Now Cow...
... I can’t argue with you about the sissification of this once great state. I mean, we are one of the first states to have a Death with Dignity law. Death isn’t supposed to be dignified, it is supposed to be a full-diapered, bullet bitin’ fight to a climatic hemorrhaging choking fit.
But our inherent dislike of the Oxford comma stems from our Spartan pioneer roots, where a life or death decision had to made back in Saint Joe on whether to buy another couple barrels of flour for the trip west or a hogshead of commas. Those that went with flour generally made it. Those who bet on commas… well you can’t eat commas on a snowy mountain pass in late November.
Homesteaders got used to economizing comma usage until the mid 1860s when bunko steerers, rapscallions and other such riffraff from the played-out California goldmines began bringing up bootleg commas. These charlatans would buy a bushel of used up end-quotes ("), chisel them in two (' '), pound them to grade (, ,) and sell them on the black market as brand new commas. This went on for a decade or two until the vigilantes got the Californians all properly lynched.
Things were peaceful until the 1960s when hippies at the U of C in Berkeley began smuggling commas to the U of O English Department in Eugene. They would hollow out 1 kilo bricks of hashish (legal tender on both campuses) and stuff them full of thousands of commas. The state went wild with commas, so much so that hippie chicks in Eugene even began making clothes out of them:
And thus began our slow decline…
Now Cow...
And don't even get me started on the Comma Rush of 1859.
Now Cow...
No comma(ent).
Rick
So how big is the NW1/4, NE1/4, SE1/4, section 8? Would that be three-fourths of the section or 1/64th of the section?
Definitely in the legal profession, they need to know how to write clearly and conclusively. That's why it is always advised to hire an attorney to draw up contracts for you and/or represent you in court. So that the appropriate language is used to protect you or at least to not further exacerbate the situation.
If you have a poorly-written contract, often you can lose a court battle. Courts tend to rule in favor of the party that didn't draw up the contract. We hear about this with ambiguous legal descriptions all the time. A lawyer shouldn't mix up his commas, any more than a surveyor should be calling out NW when they meant NE.
One more, well credentialled advocate, for the case of commas - Enjoy
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The Caddo Gap comma makes the Oxford comma look like a piker.
Comma separated values.
1,10000.000,15000.000,100.000,setspike
Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, chameleon,
You come and go, you come and go.
Loving would be easy if your colours were like my dreams:
Red, gold, and green, red, gold, and green.
Didn't you hear your wicked words ever'y day.
And you used to be so sweet.
I heard you say that my love was an addiction.
When we cling, our love is strong.
When you go, you're gone forever.
You string along, you string along.
Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, chameleon,
You come and go, you come and go.
Loving would be easy if your colours were like my dreams:
Red, gold, and green, red, gold, and green.
Ev'ry day is like survival.
You're my lover, not my rival.
Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, chameleon,
You come and go, you come and go.
Loving would be easy if your colours were like my dreams:
Red, gold, and green, red, gold, and green.
Jim Frame, post: 371003, member: 10 wrote: The Caddo Gap comma makes the Oxford comma look like a piker.
Let's hope it never comes to that. The release of the Caddo Gap comma requires presidential authorization, and thankfully, owing to recently declassified documents, the US has neared this threshold on only a few occasions.
Once in 1962 we were at the brink, when the Soviets threatened to Cyrillicize the Caribbean, in a tense standoff, that was narrowly averted through some highly secretive, back channel negotiations, where the US promised in months to come they would remove some aging literary style guides from US bases in Turkey.
It's estimated that a full release of the global stockpile of Caddo Gap commas would result in the near instantaneous extinction of 60% of the world's literary context, with further casualties from the lingering effects, slowly taking their toll in the intervening years, on proof-reading, fact checking, and editorial review.
I can't even start up my comma machine for the price the lowballers around here will do 500.
Jim Frame, post: 371003, member: 10 wrote: The Caddo Gap comma makes the Oxford comma look like a piker.
Commas grow wild in Arkansas and are readily available to all who live there.
I was going through the 1930 Manual this morning (for unrelated reasons), and came across this:
Page 362
Specimen Field Notes
@ 558
A comma is inserted preceding the conjunction "and," as in " the corner of sections 3, 4, 9, and 10,"
I know from experience that is NOT always the case in "Field Notes."
Loyal
