Procrastiblog

July 12, 2006

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  A place to document tips and tricks for the various Linux, LaTeX, OCaml, and other general computer-related topics that I encounter in my daily life and a repository for supposedly amusing observations, hyperlinks, recipes, reviews, travelogues, and political opinions written when I have a spare moment (or when I don't have a spare moment, but I don't feel like working)

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  • An extra comma won't save you from bad writing. Having a comma preference is not a personality. I love you. Good night. 19 hours ago
  • And that's ALWAYS the case with Oxford commas. There's ALWAYS potential ambiguity in both directions. "My parents,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 19 hours ago
  • Adding an Oxford comma makes the sentence MORE ambiguous: there's no longer any way to rule out "a three-star Air F… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 19 hours ago
  • The ambiguity this sentence invites is resolved by subject-verb agreement and the lack of a comma setting off the s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 19 hours ago
  • I swear, people are so God damn PROUD that they know the name for a comma style, they think it's an all-purpose Win Grammar Argument card. 19 hours ago

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