You've seen it on this board!!!!! hahaha! I just make up my own rules of gramma and punctiliousness. I split hairs, infinitives, wood. I dangle all sorts of stuff, dangly bits here, dangly bits there.I don't believe it
I'm a hot mess of writing.
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I'm a hot mess of writing.
Commas are the bane of my existence. I can spot one used incorrectly in anyone else's writing, but a slang them forth in my own writing with righteous abandon
My editor could make a bundle if she was paid by comma removed.
Yeah. I'm a comma w*ore.Commas are the bane of my existence. I can spot one used incorrectly in anyone else's writing, but a slang them forth in my own writing with righteous abandon
Commas are the bane of my existence. I can spot one used incorrectly in anyone else's writing, but a slang them forth in my own writing with righteous abandon
I think the punctuation rules have changed since I was in school. We were taught to use them a lot more than what I see being standard practice today. On the other hand, we were also taught to spell correctly, use full words not initials, and use proper grammar.
WTF?I think the punctuation rules have changed since I was in school. We were taught to use them a lot more than what I see being standard practice today. On the other hand, we were also taught to spell correctly, use full words not initials, and use proper grammar.
I heard in China they don’t even have grammar. Must be wonderful.
AND THE OXFORD COMMA. I LOVE THE OXFORD COMMA.I think the punctuation rules have changed since I was in school. We were taught to use them a lot more than what I see being standard practice today. On the other hand, we were also taught to spell correctly, use full words not initials, and use proper grammar.
that's the one right before the ,and, right?
Yup. If you have a list of items, modern wisdom is that you don't put a comma before the last item in the list (the Oxford comma). I like the clarity the Oxford comma gives; without it, meaning is sometimes obscured.
I was taught not to use that one. But, I reserve the right to capriciously fling them anywhere.
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My book publisher uses the Chicago Manual of Style, which allows the Oxford comma, while my book review and newspaper editors use the AP Styleguide, which doesn't. I get mixed up all the time *shrug* They can work it out or not, as they choose.
I think the punctuation rules have changed since I was in school. We were taught to use them a lot more than what I see being standard practice today. On the other hand, we were also taught to spell correctly, use full words not initials, and use proper grammar.
The world moved on, MsMod. We now stand in the petrified forest of forgotten rules.
Double spaces after sentences. All I have to say.
We have forgotten the face of our comma.
I still forget and use them at times even after working all this time in the publishing industry.
Wait, are we supposed to have them or not have them?I still forget and use them at times even after working all this time in the publishing industry.
Not. But I learned to double space between sentences, and that has been the hardest thing I've ever had to try and unlearn.
The double space has been replaced by the single space so we're not supposed to use double spaces anymore.
