I am wrestling (like, molasses-wrestling, not fun at all) with style guides today, and y'all are making me weep.
Going home now. APA and MLA can BITE ME.
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
flea - Feb 01, 2007 10:59:09 am PST #1914 of 28174
information libertarian
Aims - Feb 01, 2007 10:59:52 am PST #1915 of 28174
Shit's all sorts of different now.
APA and MLA can BITE ME
Amen to that shite. APA is the format I have to use on EVERYTHING for the next three years.
Hil R. - Feb 01, 2007 5:01:52 pm PST #1916 of 28174
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Is there any style guide that uses both italics and underlining, for two different things? I can't recall ever learning any.
sumi - Feb 01, 2007 6:17:20 pm PST #1917 of 28174
Art Crawl!!!
If you can't do italics - you underline. That's what I learned from back in the day of typewriters.
Nutty - Feb 01, 2007 6:21:01 pm PST #1918 of 28174
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Right. MLA is just wicked old-fashioned. (Although possibly not any more, as they are revising for a 2008 publication date.)
Anne W. - Feb 02, 2007 2:09:19 am PST #1919 of 28174
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Re. Harry Potter, I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more: finding out how it ends or watching fandom reactions to how things end.
Kathy A - Feb 02, 2007 6:48:35 am PST #1920 of 28174
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That's right! It'll be interesting to see some fans' heads explode. Like the Harry-Hermione 'shippers who retreated to their own personal bubble after HBP and refused to acknowledge what JKR wrote.
Atropa - Feb 02, 2007 11:24:52 am PST #1921 of 28174
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Re. Harry Potter, I'm not sure what I'm looking forward to more: finding out how it ends or watching fandom reactions to how things end.
I know! Because no matter what happens in the final book, there will be some portion of fandom that flips right out.
Aims - Feb 02, 2007 11:26:12 am PST #1922 of 28174
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'ma flip right out cause it's over.
I might end up pulling what I pulled when Return of the King came out. I refused for weeks to go see it cause I didn't want it to be over cause I loved it so much.
Kathy A - Feb 02, 2007 11:39:05 am PST #1923 of 28174
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I hope JKR eventually does write the Encyclopedia of Harry Potter and His World book that she mentioned in an interview after HBP was released. It would be a good way for her to finally print the extensive backstory she created for so many of the secondary (and tertiary!) characters.