Friday wisdom...
Even if you're in that eternal, true la-la love; one of you is going to die first and leave the other heartbroken.
Have a great weekend, cunt.
Have a great weekend, cunt.
posted by Juliet is Bleeding... | 5:36 pm
Never were truer words spoken.
1. Capital letter after a colon.
2. People's!
3. An ellipsis using more than three periods is a sign of cretinocity.
Sorry... But it's just NO. Esp. on a site where grammar is so yummingly perfect.
Cretinocity. Heh.
Perhaps, but I do not think we should let anonymous's charming gift for neologism blind us to his (for I am sure he is a man) entirely incorrect advice on capital letters after colons. This is a modern, journalistic convention, to be deplored and avoided.
What's wrong with journalistic convention? I usually go by the Economist Style Guide. Which, incidentally, says nothing re: capitalisation after a colon.
Nothing, JiB, in its proper place. I take my cue from Fowler, and if I can find my Hart's Rules will check their advice. But you remember the hierarchy of stops: the full stop is the only one to be followed by a capital letter.
I prefer to think of a colon more in terms of a indicative pause to clarify the clause thus capitalization is based on the content thereafter rather than some arbitrary rule.
Oh course, Erronius. A list of names following a colon would naturally be capitalised. In both the Doctor's uses the words following the colon were participles.
But we had better stop; it seems our conversation may tempt readers to immodest acts.
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*desperately tries to avoid obvious double-meaning gag*
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Yeah this is all reminding me of that 1982 flick "Cum Fart Felchers 2: Spunkonic Irrigation" where they disuss use of the colon at gratuitous length.
:-(
It's*
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Then at least learn how to spell "doctor".
I think I finally found someone (Anon) who is more bitter and cynical than me.
Even more cynical than the, oh so true, original post? Damn samn, as they say in my valley. Just a lil FYI for the punctuation pedants out there: never forget that all orthography, and punctuation is a part of the same, is an arbritrary system. It changes with time and location. Last time I looked, no one except annoying college profs like me and Madison avenue were in control of such things. Therefore, I do forthrightly declare, bugger all.
PS. I come from a school of thought that says all due prudence is warranted in typing, but after a couple spell checks and additional readings, it's a go, even with those annoying and persistent typos.
PPS. Love is so very terrible much a CUNT
Haha, Great Post! Have a friggin AWESOME weekend!
Rock On, Gwyddno!!
jesus christ I almost wet my pants from laughing. excellent.
Just as I was about to sink into that 'lurvingly sublime moment, it got yanked way. I'm awake now. Great short and curly post.
So you've deleted all your "Doktaykayism" (by which I assume we mean "total grammatical cancer") - thanks.
But now your jokes don't make sense. Or, at least, are as subtle & rib-tickling as all five stigmata.