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.)
Most people is pretty quiet right about now. Me, I see a stiff -- one I didn't have to kill myself -- I just get, the urge to, you know, do stuff. Like work out, run around, maybe get some trim if there's a willin' woman about... not that I get flush from corpses or anything. I ain't crazy.
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
Steph L. - Nov 29, 2012 3:52:57 pm PST #2634 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Scrappy - Nov 29, 2012 4:33:01 pm PST #2641 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My decoration, Jesse!!! Glad to see it's still flying!
meara - Nov 29, 2012 4:33:19 pm PST #2642 of 30001
Informally I would go with a dash, but more formally probably the comma. I wouldn't use the colon and comma, that seems overkill to me. But then, the other night I proofread my roommates application essays or this fellowship, ad she was ALL ABOUT using colons. Madness. I made her take several out.
Steph L. - Nov 29, 2012 4:34:07 pm PST #2643 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
You do feel the original comma is either wrong or clunky, Steph?
It's clunky at best.
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!
Colon, woo! (That would be a good ad campaign for a fiber supplement.)
Did I mention university?
By university, they should know the colon.