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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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!)

"I cannot brain, because insomnia."

That sentence makes perfect sense, because evolving language.

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.

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.

What's both funny and enraging is when non-Buffista friends on FB think they're busting me for posting something like "I haz a sad." I mean, REALLY? You've read everything else I've posted, you know what I do for a living, and you've heard me speak in person, and you STILL think that I unknowingly made some egregious error?

But then I have to remember that not everyone lives on the interwebs and recognizes lolspeak.

Sorry for moving my post and making some of y'all look crazy. I had meant to post it in Natter originally cause that is where I've generally posted CJ's educational woes.

And all your editorial geekery makes me giddy. I'm not an editor but had to work within AMA style for college and I'm so glad I don't have to conform to any style guides anymore. But I really appreciate those who know those details.