I would expect someone should get to grips with the oxford comma after 6 months of a writer being in a company that requires it. And yet, here we are. Every. Single. Article.
@ChrisJWilson I'm not sure, why you're so bothered, by this behaviour Chris. Seems, reasonable, to me.
@ChrisJWilson theory: he’s not learnt it/doing it because he is always being checked and corrected. My new plan: tell him how many are missing and he has to put them in the right place.
@ChrisJWilson How about… using another separator… I've seen this so often… too often… frankly… It's maddening… especially if there are no paragraphs… or punctuation marks… just ellipses… and more ellipses
@renevanbelzen @ChrisJWilson At least using any separator is better than none I mean imagine trying to read some paragraph where everything is mashed together like yesterday's potatoes don't we already have enough problems in the world without someone making our lives more difficult stringing together words into a giant run-on sentence that makes you question your life and everything in it man I wouldn't want to ever encounter that situation would you? 🤣
@pimoore @ChrisJWilson Ancient Roman was even weirder. It had no spaces, nor punctuation marks, all capitals, and the lines were alternating right to left, left to right.
@renevanbelzen @chrisjwilson Ugh, that sounds downright nightmarish. I'd probably have closed that browser tab and moved on…
@renevanbelzen the lines were alternating?!? I think I had heard about the lack of punctuation (Ancient Greek too) but the rest! Yikes.
@ChrisJWilson While the Middle Ages are thought of as backward and stale, it invented the craft of clear and useful writing our society is built upon. Without it the Renaissance would be probably never have happened. Just from copying old scriptures and finding ways to make it less boring and tedious.