Now, it's one thing for hand-written notes to get enthusiastically visited by the Apostrophe Fairy, but it's something else entirely when nobody sprays for that bimbo in the corporate document directory.
( But what about everyone else's policy? )

Did you know there is a song about the Oxford comma? I heard about it on a discussion in John Crowley's LJ. (Yes, the author of Little, Big and many other wonderful novels.)

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Julian Assange's crimes against typography. This one drives me nuts.

I am editing a report. This particular person has, in the past, taken it upon herself to edit the punctuation of the template - thus making it incorrect according to our guidelines. That's why we have guidelines, you fool!

Today I found this sentence

Furthermore, staff confirm that they initiate help and/or support when necessary and in a manner ( Read more... )