Are you a fan of the Oxford comma?

Write it this way: ** -- Mama Goose 06/07/2018 09:21AM

Grammar Gone Wild -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/07/2018 08:01AM

Are you a fan of the Oxford comma? ** -- WestEndHokie39 06/06/2018 9:07PM

Big fan of the Cambridge semicolon ** -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 10:11PM

So is Maine (link) -- 48zip 06/07/2018 07:14AM

Everyone should be. ** -- CPRVHokie 06/06/2018 9:16PM

I understood every word, correct grammar or not. Carry on! ** -- DonHo-kieHi 06/06/2018 7:37PM

Shun on your dangling participles. ** -- vt90 06/06/2018 6:46PM

UNSHUN -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 7:46PM

Try girls gone wild 2 ....around the 12 minute mark ** -- HokieDan95 06/06/2018 6:57PM

Buhahahahah. Girls Gone Wild was in M-town a few years back. ** -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 7:53PM

Engineers have from time immemorial ** -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 6:16PM

Sooo you've got a comma and then ellipses and another comma before a quote. -- HokieinTampa 06/06/2018 5:59PM

Absolutely! -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 6:07PM

I use ellipses all the time .. -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 6:18PM

At the gym, I prefer using the stairmaster over the ellipses. ** -- Hokie360 06/06/2018 7:49PM

Buahahahah ** -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 7:56PM

Me too! But when I do it, it's in threes. hehehe. -- HokieinTampa 06/06/2018 7:18PM

Hmm. Where did that 3rd ellipsis go ? -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 8:39PM

Figured you for a three-way ** -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 7:49PM

And not the good kind ** -- CPRVHokie 06/06/2018 8:07PM

Krispy Kreme sucks. ** -- HokieinTampa 06/06/2018 8:43PM

Not like you do in a bad threesome ** -- CPRVHokie 06/06/2018 8:46PM

I have a retort, but fear it wouldn't do anything to help us. -- HokieinTampa 06/06/2018 8:56PM

Exactly. Ellipses imply -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 6:26PM

Yeah but they don't come directly after a comma. ** -- HokieinTampa 06/06/2018 7:15PM

Implicit genius... ** -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 6:39PM

They have a very specific use throughout English literature -- CPRVHokie 06/06/2018 8:11PM

... ** -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 8:39PM

That’s deep, man. ** -- CPRVHokie 06/06/2018 8:47PM

For me, yes. -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 8:53PM

The celibacy thing was a bit of a downer. Plus, I always felt too guilty. -- CPRVHokie 06/06/2018 9:14PM

Just imagining the conversation -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 9:30PM

FIFY -- HokieinTampa 06/06/2018 6:16PM

Technically stadia probably should not even be in quotes...lol -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 6:24PM

It's totally fine to put stadia in quotes. ** -- HokieinTampa 06/06/2018 7:17PM

So do you use the word? -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 7:52PM

Also used in surveying as a tool in measuring distances -- 48zip 06/06/2018 10:19PM

It's also a unit of measurement ** -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 8:45PM

Nope, and I deal with a TON of Brits/Kiwis and haven't heard it used much. -- HokieinTampa 06/06/2018 7:55PM

To be perfectly fair ... -- Nova Hokie 95 06/06/2018 6:05PM

That's an oxymoron ** -- TomTurkey 06/06/2018 6:40PM

Which one, the "perfectly fair" or the "WVU English"? ** -- AZHokie59 06/07/2018 09:25AM

WVU English, as a driveby joke ** -- TomTurkey 06/07/2018 09:34AM

Hey I resemble that remark -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 6:12PM

& they call a Z (zee) a "zed" , wth? ** -- astrohokie 06/06/2018 5:58PM

And what's with the extra syllable in aluminum? -- Hokie CPA 06/06/2018 6:26PM

Maintains the "-ium" of many other elements. Very British. -- DonHo-kieHi 06/06/2018 7:35PM

Zed's dead ** -- HokieDan95 06/06/2018 6:01PM

How often do you properly place punctuation within quote marks? ** -- Nova Hokie 95 06/06/2018 5:53PM

I usually do. But then again, NA emphasized proper writing and grammar. -- Hokie CPA 06/06/2018 8:42PM

Not really sure actually haha -- Full-Set and Moonshine 06/06/2018 6:17PM

I use the Strava app ** -- EDGEMAN 06/06/2018 5:51PM

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