For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”
The Oxford comma.
That was my first thought as well, but it’s not pointless, so I don’t think it belongs in this thread.
It… just makes sense?
Eats bushes and leaves
Eats bushes, and leaves
Eats, bushes, and leaves.
I’m so irritated because I allowed myself to get out of the habit. I worked at a place for eight years where the marketing department insisted on not using it as part of their style guidelines and we were all supposed to follow suit. I disagreed in principle (and actually I’m pretty sure the marketing director agreed with me, but was overruled by the executive director) but still had to adapt, and I guess eight years was long enough that I don’t automatically put it in anymore and it pisses me off that I now have to think about it.
I’ll go a step further.
I regularly use
comma’scommas where they don’t belong, just to reflect my speech patterns IRL.And, apparently, apostrophes too.
Dammit
I thought it was deliberate for the LOLs
Nope, I’m just a bit stupid from time to time.
This was the most refreshingly honest answer I’ve read in a long time. And it made me laugh. Thanks for both.
Seconded
A weird nit for me…but isn’t that what ellipses are for? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
This, but also I just use my native language punctuation rules and hope for the best.
Woah, woah, woah. Let’s not get too carried way here. Some things we just shouldn’t talk about.
I know it’s a touchy subject. I’m sorry :(
New find.
I also realised that it could actually be useful in this Grammarly page. The last section “Oxford comma confusion”.