Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.

'The Killer In Me'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[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 - May 16, 2011 6:41:09 am PDT #21415 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

What the Brits said.

In good news: seems like a quieter day. Also? Fucked up situation at work might not be as fucked as I thought it'll be.

ION: I'll graduate soon (3 papers and one test to go; I can finish it by August). WTF do I do next?

...

OK, I know what I'll do next. I just don't the specifics yet. Which is confusing.

It's the time for crazy offers, folks. I wasn't ready for the year and this degree to end so soon!


Steph L. - May 16, 2011 6:52:00 am PDT #21416 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

(they say Logical Punctuation, I say TRAVESTY.

Truer words have never been spoken. Though they have no doubt been punctuated improperly when quoted.


Vortex - May 16, 2011 7:04:11 am PDT #21417 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I knew I could count on you, Teppy!


§ ita § - May 16, 2011 7:19:23 am PDT #21418 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

TO BE WRONG.


Steph L. - May 16, 2011 7:21:38 am PDT #21419 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

If loving punctuation within quotation marks is wrong, I don't want to be right.


§ ita § - May 16, 2011 7:25:55 am PDT #21420 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You can have some punctuation within quotation marks. You just can't have it all. Otherwise, what does a quote even mean? That's not what they said, why is it in quote marks? It's a mockery of verbatimness.


Ginger - May 16, 2011 7:26:42 am PDT #21421 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I am particularly appalled by the notion that usage on the Web could be used as the foundation of any grammar argument. That's a slippery slope to having "r" be an acceptable spelling for the third-person plural of to be.


DavidS - May 16, 2011 7:28:17 am PDT #21422 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

If loving punctuation within quotation marks is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Yes, well it's clear that you don't want to be right.

I don't see why it's a travesty. It's just what people are used to. The British way always made more sense to me.


DavidS - May 16, 2011 7:28:45 am PDT #21423 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

That's a slippery slope to having "r" be an acceptable spelling for the third-person plural of to be.

It's Prince's fault.


§ ita § - May 16, 2011 7:28:55 am PDT #21424 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Seriously, though--spoken usage can count in the evolution of language, or written in another media, just not on the internet?