That last comma, known as the serial comma, Oxford comma, or Harvard comma, causes serious controversy.
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But the negotiators would now have to examine the text "comma by comma".
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Two clauses connected by a comma, the "comma splice", is jarring in good writing; people should avoid it.
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" "During employee evaluation season there is an annual debate about the use of the Oxford comma," the official says, and "Oxford comma advocates" -- meaning a comma before the last item in a series -- "usually win.
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The Times, like most other news organizations, does not usually use the comma, which is also known as the serial comma.
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Without the Oxford comma, you'd have this: The example I give my students when I discuss the importance of the Oxford comma.
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We've reached out to Hotz for more info on the Comma One cancellation and what kind of alternative products and markets Comma.
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"Word for word, comma for comma, done by people that do it for a living -- and we had an exact transcript," he said.
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In the sentence, "We visited Troy, Rome, and Utica on our way to Lake Placid," the comma after Rome is considered a serial comma.
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In a late September interview, Hotz said he planned to market Comma One initially through a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign before Christmas, then through Amazon. Comma.
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Its comma is being asked to do a little more than a comma is comfortable doing, like a tiny dam struggling to hold back a flood.
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"I had a transcript done by very, very talented people -- word for word, comma for comma," said Trump at one point in that early October news conference.
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Because when I was growing up, they changed the comma formatting, and then when I came here, I found there was all kinds of different comma formatting.
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To point the program to the iTunes Music/Media folder's new location, press the Control and comma keys (Windows) or Command and comma keys (Mac) to open the iTunes Preferences box.
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And more and more people are communicating with comma splices— perhaps in text messages and in email messages — and it could be that comma splices will soon be somehow considered standard.
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" The date should be written: "month day [comma] year.
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Or more accurately, the serial comma, also known as the Oxford or Harvard comma depending on where you're from, which comes after the penultimate item and before a conjunction in a series.
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Pull all of these together and a vehicle has Comma.
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Check out the video above for a tour of Comma.
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While cameras are capturing visual information about the road, Comma.
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A missing comma can cause major corporations to lose millions.
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Hotz, in a tweet sent Friday from China, said Comma.
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After California's Department of Motor Vehicles in January sent Comma.
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If most drivers slow down at a particular rate, Comma.
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Also insert a comma when "however" starts a sentence, too.
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If you find yourself pausing you probably need a comma.
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If you find yourself pausing, you probably need a comma.
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Use a comma to separate each element in an address.
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" Or "Hey, you put your comma in the wrong place.
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More tips from the Comma Queen can be found here.
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Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.
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An Oxford comma is the comma used after the second-to-last item in a list of three or more things, "item A, item B, and item C." It's not often used in journalism.
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But it was finished enough to imbue his car with Comma.
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Comma One is now only available as an open-source project.
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Mustafa Hamdan, 18, had been in a comma since a Jan.
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So the comma in this sentence is not grammatical, but stylistic.
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Alternative view: George Hotz, founder of self-driving car startup Comma.
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He was ebullient at times, saying more than once that Comma.
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Another engineer, Michael Graczyk, went as far as saying that Comma.
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Andreessen, whose firm invests in self-driving car companies like Comma.
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The more miles you log, the more "Comma points" you earn.
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Joe Walsh accidentally says so fast that the comma is lost.
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We'll be keeping an eye out for more updates from Comma.
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As a result, every single word and properly placed comma matters.
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BETWEEN YOU & ME: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by Mary Norris.
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Many people do not know how to use a comma correctly.
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Use a comma after a dependent clause that starts a sentence
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Use a comma between two adjectives that modify the same noun
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This is a comma in the continuing story of building America.
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McKelvey, however, likely remains locked out of the three-comma club.
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"No comma when single subject with compound predicate," the email instructs.
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Article of the Day Article: Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute Before Reading Watch the short video below, featuring Mary Norris, also known as the Comma Queen, from The New Yorker.
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"For want of a comma, we have this case," the judge wrote.
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Typecasting aspirations of wealth has not helped diversify the three-comma club.
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Others join two sentences with only a comma, which makes editors furious.
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Honestly, there's not much difference between this and "thanks" with a comma.
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His firm is an investor in self-driving car companies like Comma.
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Comma, formerly of Recode, formerly of All Things D. LG: That's right.
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Also use a comma after a city-state combination within a sentence.
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So now we get to replace Oxford comma pedantry with semicolon pedantry.
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" So the song begins, "Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
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And, did the comma make a difference in the very first line?
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Also use a comma after a city-state combination within a sentence
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Use a comma when directly addressing someone or something in a sentence
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That's me who sometimes misses a comma or chooses colloquialisms over grammar.
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A giant white comma has taken shape off the western U.S. coast.
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She cries a lot, worries about comma placement and has mother issues.
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Wichary sees "comma period lock" as bringing together the old and new.
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Persuade someone to read "Picnic Comma Lightning" in 50 words or less.
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You're wasting your time when you could be writing stuff and having editors, and listening to the editors who are trying to give you advice on where to put the comma, because you don't know where the comma goes.
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For me, it's "Hi" and then the person's name followed by a comma.
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Instead, Hotz and two others are part of a new division called Comma.
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It is not about where to put a comma, this is about fundamentals.
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"However" shouldn't be used after a comma to connect two clauses like this.
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Initially, Hotz was working on a self-driving car kit called Comma One.
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But considering the company has been around for all of 10 months, Comma.
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Emboldened, she rushed over to a larger comma chair swaying from another tree.
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The rule for where the comma goes, however, depends on where attribution comes.
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And people advocating for the Oxford comma have a point now and then.
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Had there been a comma after "shipment," the meaning would have been clear.
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Governor, capitalization of words for headlines and the devilish Oxford comma, for example.
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Q. In English, there are raging debates over things like the Oxford comma.
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Dimon joined the three comma club in 2015, Bloomberg reported at the time.
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A law in Maine omits the punctuation mark, known as an Oxford comma.
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A sentence with an extra comma is a boulder in your swimming pool.
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How did the serial, or Oxford, comma play a role in the suit?
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Why does the use, or misuse, of the comma generate such strong feelings?
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"Yes, I was mourning the death of a comma," Ms. Bentz said, laughing.
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Of course, including a comma would have made that clear from the beginning.
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The software enabled adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assist for the cars Comma.
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Plans changed after Hotz received a letter in October from NHTSA demanding that Comma.
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What keeps George Hotz, the enigmatic hacker and founder of self-driving startup Comma.
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But this time, there's a twist: instead of selling a physical product, Hotz's Comma.
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George Hotz has terminated his self-driving car project after a government warning. Comma.
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Rather, the government agency said in the letter that it "strongly encourage[s]" Comma.
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We've reached out to both the NHTSA as well as Hotz and the Comma.
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Andreessen brought up George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker who founded of Comma.
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"If it's a scientific report, I'm not going to change a comma," Zinke said.
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The physical product will be shipping before the end of the year, says Comma.
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Try reading the above comma-less sentence without sounding like you're snapping at someone.
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If a dependent clause ends the sentence, however, it no longer requires a comma.
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The version with a comma, however, instructs them to stop attending hip dance clubs.
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As fun as it may be to say, the comma "splice" should be avoided.
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While the napkin isn't technically incorrect, perhaps a comma or rephrasing would have helped.
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I edited a comma out of a tweet to test it and it worked.
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I did like INSTANT COMMA, LOW COB DIET and IT'S MY POTTY as well.
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But Cuban had been a millionaire long before he entered the three-comma club.
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Do you think the manual should be revised to insist on Oxford comma usage?
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Thanks to a Maine trucking lawsuit, the Oxford comma is back in the news.
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Court case decided on merits of missing Oxford comma Grammar nerds, this is your nirvana.
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What, precisely, is the argument against treating the Oxford comma as a tool for clarity?
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You can also open this menu by using the COMMAND + COMMA shortcut on a Mac.
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Still, you don't need to join the three-comma club to enjoy life's finer things.
