Democratic Underground, home of the Comma Usage Massacre

[DS1]

:wtf:

One day, I was typing, and, every time that I stopped to think about, what I was going to say next, I dropped a comma in, because I don't know my head from my ass.

[Bunny]

1. "Really?" Because I was "overcome" by "excessive" use of

"quotation" "marks". Hmm....must be something "going" around.

[DS1]

4. LOL OMG I ~can't~ "imagine", what you mean, imo.

[Bunny]

10. What's funny is that I actually DO use too many quotation marks.

I still struggle with ways to show emphasis. I'm a real slow learner, but I'm better than I used to be! :)

Edited to add my next lesson: appropriate use of available smileys.

[Richardo]

12. I've cut down the use of "double" quotes to 'single' quotes...

...baby steps. :)

[Richardo]

11. You're all a bunch of loosers! I'm series!

:hi:

[Bunny]

15. OMG!!!!!!111!! That's HUGH!

Richardo, you are the smart! S-M-R-T!!!111!

[Richardo]

16. I'm laughing my ass off...

I always forget 'hugh' :spray: :rofl:

[DS1]

20. WHOLLY SHIT!

:D

[short bus president]

2. you, suck, dude!

all you DUers are a buncha commanists!

:P

[fob]

3. I think, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't that last part

read, "I don't know my head, from my ass?"

:evilgrin:

Hey DS1, could you cover "lose" versus "loose" next, please.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

OMG LOLROFLMFAO!

:sarcasm:

[DS1]

7. !!!!!!!!!6

[redqueen]

5. Yeah...

shut up.

I abuse commas AND ellipses. Deal!

:P

[Demit]

6. Pish! That's nothing, compared to the Great Quotation Marks Overusage

When people feel compelled to "separate" every other "word" like "this".

Shoot! Bunny "beat" me to it!

[sundog]

8. why, do you say that

[lpbk2713]

9. And then.....

I became obsessive about italics.

[Shell Beau]

13. Wha,t are, you, talk,ing, about,,,.?

[miss_kitty]

14. Ooooooooh! Teh gramma thread

:thumbsup:

[JimmyJazz]

26. Hey, puddin: you forgot to throw in some random semi-colons -

and - some useless hyphens.

[miss_kitty]

28. But I did misspell some ,shit---

and while; we"re aT it? Good Morning! :hi:

[terrya]

17. It's better than, using too few commas, in your posts, IMO, but

then again, I may not be an authority, on this sort, of thing.

[dolo amber]

18. My bologna has a first name,

It's O,S,C,A,R...My bologna has a second name it's M,A,Y,E,R...Oh, I love to eat it, every day, and if you ask, me why I'll say,...'Cos, Oscar Meyer has a way, with B,O,L,O,G,N,A.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,:P,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Yeah, I dunno. Made me laugh, though. :D

[redqueen]

24. My kids get mad at me when I sing that song.

I don't know why.

:shrug:

[LiberallyInclined]

19. your sew write! their's uh reel problem hear with grammar and punctuation.

butt eye always ewes the spell czech bee four aye post anything.

[tnlefty]

35. LOL! And when did you win the national spelling bee competition?

You don't need a freakin' spell czecher. We no what u mint.

[curse10]

21. really, now, DS1, aren't you exagerrating, just a bit?

commas, those pesky pauses of punctuation, are not, in anyway, overused, here on DU, or anywhere else! Embrace, yes, I say, EMBRACE, the comma. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,

[DS1]

22. Ya don't say....

[DS1]

23. Ya don't say....

[curse10]

25. holy mother of god

that is one huge motherfucking comma!

[GOPBasher]

31. Well said, curse, well said, eom.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. I find...excessively using these little guys... to be much...more...fun!

:P

[NorthernSpy]

33. me too! I try to put an ellipsis in every post...

Ellipses, italics, underlining, and boldface.

They help me get my point across!


What I really hate is how some people never capitalize anything. It looks passive-aggressive, somehow.

[progressoid]

36. Ellipses are....umm....like...our friends.

E...O...M...

[loudestchick]

34. I love the ellipses!!!!! I am a chronic abuser.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

29. IIRC AFAIK OMFG!! WTF?1!111!! ROTFLMAO TTYL, FU!!

THSI IS FUKEN HUGH!11!1!1!1 SYL :P

EDIT: to apologise for the headache of reading the above.

[Toby109]

30. "What is this thing called, love?"

(Old Benny Hill gag). Could you address the usage of "then" and "than" next. Thanks.

[DrDebug]

44. Th(a/e)n will open up a can of worms...

Since it will be followed by:

Accept/Except, Adapt/Adopt, Administer/Administrate, Ain't, A lot/Allot/Alot, Already/All Ready, Altogether/All Together, Always/All Ways, American Grammar vs. British Grammar, American Spelling versus British Spelling, American Spelling vs. Australian Spelling, Ante-/Anti-, Anyway/Any Way/Anyways, Apart/A part, As/Like, Assume/Presume, Awhile/A While et cetera, etc. and so on and so forth...

[Wapsie B]

32. Let's drive, all the English majors,

nuts.

;-)

[LynzM]

37. My name is Lindsay, and I'm an ellipses addict.....

That's my biggest overuse issue. The unnecessary quotes bug me, but what bugs me the most is people who just refuse to capitalize or use punctuation, at all.

im sure you know what i mean right?

[ltfranklin]

38. OK, I've seen enough. Time for this to end!

This foolishness has gone on long enough! I hereby end it with the traditional thread-killer!

You know, Hitler liked commas! The Nazi's used commas, ellipses and exclamation points!!! Goering was very fond of "quotation marks"!!!

There!!!! That should do it...shouldn't, it?

[matcom]

39. well, you are, quite, the comma-queen, aren't, you?

[DS1]

40. comma, comma, comma, comma, comma,

chameleon!!

[underpants]

41. Comma comma comma comma com comma chamelion

it comes and goes it comes and goooooooooooooooooo--oooooOOHS

[DS1]

42. beat ya to it, sucka

:D

[underpants]

43. Yes, but I got it all in the subject line, AND spell it wrong

So, as you can see that is what happened, to date.

[hyphenate]

45. Well, like, I dunno

is it REALLY a popular thing, like to overemphasize something, huh, like, you know, when you're writing something, and like, to forget to use some kinda grammar, like, shortcut, because like you really wanna make a person see, like, what you're talking about. You know what I mean, huh?

I mean, like it's not like we don't all use certain, like, uh, cliches and rhetorical thing-a-majiggies, to like get our points across. Like, I know how to spell really well, so I don't think like there's much wrong with stuff that I write for DU--like it's not like I'm writing for like a magazine or something. You know what I mean?