YoungFemaleScientist: One-second grammar rant.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Commas, people. Learn them, use them, and stop writing these ridiculous fucking long sentences with no commas. Just, stop.

Labels: silly

At 1:01 AM, Anonymous said...: One-second grammar retort: There should be no comma in your final sentence.
At 3:53 PM, Unbalanced Reaction said...: The Boss decided to give up the Oxford comma sometime around my second year in grad school. I like it, so I decided that anything I was first author on would have 'em. I would leave them out up until final submission, which was the point beyond either of us caring. Ah, memories.
At 7:05 PM, Helena Mallonee said...: I concur.
Capitalization and spelling is important too.
At 12:39 PM, Anonymous said...: yes, yes
At 2:23 PM, Anonymous said...: You bet, I know exactly what you mean.
At 8:42 PM, Anonymous said...: Lol. Ok, will try to remember, that.
At 8:29 AM, Anonymous said...: I assume that by posting this rant on your blog which is read by lots of scientific geeky sorts of people that it is highly likely that I am far from the first person to respond with a geek post that is somewhat improperly, punctuated.

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