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Serial-comma fans say that it can never introduce ambiguity, and can often remove it.
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But that's also not top of mind right now: on a whiteboard in the Comma.
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" The email states that there should be "no comma when single subject with compound predicate.
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But if she gets in, she'll change a comma or something and support it again.
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From the start, Williams's style was modest and plainly declarative, comma-light and subclause-free.
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If you can't handle a comma, how can I trust you to handle my future?
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He had not yet rolled out his exclamation point only to crumple like a comma.
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You can insert punctuation by saying things like "comma" or "period" aloud as you dictate.
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But there are certain scenarios in which it's less clear whether a comma is appropriate.
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She was wearing a T-shirt that showed a comma and question mark in conversation.
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By the way, my two other faves are THE BOD OF AVON and INSTANT COMMA.
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The painter quickly drew a white circle and a black comma and the face disappeared.
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Once you join the three comma club, where does all of that money actually live?
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This is not a period, this is a comma in the continuing story of building America.
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Self-driving vehicle tech is beginning to trickle into the market– including from startups like Comma.
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Separately, Rosekind said the NHTSA's decision to demand that San Francisco self-driving car startup Comma.
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But putting a comma between a verb and its direct object is not a common mistake.
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Hotz canceled the product after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent his company, Comma.
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AutonomouStuff's pearl-white Lincoln MKZ, for instance, slipped around the course with little difficulty and Comma.
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Garden already holding Red Admiral (6), Painted Lady (8), Peacock (5), Comma (2) and a Gatekeeper.
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But it's premature to read this as demonstrating that everybody should always use the Oxford comma.
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You don't need to add a comma when the sentence mentions only the month and year.
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Use a comma when the first word of the sentence is a freestanding 'yes' or 'no'
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New York stories Or, at least, help you figure out when to use an Oxford comma.
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The moon was just a sliver, a comma, a single eyelash in the dark, starless sky.
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A satellite image of the bomb cyclone, shaped like a comma, from the new GOESeast satellite.
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Authors of such works suggest joining the three-comma club is simpler than one might think.
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For the moves separated by a comma, do all reps before moving on to the next exercise.
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The Eon is a dashcam dev kit based on Android that can run Waze, Spotify and Comma.
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The 'Brexit' 50p coin is missing an Oxford comma, and should be boycotted by all literate people.
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The film version dropped the comma in 1963 and its disappearance continues in the Penguin classics version.
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In the American texts, the year was followed by a comma about twice as often as not.
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But there could be an option B – drivers converting their cars with Lyft's kits much like Comma.
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The idea is not radically different from Comma One, the first product that Hotz had to scrap.
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In a letter and order on Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) demanded that Comma.
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" The Comma Twins: "Ain't no way in hell y'all are leaving us out of this punctuation intervention.
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Unfortunate side effect of the scandal is this period-comma-apostrophe bullshit from the New Yorker. pic.twitter.
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In that case, it would no longer need a comma: "I went running and saw a duck."
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"I didn't change a paragraph — a comma — in any document and I never would," he told senators.
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WeWork cofounder Miguel McKelvey also lost his membership in the three comma club between March and October.
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Let's not even get into the fact that sometimes the Oxford comma can, itself, make a mess.
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You might have seen one of Kirsten's great pieces of original reporting on TC already, like Comma.
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Early last year, he took things into his own hands once again with the launch of Comma.
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Collins can explain Marxist theory like a political scientist; he also uses "Fuck me!" like a comma.
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If you could change the manual, how would you word the style guidelines for Oxford comma usage?
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Susanne Fischer of New York suggested the Oxford comma, which was traditionally used at Oxford University Press.
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Then his eyes fell on the pinkish-beige mound of comma-shaped beans in the white bowl.
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The good news ... if you're part of the 3 comma club, "The Mountain" could still be yours!
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Pretty comma young and pretty young people who make a living entirely off of their YouTube videos.
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It is now, and it can all be yours ... if you're part of the 3 comma club.
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But hey, if the mighty little Oxford comma has the power to become a determining factor in a court case, it might be a good idea to find out if you and your significant other see eye-to-eye on the controversial serial comma before making any serious commitments.
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But the resolution means there will be no ruling from the land's highest courts on whether the Oxford comma — the often-skipped second comma in a series like "A, B, and C" — is an unnecessary nuisance or a sacred defender of clarity, as its fans and detractors endlessly debate.
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How It Works A user pairs the Panda hardware with Chfr, a dashcam app previously developed by Comma.
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Pardon me, incidentally, if that list of qualities occasioned any ambiguity with its lack of an Oxford comma.
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However, both trademark applications are now in peril, largely because of punctuation errors, including many a misplaced comma.
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A few people argued that this is a case for following AP style and abolishing the Oxford comma.
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I think that maybe except for a comma or two, I'm not sure he's really said anything new.
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He passes out and ends up with a comma, instead: a marker of the continuation of a sentence.
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The comma, however, was not originally intended as a grammatical mark, but a place to pause for breath.
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CEO Lenny Comma blamed the delay for softer sales, noting that lower income markets were hit the hardest.
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Debate over a comma in the Second Amendment traveled all the way to the Supreme Court in 2008.
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If you can, though, opt for the comma, especially if you have used lots of exclamation points elsewhere.
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DETROIT/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco entrepreneur George Hotz was so confident in his self-driving startup Comma.
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But for all of Hotz's bluster, he had at least been willing to admit to Comma One's limits.
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Leonard Comma, chief executive of Jack in the Box, said Chipotle was forcing Qdoba into more promotional activity.
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Use a comma to separate the items on your list of custom keyword and characters to filter out.
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In that case, it would no longer need a comma: "I went running and saw a duck."2.
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But learning the rules of the street has been harder than deciding when to deploy an Oxford comma.
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" Take out that Oxford comma and the sentence reads like this: "I like to run, skip and jump.
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At sunset, the moon appeared like a slender comma above the trees, glowing in the blue-black sky.
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Describe how the meaning of the sentence can change with the addition, or removal, of a simple comma.
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The comma, he suggested, said more about the haphazard punctuation practices of the day than the framers' intent.
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It does happen on occasion that a client loses millions of dollars over a misplaced comma or period.
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Susanne Fischer of New York City suggested the Oxford comma, which was traditionally used at Oxford University Press.
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I got a job where barely anyone spoke aloud, all of us plugged into our separate computers with our dress-code-appropriate gray jeans and closed toe shoes, and I'd mark a comma that I thought should be removed, and sometimes my boss would mark for the comma to return.
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Note the lack of Oxford comma — also known as the serial comma — in the following state law, which says overtime rules do not apply to: The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: (2200) Agricultural produce; (2110) Meat and fish products; and (3) Perishable foods.
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The relatively small-scale dispute gained international notoriety last year when the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that the missing comma created enough uncertainty to side with the drivers, granting those who love the Oxford comma a chance to run a victory lap across the internet.
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Note the lack of Oxford comma — also known as the serial comma — in the following state law, which says overtime rules do not apply to: The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: (22014) Agricultural produce; (2200) Meat and fish products; and (2110) Perishable foods.
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The lack of diversity in the three-comma club highlights the growing wealth gap between black and white Americans.
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In a simple example, when people write "Hi John" in an email, Grammarly was suggesting people add a comma.
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" Hotz also stated that Comma One "does not remove any of the driver's responsibilities from the task of driving.
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But what's different about the new Open Pilot software and Comma Neo box is that it is completely free.
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But he would scrutinize every single word of the magazine—every single comma—before it went to the printer.
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WeWork cofounder Miguel McKelvey also lost his membership in the three comma club between March and October, Forbes estimates.
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What happened here shows, just as defensibly, that the Oxford comma should be used in cases of potential ambiguity.
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But many companies that chased three-comma valuations are now stuck trying to live up to almost impossible expectations.
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The version with a comma, however, instructs them to stop attending hip dance clubs: "Stop clubbing, baby seals."11.
