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Please help me understand where the missing comma is supposed to be in: > their Membership Committee has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff a
by sgbeal 6mo ago
Please help me understand where the missing comma is supposed to be in:
> their Membership Committee has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners over thirty people who ...
Is it:
1) "eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners, over thirty people ..."
2) "eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners over thirty, people who ..."
:-?
Edit: that's from the article this post leads to: <https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-developers/ https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-dev...>
(Downvoted for asking for legitimate clarification? Seriously? Age discrimination _is_ a real thing, so there's no way of knowing, for lack of a comma, which interpretation was intended.)
- elphinstone 6mo agoHas to be #1, as the blog makes no mention of age restrictions. Ejecting people for being over 30 would be unheard of outside of Logan's Run! (vintage scifi movie)
- kstrauser 6mo agoI read that as they’re ejecting all but 30 people.
- sgbeal 6mo ago> I read that as they’re ejecting all but 30 people. i had to re-read the original sentence several times to figure out how you came to that conclusion but can see it now: "all people over/above/beyond [a limit of] 30..."
- kstrauser 6mo agoIt's really hard to parse and I'm just guessing at what it means. Now when I glance at it again, I read it like: > their Membership Committee has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners (over thirty people) who... I don't know if that's correct, either.
- chuckadams 6mo agoWhen it comes to a governing board that's interested in all the intimate details of an office software suite, I strongly suspect you're not going to find anyone under 30.