On 1/19/24, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+0000), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: >> Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: >> >> > I won, and you lost >> >> There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in >> the closely related expression "I won, you lost." > > That's rather proscriptive. "I won and you lost."
I won and you lost, but we can still be friends. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with memories of a North Georgia English teacher saying to me, "You didn't go to school around here, did you." He'd been standing up against my desk as I was taking a third or fourth test at the time. He was apparently trying to figure out if I was cheating on his tests. Nope. *
