does punctuation go INSIDE the ) or outside the )?
According to my university: English - inside, Hebrew - outside (as I'm used to write). They mostly follow Chicago Manual of Style.
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Shir - Oct 11, 2009 1:18:58 pm PDT #990 of 3094
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
msbelle - Oct 11, 2009 1:21:10 pm PDT #991 of 3094
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I will get a taser and start using it, people.
beth b - Oct 11, 2009 1:21:27 pm PDT #992 of 3094
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Scones, we have talk of scones in Bitches.
Shir - Oct 11, 2009 1:27:01 pm PDT #993 of 3094
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I will get a taser and start using it, people.
And deprive of the world the future generation of the analytic philosophers of the comma?
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2009 2:25:28 pm PDT #994 of 3094
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And deprive of the world the future generation of the analytic philosophers of the comma?
Yes.
We can just link them to the above conversation.
Fay - Oct 11, 2009 2:41:03 pm PDT #995 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
See, when I woke up and saw the explosion of posts here, I actually thought people had delurked! I thought Sying had caused a small avalanche of delurkage overnight!
Nope.
I love you guys, though. Never change. (And I love that there is talk of scones in Bitches too, apparently.)
WindSparrow - Oct 11, 2009 3:46:38 pm PDT #996 of 3094
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.
Scones, we have talk of scones in Bitches.
Come to Bitches, Lurkers - we have scones. Also, bonus points for singing that to the tune of "Kenya".
Zenkitty - Oct 11, 2009 4:00:59 pm PDT #997 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, great, now I have the Kenya song in my head.
Also, I must give you all great thanks, for my lifelong indenture to "proper" punctuation has finally been broken. I no longer give a crap, fuck or damn about the serial comma. I am free, liberated and released! Sorry, Tep...
(I still love ellipses, though.)
DavidS - Oct 11, 2009 4:21:19 pm PDT #998 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec, I'll prouldy support you and order a t-shirt in size large, please!
::Makes out with Sail on the pretext that we agree about punctuation but really has baser motives::
I no longer give a crap, fuck or damn about the serial comma.
Who gives a fuck about the Oxford comma?
Trudy Booth - Oct 11, 2009 5:21:28 pm PDT #999 of 3094
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh dear lord, people, do whatever you want but be consistent in the effing document.
You're not going to be there to explain your comma ethos and justification of use or not use of each specific comma to individual readers. It'll just look like your editor and/or secretary were crap at their job.