The distinctive ‘UCLA comma’ and ‘Michigan comma’ are a long string of commas at the start and end of the sentence respectively.

https://explainxkcd.com/2995/

  • @[email protected]
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    7 months ago

    I’d never heard of the Cambridge or Princeton commas. Assuming this isn’t just a joke and they really exist, they can both go fuck themselves. Also that Cornell, needs to be a semicolon.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      157 months ago

      I once had a “roommate”* for several months that did a ridiculously good Walken impersonation. Like, good enough that if you recorded it and played it back to back with a real Walken recording, it would be extremely difficult to tell them apart.

      The problem was, he would do this constantly. Sometimes going days in end refusing to speak normally. I once overhear him dirty talking to himself while masturbating and using the voice. It was awful.

      *Very long, funny-in-the-telling type of story that was genuinely fucking awful

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          27 months ago

          Oh, God, that would have been so much better. He was truly awful. Like, honestly, just the absolute worst. Tried to get me murdered once, too.

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      for example, the very idea of a “Brown comma” might more readily resonate with the concept of the Brown note.

      Whoever it was, well played.

  • @[email protected]
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    47 months ago

    Time to make a new text expansion: “ “=“, ” This way, every time you hit space, you also get a comma.