#2 2018-07-29 15:13:44
Grammar still matters. And, hooray, for the Oxford comma.
"I had dinner with my parents, Batman, and Wonder Woman last night" is vastly different from "I had dinner with my parents, Batman and Wonder Woman last night".
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#3 2018-07-29 20:31:29
For the academically inclined, a nuanced discussion of the virtues and shortcomings of the much-maligned Oxford Comma...
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2017/04 … ord-comma/
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#4 2019-04-18 11:54:11
~ click ~
Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs
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#5 2019-04-22 16:53:25
Much ado about nothing, methinks.
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#6 2019-04-22 19:25:27
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Much ado about nothing, methinks.
You're right. English deviations from mother tongue to its far-flung former subjects are minor.
I found Spanish dialects from Mexico to Panama largely incomprehensible anywhere outside major cities.
In other news, there's precious little real news anymore.
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#7 2019-04-24 15:47:32
choad wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Much ado about nothing, methinks.
You're right. English deviations from mother tongue to its far-flung former subjects are minor.
I found Spanish dialects from Mexico to Panama largely incomprehensible anywhere outside major cities.
Languages change because people communicate. Imagine if we were like the French and had to invent all of our own words?
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