The Scola to the rescue. Thanks!
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Shir - Jan 23, 2009 6:51:24 am PST #8736 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2009 6:52:31 am PST #8737 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Capitalize after a colon, but not after a semicolon.
Not always. Like in Shir's question --
Also, grammar question: after semicolon or colon, do I need to capitalize?
"after" should not be capitalized.
WindSparrow - Jan 23, 2009 6:52:53 am PST #8738 of 10000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
So much peace~ma for you, Askye.
Shir - Jan 23, 2009 6:55:39 am PST #8739 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Not always
OK. Now I need more information. Why is that?
(You see? Hebrew is so much more simple in those case. We don't have to deal with capitalization. It's all either in "capitalized" fonts (used mostly for publications of most sorts), and the "non-capitalized" fonts, used for handwriting. And they don't mix).
hippocampus - Jan 23, 2009 7:08:36 am PST #8740 of 10000
not your mom's socks.
In good news, I get to see Sox & family this weekend. My DH invested in new balloons (for balloon animals) in the hope that Iris would ask him for one or two or ten.
Grins. He'd better bank on 10.
Hil R. - Jan 23, 2009 7:13:35 am PST #8741 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, I went to physical therapy this morning. Was OK, I guess. Worked on loosening up the muscles around my shoulder, because I've been tensing them to guard my shoulder joint, and I need to be able to move them freely before I can really work on anything else.
amych - Jan 23, 2009 7:16:18 am PST #8742 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Why is that?
IIRC, you capitalize after a colon when you're using it to start a list (You capitalize after a colon in the following three cases: First,...), but not when it's separating clauses.
As to why, because somebody decided giving pervy schoolboys senseless and arcane rules to memorize would leave them with less time to touch themselves in naughty ways.
Laga - Jan 23, 2009 7:18:22 am PST #8743 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
peace ~ma for Askye and Anna
I forgot to buy spoons and I'm eating yogurt with a fork again.
I guess my mind isn't as dirty as I thought as I totally don't get the 2-3 chickens and a cow thing.
Typo Boy - Jan 23, 2009 7:27:59 am PST #8744 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
because somebody decided giving pervy schoolboys senseless and arcane rules to memorize would leave them with less time to touch themselves in naughty ways.
Actually pretty close. A lot of rules of English grammar were invented when Latin was the language every educated European needed. So many of the rules were invented on the grounds:
1) That the rules of English should be made as much like the rules of Latin as possible to make it easier to teach Latin
2) That the rules of English should be made as much like Latin as possible because Latin was a superior language, and the more English could be forced to resemble in the better.
Actually, not sure that applies to punctuation. Punctuation rules seem to be more recent, as do standardized spelling rules. Which makes Amych's theory seem more and more likely.
Typo Boy - Jan 23, 2009 7:32:25 am PST #8745 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Oh and Laga's question. The joke makes clear:
1) The Swiss lived in a cold country and wanted to go somewhere warm.
2) The Swiss were poor (hence the low number of animals)
3)The answer is phrased like a word problem in math for extra humor.
The "humping" part I don't really get. Maybe the Swiss were being accused of bestiality? Or the joke was implying that in a cold country you hump more? Or the joke was implying the Swiss were more likely to get laid in Italy, but that wasn't the reason they went.