haresfur wrote: 

 K_Love wrote: 
I would because, would you want to work for Scott anyone who doesn't use them?

 K_Love wrote: 
I've come around to the position that it doesn't hurt. I don't like it, think it introduces weird pauses, but if your writing is sloppy enough to need it, or some other circumstance requires one, then you need to be consistent and use it always.

When creating a résumé (for a technology-related position), should one use the Oxford comma?

 edieraye wrote: 
Yeah, sorry, my bad. Should have paid more attention to what I was posting.

Doing the best I can, thanks. Good to e-see you. Hope you are well.

 Coaxial wrote: 
That's to make it plural. Just a plain apostrophe after the Z to show ownership.

 edieraye wrote: 
This lady says add es.... http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/apostrophes/apostrophes-with-names-ending-in-s-ch-or-z/

 Alexandra wrote: 
Hey, it's your book.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

 
 
Dude wait..........what?

 Alexandra wrote: 
Oh, thank the gods you put the red in because I was totally lost, trying to decipher what you'd originally posted (and quoted in others' replies.)
 
Well, no, I still don't like it. For nuances like these, please give the complete sentence all the way through to the period, because it affects the way my brain processes the structure. I suck at diagramming sentences.

 Here, I'll try to finish it:

And did you notice that…” Mira squinted through the chlorinated steam, trying to verbalize what she’d been marveling over for the last hour, “…the conversations always turn to beer?
 

You have it correct, but: the comma after hour has nothing to do with the ellipsis or the quote—it's closing a parenthetical. You would have a comma there no matter what.

• Mira squinted through the chlorinated steam, trying to verbalize what she’d been marveling over for the last hour, but instead just took a drink of beer.

 

 Alexandra wrote: 
Yep. Those rules often have to be bent or at least tweaked a little to get the feel of real people talking. Imagine how stuffy your characters would sound if all their lines had to be filtered through a grammar book. That's why literary license was invented, right?

 OlderThanDirt wrote: 
 
Aw Jeebus, OTD, I am learning that one must throw out a lot of what they learned in high school these days. Again, people are bending rules right and left (especially in journalism and now fiction). It's confusing!

 Alexandra wrote: 
You may be right. All I know about ellipses is what I remember from one of Scott's posts a while ago. I must have missed that day in high school (which was over half a century ago).

 OlderThanDirt wrote: 
 
I visited some writer forums. The first ellipse is okay without any punctuation. There are no hard, fast rules about it (that, and the fiction world are brazenly setting their own rules with certain things these days, if you've ever read Cormack McCarthy...)
 
I do believe, however, that the comma SHOULD be there after the second one. Or even a period is acceptable.

 Alexandra wrote: 
Where's SFW?

I would say space before and after the first ellipse, no comma after "hour," but space before and after the second ellipse.

Alexandra wrote:
Chlorinated Steam - band name.

I've sent this out on FB too, so wherever the answer comes in first.....
 
I'm seeing an inconsistency with this ellipse situation in my book, and need to know which is correct:
 
“And did you notice that…” Mira squinted through the chlorinated steam, trying to verbalize what she’d been marveling over for the last hour, “…the conversations (should there be a comma after "hour" or not?)
 
 
Comma after "hour" or no comma? Or is it a damn period? My brain has gone blank.

 JCF wrote: 
Good to see you, John.

It's 12:02 am here in Gods country,so I'll wish you all a good night,especialy Older Than Dirt,who is a very fine and caring gentleman    carpe diem my friend. 

 gypsyman wrote: