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Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: WarpRattler on March 25, 2007, 12:22:53 PM: Sapph used a comma splice.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: Sapphira on March 26, 2007, 04:16:22 PM: No I didn't. It's a comma-splice when two complete sentences run together. The second part would've been a sentence fragment by itself, so a comma was appropriate.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: Mr. Melee on March 26, 2007, 06:04:22 PM: Quote
Deezer: I like the idea, but I think would be better for a station playing music from all Nintendo games.
Deezer forgot an "it," I do believe. Right here ^.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: WarpRattler on March 26, 2007, 07:20:11 PM: "That reminds me, I think you missed the memo that you're fired, David."

"That reminds me." is a complete thought. "I think you missed the memo that you're fired, David." is a complete thought. Therefore, COMMA SPLICE.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: Deezer on March 26, 2007, 07:47:47 PM: I've heard of karma police, but comma police?
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: MEGAß¥TE on March 26, 2007, 07:50:35 PM: You know, it's stupid crap like this that makes us do mailbags less frequently.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: WarpRattler on March 26, 2007, 07:58:41 PM: *groans at Deezer*

Anyway, the mailbag has gone down in quality, both in quality of Q&A stuff and in quality of usage of English (on both ends).

Does that thing about swearing at you in another language still hold true?
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: Chupperson Weird on March 26, 2007, 08:21:54 PM: "That reminds me." is not a complete thought. If you're using proper grammar, you have to be reminded of something.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: WarpRattler on March 26, 2007, 08:26:15 PM: Perhaps "that" could be giving Sapph her mind back, therefore in some sense reminding her? Also, "that" is reminding her that she thinks David missed the memo, which she evidently forgot that she thought.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: Lizard Dude on March 26, 2007, 08:59:52 PM: I live with my friend That. Sometimes we're having so much I almost forget to go to my tuba lesson! That reminds me.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: WarpRattler on March 26, 2007, 09:03:16 PM: "That", when used in the sense that Sapph was using it in, is a pronoun. Also, LD, your friend That has a very strange name. Have you told him or her that?

Also, having so much what? Fun? Bacon?
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: MEGAß¥TE on March 26, 2007, 09:15:46 PM: Quote from: WarpRattler on March 26, 2007, 09:03:16 PM
"That",

Commas go inside of quotes.

Redundant end of phrase preposition:

Quote from: WarpRattler on March 26, 2007, 09:03:16 PM
when used in the sense that Sapph was using it in
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: WarpRattler on March 26, 2007, 09:31:42 PM: Commas don't always go inside of quotes.

"Placement of commas within quotation marks is done when there are two clauses and one is dependent on the other."
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: MEGAß¥TE on March 26, 2007, 10:05:34 PM: Standard American English places all commas inside of quotes. The source you cite is some random English student's term project, which doesn't even include an example of your usage.

EDIT: Actually, they do, and it reinforces my point:
Quote
In the last example, "Encounter at Farpoint," notice how Star Trek is italicized rather than enclosed in quotation marks.
Title: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: WarpRattler on March 26, 2007, 10:14:01 PM: "'Standard' American English"? That's highly improbable. However, looking at one of Mr. Webster's books, I see that you are correct, so I will back down from this subject. I still have a question I asked previously, though...does that thing about swearing at you guys in another language still hold true?
Title: Re: Grammar gabber [Split from Mailbag 24 Mar 2007 talkback thread]
Post by: Lizard Dude on March 27, 2007, 12:42:56 AM: Oops, I forgot the fun.

But seriously,

That reminds me.

is a complete sentence - and one of the simplest forms of a sentence:

(Pro)Noun verb directObject.