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Trumpton's sig: one for the punctuation anal-ists!

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:01 am
by fudgeflaps
I love it, so much so that it made me cry in very much the saame way and ex-girlfriend cried when she saw me naked for the first time. Aaaaaaaaaw.

My main point is, for all the exclamation marks in his (wonderful, luvverly, nostalgic) sig with the exception of the VERY LAST ONE- would you replace them with commas?

Or would you leave the signature as-is?

Sorry to be so flamingly, trollishly controversial, but it is an issue that burns deeply in my heart- and not even GOD has provided an answer yet.

So, over to you.


Re: Trumpton's sig: one for the punctuation anal-i

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:08 am
by fudgeflaps
I lost the thread in my first sentence:

"I love it, so much so that it made me cry in very much the saame way * and ex-girlfriend cried when she saw me naked for the first time. Aaaaaaaaaw."

Remove the 'and' substitute * with 'that my'.

Surgery complete, hopefully this thread will go on to live a normal happy life- there was talk of a WZR or the infamous 'Slater' virus attacking the thread for poor grammar and syntax- without that surgery, the immune system of that first sentence would not handle such a broadside, but we're fine now, yay!!

A lack of an edit function for non-previewing elitist gimps like myself. !doh!


Re: Trumpton's sig: one for the punctuation anal-i

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:10 am
by Sam Slater
My grammar and punctuation are of no higher calibre than anyone else's, Fudgy, so don't worry yourself there! My decisions on the use of the semi-colon is most unflattering to me, and I fear I have burdened the forum with my literacy shortcomings in such a manner, as I wouldn't take it a slight onto my person for it to seem I didn't care in the slightest -- which is a vularism so common of today's youth.

Regards,

Sam Slater


Re: Trumpton's sig: one for the punctuation anal-ists!

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:12 pm
by Trumpton
The reason I use exclamation marks in my signature is because when Captain Flack does the roll call, he calls, in exclamation, their names!