Doghead's Cosmic Bar
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Now if only I could get my little brother to follow that code...
(the little twerp keeps eating my homework - I'm at my wits end!)
(the little twerp keeps eating my homework - I'm at my wits end!)
*pushes a strong chocolate drink towards isaacc*
Here, drink this. It makes punctuation and grammer mistakes not hurt as bad.
Here, drink this. It makes punctuation and grammer mistakes not hurt as bad.
Scooby--
Cool.
Not sure if the fact that you say I will not shed means that everything is opposite, and that you won't be friends forever.. *boggle* That's deep.
Cool.
Not sure if the fact that you say I will not shed means that everything is opposite, and that you won't be friends forever.. *boggle* That's deep.
*glug glug glug*
It's going to take something stiffer than chocolate, I'm afraid. You have to understand: grading papers is my day job. Explaining the difference between a colon and a semicolon is my bread and butter. And when I'm not doing that, I'm trying to teach poetry. So there's all sorts of hackle-raising going on over here.
I can't help it. I've been training for years to be this pedantic.
Now, will someone get that poem a visit from the Punctuation Fairy?
It's going to take something stiffer than chocolate, I'm afraid. You have to understand: grading papers is my day job. Explaining the difference between a colon and a semicolon is my bread and butter. And when I'm not doing that, I'm trying to teach poetry. So there's all sorts of hackle-raising going on over here.
I can't help it. I've been training for years to be this pedantic.
Now, will someone get that poem a visit from the Punctuation Fairy?
Chaos66 -- about punctuation "not applying" in "most poems": you're just wrong about that. You should go out and read some more poems.
(You're talking to someone with a Ph.D. in literature, specializing in poetry, so you have to understand that I have evidence behind me.)
For every e.e.cummings or William Carlos Williams there are a hundred poets who observe the ordinary standards of punctuation for written English.
It is simply not true that "it's a poem" is an excuse to forego punctuation (or to punctuate arbitrarily).
(You're talking to someone with a Ph.D. in literature, specializing in poetry, so you have to understand that I have evidence behind me.)
For every e.e.cummings or William Carlos Williams there are a hundred poets who observe the ordinary standards of punctuation for written English.
It is simply not true that "it's a poem" is an excuse to forego punctuation (or to punctuate arbitrarily).
*pushes a drink that seems in danger of melting the glass towards isaacc*
If you can't see the errors they can't hurt you.
Ok, so one thing that has been nagging me for a while is how someone who is so perfect with grammar ended up not capitalizing his name?
If you can't see the errors they can't hurt you.
Ok, so one thing that has been nagging me for a while is how someone who is so perfect with grammar ended up not capitalizing his name?
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