Re: A punctuation question [was: Re: Father Like Son]
- From: HVS <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:06:41 +0100
On 31 Jul 2008, R H Draney wrote
John Kane filted:
On Jul 31, 12:03=A0pm, Chuck Riggs <chri...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:58:25 -0700, Purl Gurl
<purlg...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
You are a sissy boy crybaby!
Would the addition of a comma to Gurl's sentence be an
improvement, resulting in the phrase "sissy boy, crybaby", or
is it all right the way it is?
I'd go for the comma.
Or maybe it should be "You are a sissy, boy crybaby!",
suggesting that "boy crybaby" is an appellation analogous to
"boy wonder"....r
How about "a sissy-boy" -- or would that work better with "cry-baby",
perhaps...
--
Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed
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