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?

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

Theodosia, much ~ma to you and your mom.

{{Theodosia}}

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.)

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!

wrod.

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.

This is, of course, a subject of some debate. But at least you've aligned yourself a distinct camp of the serial comma fracas instead of willy nilly sliding back and forth between philosophies.

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'.

Yeah, in Australia that's wrong. You'd better not bring that kind of behaviour down here. You stay up there with people who appreciate that, like your parents, God and Ayn Rand.

You're a non-native speaker from a culture that doesn't even use an "s" for plurals

That's only because we're using "im" for the masculine plural form and "ot" for the feminine plural form. For explanation about construct state, however, you'll need half a bottle of vicodin and something to remind you of what sanity looked like before you decided to ask. We only use apostrophe in the following cases. (And hell, I speak most of all 3 languages there and reading it is still very confusing).

One of the advantages of being at war in a country as small as mine?

Media can't hide things for long.

The planes noise I despise, because hearing it probably mean they came back from another bombing? Other people hear the aircrafts too, and thank God, posting about it.

So I now know there are probably more wounded/dead soldiers, thanks for someone lives in the flight direction of the main hospital next to the Strip. Just like in the late 90s/early 00s, when I lived in the north, and every time I heard an army helicopter I knew something in Southern Lebanon went wrong. Usually 1-3 hours before they said anything about it on the news.

The silver lining? You can prepare. And they can't hide information for too long. And somehow, you feel more connected with that.