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"That damn comma."

Grix Thraves wrote (on the 15/05/2001):

Right, time to finish this.

"Instead of that weirdo irritating us all the time, I say we kill him."

This is how it was originally written.

This is how Your Honour thinks it should be written.

"Instead of that weirdo, irritating us all the time, I say we kill him."


Now... surely it DOESN'T need a comma? Please, discuss and argue this.

I know this is a pointless topic... but I don't think this one is going to make much of a difference to the already made mountains of rubbish topics...

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Now, as we can all clearly see, my way of writing it was best.

:-D

Oh.. and I now think Grix was right. It doesn't really make sense your way YH. :-D

Goatboy, you wouldn't happen to have named yourself after a band, would you?

I remember this from last year. :D

The only way the second one works is if you emphasise the words 'that', 'us' and 'we'.

But I think the first one is correct.

You're both gay.

Settled.

Little Hobbo wrote:
> Glad to see the remarkable quality of topics recently. I think I'll
> go and watch paint dry. :p

*cough*(better than watching Big Brother, that's for sure...)

Oh, and erm, Grix was right in the way he wrote the sentence.

Glad to see the remarkable quality of topics recently. I think I'll go and watch paint dry. :p

Grammatically they are both correct.

For a proper judgement to be made we would need to know the rest of the paragraph that the line was included in.

The first one sounds much better than the second!

Phil

I agree with Dr Gonzo. If you cut out the section in the commas, the sentence should still flow. However, you get "Instead of that weirdo, I say we kill him." which certainly doesn't feel quite righ on it's own. As I mentioned earlier, it's unclear what "Instead of" refers to.