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Jul. 19th, 2007 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalOMG!!! My boss insists on doing my writing pet peeve.
A comma should always PRECEDE the word but. It's what I was taught. That goes doubly when you have a fragging long sentence.
*beats head* I am over here being ashamed to have my name on these atrocities of grammar.
ETA I've also found about three errors that glare at me (one of which is a frelling disagreement I can't change her mind about).
ETA2 She apparently also has a jihaad against semicolons. *growls* She's perfect at tenses, but how the frell can she be so incompetent at punctuation. It burns, my precious, it burns my eyes.
A comma should always PRECEDE the word but. It's what I was taught. That goes doubly when you have a fragging long sentence.
*beats head* I am over here being ashamed to have my name on these atrocities of grammar.
ETA I've also found about three errors that glare at me (one of which is a frelling disagreement I can't change her mind about).
ETA2 She apparently also has a jihaad against semicolons. *growls* She's perfect at tenses, but how the frell can she be so incompetent at punctuation. It burns, my precious, it burns my eyes.
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Date: 2007-07-21 03:30 am (UTC)So you want to hit me when you beta things for me and I use the Oxford comma? Again, I blame my english teachers (who were all scarily consistent in the use of commas despite coming from several different generations). Though it was my 10th grade english teacher that beat the "when in doubt in regards to a comma, DON'T" into me. You should send him a card. Because I frequently want to send poisontaster to him for a few lessons. I love everything she writes, but omg, comma happy.