I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Aims - Nov 20, 2007 8:45:46 am PST #3262 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Nora, I don't think so. But, I'm hard to offend. Wonder what NOW thinks of this [link] poster?

Grind up the wee-men! They makes good drinking!


Jesse - Nov 20, 2007 8:47:48 am PST #3263 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is this ad for St. Pauli beer any more offensive than the usual big beer company ads? Because, I'm thinking... no.

I'm thinking no, too. Especially for St. Pauli!

But there are styles that use the apostrophe (maybe AP, because I think the NY Times does it).

I think the Times does it because of all-caps headlines, or I'm remembering that chat with the copyeditor wrong. CEOs is more readable than CEOS.


Susan W. - Nov 20, 2007 8:48:02 am PST #3264 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I think I'll stick with it for now, since it seems Old School in keeping with my fondness for the serial comma and Courier New. OTOH, I wouldn't want anyone reading my manuscripts to think I'm so Old School that I must be elderly, instead of a 36-year-old with four decades or so writing left in me.


Kat - Nov 20, 2007 8:49:12 am PST #3265 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

We just got back from seeing Grace and now we are taking K to get her hair cut at a place on Magnolia in Burbank. We are busy busy people.


lisah - Nov 20, 2007 8:50:51 am PST #3266 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I hate the apostrophe because it is unnecessary

And can be confusing.

I had no idea that the serial comma was thought to be old-fashioned. I think it is just, you know, correct!


Scrappy - Nov 20, 2007 8:51:02 am PST #3267 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Frenchy's, Kat?


Jesse - Nov 20, 2007 8:52:29 am PST #3268 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Why am I an enormous apostrophe nerd? Here's the Q-n-A that says the Times dropped the apostrophe. [link]


Kat - Nov 20, 2007 8:52:46 am PST #3269 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Nope, Robin, Wax Poetic.


Nora Deirdre - Nov 20, 2007 8:53:12 am PST #3270 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Why am I an enormous apostrophe nerd?

Well, you're in good company here!


Scrappy - Nov 20, 2007 8:53:48 am PST #3271 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

That's where I go now! Nice peeps.