Jesse, I totally called that one, for the record. It's in my reblog. Right there.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 9:37:42 am PDT #14657 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Steph L. - Jul 19, 2012 9:54:29 am PDT #14665 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
ita, like Steph said yesterday, brackets are different than parentheses. These are brackets: []
No, you are regional.
WE ARE NOT REGIONAL. WE ARE EVERYWHERE.
(I'm proofing something with long chemical names, which have italicized letters that seem random but I know aren't, and I just needed to bust in here with ASSCAPS so I could stop looking at the crazy chemical names for a minute.)
EVERYWHERE.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2012 9:57:51 am PDT #14666 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think I've been pretty clear about being from somewhere else. If you need me to review, I can. Totally fine with that. The bit where you say the way I talk is wrong versus different, then we gonna have issues. You can say parentheses all you need--I am not going to sweat it much, though.
One of the people I see agreeing with that article is also self-identifying as having Aspergers and a brain injury. At what point can you be clear about what causes bring on what social effects?
Hmm. I guess the sort of gamer you would be in the early-mid 80s would be the sort that wrote your own games too, and given the effort expended to play through a Mass Effect and then do it again as male Shepard or a different character or whatever, I'm gonna say that your (my) Zork-ripoff for the BBC Micro or the Asteroids ripoff for the ZX Spectrum took less time, don't know about effort.