Leekbrookgull
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What paper,will you buy tomorrow ?
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Beach Hut
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Never buy a paper at weekends
brighton2win
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- Aug 21, 2005
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cant believe ive just logged in to say this, but theres so much pedantic shit on this board. you think he might have miss-hit the space bar and hit the comma key instead? considering theyre next to each other and the lack of a space after the comma. and oh yes you can pick my up on my punctuation if you want xx
Leekbrookgull
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I put the comma in. As like when you take a breath of air before you ask the next question. I have not done it as a trick question.
Yeah, if he did it once maybe. But leekbrook does it all the time, commas akimbo. And it might be pedantic to you but to me it was a fair question, to which leekbrook gave a decent answer. If I was being pedantic I would say "didn't you even read what I said? I said I don't want to sound critical, I'm just genuinely interested why" now wouldn't I?
NMH
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Why waste paper, when you can get all the news online, and that includes the dailies. For example;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/dailymail/home.html?in_page_id=1766
Okay, so you can take the paper on the train, in the restaurant, or sit by the fire with it (and start a fire with it), but the internet has all the news with accessible links to pick and choose the stories.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/dailymail/home.html?in_page_id=1766
Okay, so you can take the paper on the train, in the restaurant, or sit by the fire with it (and start a fire with it), but the internet has all the news with accessible links to pick and choose the stories.
NMH
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aHA, so now I know you want a book of CROSSWORDS for Christmas.
Clever hinting there, Mr deez
cannedheat
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Got the Argus and there is no match report.
Cian
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I put the comma in. As like when you take a breath of air before you ask the next question. I have not done it as a trick question.
I've never met or seen anyone who talks like that, though.
Got to say it would be, frankly bizarre if they did.
nail-Z
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Strange how a comma can cause such a stir, but no mention of why 95% of the threads from this poster are punctuated with a
We have purchased the Daily Telegraph and are faced with such stories as Labours Pledge on mixed-sex wards is scrapped...Be barve the McCans tell Medeleine, Air strikes, Queens speech and yada yada yada....
Although having said that any paper is boring today - Zef's at Worthing Hospital as Nana has had a big fall, and Arthurs asleep in bed with a very horrible tummy bug, 3 days of vomitting and diorehea, poor thing... Couldn't care what the papers say today to be honest...
Christmas? Bah Humbug....
Although having said that any paper is boring today - Zef's at Worthing Hospital as Nana has had a big fall, and Arthurs asleep in bed with a very horrible tummy bug, 3 days of vomitting and diorehea, poor thing... Couldn't care what the papers say today to be honest...
Christmas? Bah Humbug....
NMH
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Derek Nimmo made a career out of it!
I put the comma in. As like when you take a breath of air before you ask the next question. I have not done it as a trick question.
It would only make sense if Stevie, from Malcolm in, the Middle was saying, it.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Sports Argus (if only to see how they fill the space this week 
), Sunday Mirror and News Of The World. Bound to be acres of Manc scrubbers have flogged their My-Six-In-A-Bed-Sex-Shame stories from the ManU Xmas Party. Altogether now: 'They were like ANIMALS'
), Sunday Mirror and News Of The World. Bound to be acres of Manc scrubbers have flogged their My-Six-In-A-Bed-Sex-Shame stories from the ManU Xmas Party. Altogether now: 'They were like ANIMALS'fatbadger
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That's odd. I only opened this thread because I had noticed the comma in leeky's thread title, for the umpteenth time, and thought it is time to finally ask him why he uses such bizarre punctuation.
His reply, mind you, doesn't help.
Leeky, punctuation marks information structure, not rhythm. Back in the 17th century it did mark rhythm, but by the end of the 18th century, punctuation was used exclusively for information structure - as it still is today. This is for the simple reason that spoken language and written language became separated (with the rise of print), and the rhythms of spoken English have nothing to do with written English, which requires punctuation as a marker of information structure in place of spoken language's intonation. The obvious example is the use of the question mark in replace of rising (questioning) intonation in spoken English.