Timeline for The Guerrilla Comma
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| Sep 26, 2016 at 0:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/780209272202362880 | ||
| Sep 1, 2016 at 4:00 | answer | added | Richard Kayser | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 3:22 | comment | added | Howard Pautz | @HotLicks - hey! Thanks for the reminder ... I'd completely forgotten about that book ... think I have it buried somewhere ... | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 3:21 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | It's definitely the mischevoous use of commas (not a bad term, BTW), but that use is not limited to modifiers, as the comma in Eats, shoots and leaves clearly demonstrates. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 3:15 | comment | added | Hot Licks | And I recall a cartoon in, I'm thinking, a 3rd grade English textbook, ca 1956. Don't recall exactly what the images were, but there were two frames, one where kids said "Let's eat, Grandma!" and another where they said "Let's eat Grandma!" Kinda got the point across. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 3:10 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Eats, shoots and leaves is the title of a book which highlighted this sort of thing, so that phrase has come to symbolize the concept. Never read the book, though, so I don't know what terms it uses. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 2:53 | history | asked | Howard Pautz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |