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Nov. 14th, 2001 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanpaku_backupAnd don't forget those all-important serial commas! Or the difference between "which" and "that"! It sounds better when you say it in Professor Frink voice: "The aaah distinction between the-- oh, semi ummm colon and the uh, uh, comma, Glavin! is the SUM, of the... that and the which and the wherefore..." A distinction I was oblivious to only a little more than a year ago now rules my life. Then again, these are reviews written by English teachers, for God's sake. You'd think if anyone would give a shit...
There's a story in the Talmud about a rabbi who is weeping as he is dying... they ask him why and he says that he learned hundreds of rules about skin blemishes and ritual purity, and no one in his whole life had ever asked him about them... that's kind of how this feels. At my old job Adam used to joke about making a big poster of himself looking over our shoulders, saying "YOU MISSED A COMMA." That is what rules my life now. Until tomorrow, anyway, when I think I might sort of be out of stuff to do.
There's a story in the Talmud about a rabbi who is weeping as he is dying... they ask him why and he says that he learned hundreds of rules about skin blemishes and ritual purity, and no one in his whole life had ever asked him about them... that's kind of how this feels. At my old job Adam used to joke about making a big poster of himself looking over our shoulders, saying "YOU MISSED A COMMA." That is what rules my life now. Until tomorrow, anyway, when I think I might sort of be out of stuff to do.
