|
Post by famvir on Jan 2, 2014 15:36:31 GMT -4
I didn't know about frontage roads until I moved to Minnesota in my 20's. They missed a big one, surface routes (pronounced roots). I think the term is only used in LA. We don't have frontage roads, the freeways were built in the sky. The roads were under them. As in, "I didn't take the freeway to Pasadena, I drove a surface route."
|
|
|
Post by Beyle on Jan 4, 2014 6:38:08 GMT -4
I didn't know which thread to put this in, but the New York Times had a great 25 question quiz about pronunciation & word choice that will reveal where you are from. It was totally correct for me (Washington DC/Baltimore) and totally correct for my Dad (Boston/Worcester). Some of the questions are things we've discussed here before - like how some of us pronounce "Mary" "Merry" and "Marry" differently and some of us don't. The questions aren't all the same every time, so it's fun to take it more than once too. Rockford was my location, which is less than an hour from my hometown. The accuracy of the quiz was spot on for me.
|
|
bailey
Lady in Waiting
Posts: 337
Apr 29, 2006 10:16:13 GMT -4
|
Post by bailey on Jan 4, 2014 16:26:10 GMT -4
I live in southern Ontario, and got Boston, Buffalo and Portland Oregon. The first two sort of make sense, although you would never tell any of us that we have anything in common with Buffalo!!! Oregon, I have NO idea.
|
|
|
Post by batmom on Jan 6, 2014 13:56:18 GMT -4
I find that Washington and Oregon have a lot of similarities to Canadians in general, so that may be it.
|
|
|
Post by chonies on Jan 9, 2014 14:08:13 GMT -4
This is an English major question from an anthropology major: are there names for narratives that use different chronological progressions? Would a narrative like Jane Eyre, which covers many years, be the same as something like Catcher in the Rye, which covers just a few days until that bit at the end? Does that bit at the end make a different kind of narrative? What about books that start in, say, August, then back up to April and progress through the summer, fall, next Spring and all the way through to the next winter? Or any other structures? Thank you
|
|
Nysha
Blueblood
Posts: 1,029
Jul 7, 2007 2:19:58 GMT -4
|
Post by Nysha on Feb 3, 2014 17:50:11 GMT -4
A while back I asked about commas, but didn't have an example and then got busy. Here is one:
According to the Business English professor, the sentence should include this comma:
I'm a tutor, but I didn't take this class and none of my English classes have ever called for a comma before and. Anyone know where she's getting this rule? It's not even in the Business English text book, instead she hands out a cheat sheet called "Professor XXX's Grammar Rules" stating that a comma is necessary in this type of sentence.
|
|
|
Post by chonies on Feb 3, 2014 18:02:48 GMT -4
To my knowledge, business courses tend to use APA, and I think the rule that matches is this one: Use a comma... Link. I would agree it's kind of fussy, but it looks like it's on point.
|
|
chiquita
Blueblood
Posts: 1,616
Nov 7, 2006 19:00:53 GMT -4
|
Post by chiquita on Feb 3, 2014 19:11:12 GMT -4
I was always taught to use a comma before any conjunction when the conjunction is separating two complete clauses (each clause contains a subject and verb), and punctuating in that fashion was never marked as incorrect in any of my literature courses (my major) at university.
|
|
Gigiree
Sloane Ranger
Procrastinators Unite. . . Tomorrow.
Posts: 2,554
Jul 23, 2010 10:27:31 GMT -4
|
Post by Gigiree on Feb 3, 2014 20:14:53 GMT -4
The comma before a conjunction when joining to independent clauses is a grammar rule; however, it is becoming much more acceptable to forgo it. I don't mark them wrong in my students' papers, but I do teach them that it is standard use a comma in those cases.
|
|
|
Post by bklynred on Feb 3, 2014 21:11:54 GMT -4
Just chiming in: it's a rule, technically, but unless the two thoughts are long and windy, I have no issue with leaving out the comma. Comma usage in general is fading, IMO.
ETA: Does anyone else see the name of the thread and want to cap the I and O?
|
|