Re: counting commas
On 1/19/24, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+0000), debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I won, and you lost
>>
>> There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in
>> the closely related expression "I won, you lost."
>
> That's rather proscriptive. "I won and you lost."
I won and you lost, but we can still be friends.
Cindy :)
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Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* runs with memories of a North Georgia English teacher saying to me,
"You didn't go to school around here, did you." He'd been standing up
against my desk as I was taking a third or fourth test at the time. He
was apparently trying to figure out if I was cheating on his tests.
Nope. *
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