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On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:16:05 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > ...unlike grocers' apostrophe's, which crop up everywhere and are far |
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> > more grating for me. |
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> Agreed, except that I think you mean greengrocers'. |
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Both are valid. Greengrocers' is the more common, grocers' is shorter. |
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When you are paid by the word, the difference is important :) |
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> I also find that |
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> commas seem to be thrown at random into a piece of prose in the |
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> apparent hope that a few will land where they might do some good. |
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I know what you mean, but that is more a matter of style than rules. I |
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have been criticised by editors for using too many and too few. |
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> Even |
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> Penrose is sometimes guilty of that. And don't start me on the |
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> egregious Oxford comma. |
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I wouldn't dare. |
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> Nor on the German insistence on separating the |
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> verb from the object with a comma, as though the action could proceed |
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> without something to act on. |
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Different language, different rules. Put another way, I don't speak |
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German so I don't care :) |
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