Malkin used as a question in Jeopardy

[Sideline]

Grammar Nazi's unite!

I also really, really hate how no one uses an Oxford comma anymore. Ex. "I'd like to thank my parents, Bill Clinton and Oprah." ---> "Wow, your parents are Bill Clinton and Oprah?" Y U NO comma before "and"?

People that don't use the Oxford comma should be treated with ill concealed contempt.

 

[Darth Vitale]

People that don't use the Oxford comma should be treated with ill concealed contempt.

Vile cretins, the lot of them. And ill-concealed is hyphenated.

OH!

 

[johnniewalker]

Who gives a **** about an Oxford comma?

 

[Darth Vitale]

Neanderthal. This .... is Jeopardy. Pursuits of intellect matter here.

 

[zhenya71]

Yeah, but none of the Grammar Nazis noticed the lack of a period at the end of the statement. Pffft . . .

Haha, I didn't even notice that.

 

[Sideline]

Vile cretins, the lot of them. And ill-concealed is hyphenated.

OH!

I take the same approach to grammar that I do to hockey: bandwagon for the best. Oxford Comma = Pittsburgh Penguins of grammar. Hyphenating = Washington Capitals of grammar.

 

[useless]

lol that's great. Geno has a new reason skate out last on intro's, Crosby isn't on Jeoprady

 

[SUBdrewgANS]

thread title gave me a heart attack.. I read it as Malkin Questionable, Season (or Career) in Jeopardy.. at first glance.

 

[scottrodo]

If you wanna get really technical... those aren't even quotes, they are inch-marks. It's a typographical faux-pas to use inch-marks instead of quote marks. Quote marks in that typeface are curved like 66 and 99.

And the hyphen in 2011-12 should be an N-dash to denote a "range". It should be written as 2011–12 not 2011-12.

The 'straight quotes' have to be the result of the font set they use for the show. I heartily agree that they should be 'smart quotes' and I agree even more about the en-dash.

Damned Philistines, butchering the simplest language in the world.

 

[scottrodo]

Who gives a **** about an Oxford comma?

Nice VW reference. Well played, sir.

 

[Tweed]

The 'straight quotes' have to be the result of the font set they use for the show. I heartily agree that they should be 'smart quotes' and I agree even more about the en-dash.

Damned Philistines, butchering the simplest language in the world.

Naw, the quote marks are available in that font set. The Jeopardy! people just don't know better, is all.

en-dash is there too.

 

[Tweed]

Yeah, but none of the Grammar Nazis noticed the lack of a period at the end of the statement. Pffft . . .

The lack of period can be justified as creative-license, aesthetics by omission. I do it all the time, but I'm less inclined to do it if the copy is replete with other punctuation marks, because then they really highlight the missing period. Which, you yourself noticed... and that's case-in-point.

See what I did there?

 

[johnniewalker]

Nice VW reference. Well played, sir.

Thank you!

The rest of this thread.

S got nerdy as f up in here.

 

[FDBluth]

Naw, the quote marks are available in that font set. The Jeopardy! people just don't know better, is all.

Are you sure that you should be using a comma there?

 

[Tweed]

Are you sure that you should be using a comma there?

Nope.