Author Topic: New column-type thingy (Read 112553 times)

Jonathon · « **Reply #325 on:** February 07, 2012, 02:13:22 PM »

How to punctuate sentences with however

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #326 on:** February 07, 2012, 04:41:14 PM »

I gather that we're assuming that cases in which they aren't both independent clauses are a different situation. As in: My mother, however, feels it is wrong.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #327 on:** February 07, 2012, 04:43:45 PM »

I'm totally in the habit of using however with a comma, but no preceding semicolon.

The Genuine · « **Reply #328 on:** February 07, 2012, 04:53:16 PM »

Hey, that was a great article. I just e-mailed your site to my mom.

Jonathon · « **Reply #329 on:** February 07, 2012, 04:55:19 PM »

Quote from: Marianne Dashwood on February 07, 2012, 04:41:14 PM

I gather that we're assuming that cases in which they aren't both independent clauses are a different situation. As in: My mother, however, feels it is wrong.

Yes. I should edit it to clarify that.

Jonathon · « **Reply #330 on:** February 07, 2012, 05:02:11 PM »

Quote from: The Genuine on February 07, 2012, 04:53:16 PM

Hey, that was a great article. I just e-mailed your site to my mom.

Thanks!

The Genuine · « **Reply #331 on:** February 07, 2012, 05:13:55 PM »

Not a big deal to you, but she taught me the difference between lay/lie.

Jonathon · « **Reply #332 on:** February 07, 2012, 07:00:50 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #333 on:** February 13, 2012, 04:21:00 PM »

Taken from a discussion on Sakeriver: a post on the ambiguity of "most awarded."

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #334 on:** February 14, 2012, 12:02:00 AM »

That column moved me to leave a comment. Fun column!

Jonathon · « **Reply #335 on:** February 14, 2012, 10:15:52 AM »

Thanks!

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #336 on:** February 14, 2012, 10:54:16 AM »

Can I have my award now?

Jonathon · « **Reply #337 on:** February 14, 2012, 11:09:35 AM »

Sure! Here you go.

Jonathon · « **Reply #338 on:** February 21, 2012, 01:37:09 PM »

Here's you a new post.

pooka · « **Reply #339 on:** February 21, 2012, 07:10:53 PM »

Wasn't "I loves me some Jon Boy" a sig for a while? Years ago?

Jonathon · « **Reply #340 on:** February 21, 2012, 07:24:27 PM »

Sounds familiar.

The Genuine · « **Reply #341 on:** February 22, 2012, 08:51:13 AM »

Started here, but I don't know who sigged it.

Jonathon · « **Reply #342 on:** February 22, 2012, 09:14:15 AM »

Probably me.

Ela · « **Reply #343 on:** February 25, 2012, 07:52:22 PM »

I don't think it's really related, but reading your column made me thing of the Jamaican patois I hear sometimes around here from the Jamaican people I work with in the hospital. (Like "mine's" meaning "my", not a hole in the ground.)

Jonathon · « **Reply #344 on:** February 25, 2012, 08:57:46 PM »

I think creole languages (including things like Jamaican patois) are fascinating. A lot of people think of them as broken languages, but it's interesting to see how two or more languages come together and form something new.

Ela · « **Reply #345 on:** February 26, 2012, 11:36:13 AM »

I think the creole languages are fascinating, too, Jonathon. It's interesting to see how the words and sentences fit together. I love the lilt of them. And I don't really see them as broken languages, but as what you said: two or more languages coming together to form something new.

Jonathon · « **Reply #346 on:** February 29, 2012, 03:05:21 PM »

Why is "dice" such a weird plural? The answer is more complicated than you may think.

rivka · « **Reply #347 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:25:10 PM »

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As for me, I usually use singular die and feel twinges of self-loathing when I do so

While I feel twinges of something else altogether.

Jonathon · « **Reply #348 on:** February 29, 2012, 04:39:18 PM »

Smug superiority?

rivka · « **Reply #349 on:** February 29, 2012, 05:04:57 PM »

There must be a nicer-sounding way to phrase that, but I haven't figured out what it is yet.