Comments on: Comma Power http://www.lorihogan.com/2006/08/07/comma-power/ Mom, Wife, Engineer, Student, Volunteer, Techy, Grammar Nazi, Lazy Runner, Mild Neurotic Thu, 19 May 2011 16:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The View from My Place » When You Can’t Fight Grammar, Fight Language http://www.lorihogan.com/2006/08/07/comma-power/comment-page-1/#comment-196 The View from My Place » When You Can’t Fight Grammar, Fight Language Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:18:12 +0000 http://www.lorihogan.com/wordpress/?p=171#comment-196 [...] Ah-HA!  I previously wrote on the contract dispute between Rogers and Aliant, and how a misplaced (or maybe intentionally placed by Aliant but overlooked by Rogers) comma means that Aliant has the right to terminate the lease Rogers has on thousands of telephone poles in New Brunswick. Well now Rogers is hitting back – en francais.  In this Globe and Mail story, they argue that the French version of the contract does not have the same punctuation and conveys the meaning they (Rogers) thought the contract said in the first place.  The contract was originally created and then translated, but each contract was individually signed by both parties. [...]

]]> By: Nikki http://www.lorihogan.com/2006/08/07/comma-power/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Nikki Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:12:00 +0000 http://www.lorihogan.com/wordpress/?p=171#comment-145 Do you know how much anxiety that article gave me? I was report writing and contract reviewing... what have I been signed up for. Commas are the Devil's play things. Do you know how much anxiety that article gave me?

I was report writing and contract reviewing… what have I been signed up for.

Commas are the Devil’s play things.

]]> By: Divinity http://www.lorihogan.com/2006/08/07/comma-power/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Divinity Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:37:00 +0000 http://www.lorihogan.com/wordpress/?p=171#comment-144 You are the cutest punctuation geek EVER! I got BER all annoyed when reading the band's blog because I kept pointing out typos (there are MANY). I can't help who I am. You are the cutest punctuation geek EVER!
I got BER all annoyed when reading the band’s blog because I kept pointing out typos (there are MANY). I can’t help who I am.

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