Hello there everyone,
I just wanted to say thankyou for being a wonderful, intelligent, helpful bunch of people who can punctuate properly. It makes me feel so much better to know that there is somewhere like this to support me when I’m struggling. It really makes all the difference.
Skybluemornings
xxx
Well that lets me out then 
Vic
It was not intended to be a comment on anyone’s punctuation in particular 
Just that, on average, the people in the L&L forums seem to be a bit less haphazard with the formalities of their writing than in other forums. I like this as imperfect English makes me wince. Nothing personal, just my own preferences, and certainly not intended to make anyone feel bad.
Incidentally, I notice you’re in Stockport. I went to school there 
Skyblue,
I was only joking 
However, there are those onboard Scriv, who would no doubt be tempted to utter such cutting remarks as, "Itd take an Exocet missile up his rear end, to get him to put commas in their correct places." But, scar tissue is tougher than the normal epidermis, so you dont really feel the pain of, upfront-in y`-face castigation, or barbed innuendo, after a while. The more you get…the tougher you get.
Really? Where exactly?
Take care
Vic
Stockport Grammar, before they got all the big railings and scary Fort Knox like frontage.
i believe Mr. K’s comment is directed at Wock and me. [size=65]The jerk.[/size]
I don’t have scholarly references to support this, but I’m pretty sure oral language preceded writing, even in English. That granted (if you will) it seems not illogical to suppose that punctuation was developed, not to impose structure on language, but to indicagte in writing – as nearly as may be – how the spoken language was, well, how it was meant to be spoken.
Or (somewhat) more briefly: punctuation tells you how the writer her/himself said the line. And from Smollet to Seuss, good writers have now and again used quirky punctuation, or none, to show rhthym, pace, pauses, tone.
So let it be with Kite.
Vic does not use commas the way I (and probably he) was taught in elementary school. He uses them – to considerable effect – to indicate how he or his characters speak.
I’ve taunted him a bit on this topic, but in admiration. If you accept the comma as a request to pause in the line and not simply as an arbitrary ruling, you can start to hear a very distinctive voice. Even if it isn’t Miss Grundy’s.
ps
Who am I to argue with a Master!! 
Have one on me Sir.
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to see it in all its majesty![/size]
…[size=200][1]…is just the kind of abuse of the language that Bluesky is talking about! As is the crude and abusive expression at the end of the sentence !
Fluff
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u stop b4 u strt trbl.
WOT!!
Ouch. Good thing I am well equipped, bottom-wise…
I don’t know, I post a message saying how friendly you all are, and we get to missiles!
Teach me
It’s called “friendly fire”, so keep calm and enjoy.
And it is probably a good sign. You know you are in trouble if all are becoming exquisitely polite…
The day you need to get worried is the day when Vic-K and his multiple personalities, Jaysen and Wock don’t take you off-topic with their mutual sniping.
“frayed” seems to be the adjective you were searching…
Mr X.
Could you imagine what would happen if the +3 did not self snipe? Consider a forum where vic-ky types ran amok with no one to trip them up. Awful isn’t it?
Me builts a snowmen dis day in dat der cold stuff dat felled from de skies.
Y dont mean that Druidic spawned opprobrium stuff d y?!! AAARRRGHHHHH!!!
Scrub yer hands wi` carbollock soap, yer nupty!!
Pot ‘n’ Kettle! Pot ‘n’ Kettle!!
