Current annoyances
Jul. 20th, 2009 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
People putting punctuation inside quotation marks. I know it's the rule for North Americans, but it's wrong and people should be better.
Having to count how many "r"s different writers use for "grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl" (it's usually substantially fewer than that) because this easy-flowing, self-defining, reclaiming thing is ALL WELL AND GOOD, but I am all about consistency and standards and blanket rules that stifle all creative expression.
I'm HUNGRY and all my food is in my office.
Having to count how many "r"s different writers use for "grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl" (it's usually substantially fewer than that) because this easy-flowing, self-defining, reclaiming thing is ALL WELL AND GOOD, but I am all about consistency and standards and blanket rules that stifle all creative expression.
I'm HUNGRY and all my food is in my office.
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Date: 2009-07-20 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-20 12:53 pm (UTC)Heeeeeee! Please forward this comment to the MLA immediately.
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Date: 2009-07-20 12:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 01:32 pm (UTC)Well, it SHOULDN'T BE.
I hope you've managed to find some alternative food....
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Date: 2009-07-20 04:25 pm (UTC)I went to the office eventually and ate my sandwiches while half watching The Shooting Party.
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Date: 2009-07-20 01:47 pm (UTC)It is? How did I not know that? What happens if you're asking a question in quotation marks but the sentence isn't a question?
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Date: 2009-07-20 07:22 pm (UTC)US:
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Date: 2009-07-20 04:58 pm (UTC)"I was thinking about dinner," she said.
^ Is that wrong? Have I been offended all right-minded grammar pedants (because in my book, to be a grammar pedant is to be right-minded) or is* there different rules for story-ing?
ETA *ARE there <-hates on own grammatical mistake
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Date: 2009-07-20 06:13 pm (UTC)(Sadly, punctuation outside the quotation marks looks about as bad as punctuation outside the parentheses to me. Wait-- do You People do that too?)
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Date: 2009-07-20 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 11:37 pm (UTC)Edit: Ah ha! I'm sorry, I was perplexed by your editorial commentary and didn't get what you were saying about parentheticals (I see what you mean, now, and yes, the systems are the same on that point).
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Date: 2009-07-20 07:26 pm (UTC)If the sentence inside the parentheses is incomplete, then no (like this). But if the sentence inside the parentheses stands alone, then yes. (Like this one.) Is that not the same everywhere? If everyone would just do it My Way then there wouldn't be this confusion.
*IT'S DELIBERATE. I knew that you would get this, but I couldn't stand the thought of leaving it unnoted in case a random passer-by came and judged me.
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Date: 2009-07-20 11:38 pm (UTC)Right, obviously. That is how we roll as well. I think that's what the above commenter was saying, and I didn't quite understand what they were trying to get across. Righto, then (but you should all do it My Way, obviously).
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Date: 2009-07-20 08:08 pm (UTC)::standing ovation::
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Date: 2009-07-20 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 08:09 pm (UTC)-A North American
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