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.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.