[HPFGU-Movie] Re: The Romance

[Child Of Midian]

From: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com [mailto:HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Carol




Carol responds:

What about the distinction between possessives and plurals ("comma's" vs.
"commas") or the distinction between "were" and "where" (admittedly not
related to comma use)?

I see no reason for additional commas in Snape's speeches, BTW. Alan Rickman
does tend to pause a lot, but I'd probably use ellipses rather than commas
to indicate those pauses if I wanted them to appear in the dialogue. (Ex . .
. pelliarmus!") A comma, as I'm sure you know, is not a breath mark but a
means of setting off introductory or parenthetical or nonrestrictive
elements in a sentence. 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 

I said I taught English and Literature, not grammar and punctuation - those
things are for the elementary schools. I only teach punctuation when I have
to set a student on the right course in their writing. 

My other issue, with homonyms, plurals and apostrophes stems from a form of
dyslexia.

As for the comma, it was an example. And I have been taught from school to
college  (both my English and business degrees) that you can use commas in
dialogue to indicate the speaker's inflection. My example with Snape was
purposefully exaggerated. Your example is an entirely different thing, it's
all one word. Who would put a comma in the middle of a word?

And piss-all to my stating I taught literature, that was not bragging or
talking down, that was simply to say that as someone who studies and teaches
the craft of writing here is why I view this entire theory (21 missing
hours) as nonsense. Nothing more, nothing less. What I love is that I never
said I was a great speller or had perfect punctuation in my post - yet that
is what people toss out there to try and bring me down. Very, very
fourth-grade IMO. No one, after all, actually argued my point to any extent,
just my credentials. Of course, everyone feels perfectly okay saying that
I'm some big-headed windbag for saying what I did for a living, but no one
had issues posting their own degrees or professions!

md



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