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Mignon Fogarty@grammargirl.bsky.social |
I just thought of a new "commas matter" example! Drop dead gorgeous. Drop dead, gorgeous.
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@jackviertel.bsky.social
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Excellent work.
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Tom Streeter
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“Drop, dead gorgeous.” Disturbingly works.
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Mignon Fogarty
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[Edit: Sigh. I guess "drop-dead" does actually take a hyphen as a compound modifier.]
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Jan Freeman
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Thanks for reminding me of the one I saw in yesterday's NYT: "She was taken by ambulance to the plane with her husband, a nurse and a paramedic." On first pass I read this to mean her husband was a nurse and paramedic. (Which is why we shouldn't be dogmatic about using the Oxford comma.)
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Catherine
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Good one!
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Rikibeth
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HYPHENS the first one needs a hyphen I had to defend all my Austen-style hyphens to an editor who wanted them gone, but would let me keep them if I could give era-specific citations the kind soul who digitized Austen’s letters and made them searchable has my eternal gratitude
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