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Is it acceptable to drop the comma in Thanks, John? The main difference between lying and not using a comma in "Thanks, John", in your analogy, is that lying is a deliberate act of deception that often has negative consequences for the person being lied to, whereas dropping that comma is unlikely to have any negative consequences for the reader and is often not done deliberately It's a poor analogy
If you are talking on behalf of you and someone else, what is the . . . Which reflexive pronouns are used with 'on behalf of'? Having identified a fairly strong preference for "of my wife and I me myself" over "of I me myself and my wife," let's drop "my wife" out of the equation and focus on which reflexive pronouns are most commonly used in the expression "on behalf of I me myself " Here is the Ngram chart for "on behalf of myself" (blue line) versus "on behalf
You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information Me Myself is reflexive: it denotes that the person (me) is doing something to that person (myself) and no other It's not correct to use a reflexive pronoun unless the recipient of the action is the person doing that action You can't mix you with myself You can talk to me I can talk to myself
Repairable vs. reparable vs. irreparable vs. unrepairable The one difference I would suggest is that repairable and unrepairable generally refer to things which are broken; reparable and irreparable (as commonly seen in the phrase "irreparable harm") generally refer to the damage that has been done to those things Examples: - My client's reputation has suffered irreparable harm - I dropped my phone in the toilet; it's basically unrepairable
What is the difference betwwen the 80s and the 80s? Strictly speaking, "the 80's" is wrong Apostrophes are used to denote possession or contraction (as JonHanna points out in the comments, apostrophes have other uses, but these are the only two that we need consider as possibly being relevant here) The contraction here is from "1980s", so the correct form of the contracted version is '80s 80s, without the apostrophe, can be seen as a less