They own them cannot dump them.
Posted By: sm on 2008-04-30
In Reply to: Did Nuance - nan
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Dump the Nazis.
Too many authoritarian QA tyrants have decided on their own that language is a science. It is not. Some may be on power trips while others may use meaningless punctuation corrections to justify their existence.
Obviously there are a few hard and fast rules for punctuation such as a period at the end of a sentence and a comma separating items in a list but it doesn't go much farther than that.
In general a comma represents a PAUSE in the narrative. I've seen way too many complete thoughts interrupted by pauses that only serve to slow down the reading of the text for no reason other than some QA Nazi has decided that a comma must always precede the word but or although or some other such nonsense.
My rule: Punctuate if necessary but otherwise don't waste the reader's time with excessive pauses or other trivia.
yeah..where they dump all those old IBM SelectricS!!!hahaha--nm
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Men always minimize women's problems. I would DUMP
Usually the hospital dump a large amount on Friday afternoon. nm
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