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.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Susan W. - Nov 20, 2007 8:48:02 am PST #3264 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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.
juliana - Nov 20, 2007 8:55:38 am PST #3272 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I dislike the apostrophe, because to me, that indicates a possessive.
Me too.
Is this ad for St. Pauli beer any more offensive than the usual big beer company ads? Because, I'm thinking... no.
Um, no. Heineken's recent campaign (robot girl with a keg where her uterus should be) wins for the most offensive beer ad, in my book.
Jesse - Nov 20, 2007 8:56:30 am PST #3273 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, you're in good company here!
True fact. It's just kind of embarassing how many times I've referred back to that q-n-a since it was originally published.