Scrappy,
I endorse sarameg's statement! Fingers crossed.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
le nubian - Nov 29, 2012 3:34:48 pm PST #2631 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2012 3:35:41 pm PST #2632 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Grammarians ahoy! Punctuation question--comma or rewrite (no comma doesn't seem workable, obvs):
Every generation has a defining event, usually the event with the most news coverage.
Raq, booyah! Here's to web domination!
Scrappy, SO happy. And that's an awful clumsy rhyme. I apologise for that.
msbelle - Nov 29, 2012 3:44:11 pm PST #2633 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I will also post in tech, but I need some assistance in trying to figure out why mine craft will not run on our old laptop. See how I wrote old there? I think it might not meet the min requirements, but I am not even sure how to check he requirements it says I need. help.
Steph L. - Nov 29, 2012 3:52:57 pm PST #2634 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Every generation has a defining event, usually the event with the most news coverage.
Every generation has a defining event: usually, the event with the most news coverage.
(A subtle difference, but crucial, I feel.)
Steph L. - Nov 29, 2012 3:55:49 pm PST #2635 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Or you could get parenthetical about it:
Every generation has a defining event (usually the event with the most news coverage).
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2012 3:57:04 pm PST #2636 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You do feel the original comma is either wrong or clunky, Steph?
Sophia Brooks - Nov 29, 2012 4:03:22 pm PST #2637 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Informally, I would use a double -- or an em-dash.
Jesse - Nov 29, 2012 4:27:26 pm PST #2638 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good news, Scrappy! In other good news, guess what's on my block?? (Hint: [link]
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2012 4:28:35 pm PST #2639 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is my sister trying to grade. I told her that a comma was at least some right, because look at how wrong it is without it (I call it the Not Less Right school of grammar).
She's gonna just give them a freebie, because apparently...they're not at colons yet. That's the one she liked best, Steph--thanks!
Did I mention university? Maybe in the past.
le nubian - Nov 29, 2012 4:32:40 pm PST #2640 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am still trying to read the sentence that references a slayer. That's what comes after "every generation has..." when I read it.