Avoiding doing work that is due at 8 am tomorrow

[deelaundry]

So y'all know I'm weird, right? Some weird bullet points:

- We just saw Chicago last night, and I have a huge yen to see RSL in the Roxie Hart role. I think he would throw himself into it and have a grand ol' time. Maybe have the entire cast be opposite gender from their characters? Not with a wink and a nod, "hey we're in drag" mood (although that would be very fun as well) -- but completely serious, as if each actor is inhabiting a person of the opposite gender. Casting suggestions?

- Speaking of Wilson (oh, we weren't? I guess we weren't), Jane Adams, aka Ex-Mrs. Wilson #2, is going to be in a new HBO series called "Hung," about a regular guy who decides to become a male prostitute. LOL.

- Little Miss Thang at work, you best step off, or we are going to throw down! Most authorities on American English recommend the use of the serial comma, Bee-yotch, so you cut one more out of my communications drafts and I'm'a CUT YOU.

When linguistic prescriptivists battle, they battle, AMIRITE?

Comments

[zulu.livejournal.com]

The way I learned it was with a fictitious book dedication: "This is for my parents, Ayn Rand and God." Really, unless you intend hilarity, the Oxford comma's the only way to go.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

(Hee. Wikipedia quoted that one, and called it (a) apocryphal and (b) from a Racefailer.) See, but there I'd put one in. I default to no serial comma, but will add them in when it'd be confusing not to.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

What's the sandwich one? Oh, yes.

"My three favorite sandwiches are ham, peanut butter and jelly and cream cheese."

[bironic.livejournal.com]

See, and I'd think that even someone who doesn't use the serial comma (like me) would put one in there, because the second "and" complicates things. The choice differs really in the simplest lists -- do you put one or not put one in something like "cats, rats and dogs."

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I'd eat peanut butter and jelly and cream cheese. (Of course, I can also count to 3. Maybe.)

[poeia.livejournal.com]

With comma, in your example, would include a comma after "Rand," wouldn't it. And the content is clear with or without that comma.

Most of what I write at work is fairly casual. My frequent solution is to put ampersands between things that are a pair.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Well, the joke is that without the comma, it reads like the person's parents are Ayn Rand and God. Quite the family to live up to!