Absolutley. "Hanged" ONLY applies to execution by hanging. (I first learned that in a spelling/grammar book; "Mind the Gaffe")EC8010 said:
Hanged/hanging: Are you sure being hanged has to be an execution?
Jack C. said:Has diyAudio.com turned into diyPolitics.com?
Whoops! You're quite correct - no politics. Naughty boy! I shall refrain hereafter.
mach1 said:I have an aquaintance who claims to have been electrocuted on several occasions.
Are you sure he doesn't believe in reincarnation?
This thread just won't die, will it...
This thread just won't die, will it...
Shocking, isn't it?
Cal Weldon said:And for some reason, we still have the second comma in the title. Mind you the title says nothing about punctuation so...
Isn't the rule that you can only leave out the comma before the and only if your list comprises 2 elements? ie we have 3 so the comma after capitalization is correct....
dave
oops... an on topic post (hope it doesn't head off to texas )
I don't think so. The comma is redundant regardless of the number of subjects. I have never used a comma in that location and haven't been corrected on it.
Edit: I just checked with punctation check and it appears my assumptions are correct.
2nd edit: I was answering Dave's question but I guess it still applies.
Edit: I just checked with punctation check and it appears my assumptions are correct.
2nd edit: I was answering Dave's question but I guess it still applies.
EC8010 said:Where American usage?
When talking of companies and other organisations, we Brits normally give them plural status, so 'Intel have... '
Americans normally treat them as singular entities, 'Intel has...' so 'the Government have...' would be BBC English, not CNN.
I cannot find my Strunk and White, but I am pretty sure they agree with me.
Apparently though, there is some debate on this issue. From the Wikipedia topic of serial comma:
The Times once published this description of a Peter Ustinov documentary: "highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."[11] This is ambiguous as it stands, but even if a serial comma were added Mandela could still be mistaken for a demigod (and possibly still as a dildo collector).
Hope that clears up things for people.
Apparently though, there is some debate on this issue. From the Wikipedia topic of serial comma:
The Times once published this description of a Peter Ustinov documentary: "highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."[11] This is ambiguous as it stands, but even if a serial comma were added Mandela could still be mistaken for a demigod (and possibly still as a dildo collector).
Hope that clears up things for people.
Cal Weldon said:I don't think so. The comma is redundant regardless of the number of subjects. I have never used a comma in that location and haven't been corrected on it.
I have... things might be more relaxed 35 years on thou.... EC8010 what say you?
dave
To be pedantic (in keeping with the spirit of this thread), one shouldn't use 'comprised of'. The wording could be either 'spelling comprised capitalization . . ' or 'spelling was composed of capitalization . . .'spelling was comprised of capitalization and grammar
If we're having all these arguments about serial commas, just think what parallel commas would be like
Kent Smith said:Could this be, speaking of commas,, at least in this thread,,, a proper use of parallel commas?
More like me mis-typing an elipsis,,,
dave
unfortunate domain names
This is probably as good a place as any for these
dave
This is probably as good a place as any for these
dave
Someone wasn't thinking when they came up with these domain names. All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend quite enough time considering how their online names might appear -- and -- be misread. Authentic -- check them out yourself!
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