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.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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 28558
information libertarian
Aims - Feb 01, 2007 10:59:52 am PST #1915 of 28558
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 28558
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 28558
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 28558
"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 28558
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 28558
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 28558
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 28558
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 28558
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.