o ize membr dem tings. CrAzY! Yd day uz dem?

And now I'm flashing back to Tep's lesson on the politics of sub/dom grammar or lack thereof.

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typos. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever use an apostrophe for a plural. Ever. Just don't. (Actually, there are a very few exceptions for things like abbreviations and lower-case letters, but that's according to certain style manuals only -- if you have trouble remembering things like this, screw the exceptions and just remember not to use apostrophes for plurals.)

typo's is correct for possession (Typo's last post on green energy gave me a lot to chew on) or contractions (that typo's making my head hurt). A plural is not a contraction. It just isn't. You're not removing "graphical error", you're pluralizing the word "typo".

Alles klar?

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o ize membr dem tings. CrAzY! Yd day uz dem?

Only if LOLcats develop opposable thumbs.

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Alles klar

no. It's those bloody exceptions that kill the brain. Ahhhhhhrrrggghhhh.

At least, my lovely Buffistas, you can feel some victory on the Education of Omnis Audis, that I am using multiple commas when giving a list. Even after for the last one, prior to the 'and'. Probably still doing it wrong, but eh.

Only if LOLcats develop opposable thumbs.

clearly you do not text message with folks. Its creeping into instant messaging too! And if it bugs me? Who, as we can see, is not very grammar/spelling proficient! Then it has to be bad.

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I text all the time. And if someone sent me that, they would be stricken from my contacts list on account of making my eyes leap out of my head to save themselves from further torment.

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Never, ever, ever, ever, ever use an apostrophe for a plural

I'm so very ashamed to acknowledge that I didn't know that.

LJ

Ahm. I'm not very fond with keeping diaries, let alone let people read them. "People" as in other people. And I know I can keep stuff private in there, but the things I've got to say? I say them where I feel like they belong and can create a dialog. And I prefer the conversation effect that forums have much more than the post/comments, which doesn't give much space to real conversations happening. So when I feel like there's not much to say about something I type, I don't know if there's much of a point in typing it.

And again. With all of my words typed in here - and yes, while keeping in the very back of my mind that there are lurkers, and yet - I'm still a very private person. So either you know me and my opinions and fuzzy fluffy feelings, or not, depends if you're hanging out where I do on the web.

I'm just trying to keep some sort of balance here.

you say there aren't many folks locally you can talk with

Umm, sorry if I wrote something that sounded like that - what I meant is that I talk with local others in different way than I talk with you guys. And in some scale, it helps me to see more (even if the whole situation still doesn't make much sense). Seeing that I'm not too naive for caring as much as I do, as an example. Most of us in Israel lost some sensitivity to human lives and their value, especially to Others human lives. And sorry, I still see this wrong. And it's still very hard for me to accept that my life should be lived on the account of another human being's well being. Now, if that other human being wants to kill me without having the chance to sit down and talk first, that's one thing. But somehow? 23+ years of living here, being fed from Big Brother media? I still don't buy it. Not all Arabs are killers, or terrorists. I even think that most of them don't really want to do me any wrong in person, as long as I let them live their lives.

Here, this sounds like a very, very, very naive approach. Am I that wrong?

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I don't really think so. but I'm not known for hard-core policy pronouncements.

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Theodosia, much ~ma to you and your mom.

{{Theodosia}}

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That bra is motherfuckin' fugly.

World of UGH.

Sorry. I have big boobs, and I always wear a bra that's got some serious engineering going on. I have nothing that's not a underwire, and I DO NOT LOVE bras without some kind of padding -- not that I need more boobs, but because I want my tits UP TO MY CHIN and able to deflect bullets, and yo, I work with teenagers and my nipples are HI HELLO LET ME SAY HI TO YOU without padding.

That bra looks like it does NOTHING. And it hurts my eyes. And who said it -- If I wanted my tits sagging down that far, why even spend money on cloth?

EUCH.

(I too have strong Le Bra feelings. And my feelings towards this one are highly antagonistic.)

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It's those bloody exceptions that kill the brain.

Eh, that's why I'm saying screw the exceptions. You're overthinking them -- letting the exceptions get so big that they compete 50-50 for brain space with the cases that are 99% of the pie. Get the basic distinction down in its simplest terms, and let the really rare cases take care of themselves.

(And one last point, and then I'll stop being all punctuation dom at you: if you screw up the 99%-of-the-time-rule, people say, "oh, god, it drives me nuts when people do that!". If you screw up the rare exception, they'll just assume you know what you're doing but you were typing too fast.)

I'm so very ashamed to acknowledge that I didn't know that.

Dude, you get an exception. You're a non-native speaker from a culture that doesn't even use an "s" for plurals, and you manage to be all kinds of funny and expressive and colloquial!

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