of him because he's conservative, he writes interesting grammar (http://www.uexpress.com/coveringthecourts/?uc_full_date=19990704) critiques (http://www.uexpress.com/coveringthecourts/?uc_full_date=20061015).

JJ, Thanks for the link to GG. I will visit there often.