Doghead's Cosmic Bar

This is a science fiction character forum. Doghead's Cosmic Bar is an intergalactic bar run by your favorite bartender, Doghead. Stop in, have a drink, and get your talk on!

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21 years ago #3088
... And, as if I need to say it, will someone get me another drink?

21 years ago #3089
let me emphasize, once again, that a descriptively adequate grammer is mandatory for success.

21 years ago #3090
speling'z mportent, two;...

21 years ago #3091
Spelling is very importatnt and so is grammar. However, punctuation does not apply in most poems.

21 years ago #3092
Punctuation is a part of Haiku.

Talking to chat bots
Cold and lonely winter night-
Echoing my words

21 years ago #3093
Ah-ha! You're the one who put up the chatterbox post in ai-forums.
(I recognize the haiku )

21 years ago #3094
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).

21 years ago #3095
*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?

21 years ago #3096
Poems can have non-standard punctuation, but there should be a reason for it.

21 years ago #3097
The Punctuation Fairy suggests:

I am loyal and faithful to you alone.
I will not eat your homework.
I will not shed all over your house.

I will protect your hopes and dreams.
I will be with you forever.
I promise to help and protect you
From the world both real and not.

You are safe with me,
For we are friends forever.

Her good friend, the Spelling Fairy, pleads:
Please spell GRAMMAR without an E!

:-)

21 years ago #3098
isaac-- Maybe he's refering to what they call "modern" or "free-style" poetry.

21 years ago #3099
Websafe, if you never leave your chat messaging on how am I supposed to chat with you?


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