21-08-2003 19:02									#1
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Following bus bombings, Israel took out a top hammas guy, hamass and islamic jihad has declared that the "Israeli's-the zionist entity has assasinated the truce, and they will have to deal with the consequences".

Yeap, those poor hammas guys were betrayed....

	21-08-2003 19:14									#2
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Rump. That's such a cute word.
And **** Hamas.

	21-08-2003 19:20									#3
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Second thread... look in the bus-bombing thread

	21-08-2003 19:21									#4
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*sigh*

The commas in thread-titles return, annoy millions.

	21-08-2003 19:32									#5
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet The commas in thread-titles return, annoy millions.

	21-08-2003 20:33									#7
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what's wrong with commas in thread titles?

	21-08-2003 20:36									#8
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They are evil

	21-08-2003 20:39									#9
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I see nothing wrong with commas.
It's the lack, of apostrophes, I find, distressing.

	21-08-2003 20:46									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Vesayen Following bus bombings, Israel took out a top hammas guy, hamass and islamic jihad has declared that the "Israeli's-the zionist entity has assasinated the truce, and they will have to deal with the consequences". Yeap, those poor hammas guys were betrayed....

Arab terrorists would lie? Who would ever have thought?

The really stupid people were the ones who ever thought they would give up their quest to kill all Jews.

	21-08-2003 20:47									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel what's wrong with commas in thread titles?

There's nothing wrong with commas in general. However, in thread titles, they're grammatically bad in general, they break the title's flow, and they could most often be replaced by a "and" or by a subject.
This titlte format may fit newspapers where there is little room and big fonts for headlines, but it doesn't belong to thread tilese, where we can be more verbose.

	21-08-2003 20:51									#12
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You advocate the use of "And" and you open the gates to hell.
You want run-on sentences, "and" beats commas hands-down.
Semicolons are the most neglected; of that, I've no doubt.

	21-08-2003 20:59									#13
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Don't mess with Semicolons

	21-08-2003 21:04									#14
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No, I like semicolons.
Semicolons rock.

	21-08-2003 21:09									#15
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The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade announces that as far as they are concerned the cease fire is dead too.

Someone up there forgot that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade never even joined the Hudna.

	21-08-2003 21:11									#16
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I do too. I put semicolons everywhere I can; generally, I put them in looooooong bracketed pragraphs... I can't lower myself to actually put dots in my bracketed pragraphs, and too many consecutive commas suck

	21-08-2003 23:52									#17
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New York Times editorial, via Winds of Change

"Palestinian leaders have been promoting the illusion that Islamic radical groups will ultimately transform themselves into peaceful political parties. That fantasy was shattered on Tuesday along with 20 innocent lives when a Hamas terrorist blew up a Jerusalem bus. The bombing occurred at the very moment the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, was meeting with Islamic radicals in Gaza. If anything positive is to come from this latest atrocity, it will be a conclusive realization by Mr. Abbas that organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad have no genuine interest in cease-fire agreements or two-state solutions and must be forcibly put out of the terrorism business. Only then will the American-sponsored road map for peace have a chance of delivering Palestinian statehood.
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Hamas described Tuesday's bombing as retaliation for the Israeli Army's killing of one of its militants in June. Hamas is a self-appointed gang of thugs with no right to kill anyone, Israeli or Palestinian. That is how it must be treated by Mr. Abbas and his security chief, Muhammad Dahlan."

	22-08-2003 00:13									#18
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I don't really think "rump" was an entirely appropriate word to choose... the rump really refers to the flesh of the butt... I think when you're talking out your ass, it really refers more to the anus...