[lit-ideas] Re: Calling all grammar mavens...
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 17:29:43 +0000 (GMT)
Cut out the commas?
--- On Sat, 9/5/09, Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Calling all grammar mavens...
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, 9 May, 2009, 6:24 PM
> Where to put the comma in that second weatherman? I was
> taught that a sentence should read smoothly around what is
> included between commas. I can see a clumsy workaround, of
> course, that would honour the letter of that law, but at a
> cost. Where is Mrs. O'Brien when I need her?
>
> Phil, the weatherman, shares his name with the groundhog,
> Punxatawney Phil. If Phil, the Groundhog, sees his shadow,
> there will be six more months of winter. Phil, the
> weatherman's, shadow could be seen as his impression of
> his importance in the world -- casting a long shadow and so
> forth. As long as he continues to see it, winter stays.
> It's only when he truly puts others first, no longer
> basking in the sunshine (spotlight?) that creates his
> shadow, that he is freed from the endless winter day.
>
> Never mind why I am writing this in the first place...
> Ursula
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