Friday, December 26, 2008

More of Lee's wrong commas

>Wow, woman, you’re as bad as Bush. “Do things American or we’ll bomb the crap out of y’all!” Colour, modelling, metre – all wrong Comma and I’m illiterate, I suppose.<

Rearrange the sentence, moron.
I suppose [they are] all wrong and I'm illiterate.

"All wrong and I'm illiterate" is a compound object. You say yourself that a comma shouldn't separate a compound object. What changed your mind?

Note the difference:
(a) I suppose they are all wrong, and I'm illiterate.
(b) I suppose they are all wrong and I'm illiterate.

In (a) I'm stating that I'm illiterate. In (b) I'm stating that I suppose that I'm illiterate. There's a difference, but you're either too arrogant or too stupid to see it.

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