[Rhodes22-list] Grammar

[L. Sailor]

Good book...fun reading. A lowly comma can really mess
things up.....

Here's another grammatical AARGH...

Why do TV weather readers have to say that a system is
approaching from the 'south and east' or 'north and
west.' What ever happened to southeast or northwest?
Do they have too much time to fill & not enuf to say?

How about 'during the overnight hours.' Why just not
'overnight?

Must be a legacy of the Watergate 'at that point in
time ' confu-speak.

elle

--- "Gregg J. MacMillan" <gjm at techgra.com> wrote:

> 
>    Anyone with an interest in grammar should read:
> 
>    Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
> 
>    For a book about grammar, it is really quite
> entertaining.
> 
>    --Gregg
> 
>    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
>    A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich,
> eats it, then draws
>    a gun and fires two shots in the air.
> 
>    "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda
> makes towards the exit.
>    The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife
> manual and tosses it
>    over his shoulder.
> 
>    "I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
> 
>    The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure
> enough, finds an
>    explanation.
> 
>    "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal,
> native to China. Eats,
>    shoots and leaves."
> 
>    So punctuation really does matter, even if it is
> only occasionally a
>    matter of life and death.
> 
> --
> 
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> 
>    T e c h n e G r a p h i c s, I n c.
> 
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