tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post4370188261503681897..comments2024-03-29T11:29:58.276+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: language rant: the vocative commaKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-536207764327096992010-02-13T23:27:07.874+09:002010-02-13T23:27:07.874+09:00Yep. But I wonder if you had that vocative comma p...Yep. But I wonder if you had that vocative comma post ready to go...I love that stuff and no one does it better than you.<br /><br />So, I'll shut up now and let you get on with doing what it is you do...John McCrareyhttp://www.mccrarey.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-84443072431369072822010-02-13T13:50:59.217+09:002010-02-13T13:50:59.217+09:00John,
I never quite understood the "little r...John,<br /><br />I never quite understood the "little ruse," since I've been planning on getting back to this blog, anyway. That was always in the cards, <a href="http://bighominid.blogspot.com/2008/04/quiescence.html" rel="nofollow">as I noted</a> when I first let the blog go dormant.<br /><br />I appreciate your desire to see me posting again, as well as the hearty "Welcome back," but I hope we're clear that I was coming back no matter what-- that, in fact, I hadn't actually left. <br /><br />Nathan,<br /><br />I love it. Very much to the point, and without the whole grammar lecture.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-37925784633276019272010-02-13T13:28:23.066+09:002010-02-13T13:28:23.066+09:00There's that old chestnut:
"Eat Grandpa...There's that old chestnut: <br /><br />"Eat Grandpa!<br /><br />vs.<br /><br />Eat, Grandpa!<br /><br />Commas save lives!"<br /><br />The above example hangs on one wall I see fairly often.Nathan B.http://nathanbauman.com/odysseusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-18908501255666534742010-02-13T08:36:20.773+09:002010-02-13T08:36:20.773+09:00Hey Kevin! (is your head exploding yet?)
I'm ...Hey Kevin! (is your head exploding yet?)<br /><br />I'm happy to see my little ruse worked. Lord, knows, I know better than to challenge you on anything related to language and grammar (or spelling). And to be honest, I never even knew what a vocative comma was until I read this post.<br /><br />But, as your have surely surmised, my objective was goading you into a post/rant in classic Hominid style. And in that, I have succeeded.<br /><br />Besides, what's a comma (vocative or otherwise) between friends?<br /><br />Welcome back!John McCrareyhttp://www.mccrarey.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-64467288752043427462010-02-13T08:21:26.546+09:002010-02-13T08:21:26.546+09:00guilty! i was never even aware of it...guilty! i was never even aware of it...hahnakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14238002055767012884noreply@blogger.com