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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:43 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus However, the Federal Reserve has extended the conformance deadline of the Volcker Rule by one year, and now blacks have until July 21, 2015 to bring their investments into compliance with the Volcker Rule
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:44 PM Author: Vibrant Church 1800000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516136) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:45 PM Author: flesh stead missing comma between 2015 and "to" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516140) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:46 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus really? damn this is what i am failing biglaw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516146) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:54 PM Author: razzmatazz hairy legs think of the year as an appositive
same with "I visited Austin, Texas, yesterday." |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:56 PM Author: burgundy therapy orchestra pit You shouldn't use it in that case either. I mean maybe some boomer partner thinks you should but objectively you shouldn't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516204) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:59 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus i am fascinated by this:
http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/comma.html#dates
When the date appears in the middle of a sentence, commas should appear both before and after the year.
Her arrival on April 10, 1988, was considered a turning point for the company.
That makes no sense at all to me.
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:00 PM Author: burgundy therapy orchestra pit If that is a convention it is an objectively horrible one. In general commas are way overused. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516218) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:03 PM Author: flesh stead (brit) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516227) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:07 PM Author: burgundy therapy orchestra pit I just feel strongly about commas. They're ugly as fuck a lot of the time and indicate stuttering, non-fluid speech. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516240) |
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Date: April 14th, 2019 9:04 PM Author: anal whorehouse lol twist is such a fucking shrew.
but i bet after posting this he made dozens of other posts mocking birdbrain dating app profiles extolling the oxford comma, etc. |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:15 PM Author: twinkling friendly grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516275) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:46 PM Author: Beady-eyed olive shrine awful writing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516148) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:48 PM Author: flesh stead because "2015" modifies "july 21", it needs to be set off from its surroundings - that is the function of the comma that comes before it, too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516160) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:49 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus that sounds like flame, bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516169) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:51 PM Author: flesh stead Imagine reading it aloud. "July 21 [pause..................] 2015 TO BRING THEIR INVESTMENTS INTO COMPLIANCE [all in one breath]" No. Just no. "July 21 [pause] 2015 [pause] to bring their investments into compliance" is teh way |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:52 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus interestingly there is a thread on this and it appears this only exists because of law firm partners
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=569044 |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:55 PM Author: burgundy therapy orchestra pit That comma is awful and any partner who insists on it has no sense of English at all. Holy fuck. Unbelievable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516197) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:57 PM Author: flesh stead you disagree there's a natural pause at that spot? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516207) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:59 PM Author: burgundy therapy orchestra pit Who gives a fuck about a pause? Take this sentence: "I went to Manhattan, to meet Julia." That is a dumb as fuck comma. If it's dumb there it's dumb after 2015 too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516216) |
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Date: April 14th, 2019 9:24 PM Author: geriatric vivacious mother location There's no pause in that sentence so there wouldn't be a comma. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#38088901) |
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Date: April 14th, 2019 9:29 PM Author: anal whorehouse holy fuck you autistic moron
theres no fucking pause there |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:52 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard It is flame but you have to do it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516182) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:56 PM Author: razzmatazz hairy legs Honestly I think for the year and state, it's an aesthetics issue more than anything. Don't ask me to explain it, but it's sure not to mimic a verbal pause or any of the other rules of punctuation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516201) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:46 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard This is a biglaw MUST (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516151) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:52 PM Author: burgundy therapy orchestra pit No, it absolutely isn't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516181) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:45 PM Author: Shimmering boyish tanning salon No period. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516144) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:49 PM Author: Beady-eyed olive shrine wait, did this bro pwn us with cleverness? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516168) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:56 PM Author: Beady-eyed olive shrine which is to say, the "blacks" was intentional and the typo is the missing period. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516202) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:04 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus powerpoint - no periods at end of bullets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516233) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:45 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard jfc who starts there sentences with "However,"
Stopped reading after that |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:46 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus well it made sense coming after a different sentence (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516152) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:50 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard Not discretionary. Either use "nevertheless" or work it in after the subject somewhere
You could put it after "one year," |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:51 PM Author: Beady-eyed olive shrine this is one hundred percent the rule, but I have had to compromise my morals to appease boomer shitwriters. and one early gen x bro, too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516179) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:52 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard been there ugh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516186) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:53 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus yea i get that people don't like however but it depends on teh context. in a marketing piece for investors it think this sort of thing is fine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516189) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:54 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard (guy whose about to have A LOT more free time) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516191) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:55 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus i think that might be because of my other typo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516196) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:57 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard Which one? There's like 12 of them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516206) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:58 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus rude (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516211) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:02 PM Author: Tantric Ratface Not sure if you're doing this intentionally in a thread where you critique someone's grammar, but you've now misused "there" and "whose." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516224) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:23 PM Author: Garnet step-uncle's house Show you're work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516305) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 9:01 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard jfc faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26517295) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:09 PM Author: Brindle faggot firefighter *blood boils* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516251) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:09 PM Author: Brindle faggot firefighter People with reasonable command of the English language. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516249) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:47 PM Author: electric misanthropic corn cake national Run on sentence, it should be a period after year not a comma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516155) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:48 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus that's a fair comment (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516163) |
Date: October 14th, 2014 4:46 PM Author: insecure stock car "their" should be "they're" obviously (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516154) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:49 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516165) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:56 PM Author: bronze mind-boggling bawdyhouse gay wizard should be "one year, and blacks ..." instead of "one year, and now blacks..."
Lol at this shit writing |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:58 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus I'm gonna put in a period and say "Blacks now" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516210) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 4:56 PM Author: Underhanded fat ankles blame it on the autocorrect (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516203) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:12 PM Author: flesh stead Negros have always been risky investors. volcker rule should regulate that shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516259) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:13 PM Author: chartreuse wagecucks genital piercing I would replace "blacks" with "colored people". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516262) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:14 PM Author: flesh stead he's lucky he wasn't emailing from his iphone while in xo java mode it would have autocorrected to nigger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516268) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:17 PM Author: chartreuse wagecucks genital piercing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516280) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:14 PM Author: Garnet step-uncle's house However, now blacks have been given an extension by the Obama Administration to conform to the Volcker Rule by one year, and ergo have until July 21, 2015, to bring their investments into compliance with said Rule. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516271) |
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Date: October 14th, 2014 5:15 PM Author: Kink-friendly canary lodge i would replace "blacks" with "people of a certain endowed privilege" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#26516273) |
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Date: August 20th, 2018 10:10 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#36652034) |
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Date: April 14th, 2019 8:57 PM Author: topaz nofapping yarmulke locus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2699705&forum_id=2#38088721) |