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Think of how this would read with a comma after the "NO," and you'll get what is meant here.
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" • Quotation of the day "I'm pretty sure when I need a comma; I'm not so sure about a semicolon.
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Sometimes an em dash simply enhances a piece's voice in a way that a comma, period, or colon can't.
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The BuzzFeed copydesk breaks with other ~journalism writers~ and uses the Oxford comma, so we're on Kelsie's side here.
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To prevent anymore Oxford comma drama, the Maine Legislature has since edited this exemption, replacing the punctuation with semicolons.
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This is the aforementioned CSV file, which is basically a very generic spreadsheet file consisting of comma-separated values.
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Without the Oxford comma, "packing for shipment or distribution" is one activity that's exempt from time-and-a-half pay.
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It can also be caused by a species of comma-shaped "Vibrio" bacteria, related to the species that causes cholera.
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The Comma One was an add-on that would've enabled certain cars to have Tesla Autopilot-like driving assistance capabilities.
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A framed poster of a Tesla Model S with a big red comma superimposed over it hangs on the wall.
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Had "distribution" been set off by an extra comma, there would have been no ambiguity at all, and no dispute.
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Those who like hard rules must accept that the comma is an oddball among the punctuation marks, in two ways.
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You might smile at an interesting word or a nice turn of phrase but who lingers over the perfect comma?!
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It found that replacing the new machines increased efficiency and revenue, but Comma decided they were too expensive to install.
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People who want to tinker with Comma Neo and Open Pilot will need much more than the Github code, though.
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"I'm not talking about adding a missing comma here, fixing a typo there," he wrote in a May 20 post.
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Aside from a handful of external sensors and a big black comma emblazoned on the hood, the Acura was inconspicuous.
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Three lanes in either direction, it's a long, straight, and predictable expanse of road — a perfect testing ground for Comma.
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Out of respect to the band and AP Style, we have declined to use an Oxford comma in that list.
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Jackson's biography on his Twitter page looks askew because there is a space missing between a word and a comma.
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And it's what Hotz used to build the initial successful self-driving demo used to ferry Bloomberg around for comma.
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"Think, again," ends the trailer for the upcoming puzzler Obduction, and I admit I rejoiced in that deliciously placed comma.
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Nakaya verifies that the computer is correct, pointing to the tell-tale dot and comma shape of the malaria parasite.
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The cofounders of Juul have both lost their billionaire status after less than 10 months in the 3-comma club
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Because of where the comma is placed, it looks like he's referring to himself as the "total con," not her.
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Self-made millionaires didn&apost get to the two-comma club without doing things a little differently from the rest.
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I agree, comma, but … So, last week Trump spoke at a new Royal Dutch Shell plastics plant right outside Pittsburgh.
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At 194 pages, there is nothing extraneous, not one comma, not one word, not one drop of a comic's sweat.
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Keep reading to see who dropped out of the three-comma club in 2019, listed in order of their exits.
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A sentence with a missing comma is a horse trailer coming unhitched on a highway at 70 miles per hour.
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And who won the punctuation debate — defenders of the Oxford comma, or those who think it is unnecessary and unimportant?
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For more rationale on The New York Times comma style, see this blog post by the standards editor Phil Corbett.
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A half-hour later, we were banking over the comma-shaped island and landing at its only town, Nueva Gerona.
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Instead, Weather Twitter is focused on the stunning satellite imagery: the comma-shaped cyclone, eye, and lingering snow seen from above.
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"From this, you should be able to replicate our initial ... experiments," Hotz wrote in a letter on the company's website. Comma.
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Tap and hold the comma button (Android) or the emoji button (iOS) on the keyboard to find the alternative display mode.
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That means you'll no longer have to awkwardly say "period" or "question mark" or "comma" if you're a stickler for grammar.
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A fellow-inmate tries to move a comma in Little Pepper's testimony, "which I wanted to keep just where it was".
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And so the way we think about it right now, it's not just necessarily something that can be compatible with Comma.
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Hence, the comedy's official title for its The Jinx-flavored sophomore year, Trial & Error: Lady, Killer (mind the very leading comma).
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AXEL BIEHLVancouver An interesting absence of the comma is found in Ian Fleming's novel "From Russia, with Love", published in 1957.
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Super Cruise also only operates on 130,000+ miles of highways in the US and Canada that GM has Lidar mapped. Comma.
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Auto and technology industry officials have cautioned that overly stringent regulation could send the nascent industry to Europe or China. Comma.
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Jack in the Box's employees felt insecure and were less productive during the conversion, according to the chain's CEO Lenny Comma.
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Lowe's tweet did not use an Oxford comma, which appears in a list of three or more items separated by commas.
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Joining the three-comma club will be a "tough task for sure," Green says, but "I think I can reach it."
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You don't need to add a comma when the sentence mentions only the month and year:March 2013 was a strange month.
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That certainly seems to be what is listed after the words "the campaign of Donald J. Trump" and the comma, right?
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The mag totaled up all of Jay's income from multiple business ventures and officially inducted him into the 3-comma club.
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Ultimately, Hotz said, Comma, like other autonomous tech companies, wants to be able to provide fully autonomous functionality in existing vehicles.
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Jack In The Box (JACK) hired executive search firm Spencer Stuart to help find candidates to succeed current CEO Leonard Comma.
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United States Court of AppealsFor the First Circuit, No. 16-1901 (March 13, 2017), Judge Barron:The Oxford Comma is important. pic.twitter.
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The wealthiest woman in the world, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, only joined the three-comma club in 2018, Business Insider previously reported.
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The Oxford comma has been fit enough to survive this long — even if Spencer himself has faded into the history books.
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At the time, Andreessen Horowitz general partner Chris Dixon wrote a blog post about what led to the firm's investment in Comma.
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On the financial branch vice versa, you charge zero comma on transactions and you wait at home for the transfer to arrive.
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For touchscreen Chromebooks, add the touch flag and a comma to the string, so the last variable would be "touch,unity,xiwi".
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A few weeks later leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz entered the space, announcing investments in two early-stage autonomous startups, Comma.
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To gain back momentum, Comma said that the company will shift its advertising focus from its premium items to its value promotions.
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"As we see the rising costs of labor, it just makes sense," Comma told the ICR Conference in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday.
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If they're not actually observing French grammatical norms — remember, the comma is low punctuation — they might be attempting to "soften" their phrasing.
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All of which makes gathering massive troves of data so important to developing the company's technology — by the end of 2018, Comma.
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It will also be dynamically adaptable: instead of spending millions of dollars to map every road, with enough driver data a Comma.
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She thoroughly excavates each role, a task she describes as a "forensic investigation," parsing the lines — every comma, dash and sentence break.
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Only use a comma to separate a dependent clause at the end of a sentence for added emphasis, usually when negation occurs.
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Even if you add a weekday, keep the comma after "2013":Friday, March 15, 2013, was the day I saw the duck.
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Since "I saw the mean, big duck " and "I saw the big and mean duck" both sound fine, you need the comma.
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The best course of action is to read your work aloud and look for places where a comma causes an unnecessary pause.
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These messages were a pollster's dream, tested down to the comma to maximize the likelihood that I would donate or take action.
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And the clue, "Overcast, in Britain" should be read as "a word used in Britain to mean 'overcast'" because of that comma.
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Norris is the famous New Yorker copy editor who wrote "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" a few years ago.
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Speaking of fanatical fans, those who love the Oxford comma are reveling in a court case that highlights the punctuation mark's importance.
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The tone-on tone effect emphasizes the lovely textural contrasts between the fuzzy towel and the impeccable, curvaceous comma of his fade.
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See, all of this could be solved if there were an Oxford comma, clearly separating "packing for shipment" and "distribution" as separate things!
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It doesn't have a lot of sensors as the Comma One relies on built-in car front radars and comes with a camera.
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The reader chases Kiesling's rambling, comma-less sentences like Daphne scrambles after baby Honey, who is always sliding, writhing, tumbling out of reach.
