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The High Comma

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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19249 Posts
May 19 2011 02:23 GMT
#1
So I got into a discussion evolving from something about drinking bitches (like...blending them or something) about how ambiguous grammar rules are awesome, someone who shall remain nameless brought up the fact that he hates people who call apostrophes "high commas"

First thing that popped into my brain

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So apparently people from Colorado call apostrophes high commas, which I thought was interesting. Is there anything else with an odd name that has weird possible results?

(image by Hydro, cause he's a baller)

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muse5187
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
1125 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 02:26:28
May 19 2011 02:26 GMT
#2
I don't think I like anyone who says high comma now that you mentioned it.
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
May 19 2011 02:29 GMT
#3
Head cheese.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
May 19 2011 02:33 GMT
#4
I can't imagine anyone calling an apostrophe a "high comma" :/
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n.DieJokes
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States3443 Posts
May 19 2011 02:33 GMT
#5
I blacklist everyone who says high comma, especially if they put in some place noticeable like the title of a blog post or a billboard and I have to keep reading it over and over again everytime I scroll through blogs or drive down the street past the aforementioned hypothetical billboard
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sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 02:42:28
May 19 2011 02:42 GMT
#6
On May 19 2011 11:23 tofucake wrote:


So I got into a discussion evolving from something about drinking bitches (like...blending them or something)




I think you can go to prison for stuff like that...
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
May 19 2011 02:44 GMT
#7
I haven't encounter anyone yet who said "high comma", and I'm glad I haven't, I would definitely insult the poor dude.
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57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
May 19 2011 02:44 GMT
#8
Am I the only one who noticed the arms and legs are from spongebob?
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Hydro
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada153 Posts
May 19 2011 02:54 GMT
#9
"high comma!!!!
unichan
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States4223 Posts
May 19 2011 02:56 GMT
#10
People who call them high commas are probably douchebags wearing light pink polos and j. crew khakis or some shit.
:)
AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
May 19 2011 04:12 GMT
#11
on a related note, i hate anyone who says "yeah no"!
Probulous
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3894 Posts
May 19 2011 04:22 GMT
#12
Dem eyes are a little too white for my liking...

Can't say I have ever heard of High Commas. I think we need someone from Colorado to confirm this...
"Dude has some really interesting midgame switches that I wouldn't have expected. "I violated your house" into "HIHO THE DAIRY OH!" really threw me. You don't usually expect children's poetry harass as a follow up " - AmericanUmlaut
1a2a3a[MB]
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States297 Posts
May 19 2011 04:40 GMT
#13
I call apostrophes that thing or mark
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Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9110 Posts
May 19 2011 04:56 GMT
#14
Don't generalize all people from Colorado! I'm living there right now and I've never head an apostrophe called that...
GG.NoRe
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)1051 Posts
May 19 2011 05:21 GMT
#15
not heard anyone call them "high commas", but hear quite a few calling "W" as "double V"... Strange
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L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
May 19 2011 06:02 GMT
#16
On May 19 2011 13:56 Jonoman92 wrote:
Don't generalize all people from Colorado! I'm living there right now and I've never head an apostrophe called that...


Seconded. In fact I have never heard high comma until this post haha.
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Probulous
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3894 Posts
May 19 2011 06:04 GMT
#17
On May 19 2011 15:02 L_Master wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 13:56 Jonoman92 wrote:
Don't generalize all people from Colorado! I'm living there right now and I've never head an apostrophe called that...


Seconded. In fact I have never heard high comma until this post haha.


Right so we now the proposer is out numbered by those that disagree. I think we need to find someone from Colorado who actually uses this.
"Dude has some really interesting midgame switches that I wouldn't have expected. "I violated your house" into "HIHO THE DAIRY OH!" really threw me. You don't usually expect children's poetry harass as a follow up " - AmericanUmlaut
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
May 19 2011 06:08 GMT
#18
I was in Colorado for school and never heard the phrase high comma... Cannabis connotation maybe?
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19249 Posts
May 19 2011 11:57 GMT
#19
Maybe. But at first I thought it was maybe a European saying...but I was told the person lives in Colorado....
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SirJolt
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
the Dagon Knight4015 Posts
May 19 2011 12:14 GMT
#20
On May 19 2011 11:23 tofucake wrote:
...about how ambiguous grammar rules are awesome


The Oxford comma is among my favourite pieces of punctuation, and I have no idea why some people frown upon it.
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