No. And yes. It's always sudden.

Tara ,'Storyteller'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Jul 19, 2012 9:36:28 am PDT #14655 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In news about how I don't know what tumblr likes, Vortex, your Bikers Against Child Abuse post has 67 notes on it already, which puts it in the top three I think ever.

Edit: Make that 86.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 9:37:03 am PDT #14656 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If the sentence is complete within the parentheses, it has a period within the parentheses. If it's a phrase that's part of the sentence, the period goes outside of the parentheses.

If you have any sentences in the parentheses, does everything in the parentheses have to be complete sentences, and therefore capitalised from the git go? Whereas if it's a sentence fragment (and all alone, like this), there is no capitalisation, and no final period or other terminal punctuation?

Also, calling them brackets is both easier to type and a cromulent alternative, fuck alla y'all.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 9:37:42 am PDT #14657 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jesse, I totally called that one, for the record. It's in my reblog. Right there.


Amy - Jul 19, 2012 9:37:47 am PDT #14658 of 30001
Because books.

If the sentence is complete within the parentheses, it has a period within the parentheses.

You're right. I just think it starts to look cluttered and get confusing to read if you have too much in parentheses, or you use parentheses too much in one sentence or paragraph.


Amy - Jul 19, 2012 9:38:33 am PDT #14659 of 30001
Because books.

ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []


Jesse - Jul 19, 2012 9:38:54 am PDT #14660 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Jesse, I totally called that one, for the record. It's in my reblog. Right there.

Which I would know if I had noticed your reblog, but I couldn't because there are TOO MANY.


Ginger - Jul 19, 2012 9:43:08 am PDT #14661 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Everything doesn't have to be complete sentences, but it's really awkward to figure out how to punctuate it.

Whereas if it's a sentence fragment (and all alone, like this), there is no capitalisation, and no final period or other terminal punctuation?

Yes.

I suspect I'm considerably older than the author of that article, and everything he says is completely wrong, except maybe the part about gamers.


SuziQ - Jul 19, 2012 9:47:22 am PDT #14662 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I am always bugged when someone nests brackets (because they have a thought within a thought {it just adds confusion [though it is nice that there are various bracket styles]}).

eta - then there is the danger that they don't match their brackets and cause havoc.


§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 9:48:49 am PDT #14663 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []

No, you are regional. Check wikipedia: [link] .

except maybe the part about gamers.

Yup, that's the part I recuse myself for too. I don't really think, until I was 15 or 16, pretty much, there were enough games to properly be a gamer without working so hard at it you were doing something asocial.

I couldn't because there are TOO MANY.

I don't think I've reblogged Supernatural since I got to work...not since the very start of the work day, anyway. I think I've got all the other topics in the world covered though, with extra carbs.


Amy - Jul 19, 2012 9:51:31 am PDT #14664 of 30001
Because books.

No, you are regional. Check wikipedia

I only know from U.S., lady, because that's where I am.