Suzi, your good CJ!school news didn't get lost in all our editor rambling! That's great news, in fact! I'm sure you're thrilled and he is too!
I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.
Simon ,'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Zenkitty - Dec 04, 2014 7:54:46 am PST #14768 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
flea - Dec 04, 2014 7:55:24 am PST #14769 of 30002
information libertarian
I love you guys.
Zenkitty - Dec 04, 2014 7:56:21 am PST #14770 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
getting rid of all that crazy crazy punctuation, man.
You can't just truncate a word and not put a period there! It'll bleed to death. Like my eyes, looking at it.
Laura - Dec 04, 2014 7:58:04 am PST #14771 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Wonderful news, Suzi! That is so good to read.
Oh, Steph, I know. As I was writing it, I was thinking, "This is so not IEEE style."
I love you all, and sincerely apologize for any pain experienced when reading my grammatically random posts.
Zenkitty - Dec 04, 2014 8:03:30 am PST #14772 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
No worries, Laura, B.org is where I come to escape from the awful grammar of the rest of the Internet.
I love/It's sad that we went from quasi-science to editor-geek in nothing flat.
Steph L. - Dec 04, 2014 8:03:37 am PST #14773 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
grammatically random posts.
Wait. I say this ALL the time: anyone reading what I post on the internet must think my clients are INSANE to pay me to edit, because my syntax and grammar are...not exactly AMA style. I say things like "I cannot brain, because insomnia." There is no style guide in which that is anything but a shambling horror.
Really, I get paid to make things very precise, and in that context, it's important as hell. (Well, I don't know why references have to be SO exacting, but whatevs.) But otherwise -- I'm pretty sure my posts make me sound like a crazy person who never quite met up with a grammar textbook.
EpicTangent - Dec 04, 2014 8:06:41 am PST #14774 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
L. B., Steph. (2014). I thought this shirt was clean: a study of the effects of laundering on fur deposits in common fabrics. Annals of Household Animal Fur Research, 53, 234-257.
Ahem.
L.B., S., etc.
APA at my school - much like Hil, I have to check the manual Every Single Time because MLA is what I learned in school. Thankfully, no bibliography/reference pages at work. (Seriously thankfully now that I think about it. Like, I should go light a candle or something levels of thankfully).
Steph L. - Dec 04, 2014 8:08:21 am PST #14775 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Epic! I am going to the post office tomorrow, after work has stopped eating me. (After today it goes back to normal, rather than insane, which will give me the chance to do things like work out and go to bed at 11. And go to the post office!)
Zenkitty - Dec 04, 2014 8:09:07 am PST #14776 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
"I cannot brain, because insomnia."
That sentence makes perfect sense, because evolving language.
EpicTangent - Dec 04, 2014 8:15:19 am PST #14777 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Really, I get paid to make things very precise, and in that context, it's important as hell.
E-zactly. On paper, that I'm being paid to make look professional (or turning in for a grade), super-proper grammar, accuracy, etc. Here, FB, talking in person (depending on audience), I say "whatevs," and "supposably" (I only say that one ironically, with Chandler freaking out in my head), and I abuse hyperbole like a mofo. The importance being that you know "Can't brane," is not correct English, and if you use the wrong 2/to/too it's on purpose.
eta: Cool, Steph! I look forward to playing with your rejects.