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In a few short years, they evolved from taking a pointed stance on comma etiquette to staring down God himself without inducing whiplash.
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Hotz both lives and works in a residential San Francisco neighborhood with a team of 20-somethings who are helping him build Comma.
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Panda is the first bit of hardware Hotz will sell since he canceled his self-driving car kit, the Comma One last year.
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The serial comma appears before the last item in a list: "red, white, and blue" has it; "red, white and blue" does not.
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And whereas it is harder to research, it seems that Americans (though perhaps not in Maine) are bigger fans of the serial comma.
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A 2003 survey of 1,129 Americans by FiveThirtyEight and SurveyMonkey Audience found 57 percent in favor of the comma and 43 percent opposed.
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Once you've used the Panda running Chffr to take an extra look under your car's hood (and everywhere else, for that matter), Comma.
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It was sent alongside a special order requesting more information about the Comma One, and The Verge was able to confirm its authenticity.
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Yourself, you may prefer watching Mary Norris, the comma queen of The New Yorker, talk about the use of the reflexive pronoun. Enjoy.
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Expressed intent and explicit language limits political actors, which is why attorneys sometimes argue over the placement of a comma or a period.
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I managed to fix this in about a minute just by finding various quantities of spaces and then replacing them with a comma.
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It's a fascinating way of thinking about literature and how rich and varied the English language is — right down to the humble comma.
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Unlike some services, the physicians won't have to say things like "comma" or "full stop," but can speak normally during the dictation process.
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I traded emails with Mary Norris, the so-called comma queen at The New Yorker magazine, who once ruled the grammatical roost there.
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A 2014 survey of 2003,129 Americans by FiveThirtyEight and SurveyMonkey Audience found 57 percent in favor of the comma and 43 percent opposed.
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Now the Oxford comma, or its absence, has come up in a court case that could cost a company in Maine $10 million.
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Copywriting isn't just about knowing when to use an Oxford comma; it's about being able to craft compelling, engaging stories that capture audiences.
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Of course, seeing all that data pouring in (here's a demo of it in action) doesn't really matter if you don't understand it. Comma.
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At launch, Comma One will support a small group of specific vehicles, but over time the startup hopes to add compatibility with more models.
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Tap and hold on the comma key, then slide up to the icon on the right to activate the keyboard's new one-handed mode.
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One nervous attendee did ask if Hotz could possibly mean what he said, in regards to the shipping date and the price for comma.
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As a shortcut, you can also press the Command and comma keys on the keyboard to open the Preferences box without going through menus.
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In fact, Harper said that even publications that don't typically use the Oxford comma will use it on occasion for the sake of clarity.
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Shares of the homebuying site surged on February 20 after it posted a strong earnings report, reportedly vaulting Barton into the three comma club.
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There was, for instance, a Northgate OmniKey Ultra from the late 1980s, and Wichary pointed out that it had a "comma period lock" key.
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IPOs and stock market gains made several entrepreneurs billionaires in 2019, but they cost other business people their spots in the three-comma club.
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Should comma punctuation follow strict and unwavering rules, or are there other instances besides newspapers, as mentioned in the article, where variations make sense?
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Because it lacked a comma after "shipment," so the phrase could mean that "packing for shipment or distribution" was exempted, but not distribution itself.
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Ms. Bentz was wearing a costume in tribute to the Oxford comma, which had just been struck from the University of Oxford Style Manual.
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"In general, do not use a comma before and or or in a series: The snow stalled cars, buses and trains," our stylebook says.
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On Android, tap and hold on the comma button (lower right), then select the mode switch button (it's the one on the right), then release.
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"You can have your space, cowboy," she sings, the second-long pause of that comma communicating more than most artists can with a whole verse.
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And some of these manage to both share open-source data and research while selling their own commercial products, like self-driving car startup Comma.
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And while my demo was all about showing off the product's ability to control your car, Schulwitz repeatedly clarified that Neodriven isn't associated with Comma.
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Hotz stresses that this isn't some kind of backdoor to turn Eon into the product he was selling last year, which was called Comma One.
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However, unlike with the words themselves, punctuation is often a matter of interpretation: Is a certain pause conveyed best by a comma or a dash?
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While a three-dot ellipsis might be employed to convey intense annoyance, the comma-ellipsis indicates a "different type of intensity," of annoyance or unsureness.
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These storms are awesome to behold, transforming from small splotches of cloud cover to fully formed, comma-shaped behemoths in as little as 24 hours.
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Photo: Getty ImagesJack in the Box CEO Leonard Comma says that higher minimum wages might result in him replacing staff with robots, Business Insider reported.
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A proliferation of IPOs created several new billionaires in 2019 — but a turbulent stock market also knocked many entrepreneurs out of the three-comma club.
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A proliferation of IPOs created several new billionaires in 2019 — but a turbulent stock market also knocked many entrepreneurs out of the three comma club.
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It is too bad he did not do something to it, starting with replacing the period with a comma, and adding something of his own.
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There is what looks like a semicolon after "We hold these truths to be self-evident" — not the comma that appeared in the printed version.
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I added a comma and "informally," as I didn't think Mr. Gordon's clue signaled the informality of the answer strongly enough, especially for a Tuesday.
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Jack In The Box (JACK) – Jack In The Box hired executive search firm Spencer Stuart to help find candidates to succeed current CEO Leonard Comma.
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There's no end here, just a punctuation mark, a measly comma between the rancor that has built until this point and the fury to come.
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The US still boasts more "three-comma club" members than any other country, but the Asia-Pacific region now easily surpasses North America and Europe.
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The book is full of no-nonsense pronouncements on matters like the Oxford comma (use it) and the word "literally" (use it at your peril).
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Blink-215's Mark Hoppus fronted a shortlived project called City (Comma) State, which is said to have taken its name from a Strong Bad email.
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An appeals court sided with the drivers, saying that the guidelines themselves were made too ambiguous by, you guessed it, a lack of an Oxford comma.
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So everybody is going to be combing through every comma in their record to see if they can find a clue for what they would do.
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Sanders has refused on principle to accept donations from anyone in the three-comma club, even returning a $470 donation he received from a billionaire's spouse.
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This week, mass graves for aging turbines, the performer you might've missed at the Super Bowl, the Brexit coin's lack of an Oxford comma, and more.
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But I prefer to think about it with a comma in there: a patronizing, head-shaking rebuttal of the stubborn little piece of small-handed blubber.
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The project involved a $999 after-market kit called "Comma One" that was capable of adding semi-autonomous capabilities to Honda Civics and some Acura cars.
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With no restrictions or qualifications, the event attracted a motley crew of established parts suppliers, startups, investors, and media outlets eager to catch the spectacle. Comma.
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If you're not familiar with the antics of dancing pumpkin man, then just reread the three words that come before the comma in this very sentence.
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Comma.ai, the self-driving car startup helmed by iPhone hacker George Hotz, has unveiled new details about its first commercial product, the newly named Comma One.
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"Love, Gilda" is a very affectionate reminder of her brief and brilliant career, a heartfelt love letter whose title might be more accurate without the comma.
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The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get, set to debut in November, is a classic American tale of Ricketts's ascent to the three-comma club.
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Wood said Amazon's service even has built-in punctuation, so there's no need for a doctor to say out loud that a comma should be inserted.
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A judge ruled in the drivers' favor last March, and it was all thanks to the lack of an Oxford comma in a Maine labor law.
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This week, imaging the world's longest building, the Oxford comma wins, Grabner on Gibson, We Are All Merkel, artist tattoos MAGA around his anus, and more.
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I think it's cleaner and less distracting to go with: Yes, I place the comma on the end rather than "Hi, ___," because the two commas look weird.
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A much more frequent foible in the writing of inexperienced students, is the habit of putting a comma between a long subject and a predicate (as here).
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"In those marketplaces, the sales and transactions were more negatively impacted than affluent areas," Comma said Thursday at the UBS Global Consumer and Retail Conference in Boston.
