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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #40 on: March 24, 2008, 01:26:59 PM »
I can't figure out what you're talking about exactly...

a whole lot of confusion

Well, that I got.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #41 on: March 24, 2008, 01:37:42 PM »
The Onion uses it a lot in its headlines.

Area Man Loses Limb, Ability to Self-Pleasure

I'm reading a Dave Eggers book of short stories and he uses it a lot, too much.

Get it?
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #42 on: March 24, 2008, 01:49:14 PM »
The comma as and, dash.

So do you mean the comma is used in place of "and"? If so, I'd say efficient (or funny) in a headline maybe, but not so much in a book, mostly irritating there.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #43 on: March 24, 2008, 02:00:28 PM »
You got it. I'm really loving this book.  I love how he stretches grammatical conventions. This is a case where the first time I saw it I stopped, re-read the sentence, and thought, "That's pretty cool." Now I'm ever-so-slightly annoyed by it but still very curious about it.

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #44 on: March 24, 2008, 02:02:33 PM »
On the elevator doors in a COLLEGE dorm I saw this:

Nacho
Nachos
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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #45 on: March 24, 2008, 02:08:36 PM »
Add a comma or colon after "nachos" and you'd have yourself a really tough existentialist ponderable. How does a nacho's here differ from my own?

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #46 on: March 24, 2008, 02:16:12 PM »
On the elevator doors in a COLLEGE dorm I saw this:

Nacho
Nachos
Their
Here!

You should grab a marker, cross out "Their" and replace it with "There" ...

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #47 on: March 24, 2008, 02:35:55 PM »
nacho's? 
they're
hear

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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #48 on: March 24, 2008, 02:46:44 PM »
"Nachos: they're here!"



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Re: Words and Grammar and Stuff
« Reply #49 on: March 24, 2008, 02:52:25 PM »
"nachos: because they're just a little mexican"
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