Natter 17: Welcome back, Nilly! We tried to set up a thread in honor of your favorite number as a lovely surprise for you, but then we had a punctuation war instead.
Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
'Shindig'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
amych - Oct 10, 2003 3:54:36 pm PDT #5519 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
P.M. Marc - Oct 10, 2003 4:01:49 pm PDT #5520 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
DX, thanks for the link, because
An en dash is a useful but subtle creature that is longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em dash.
Is just too cute for words.
Connie Neil - Oct 10, 2003 5:11:58 pm PDT #5521 of 10005
brillig
Feh, dashes. Ellipses are much more cool . . .
Cass - Oct 10, 2003 5:18:59 pm PDT #5522 of 10005
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
In matters of style — and I'm sure I'm right — em dashes take a space on either side.No spaces according to AP. But as Plei said, YStyleGuideMV...
Natter 17: Welcome back, Nilly! We tried to set up a thread in honor of your favorite number as a lovely surprise for you, but then we had a punctuation war instead.Um, yeah... Oops.
Allyson - Oct 10, 2003 6:15:16 pm PDT #5523 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I want mod powers so i can just make the thread. You'll still be discussing this when we hit Natter 18: Allyson's Revenge
Noumenon - Oct 10, 2003 7:10:31 pm PDT #5524 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Natter 17: Welcome back, Nilly! We tried to set up a thread in honor of your favorite number as a lovely surprise for you, but then we had a punctuation war instead.
Natter:17 = --Punc+uation-war!--
Frankenbuddha - Oct 10, 2003 7:28:30 pm PDT #5525 of 10005
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So has anyone said "when come back, bring pi" yet?
Cass - Oct 10, 2003 8:11:18 pm PDT #5526 of 10005
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Grooooooan...
Hee!
Lysana - Oct 10, 2003 8:14:07 pm PDT #5527 of 10005
Hellbound Equal-Opportunity Nookie Hog
Uh... why not just make it "Nilly, Could This Be Mathier?" I mean, the style guides I know would say that the sentence takes a comma instead of an em dash there.
Cindy - Oct 11, 2003 12:58:07 am PDT #5528 of 10005
Nobody
Uh... why not just make it "Nilly, Could This Be Mathier?" I mean, the style guides I know would say that the sentence takes a comma instead of an em dash there.
In general, that's true, but not always. It depends on how the speaker is saying it, and what the speaker was going to say. For instance, say the speaker was going to say "Nilly, [insert here that mathematical expression that includes pi, which I've already memfaulted]," but then realized it was getting so damned mathy, that the "could this be mathier?" question just burst out of him. In a case such as that, the em dash would be more apt than the comma.