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Wearing jeans, a long-sleeved white T-shirt, and a black knit cap punctuated with a white comma, Hotz was a burrito-eating bundle of nervous energy.
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Earlier this year, The Verge went for a test-drive with Hotz in Las Vegas, in an Acura tricked out with a beta version of Comma One.
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"I wouldn't want even a misplaced comma so I will promptly fix these footnotes and quotations as I have corrected other material that Vice contested," she added.
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Timothy Harper, a writing coach, and professor at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism told Business Insider he recommends a "comma diet" for students who overuse commas.
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We communicate in uppercase abbreviations (LOL, ICYMI, TTYL) and splenetic bursts, with such an epidemic of exclamation points that each has no more drama than a comma.
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Newfoundland, Labrador and the Canadian Maritimes will be subjected to the storm's "comma head," a region of wraparound moisture that pinwheels back northwest of the low's center.
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In a list of three or more items — like "beans, potatoes and rice" — some people would put a comma after potatoes, and some would leave it out.
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Punctuation, a grandmother whale named for the comma- and hyphen-shaped marks on her back, was killed in June after a vessel struck her, the report said.
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In the last few months, two emails have gone out from Pompeo's top staff to employees throughout the State Department giving careful, meticulous instructions on comma usage.
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The product will ship in about four weeks after the company finishes a round of tests to ensure it plays nicely with the internal electronics of vehicles. Comma.
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" XOJane, never one to back away from embracing a backlash or a comma splice, demanded, "Can We Stop Piling on Claudia Herr, And Admit That Appearances Affect Everything?
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"It is insufficient to assert, as you do, that your product 'does not remove any of the driver's responsibilities from the task of driving,'" the agency said. Comma.
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It's a modified version of the Comma Neo plans that Hotz open sourced, but if Schulwitz has his way, it will be an early player in that revolution.
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"I read that article Saturday morning and I would tell you that every paragraph, every sentence, every word, every space, every comma, every period was wrong," Kelly said.
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"I read that article Saturday morning, and I would tell you that every paragraph, every sentence, every word, every space, every comma, every period was wrong," Kelly said.
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" Gladwell continues: "In the financial crisis, someone put the comma in the wrong place and ended up paying $20 a share for Lehman and not $2 a share.
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On stage, I asked Hotz about safety issues and concerns, but he expressed confidence that Comma One wasn't doing anything existing technology on the market doesn't already offer.
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The version without the Oxford comma, however, takes on an entirely different meaning, potentially suggesting that only one invitation was sent — to two strippers named JFK and Stalin.
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So I sent the question to Mary Norris, author of "Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" and a legendary copy editor at The New Yorker.
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Louie Anderson just got off the set of "Coming To America 2" ... and he says Eddie Murphy's sequel is so good, it's gonna join the three comma club!!!
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"Distribution" is mentioned in a few lines about what tasks don't count for overtime pay, but the thing is, those few lines fail to include an Oxford comma.
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An appeals court sided with the drivers, saying the absence of a comma in one crucial section of the law produced enough uncertainty to rule in their favor.
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And also, I think when you're transcribing, adding a comma or ending a sentence in a certain way makes all the difference in translating the conversation to text.
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In one pairing, "S, A. Inc No.1" and "S, A. Inc No. 2" (both 2018), the letters "S" an "A" are rendered, with a comma between them.
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He would hold the nine-inch curved blade between his fingers, drawing the viewer's attention to the black comma-like markings carved and printed in the pale bone hilt.
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He claimed—with no evidence—that America had hired "stupid" negotiators who failed to read what was in trade deals, while devious foreign officials "know where every comma is".
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By default, Alt+Shift+P will start and stop playback, Alt+Shift+Period will skip to the next track, and Alt+Shift+Comma goes back to the previous one.
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Lalita is a true hero cz she proves 2 1000s of acid attck survivors nationwide tht this isnt a full stp,jst a comma,lyf hs mny possibilities pic.twitter.
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And the redacted portion after the comma suggests that Flynn provided other information on the behavior of people on the presidential transition team during that crucial period of time.
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While the meaning of each phrase, word and comma of these first 10 amendments can still yield passionate debate, we the people can hardly imagine the document without it.
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The line "If Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less" has been updated by the insertion of the words "on Fifth Avenue" before the comma.
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Comma has not specified his departure date from the restaurant chain but told the company's board that now is the right time to move forward with a succession plan.
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And while Wall Street expects Facebook to grow the most over the next year, it still has a very long way to go to reach the four comma club.
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However, while more than 1,811 people spent time in the three-comma club over the past decade, not everyone who became a billionaire in the past decade stayed one.
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The $999 price point is designed to be affordable, and is possible because of the components Comma uses in its product, which tend to be inexpensive off-the-shelf electronics.
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"Murray referred to this comma form rather vaguely as a 'physical symbol,' and slightly more specifically as 'a birth shape,'" wrote critic Joan Simon in Art in America in 280.
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After that, every choice you face as a writer — from the point of view to the plot structure to the comma placement— you should make in service of those goals.
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Finally, it's important to note that, in a deeper way, none of this — not one space or two, not "tabs versus spaces," or the entire Oxford comma debate — really matters.
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In the above example, Grammarly's founder admitted that users didn't use the suggestion to add a comma after "Hi John," even though that is the grammatically correct thing to do.
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Every year, when these reports come out, there's generally a lot of hoopla because these are the only metrics we have to analyze how well each company's tech performs. Comma.
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Porritt could take over the rumored Apple car project Porritt isn't the only former Tesla employee to wind up elsewhere this week — just yesterday, the self-driving tech startup Comma.
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"Every comma was reviewed by (Maksim's) bosses to make sure it was in the right place so it sounded like an American posting by Americans," Isikoff told CNN's Chris Cuomo.
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Juul is cutting 500 jobs by the end of the year, and its cofounders have both lost their billionaire status after less than 10 months in the 3-comma club
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With Cruise and Waze and Uber and Comma and Otto and Tesla and all the rest, it's clear that the automotive world is on the edge of a dramatic cliff.
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If they don't, it may be because they find the humor too precious, the same way some music fans find Vampire Weekend songs like "Oxford Comma" a little too adorable.
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Comma has not specified his departure date from the restaurant chain, but told the company's board that now is the right time to move forward with a succession plan. Bill.
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In the settings tab of the pop-up window, under Source, add or delete list items as necessary, making sure all items are separated with a comma and nothing else.
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And while Wall Street expects Berkshire Hathaway to grow the most over the next year, it still has a very long way to go to reach the four comma club.
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It was basically a dot that functioned in all the ways the period, comma, and semicolon do today, helping the reader to parse a sentence and figure out where to pause.
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But Hotz killed Comma One when the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent his company a letter urging it to delay the product until it was thoroughly tested for safety.
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There are more billionaires than ever before — 263.2,262.2 — but the three-comma club is still an exclusive one: There is only one billionaire for every 285 million people on the planet.
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Hard to say, but somewhere, Jack in the Box CEO Leonard A. Comma—proprietor of Mexi-Cali fast-food chain and BITTER Chipotle rival Qdoba—swivels around in his office chair.
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But I'm a little confused: if self-driving cars are a scam, and he abandoned his plans to sell his Comma One after-market kit, what the hell is he selling?
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"The pie isn't getting any bigger," Comma said of the restaurant industry, noting that Jack in the Box is going to have to work harder to steal share from other chains.
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He claimed that the Open Pilot and Comma Neo combination "provides almost all the same functionality as Autopilot 7," which is the second-most-recent version of Tesla's self-driving software.
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Under Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Georgia tried to freeze voter-registration applications if they did not precisely match state databases, even if the difference was a mere comma or hyphen.
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"I believe in being as open as possible without killing the host organism; we make sure we keep the company alive to open source more stuff," Hotz told me about comma.
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And just like one comma stands in the way of making "let's eat, Grandma," into "let's eat Grandma," a misspelled business name on marketing products can be one giant facepalm moment.
