Gamers who harass women are literally losers

[marurun]

The sentence was grammatically correct. It is true that the sentence was phrased in such a way that two interpretations were possible. That's not uncommon with English sentences, especially when read as text, without intonation or inflection available. Since I realized that was the case there, I clarified it later.

There are not two interpretations of that sentence. The comma use was only correct for the meaning you didn't intend. For the meaning you intended to convey, your comma use was incorrect. This is important because prior to your clarification I was a little aghast at what I thought you were trying to convey.

And yes, I'm aware that, considering recent research on the grammar-correction-inclined, this makes me an asshole.

[MrPopo]

Grammar is syntax. Meaning is semantics. I can construct a grammatically correct sentence with zero semantic content.

As stolen from the English variant of Stack Overflow:

Noam Chomsky famously used the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". The syntax is flawless, but it has no meaning.

[Exhuminator]

I am not a good debater

this makes me an asshole

"Noam Chomsky famously used the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". The syntax is flawless, but it has no meaning.

It can given adequate context:

"It can only be the thought of verdure to come, which prompts us in the autumn to buy these dormant white lumps of vegetable matter covered by a brown papery skin, and lovingly to plant them and care for them. It is a marvel to me that under this cover they are labouring unseen at such a rate within to give us the sudden awesome beauty of spring flowering bulbs. While winter reigns the earth reposes but these colourless green ideas sleep furiously." -CM Street ( http://www.indiana.edu/~gasser/L503/ideas.html )

The only way I'll continue to debate in this shitshow thread is if it becomes a rap battle.

[marurun]

[pierrot]

In the age of the internet, grammar can't really be saved. On the other hand, I do enjoy a little bit of pedantry, on occasion.

I raised a beautiful young woman, who is well adjusted in society, and wouldn't let a man mistreat her for anything in the world.

Two clauses joined by "and" must be separated by a comma (FANBOYS). Therefore, the comma is appropriate. However, there is an issue of pronoun ambiguity. It could be addressed in a variety of ways. One example: "I raised a beautiful young woman, who is well adjusted in society, and [she] wouldn't let a man mistreat her for anything in the world." Crisis averted.

Also:

Noam Chomsky famously used the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". The syntax is flawless, but it has no meaning.

This is bullshit. Periods and commas always belong inside the closing quotation mark.

Isn't this like over a year old?

It's a shade under one year old.

[Exhuminator]

One example: "I raised a beautiful young woman, who is well adjusted in society, and [she] wouldn't let a man mistreat her for anything in the world."

adding she to the sentence with no disparity
it does enhance the meaning's core clarity
but with proper intonation said verbally
we'd destroy all this hyperbole

word to your aphasia

Crisis averted.

I'd like to dedicate this song to all who find such things a crisis:


♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

Oompa loompa doompety doo
I've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doompety dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me

What do you get when you go grammar Nazi
Criticizing as much as a goat bleats
What are you at, getting terribly irate
What do you think will come of the hate
I don't like the look of it

Oompa loompa doompety da
If you're not asinine, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa Doompety do
Doompety do

Oompa loompa doompety doo
I've got another puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doompeda dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me

Debating's fine when it's once in a while
It stops us from gaming and lightens our bile
But it's repulsive, revolting and wrong
Whining and arguing all day long
The way that a pedant does

♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

[Gunstar Green]

This is bullshit. Periods and commas always belong inside the closing quotation mark.

Only in American English. In British English the opposite is true.

[alienjesus]

This is bullshit. Periods and commas always belong inside the closing quotation mark.

Only in American English. In British English the opposite is true.

Makes more sense to me too. If the full stop or comma wasn't part of the initial quote it shouldn't be included in it.

[Sarge]

U rappin' COOL.

Also, I'm American, but I use British punctuation rules. I think it's more consistent and logical. Although it could likely go either way here, because the period can either terminate the entire sentence, or just the quote itself, which also had a period.