Scrappy,
I endorse sarameg's statement! Fingers crossed.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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.