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Laurence Scott is a lecturer in writing at New York University in London and the author, most recently, of Picnic Comma Lightning: The Experience of Reality in the Twenty-First Century.
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You can do it Nick he says in a little grey comma, following up with a picture of man holding a balloon, walking along a rope in front of the moon.
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A bunch of dairy delivery drivers in Maine say the state's overtime law is unclear cause of a missing Oxford comma ... and no less than the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.
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For the editors at heart, anything by Bill Walsh (or our #5 author below) is a treat, but Walsh's guide that we return to over and over is Lapsing Into a Comma.
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"(The deal) is consistent with the company's desire to transition to a less capital-intensive business model," Lenny Comma, the chief executive officer of Jack in the Box said in a statement.
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Panda is a tiny black and white dongle you port into your car to gather the data and should not come under the same type of regulatory scrutiny as the Comma One.
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Quip also has a handy audit system to show who made what changes to documents, just in case a coworker tries to blame a crucial typo or misplaced comma on someone else.
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Hotz says that this is because it's the only phone that's open enough (it's bootloader unlockable) and that has the specs (particularly the Snapdragon 820 processor) and cameras capable of running Comma.
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The NHTSA letter explained that given its mandate of ensuring safety on U.S. roadways, it needed to ensure the Comma One is compliant with regulations before it can be offered for sale.
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The whole thing, from the use of scare quotes, non-capitalization, footnote fragment, and a line that ends in a comma, frustrates any attempt to use the reading skills developed since childhood.
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In the middle of the room, three comma-shaped gray couches are arranged to face one another, just a little too far apart for any seated parties to share a private joke.
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And the way you should do your name was to separate your first and middle names from your last name with some sort of punctuation: a semicolon, a comma or a colon.
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GREEK TO ME Adventures of the Comma Queen By Mary Norris Mary Norris's "Greek to Me" is one of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read.
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EditorsNote: Added stat at end of 3rd/final grafs; Changed to Big East in 4th; Changed 'a' to 'an' in 6th; Changed to 3:23 in 7th; Fixes to comma at Feb.
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It took on a comma shape, drawing in moisture all the way from the Bahamas, and dumping it into an Arctic air mass in place over the Mid-Atlantic and East Coast.
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The Oxford comma is probably the most divisive punctuation mark in the English language: academics root for it, journalists are torn over it, and the general public has some strong feelings about it.
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Hotz framed the self-driving software, called Open Pilot, as an "open source alternative to [Tesla's] Autopilot" during a press event that was held in a San Francisco house that serves as Comma.
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"Trans-Pacific Partnership -- it's over 5,000 pages long -- every country that's in that partnership has studied every word, every comma, every sentence, every paragraph; our guys probably haven't even read it," Trump continued.
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Forever 21 cofounders Jin Sook and Do Won Chang fell out of the three comma club in July, just before the fast-fashion chain filed for bankruptcy September 29, Business Insider previously reported.
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Google's voice typing used to only add punctuation when the speaker asked for it specifically (by saying "comma" or "period," etc.), but after an update last month, the app started adding punctuation automatically.
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"Trans-Pacific Partnership — it's over 5,85033 pages long — every country that's in that partnership has studied every word, every comma, every sentence, every paragraph; our guys probably haven't even read it," Trump continued.
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It was conceived to prevent people from accidentally sending less-than or equal-to signs when they hit the comma and period keys, regardless of whether the shift key is being held down.
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The book does not include an explanation of the comma in its title, nor any discussion of the Trumps' 13-year-old son, Barron, except as a factor in his mother's decision-making.
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Hold down the iPhone's Home button (or say "Hey Siri" to wake up the software), say "Make a new note," and then speak your thoughts — reciting the punctuation like "period" or "comma" aloud.
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SmileDirectClub founders Jordan Katzman and Alex Fenkell became two of the youngest billionaires in the US after the company's IPO in September — only to drop out of the three-comma club in October.
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Of course, one editor's definition of clarity is different from another's, so it's not uncommon for one editor to add a comma to a sentence only to have the next editor delete it.
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As the New York Times explains, a recent overtime lawsuit hinged on the interpretation of a state law — and whether it should be read as if it had an Oxford comma or not.
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The goal is to build a repository with a DBC file for every car ever manufactured and democratize access to the decoder ring for your car, according to a Medium post published by Comma.
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A quick punctuation lesson before we proceed: In a list of three or more items — like "beans, potatoes and rice" — some people would put a comma after potatoes, and some would leave it out.
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Ask the average high school girl to use the Pythagorean theorem, to summarize the main idea of a paragraph, or to correct the comma usage in an English sentence, and she'll have no problem.
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Faced with a twisting, no-holds-barred track, the vehicles revealed their shortfalls quickly: PolySync's autonomous braking system malfunctioned, preventing a fully autonomous run; the SLAMborghini could only operate under remote control; and Comma.
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In the most densely populated state in the Union, a frenetic comma-shaped wild where the highways and shopping malls alone are out to maim you, you'll need all the gumption you can get.
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Lorenzo meandered in a comma-shaped path from the Azores to the British Isles as it grew to Category 4 strength before weakening slightly on Wednesday (and losing its official designation as a hurricane).
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A quick punctuation lesson before we proceed: In a list of three or more items — like "beans, potatoes and rice" — some people would put a comma after potatoes, and some would leave it out.
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Yet the implication quickly transcends the personal: most recently, Murray has used the comma in pairs, like Chinese yin/yang forms that signify both male and female principles and, more generally, opposites working in harmony.
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Hotz announced that they were releasing brand-new, open-source software on Github called Open Pilot, and that they were also publishing guidelines on how to 3D-print a physical box called the Comma Neo.
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Journalists taking rides in self-driving cars has become a public-relations genre unto itself; in the past two years The Verge has ridden in fully or partially autonomous vehicles from Mercedes, Ford, Uber, Comma.
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With many bulk-mail services, you start by signing up for an account and then importing the addresses on your mailing list from an Excel spreadsheet, a comma-separated values file or a text document.
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The idea that the Oxford comma is as advisable as storm windows has been a standard meme among literate Americans since, especially, the publication of William Strunk and E.B. White's Elements of Style in 1959.
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You can even add filters after a comma on the end of your search terms, and combine them together: look for "trees, today, spherical" to find 360-degree videos of trees uploaded today, for example.
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Most members of the three comma club would send an assistant to handle such pedestrian tasks, but not Mark ... instead, he's rolling up his sleeves and braving the outside world with his wife, Priscilla Chan.
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Co-founded by Stanford consulting professor Stefan Heck, Nauto isn't an after-market autonomous tech company in the sense that Cruise (acquired by GM) and Comma were because its tech doesn't drive or control cars.
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Meanwhile at Qdoba owner Jack in the Box, CEO Leonard A. Comma said the unusually large gap "begs a little caution here going forward" as the industry sees the number of transactions drop as a result.
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OneWeb's craft currently cost about a million dollars each, which, when combined with all the other costs of launch and administration, quickly add up to the point where even a three-comma round doesn't cover things.
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George Hotz, aka geohot, is fidgeting in his living room, wearing dark shades and a giant comma on his t-shirt as he shows me his company's latest product, an $88 universal car interface called Panda.
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Forbes listed Novogratz as a billionaire in 2007 and 2008, but he dropped out of the three-comma club after the value of Fortress shares fell 89% in 2008, at the start of the financial crisis.
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Read more: The WeWork IPO fiasco of 2019, explained in 30 secondsForbes does not believe that either Neumann or McKelvey — who the publication says is now worth $400 million — will likely rejoin the three comma club.
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The passage consists of a sentence of 66 words followed by a comma and then a sequence of clauses and phrases that is neither a part of the sentence preceding it nor a sentence in itself.
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" Today, after being a member of the three comma club for more than two decades, his wealth still seems unbelievable to him: "Even today — every day — when it hits me, I'm just like, Oh my God.
