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Grammar police punished for 'fixing' rare sign
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| August 22, 2008
Posted on 08/23/2008 8:13:18 AM PDT by gitmo
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To: gitmo
I remember my high school English grammar teacher, Sister Alice, telling me the basic rule of a comma; “If you think one should go there in all liklihood it doesn’t!”
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:06:43 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: gitmo
*** I detest those extraneous apostrophes'.***
Me too!!
And those, who will remain unnamed, who insert commas willynilly, just to break up a run on sentence, or some likewise screed, that should end in a period, and then begin a new sentence with a capital letter. Because everyone knows you do that with hyphens!
And I also hate those who end every sentence with an exclamation point! ... or two!!
In addition, 'alot' is not, I repeat NOT a word. So your spell checker isn't broke, trust it. 'a lot' is TWO separate words. Unless of course you mean 'allot', but that has a completely different meaning and would rarely be used in a post.
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:16:58 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
To: ops33
"I remember my high school English grammar teacher, Sister Alice, telling me the basic rule of a comma; If you think one should go there in all liklihood it doesnt!But Sister Alice probably didn't misspell "likelihood."
<grin>
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:24:26 AM PDT
by
Redbob
("WWJBD" ="What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: gitmo
This wasn’t an extraneous apostrophe on that sign, just a poorly place one. It said
“womens’”
As if something was possessed by a group of “womens.”
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:30:46 AM PDT
by
Redbob
("WWJBD" ="What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: littlehouse36
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:33:43 AM PDT
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: afortiori
What do you get when you mix obsessive compulsive disorder with an intellectual superiority complex?
Obama/Biden team?
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:37:41 AM PDT
by
swift15
(Support our troops.)
To: Redbob
The women’s room and the men’s room.
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:39:07 AM PDT
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: gitmo
"I don't see the problem here."
To: littlehouse36
Sign outside a Koren owned Deli. in Brooklyn. “Philip Chese Steak” $3.00
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:40:50 AM PDT
by
JimC214
To: Condor51
I had to allot some time out of my busy schedule to reply to your post.
;)
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:43:05 AM PDT
by
Ueriah
To: NonValueAdded
German urologists!I’d rather face the Wermacht than those guys.
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:43:08 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: Ueriah
*** I had to allot some time out of my busy schedule to reply to your post. ***
I also allot a good portion of the day to FR. Mainly because my typing stinks and it takes me a lot of time to post and/or respond.
;-)
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posted on
08/23/2008 9:49:00 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
To: Condor51
Unless of course you mean 'allot', but that has a completely different meaning and would rarely be used in a post. Now you've done it!!!
You have used up your alloted monthly allotment of “allots”!
There is only one allotment per year of “allots”, to whit: 12, to be used at an alloted rate of one “allot” per month!!
Using one or more “allots” per month is not only a lot of “allots”, but is one “allot” too many.
We are Conservatives, so do not believe in “allots” nor “allotments”!!
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posted on
08/23/2008 10:19:24 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
To: ApplegateRanch
But it seems a lot of conservatives do.
To: ApplegateRanch
We are Conservatives... -------------------------------------------------------
You mean the Conservatives of Brittan--the U.K. opposition party? :)
To: gitmo
It's an old sign, that makes it "rare" and "historic"? Kind of like the areas of town that are declared "historic districts" just because they have a bunch of crappy old row houses there. Who gives a rat's behind.
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posted on
08/23/2008 11:26:51 AM PDT
by
theymakemesick
(The war on drugs benefits government agencies, politicians and drug dealers, they don't want to win.)
To: Redbob
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posted on
08/23/2008 11:28:42 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: gitmo
“Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity, emense, in my train-whistle-blighted dreams tonight.”
Ha haaa haaaaaaa!
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posted on
08/23/2008 12:38:23 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: Condor51
An error I see so often I wonder whether it is being taught in schools - could’nt, , etc.
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posted on
08/23/2008 12:48:17 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: NonValueAdded
I resign from the GP, head hanging in shame.
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posted on
08/23/2008 2:59:44 PM PDT
by
littlehouse36
(Just the formula, ma'am.)
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