Imma Git Chooooo!!!

In the midst of a Facebook discussion of proper comma usage, an interesting term came up:

"Serial Comma."

Other names are apparently "Oxford Comma" or "Harvard Comma," which sound significantly less menacing than...

serial comma.

SERIAL COMMA

When you finish your essay on the romantic elements in Wordsworth's poetry...

When you proof-read too many times for a grammatical error to somehow slip through your keen eye...

When you exasperatedly figure out that you did NOT have literature class this morning and are grudgingly sitting in the basement of the JFSB and are wondering what classroom the friends you walked here with might be in and you have nothing else to do so you read your essay again and suddenly you find such errors in your essay and of course you have plenty of time to fix it but it turns out you have no means to print it--

,

IT GETS YOU.

-rae

P.S. Yes, that last sentence was supposed to look like that. Thanks for catching it.

Bing Bong

I've noticed that whether or not your phone has a full keyboard to text on or not, there are still those words that can be misspelled or misinterpreted by your T9 text thing-is that what it's called?

Does anyone know what T9 means?

There are the annoying and extremely common ones like

'go' and 'in'

'home' and 'good'

...

'supper' and 'purses.'

I was texting someone the other day and typed out the word 'random.'

Now, I have a full keyboard, but the 's' is so close to 'd'...

And though I can't even remember who I was texting or for what purpose, it probably wasn't that big of a deal that I messed up.

Those words just seem particularly dangerous to mix up.

An extremely bored, lifeless, and 'has nothing better to do but update friends on every detail of their life like it's just one, big, portable facebook status' person could send the harmless text:

"I found a random note in my locker"

but when meticulously tricked into typing

"I found a ransom note in my locker,"

they suddenly because a person in search of a kidnapped loved one, inviting you to a full-on investigation even though they actually may be an extremely desperate, lying, and 'has nothing better to do but create fake ransom notes because they are sick of updating friends on their life like it's just one, big, portable facebook status and they actually just wanted to get out of the house even if that act itself compromises their integrity' person.

It's obvious that T9 can change lives in the most sneaky fashion.

If a message can be twisted into a whole new meaning with the two words mentioned above,

Can you even imagine what chaos 'supper' and 'purses' could cause?

-rae