Timeline for Comma confusion in this sentence
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| Feb 13, 2020 at 1:54 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I'm suffering from amoebic disinterest! | |
| Feb 11, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @jwpat7 'pertaining to or resembling amoebae [in some respect]' (vocabulary.com/dictionary), and doubtless in OED. If we're not careful, we'll be into Isn't 'better' incorrect? 'a gambler', the dictionary says. | |
| Jun 16, 2019 at 15:13 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | ... But only some amoebas are life-enhancing (probably the ones who prefer to be called amoebae aren't). | |
| Mar 21, 2013 at 6:42 | comment | added | user21497 | @JohnM.: Thank you, John. Just so. As Lakoff and Johnson's title says, Metaphors We Live By. | |
| Mar 21, 2013 at 6:07 | comment | added | John M. Landsberg | +1 Beautiful answer. @jwpat7 You are viewing this use of "amoebic" in an exceedingly narrow and very literal interpretation. One of the wonderful things about English, however, is the potential to use words in creative ways, and Bill Franke has come up with a colorful, inventive use of the term "amoebic" here. Think of how amoebae exhibit continuously and elusively mutating shapes, and you'll get an idea of what Bill means with regard to comma rules. | |
| Mar 21, 2013 at 4:19 | comment | added | user21497 | @jwpat7: Why? They make as much sense as the world's #1 amoebically induced condition: amoebic dysentery, & the end result (pardon the pun) is olfactorily and structurally isomorphic writing, IMHO. :-) | |
| Mar 21, 2013 at 3:59 | comment | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | I think your claim that “comma rules are amoebic” (ie, relating to, or caused by an amoeba) is incorrect. | |
| Mar 21, 2013 at 3:35 | history | answered | user21497 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |