Yeah -- the only difference is that it's a new person. In fact, someone should suggest she put it in the link section, if it's not already there.
Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.
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Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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§ ita § - Dec 13, 2002 5:31:36 pm PST #1156 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 13, 2002 9:38:32 pm PST #1157 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
OK, tiny, tiny nitpicky thing-- could we please, please change the blurb on the front page from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly" to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly"? Please? Is there a reason it's not there-- does ita not like serial commas?
Jon B. - Dec 13, 2002 9:53:18 pm PST #1158 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Isn't the former grammatically correct as well?
Dana - Dec 13, 2002 9:53:38 pm PST #1159 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yes.
§ ita § - Dec 13, 2002 10:09:48 pm PST #1160 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're both right, and I didn't compose the text.
Betsy HP - Dec 13, 2002 10:19:53 pm PST #1161 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
t assumes the vestments of the First Church of the Serial Comma (reformed)
Actually, it's an arbitrary choice.
However, all decent, non-pagan, well-raised writers make the correct arbitrary choice. That of the serial comma.
Fortunately, we of the FCSC(R) do not burn heretics at the stake.
We do, however, empty our pencil sharpenings into their bedclothes.
P.M. Marc - Dec 13, 2002 10:32:29 pm PST #1162 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
However, all decent, non-pagan, well-raised writers make the correct arbitrary choice. That of the serial comma.
Though I will point out that in the UK, despite it being the standard at Oxford Press, it is far less common.
I have never beta'd a UK writer who uses them, and I regretfully concede that yes, perhaps they are optional.
Unless I'm writing, in which case, you and me and the comma makes three tonight.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 13, 2002 11:03:37 pm PST #1163 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Isn't the former grammatically correct as well?
Not if you attended my strict Catholic school, sir; there, it was the comma, or hell. I didn't even learn about the optionality of the comma until I met the Buffistas.
t edit Which is not to say that the nuns were necessarily right-- just emphatic. t /edit
And I figured that whether ita wrote it or not, she'd be someone you'd not want to offend when you were running commas by your text.
Daisy Jane - Dec 13, 2002 11:09:22 pm PST #1164 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Dude. I tried to make journalists embrace the serial comma. Do you see serial commas in papers today? No, you do not. Did I fail miserably? Yes, I did.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 14, 2002 3:34:31 am PST #1165 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I have never beta'd a UK writer who uses them, and I regretfully concede that yes, perhaps they are optional.
Ahem! I would like to refute that, on the grounds that I was under the impression I used serial commas. It may be that I don't, or that I don't type them, or something, but while I accept they are optional, I think it reads better with the extra comma. My vote's with RL- change, please?