Comma, comma, comma, comma chameleon

Posted by Gez on 2nd November, 2007

Why is this so hard for you?, originally uploaded by vebelfetzer.

Awful use of a comma and an inappropriate exclamation point.

This was brought to my attention by one of our new Twitter friends, Vebelfetzer (a.k.a. Eliza). Why don’t you join in the fun challenge of attempting to write grammatically correct prose-bites using only 140 characters? When I joined Twitter I vowed never to stoop to txt spk or 1337 5p34k.

Apologies for the title of this post; comma puns aren’t easy to make up.

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Talking of comma-based puns, I seem to recall coming across a language book called ‘Lapsing into a Comma’ (groan)

Comment by JD — 6th November, 2007 @ 1:14 pm
Note to self: write blog post entitled ‘Lapsing into a Comma’. Subject and content TBC.

Comment by Gez — 6th November, 2007 @ 1:16 pm
I feel like a grammar superstar! Thanks for posting this.

Comment by Eliza Gauger — 10th November, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
Keep them coming, Eliza. We’d much rather post reader contributions than do the research ourselves.

Comment by Gez — 11th November, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
Not to pick nits, but I think you left out a ‘comma’.Nice reference, too.

Comment by TeaFizz — 13th November, 2007 @ 3:46 am
Not to nitpick, but that’s why we’re here, right? There’s a comma splice in your post.

Comment by Erin — 12th May, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
You are bang right. Oh bitter-sweet irony, how you mock me!

Comment by Gez — 14th May, 2009 @ 11:07 am

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