HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Posted on Friday 4 May 2007

Mourning man lies in own grave, and waits to die

(For the record, I am against that comma.)


7 Comments for 'HEADLINE OF THE DAY'

  1.  
    4 May 2007 | 7:13 pm
     

    It is an inexcusable comma.

  2.  
    4 May 2007 | 8:04 pm
     

    yes! yes! more dashes!

    you know though that the linearity of all this is broken. he’s waiting in other places, too. i thought of rising to the comma’s defense on that ground. i think i could at least bargain its sentence down.

  3.  
    4 May 2007 | 11:18 pm
     

    Actually, I’d argue that the ‘and’ should be removed.

  4.  
    5 May 2007 | 3:55 am
     

    That would work too. Say, how do you feel about this hyphen?

  5.  
    5 May 2007 | 6:58 pm
     

    I’d feel a lot better if I didn’t live in a country where the un-hyphenated word (okay, ‘émail‘) also means enamel.

  6.  
    5 May 2007 | 8:08 pm
     

    tyranny of the majority: email, thy name is spam.

  7.  
    5 May 2007 | 10:07 pm
     

    Languagehat: E-mail or Email?

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