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"The administration is committed to achieving a lasting and comprehensive peace agreement, and remains optimistic that progress can be made," one example reads, with the comma after agreement highlighted in bright yellow -- meaning it is wrong.
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He plated the ponche pacifico with a molded disk of cinnamon rice, drops of chontaduro puree in increasing size, and an elongated comma of deep ochre achiote sauce, incorporating the colorful, geometric sophistication his patrons expect.
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Cofounders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each walked away with $272 million, in addition to each owning at least $5 billion worth of stock, andother early employees likely made themselves an extra comma in their bank account.
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The sharp, zig-jag overall shape of the painting offers a contrasting space for two dark, concave, comma-shaped forms — their black silhouettes bounce up off the composition not unlike a graff tag off a city wall.
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The $999 aftermarket kit, which was designed to give regular cars semi-autonomous skills, was pulled by Hotz after receiving an inquiry from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration about the safety of the product. Comma.
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A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks.
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This reliance on commas is apparently hallmark of older fiction: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations all lean more heavily on the comma than the period to build descriptive sentences.
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Renowned iPhone hacker turned entrepreneur George Hotz (aka geohot) has cancelled his autonomous driving startup's first official product, the Comma One aftermarket add-on that would've allowed certain cars to gain Autopilot-like highway driving assistance abilities.
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The Comma One was unveiled for the first time at TechCrunch Disrupt SF this past September, when Hotz presented the product and announced that it would be shipping to early customers by the end of this year.
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"If Tom has written three dots after a line, it means something different than if he has written two dots, or a comma, or whatever," Ms. Hynes said in a video made for the Lincoln Center Festival.
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EditorsNote: Fix in 13th graf, other comma tweaks Gordon Hayward scored 26 points off the bench to lead the visiting Boston Celtics past the Philadelphia 76ers 112-109 on Tuesday in a game full of playoff atmosphere.
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"Specifically, if that [list of exemptions] used a serial comma to mark off the last of the activities that it lists, then the exemption would clearly encompass an activity that the drivers perform," the circuit judge wrote.
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A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks.
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For the court, then, a serial comma was a necessity, even though, as Daniel Victor of The Times notes, the writer of the law followed the rules of The Maine Legislative Drafting Manual, which dislikes such commas.
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Of course, to treat the failure to use the Oxford comma as a mark of mental messiness is a handy way to look down on what will perhaps always be a majority of people attempting to write English.
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There are big, juicy baubles full of fluid and tiny barnacles embedded in the landscape of my face that, when coaxed, release a hard squiggle that looks like a comma, or sometimes, if I'm lucky, a curly spring.
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Many will nix the "Dear"—you are not dear to them—and begin only with the clerical thud of your full name, followed not by the more comely comma but by the two fang marks of a colon.
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Read more: The 11 most common grammatical mistakes and how to avoid themWe've compiled a list of all the times when you'll need the mighty comma — and we wrote sentences about ducks to show you their proper use:
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EditorsNote: Minor: Replaced errant comma with period in 5th graf J.D. Davis' sacrifice fly in the eighth inning Saturday night capped another comeback win for the scorching New York Mets, who beat the visiting Washington Nationals, 3-2.
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I know the objection: Shouldn't we just use the Oxford comma all the time in the same way that we train teenagers to use turn signals at all times even if no other drivers happen to be present?
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Many will tell you to keep things under a page if you're not above a certain age range; others will tell you that there's nothing worse for making a first impression than a misplaced comma or repeated word.
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She covered expanses of canvas painted a monochrome of red, green, white or goldenrod yellow with open patterns of tiny, comma-like strokes — a form of craft, almost, but a very expressive one — often in marathon work sessions.
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The drivers are suing their employer -- Portland-based Oakhurst Dairy -- for unpaid overtime wages, arguing they qualify for that dough because of the confusing way Maine's labor law is punctuated ... without a comma to distinguish who exactly is exempt.
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Screenshot: GizmodoIf you're an Android user on the default Gboard keyboard, for example, long-press on the comma then slide to the right-hand icon to enable one-handed mode—making it much easier to type on one hand.
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FRANK GUEBurlington, Canada To avoid potential ambiguity, there is a case to be made for the use of the serial comma, as evidenced by the following (apocryphal) book dedication that omits it: "To my parents, Ayn Rand and God".
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Meteorologists might understand satellite images enough to tell you if a storm's comma-shaped center or atmospheric pressure hits the millibars required to qualify as a "bomb cyclone" — and even still, no forecast ever feels like a surefire guarantee.
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It played on a visual-verbal riddle convention well known to Russians: Each comma stood for a letter to be removed from the words denoted by the images, and the letters that remained created a new word or phrase.
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The final proof was read by no less than seven expert proofreaders, lest the slightest tremble in the tail of a comma or the faintest cast in a capital "I" offend the fastidious eyes of the Great American Public.
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On typewriters from earlier years, even if you weren't holding down the shift key, a comma or a period resulted every time you hit their corresponding keys, making it easier to add those punctuation marks while writing uppercase letters.
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Ms. Toth spent much space discussing niceties of pitch and tuning undoubtedly lost on most listeners, advocating "1/4-comma mean-tone," which required the player of the positive organ, Dongsok Shin, to retune his instrument between several numbers.
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Ninety-Nine Stories of God, Joy Williams The 99 stories that make up this book are very brief pieces of flash fiction, the kind where every single word and comma and apostrophe has been weighed and balanced and found necessary.
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He wrote at the time that he "would much rather spend my life building amazing tech than dealing with regulators and lawyers," and a few months later announced open source plans for the hardware and software that powered Comma One.
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EditorsNote: Tweaks in 8th, 1oth grafs; other comma fixes Russell Westbrook had 23 points and 12 assists, Jerami Grant scored 22 and the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder routed the Washington Wizards 134-111 Friday night, spoiling the debut of Dwight Howard.
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So there are conventions: there's an introductory line where you have to put a comma, you have to put the date in a specific place, you have to use a certain form of language that people generally perceive as very formal.
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TMZ Sports spoke with the retired NBA star -- who recently told us he has a plan to join the 3 comma club by age 50 -- and he reveals how the 49ers legend might have a role in reaching that goal.
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Whereas poets may debate where to place a line break or a novelist questions how best to organise stories into chapters, a writer on Twitter thinks carefully about where to place a comma, or whether a semi-colon might work better.
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Banks faced crippling fines on small loans they make for local, small businesses, eventually forcing most to simply stop writing loans - I even heard from one bank that was concerned that they could face a $50,000 penalty for a missed comma.
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EditorsNote: Adds 'earned' 2100th graf, fixes comma in 2003th graf Xander Bogaerts homered twice to lead the visiting Boston Red Sox to a 2200-221 win against the Cleveland Indians in the rubber match of their three-game series Wednesday afternoon.
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"We've been our own worst enemy when it comes to speed of service, as the breadth of our ever-changing menu has added complexity and prep times in our kitchen," CEO Leonard Comma said on the company's second quarter earnings call.
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However, I hope that they would stick up for the idea that it can be morally kosher to bank a billion and that the existence of virtuous three-comma fortunes is a sign not of failure but of supreme policy success.
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Around this time last year, a Maine dairy company agreed to pay its drivers $5 million after a dispute that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma — in a list of activities that did not require overtime payments.
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McPhee's reliance on and reverence for these benignly ruthless guides will ring true to anyone fortunate enough to have worked with meticulous, devoted editors like them, as will the desire to pass along to the next generations, medieval-guild fashion, the tradecraft he learned from their incisive comments — as Zinsser did with us undergraduates; as I do with Atlantic authors, trying to be at once relentless inquisitor and relentless champion, and with my own writing students; as McPhee has done, comma by comma, for more than four decades, with the "half a thousand Princeton students" who are among the book's dedicatees.
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That Murray's first child was born when she began to use the comma shape, and that 280 years later it began to turn up with great regularity and forcefulness when she was pregnant with her second child, lends it an autobiographical dimension.
