This is the 199th post on this blog (go on, count them).
So I thought to shake things up a little I would ask what you wanted the 200th post to be about. Since it is such a milestone and all.
Go mad, don’t hold back etc.*
Closing date is… hmmm… 10th June.
* really, don’t. If I don’t like it I’ll just delete it and pretend it wasn’t there… what, you think this is some kind of democracy?
8 June 2009 at 03:30
I want you to write the most English post ever.
And then explain the things that people outside England don’t know about.
8 June 2009 at 08:52
I would like you to do a post entitled “Why I like Cap’n Ric so much”.
8 June 2009 at 09:09
Truly, that would be the greatest work of fiction ever penned in the English language!
8 June 2009 at 09:11
Oops, dodgy comma usage there. Sorry!
8 June 2009 at 10:02
I like the first suggestion! I have never properly understood the English, and you would be the perfect person to explain everything. In the world. Ever.
Either that, or you could blog about Jelly Babies.
8 June 2009 at 13:40
The jelly baby commandos? Think that’s already been done!
9 June 2009 at 21:21
I have just noticed that Steph/ven is suggesting that I don’t like the good Cap’n, which is not true (if you were wondering).
He distracted me with, his unusual comma.
10 June 2009 at 09:01
“Why I like Cap’n Ric so much” it is then!
10 June 2009 at 18:20
This now has two votes…!
11 June 2009 at 08:47
Ooh! Ooh! The Cap’n Ric one!
13 June 2009 at 00:37
Wait so it’s not acceptable to put commas where you would pause if speaking? I always thought that was one of their uses.
I didn’t put any commas in this comment just in case.
13 June 2009 at 08:58
As far as I am aware, the whole “comma for a pause” myth is a nonsense, yes. They are for separating off clauses and for parenthetical phrases… there are those damned parentheses again!
And for lists of course. (Don’t get me started on the Oxford comma!)
And for other things I am sure.
Often, a pause in speech will occur at these points which is why you can use it as a guide, but it is not the rule.
CAVEAT: I am terrible at commas and misuse them with great regularity and enjoyment. So all of the above may be incorrect. I will be quite happy to be corrected should anyone know better.
13 June 2009 at 17:21
13 June 2009 at 17:35
Are you the same anonymouse? The whole anonymity thing is highly confusing!
13 June 2009 at 18:13
Well we have a winner… with three votes… although they are all from one person and one of them was after the deadline.
Ah well.
I will also do the second place (or, if you like “the rightful winner”), so have patience!
18 June 2009 at 22:23
oooh, I second Jelly babies- even if it is too late!