depends what your definition of is, is
I was just gonna run out to Dunkin Donuts for a doughnut and coffee, but then I spoke to fleurdeleo and now we're going to the diner for lunch. Mmm...diner... That's one of my favorite things about this neighborhood--there are five diners all in (short) walking distance, and I think all of them are open 24/7.
So one of the Friday Five thingers this week was something about nitpicks and things that really irritate in fanfic (or something? I didn't go read the question again), and I can't answer because I have way more than five, but here is one that's been bugging me lately, because otherwise smart people make this mistake, and I wish they wouldn't.
If you are capitalizing the title of your story according to the standard rules of story capitalization (which, let's face it, we don't always do - I'm as guilty as anyone of pretentious wankery with lowercasing my titles), verbs are capitalized. This means *is* and *was* and *have* and *be* all get capped.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Let It Be
I Have Gone Out
We Were Soldiers Once
They're tiny verbs, but they're still verbs, and every time I see someone lowercase an "is" in a story title, I make this little broken whimpering sound, remembering the time at one job where we had to reprint a whole truckload of fundraising materials because someone hadn't capped the "is" in the program's title, and it was just wrong, and the materials couldn't be used.
And I have to run now, so here endeth the lesson.
~*~
So one of the Friday Five thingers this week was something about nitpicks and things that really irritate in fanfic (or something? I didn't go read the question again), and I can't answer because I have way more than five, but here is one that's been bugging me lately, because otherwise smart people make this mistake, and I wish they wouldn't.
If you are capitalizing the title of your story according to the standard rules of story capitalization (which, let's face it, we don't always do - I'm as guilty as anyone of pretentious wankery with lowercasing my titles), verbs are capitalized. This means *is* and *was* and *have* and *be* all get capped.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Let It Be
I Have Gone Out
We Were Soldiers Once
They're tiny verbs, but they're still verbs, and every time I see someone lowercase an "is" in a story title, I make this little broken whimpering sound, remembering the time at one job where we had to reprint a whole truckload of fundraising materials because someone hadn't capped the "is" in the program's title, and it was just wrong, and the materials couldn't be used.
And I have to run now, so here endeth the lesson.
~*~