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| From | Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: counting commas |
| Date | 2024-01-20 01:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <HY75T-4f9S-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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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 :) -- 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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