[Peace-discuss] Demonstrations against proposed fee hikes in Britain

C. G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Sat Nov 13 15:50:03 CST 2010


But not a full stop.

On 11/13/10 3:47 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> "Your Bad Comma will catch up with you."
>
> That ought to give all of us pause.
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> On 11/14/2010 5:37 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> Or we may just be working off some Bad Comma, as we used to say in Boston...
>>
>> On 11/13/10 3:35 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually there is some evidence that Comma Indexes may be a sensitive early 
>>> warning of
>>> impending economic decline and doom.
>>>
>>> Economist Robert J. Samuelson presciently observed a drop in comma indexes 
>>> way back in July 2007.
>>>
>>> Samuelson warned us all, "/...the comma's sad fate is, I think, a metaphor 
>>> for something larger.../"
>>>
>>> http://www.newsweek.com/2007/07/22/the-sad-fate-of-the-comma.html
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>>> On 11/13/2010 10:19 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>>> The recession has produced a shortage of commas, among other things.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/13/10 8:03 AM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>>>>> On 11/13/2010 9:58 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>>>>> Perhaps here too soon.
>>>>> Could hardly be too soon.  It's pert near too late already.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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