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Attempting to build closed and proprietary autonomous driving technology could also leave automakers with the same fate as Nokia and Blackberry, which unfortunately lost the smartphone race to the platform-oriented Apple and Android, George Hotz, founder of self-driving car startup Comma.
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EditorsNote: Establish home/away in lead, fixes 153th graf, other comma tweaks John Wall had 25 points and 10 assists, Bradley Beal added 21 points and the Washington Wizards defeated the visiting Orlando Magic 117-109 Monday night for their second straight win.
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EditorsNote: Tweaks 2nd, 8th grafs; other comma tweaks John Wall scored 30 points, Bradley Beal added 27 and the Washington Wizards rallied from 24 points down in the first half to defeat the visiting Los Angeles Clippers 125-83 on Tuesday night.
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Punctuation has been making headlines as of late, from that viral Washington Post story about people who put periods after texts to the publication of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, by veteran New Yorker editor and proofreader Mary Norris.
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I argued that the comma placed in the Second Amendment between "free State" and "the right" made it quite clear what the Amendment was about: Maintaining a state National Guard and not guaranteeing the right of the mentally deranged to carry guns.
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That beautiful and startlingly modern list of mixed emotions suggests a delectation of diversities—he likes not knowing what he feels or who he is, enjoys having "wise" and "ignorant," insulated by nothing but a comma, anchored together in one soul's harbor.
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Dickinson seems to have preferred "instant" over "sudden" in later drafts of the poem, but when it appeared in the second edition of her work, edited by Todd and Higginson, a comma materialized in the spot where the question mark had gone.
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EditorsNote: Corrects period to comma in penultimate graf; other minor edits Aaron Holiday made two 3-pointers late in overtime, and he finished with 19 points and 10 assists as Indiana Pacers defeated the Toronto Raptors 120-115 Monday night in Indianapolis.
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I've witnessed a generation of striving entrepreneurs join the three-comma club and instantly transform into superheroes of the global order, celebrated from the Bay Area to Beijing for what's taken to be their obvious and irrefutable wisdom about anything and everything.
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"A goal of punctuation is to make a sentence as clear as possible, and in most cases that final comma isn't necessary for understanding the relationship of all the items in a series," said Susan Wessling, The Times's senior editor for editing standards.
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"Operating earnings per share for the second quarter exceeded our expectations and guidance, and resulted primarily from healthy margins and cost controls combined with mark-to-market adjustments and a lower tax rate," Lenny Comma, the company's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.
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There's nothing I like more than the chance to play Devil's advocate, My beat is moral virtue comma complete, total lack of it, I'll only call you "victim" if it's clear that you're a predator, I'm lucky to have landed with a sympathetic editor.
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Purging voters from the rolls: Under Kemp, Georgia eliminated 1.5 million people from voter rolls between 2012 to 2016 -- nearly 503 percent of the total -- in part through an "exact match" standard that deleted people if so much as a comma was out of place.
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EditorsNote: Deletes extra comma in 215th graf Jose Ramirez slammed two home runs and drove in five runs as the Cleveland Indians took out their frustrations on the visiting Reds, crushing Cincinnati 211-2326 on Wednesday night to end a four-game losing streak.
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In addition, simplifying the tax code would reduce the power and influence – and, in some cases, threaten the jobs – of the thousands of K Street lobbyists who make their living by inserting a comma here and removing a semi-colon there in the code.
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The show seemed to acknowledge the criticism that it once luxuriated in brutality against women by turning that dynamic on its head completely, letting Dolores and Maeve wreak their revenge in ways both psychological (Maeve commanding Westworld's story writer to strip) and bloody (Dolores comma always).
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The company has also had to contend with dissatisfaction from its own operator base, the National Jack in the Box Franchisee Association, which last month demanded the company replace CEO Lenny Comma, saying the 2,240-outlet company's current strategy was harming its 2,000 franchise-owned restaurants.
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To get started, you pick your two topics, enter your data in a comma-separated list, write a few words about what your readers are looking at and then let the tool do its work in creating a GIF for you (which can actually take a while).
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EditorsNote: 4th graf, replace 'm' with comma after '24 points' Wayne Selden and Shelvin Mack came off the Memphis bench to spark a 19-3 run to start the second quarter and the Grizzlies went on to defeat the visiting Phoenix Suns 117-96 on Saturday night.
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"Obviously the chairman (Priebus) correctly has concluded that any changing of the rules, even changing a comma or a semicolon at this point in time would be perceived by some as a conspiracy to cheat somebody," said Curly Haugland, a member of both the party and convention rules committees.
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While the size of the moves on day two paled in comparison, the declines were sharp enough for STAR's five biggest individual shareholders, including Monday's newly minted billionaires, to lose a combined 6.94 billion yuan on paper, according to Reuters calculations, though none lost claims to three-comma fortunes.
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EditorsNote: 1st graf, remove comma; 7th graf, adds no walks for Bieber Roberto Perez highlighted his second career four-hit performance with a go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth inning as the visiting Cleveland Indians posted a 21-216 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday.
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Truckers for Oakhurst Dairy in Maine have been granted back overtime pay for having distributed product as opposed to packing it, because though the writers of the contract meant that overtime would not be granted for distribution either, this is not clear when there is no comma after shipment.
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Favilla introduces us to the online punctuation police ("comma panic," vanity capitalization), helps us read between the lines in our inboxes ("the 48 most annoying ways to start off an email") and steers us through the etymological minefield that is modern digital communication ("42 ways to type laughter").
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Even one of the grammarians, Lindley Murray, wrote in 1795, in a hugely influential grammar book, that a semicolon signalled a pause twice as long as a comma; that a colon was twice as long as a semicolon; and that a full stop was twice as long as a colon.
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The Associated Press reported earlier this month that his office also froze 25,25 voter applications under its "exact match" policy, which allows officials to reject voter registration forms if the applicants' information doesn't precisely correspond with state and federal records—even if it's only off by a comma or a hyphen.
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"For the past several months, we have worked closely with our financial advisors and evaluated various strategic alternatives with respect to Qdoba, including a sale or spin-off, as well as opportunities to refranchise company restaurants," Lenny Comma, CEO and chairman of Jack in the Box, said in a statement.
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Yet as a more famous and formidable avatar of the mega-rich, former New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, moves toward a run of his own in a 2020 Democratic primary defined largely by economic inequality, he is stepping into a public moment uniquely fraught for the three-comma set.
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EditorsNote: 2nd graf, change comma to period at end; 6th graf, add 'a' before 'persistent'; 7th graf, correction to play by play Montrezl Harrell scored 34 points, and Paul George had 32, allowing the Los Angeles Clippers to earn a 135-323 victory over the visiting New York Knicks on Sunday.
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The Comma One is a $999 add-on shipping before the end of the year, with a $24 monthly subscription for its software, which Hotz says will be able to drive your car from Mountain View to San Francisco without requiring a driver to touch the wheel, the brake or the gas.
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Not only is it the last film released before the events of Avengers: Endgame (a movie that acts as, if not a period, then at least a very climactic comma within the MCU), but in the 20 films that encompass the franchise, Captain Marvel is the first to feature a solo female superhero.
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That might be surprising to hear in an era when semicolons and colons seem more likely to be used for constructing happy-face emoticons than serving their nobler purpose of making sentences easier to read, but a recent labor law case in Maine has brought new attention to the self-effacing comma.
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"thank u, next" also means that Ariana Grande is getting ready to move on to something new—the pause contained in the title's comma feels like the act of stopping to self-examine for a moment—but it's crucial to the song's power that we know that that "something" doesn't have to be another person.
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" Milbank: This House is bananas - WaPo : "The House Rules Committee, meeting in its ornate chamber on the third floor of the Capitol on Monday night, sent two bills to the House floor under 'closed' rules — that is, legislation that must be rubber stamped in toto, without being amended by so much as a comma.
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