To be fair and balanced, emilyforce, you really ought to have also included an example of the incorrect, quotation mark-infused situation you described.
I feel that your third comma is superfluous.
You feel it is superfluous? Either it is or it isn’t, there is no feel.
USCD, there is too a feel. I copped one earlier today. I feel good that I did. Do you feel me on feel?
SSG Schwartz
“Do you feel me on feel” is an unusually awkward construction. It’s so awkward, in fact, that it loses it’s cleverness.
Um, it’s!! I can’t even properly call that a nit pick!
Damn, you caught on to my plot! I was going to call someone out for calling that a nit.
I don’t believe that to ‘call someone out’ is proper when the format is clearly text. Please refrain from such colorful allusions in this most serious thread.
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I don’t believe that to ‘call someone out’ is proper when the format is clearly text. Please refrain from such colorful allusions in this most serious thread.
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You should use double quotation marks.
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You should use double quotation marks.
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Yes, but where?
Asking for clarification when the intended meaning of the previous poster was so patently obvious is clearly a desperate attempt to participate in the game without any real justification.
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Asking for clarification when the intended meaning of the previous poster was so patently obvious is clearly a desperate attempt to participate in the game without any real justification.
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TLDR.
Posting a series of consonants barely qualifies as a reply; let alone a nitpick.
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Posting a series of consonants barely qualifies as a reply; let alone a nitpick.
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That semicolon should be a comma.
If you were to allow for regional variations in the rules of grammar, the semicolon could also satisfactorily be replaced by a period. The second sentence would then become a cry for lenienicy and I find it unforgivable that you would trounce upon this plea.
Trounce upon? This must be some definition of the word “trounce” that I wasn’t previously aware of.