[Paraview] Off topic grammatical diversion completely unrelated to paraview

[John Biddiscombe]

Thanks Ken,

Awfully sorry, the commas were deliberately introduced for emphasis (I'm 
the only native English Speaker in my office and had to explain this 
posting) and left as an excercise for the terribly well educated (well 
done, you passed, quoting the "and's" is much better) to find and 
criticise. After I posted this, I wondered if there were any variations 
and google did not let me down.

Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and 
And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if 
quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, 
and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and 
and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"

And to save anyone the pain of counting (!), there are 21 (I think) 
and's in there. Capitalization and comma's left to the unwary to decode.

JB.

Moreland, Kenneth wrote:

>>A bloke is painting a new sign for the pub, and the pub is 
>>called "The Dog and Donkey" (Or some other wildly unlikely 
>>combination like "Frog and Ferret", "Badger and Banana", etc 
>>etc). A chap who is wandering passed says... "Hmmm, that sign 
>>doesn't look right, you've made the gaps between Dog and and, 
>>and, and and Donkey different sizes"
>>    
>>
>
>Since we are talking about grammar anyway, technically, those commas in
>the middle of the ands shouldn't be there (which, ironically, makes the
>sentence even more confusing and entertaining): "gaps between Dog and
>and and and and Donkey."  You could, however, clear up the sentence by
>quoting the ands that are taken from the sign: "gaps between 'Dog' and
>'and' and 'and' and 'Donkey.'"
>
>-Ken
>
>  
>


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