Constant Gardener
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
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Punctuation is crucial
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Smiley Guru
I've got you covered on the capital letters Chef...
Matriarch
My irritation list on the story verification front this week:
1) Not starting sentences with a capital letter.
2) Using i throughout, instead of I.
3) Not putting a space after a full stop (period).
4) Zero use of paragraphs.
You'd have hoped prospective authors would at least get the basics right, and read a few stories to see the quality standard required to get published on site, but that's wishful thinking. Sigh
1) Not starting sentences with a capital letter.
2) Using i throughout, instead of I.
3) Not putting a space after a full stop (period).
4) Zero use of paragraphs.
You'd have hoped prospective authors would at least get the basics right, and read a few stories to see the quality standard required to get published on site, but that's wishful thinking. Sigh
Constant Gardener
There are a lot of people who can tell a pretty good story. Unfortunately, that doesn't always translate over to being able to write one.
There are a lot of funny people on this planet, but they aren't all comedians either.
If something is hard to read, boring, droll or absurd - I skip it. There's too much quality material to peruse, to waste my time on other.
There are a lot of funny people on this planet, but they aren't all comedians either.
If something is hard to read, boring, droll or absurd - I skip it. There's too much quality material to peruse, to waste my time on other.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
But stay away from the keyboard unless you're really going to try to write.
The Right Rev of Lush
Great thread. Loved the comma poster. If you haven't read the book, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," do so.
Rumple Foreskin
Rumple Foreskin
RUMPLATIONS: AwesomeHonky Tonk and Cyber Bar
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwords. -- ROBERT HEINLEIN
Home of the Lush "IN" crowd: indecent, intoxicated, and insolvent
a place to gossip, share news, talk sports, pimp a story, piss & moan, or just grab a drink. Check it out.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwords. -- ROBERT HEINLEIN
The Right Rev of Lush
Quote by chefkathleen
Why Rump? What's it about?
From Publishers Weekly
Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Certainly not its modest if indignant author, who began her surprise hit motivated by "horror" and "despair" at the current state of British usage: ungrammatical signs ("BOB,S PETS"), headlines and band names ("Hear'Say") drove journalist and novelist Truss absolutely batty. But this spirited and wittily instructional little volume, which was a U.K. #1 bestseller, is not a grammar book, Truss insists; like a self-help volume, it "gives you permission to love punctuation." Her approach falls between the descriptive and prescriptive schools of grammar study, but is closer, perhaps, to the latter. (A self-professed "stickler," Truss recommends that anyone putting an apostrophe in a possessive "its"-as in "the dog chewed it's bone"-should be struck by lightning and chopped to bits.) Employing a chatty tone that ranges from pleasant rant to gentle lecture to bemused dismay, Truss dissects common errors that grammar mavens have long deplored (often, as she readily points out, in isolation) and makes elegant arguments for increased attention to punctuation correctness: "without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning." Interspersing her lessons with bits of history (the apostrophe dates from the 16th century; the first semicolon appeared in 1494) and plenty of wit, Truss serves up delightful, unabashedly strict and sometimes snobby little book, with cheery Britishisms ("Lawks-a-mussy!") dotting pages that express a more international righteous indignation.
This excerpt explains the title:
"A panda goes into a café, orders a sandwich, eats it, takes out a revolver, fires it into the air, and goes out. When the waiter calls to ask what is going on, the panda plunks a badly punctuated wildlife manual onto the table and growls: "Look me up." The waiter finds the entry: "PANDA. Large, black-and-white, bear-like mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
ES&L won't replace Elements of Style, but it's entertaining and informative.
Rumple Foreskin
RUMPLATIONS: AwesomeHonky Tonk and Cyber Bar
Home of the Lush "IN" crowd: indecent, intoxicated, and insolvent
a place to gossip, share news, talk sports, pimp a story, piss & moan, or just grab a drink. Check it out.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwords. -- ROBERT HEINLEIN
Home of the Lush "IN" crowd: indecent, intoxicated, and insolvent
a place to gossip, share news, talk sports, pimp a story, piss & moan, or just grab a drink. Check it out.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwords. -- ROBERT HEINLEIN
The Right Rev of Lush
Quote by chefkathleen
"Eats, shoots and leaves." Made me LOL.
Me, too.
Pedantically yours,
Rumple Foreskin
RUMPLATIONS: AwesomeHonky Tonk and Cyber Bar
Home of the Lush "IN" crowd: indecent, intoxicated, and insolvent
a place to gossip, share news, talk sports, pimp a story, piss & moan, or just grab a drink. Check it out.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwords. -- ROBERT HEINLEIN
Home of the Lush "IN" crowd: indecent, intoxicated, and insolvent
a place to gossip, share news, talk sports, pimp a story, piss & moan, or just grab a drink. Check it out.
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwords. -- ROBERT HEINLEIN