Punctuation lovers...I know you are out there

[popsycal]

Check out this book
thoroughly recommended

i wondered....
the only thing is could thikn to tell me off for was the sarcastic,comma,use,thing
but i thougth janstar did it first then tinker laughed
or did that not happen
anyway i feel bad
btw my nickname was originally gonna be popsy but someone beat my to it so it became 'popsy-cal' hmm

i wondered....
the only thing is could thikn to tell me off for was the sarcastic,comma,use,thing
but i thougth janstar did it first then tinker laughed
or did that not happen
anyway i feel bad
btw my nickname was originally gonna be popsy but someone beat my to it so it became 'popsy-cal' hmm

Popsy, she was telling herself off for assuming that you had a Dh.She would have felt awful for writing what she did if your dh had just left you or some such thing. Nothing to worry about.

phew!
janstar.........if you were telling yourself off then please don't!
don't mind sarcasm!

Yeah, Popsycal - Beetroot and Norma are right.

I had a lot of wine last night and just wanted to qualify my remarks and make sure I didn't let my mouth run away with me (it does sometimes). You didn't say anything wrong

anyway - lets forget this!
I just tried to explain this whole thread to dh and he shook his head in disbelief and asked how much i drank last night!!!
i had to explain the grammar first though!

I can't see men ever having heated discussions about commas when they've had a few sherbets. They would think we were off our rockers.

I know what you mean, Janstar.
Anyway, I stopped reading the comma section and moved on to the semi-colon. So far, I agree with Lynne Truss.
BTW DH reckons we should write to her to tell her about the comma shenanighans.
I would if I were certain that I was right.
On a course on Thurs with Literacy Consultants of our LEA. WHo dares me to take the book and ask them!?!

You should email her the thread - she'd be dead chuffed to know she'd provoked this.

that would be quite funny!!

I would still recommend this book!
All of the stuff that I have said so far is just out of genuine curiousity and has been said with my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek.

As a fellow punctuation pendant, I am sure that the author of the book, Ms Truss, would fully appreciate this thread!
(Like the use of parenthetic commas in the sentence above and the comma to indicate that the subordinate clause in that complex sentence is at the beginning?)
Maybe I ought to dot afew more smiley and winking faces around in my posts so that people realise the light-hearted nature of this debate

Anyway, Ms Truss couldn't really complain....we have probably generated several sales of her book!!!

And I don't believe it - Amazon have just reduced the price of it by another £1!
It was £7.99 down from £9.99 yesterday but is now £6.99!
Maybe they have been reading this thread!
ROFL

Popsycal - I wish dd WAS in your class (or should that be WERE?????)
Or shall I go all Shakespearian and say, "Would that my darling dd were in your esteemed class"?

Hey - I emailed the publisher......
got an email back saying that she (the publisher lady) had checked out the thread and was glad that the book was creatng so much conversation!
Also said that she would pass it on to the author!
I have spoken tho many of my colleagues who are in agreement with me!
We will have to wait and see on this one!
Was explaining to my english set today about this who predicament - some thought that I was mad and some could actually see my point!
Heheehehe

oh my god
just searched for our local taxi company's phone number on google
and it says **taxi's
argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I think it's a bit like "enormity" - it sounds as if it should mean what she wants it to mean but it just doesn't! "Worthy of consideration" is as near as you can get.

I love the sentences children produce to use the words in their spelling tests. I have kept all my kids' spelling books - if I can find DS1's from when he was about 8 I'll give you some of his - they are corkers!

ks, "a considerable achievement" still means large - as in a considerable amount.

I'm sure there will a proper grammar term for this. It's like an adjective, but maybe it isn't exactly that. Maybe we should ask Lynne Truss about this too!

Obviously they were barbecuing a very large piece of meat, SueW!

Are your one and none Scottish pronunciations? How do you pronounce won? What did her teacher say about the separate column?