Comments on: Use The Colour Red, Get Sued By Royal Mail http://www.lloydmorgan.co.uk/2007/10/24/use-the-colour-red-get-sued-by-royal-mail/ Life. From a Welsh Perspective. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:24:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Lloyd http://www.lloydmorgan.co.uk/2007/10/24/use-the-colour-red-get-sued-by-royal-mail/#comment-1905 Lloyd Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:26:22 +0000 http://www.lloydmorgan.co.uk/2007/10/24/use-the-colour-red-get-sued-by-royal-mail/#comment-1905 Cormac, Thanks for the comment. This is my point exactly: because we don’t readily use the serial comma in Britain, confusion like this is rife. Let me explain... In this case the phrase “the Cruciform and the colour red” simply doesn’t ’sound right’ so therefore many people assume they are two separate items… “the Cruciform, and the colour red” (if using serial commas). Correctly, it should read “the red Cruciform” if it were referring to a cruciform that was red, thus the assumption seems correct that it is referring to two separate items. I’m just saying, if the serial comma were readily used in Britain, <a href="http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=26" rel="nofollow">confusion</a> <a href="http://dvinfo.net/conf/archive/index.php/t-89295.html" rel="nofollow">like</a> <a href="http://www.matthewbunn.co.uk/2006/08/colour-red.php" rel="nofollow">this</a> <a href="http://www.migthegreek.com/scraps/?p=79" rel="nofollow">wouldn't</a> <a href="http://simesaboac.blogspot.com/2006/08/colour-red.html" rel="nofollow">occur</a>. Yeah, I should’ve made this a bit clearer originally, but hey… I’m only <em>nearly</em> perfect! Cormac,

Thanks for the comment. This is my point exactly: because we don’t readily use the serial comma in Britain, confusion like this is rife. Let me explain…

In this case the phrase “the Cruciform and the colour red” simply doesn’t ’sound right’ so therefore many people assume they are two separate items… “the Cruciform, and the colour red” (if using serial commas).

Correctly, it should read “the red Cruciform” if it were referring to a cruciform that was red, thus the assumption seems correct that it is referring to two separate items.

I’m just saying, if the serial comma were readily used in Britain, confusion like this wouldn’t occur.

Yeah, I should’ve made this a bit clearer originally, but hey… I’m only nearly perfect!

]]> By: Cormac http://www.lloydmorgan.co.uk/2007/10/24/use-the-colour-red-get-sued-by-royal-mail/#comment-1904 Cormac Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:54:00 +0000 http://www.lloydmorgan.co.uk/2007/10/24/use-the-colour-red-get-sued-by-royal-mail/#comment-1904 Tell me sir, where is this ‘serial comma‘ you speak of? My eyes may deceive me, but I can only see one comma which is not before an AND or OR. Tell me sir,
where is this ‘serial comma‘ you speak of?
My eyes may deceive me, but I can only see one comma which is not before an AND or OR.

]]> By: Boing Boing http://www.lloydmorgan.co.uk/2007/10/24/use-the-colour-red-get-sued-by-royal-mail/#comment-1903 Boing Boing Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:44:43 +0000 http://www.lloydmorgan.co.uk/2007/10/24/use-the-colour-red-get-sued-by-royal-mail/#comment-1903 UK Minister detained at Dulles airpor... Lloyd sez, "The BBC today details how Shahid Malik - a Muslim Member of Parliament and the UK's current International Development Minister - was detained at Dulles Airport (Washington DC) hours after taking part in talks on tackling terrorism. He sai... UK Minister detained at Dulles airpor…

Lloyd sez, “The BBC today details how Shahid Malik - a Muslim Member of Parliament and the UK’s current International Development Minister - was detained at Dulles Airport (Washington DC) hours after taking part in talks on tackling terrorism. He sai…

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