Making fandom safe for... stuff.

May 11, 2005 14:06

I want to start a new group: People for the Ethical Treatment of Punctuation. There would be protests and daring guerilla raids on mailing lists and livejournals to liberate extraneous exclamation points and question marks from the tyrrany tyranny (hush, riffalike) of the over-eager posters, and to protect the sanctity of the emdash, the ellipsis, and the ( Read more... )

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riffalike May 11 2005, 18:47:22 UTC
"tyranny"

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splash_the_cat May 11 2005, 18:50:21 UTC
Good thing I wasn't mocking other people's spelling...

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riffalike May 11 2005, 18:52:02 UTC
I wouldn't be a spelling tyrant if I let you get away with it.

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_earthshine_ May 12 2005, 11:47:05 UTC
While we're nitpicking, I believe the word you were looking for above was ellipsis (plural "ellipses"), not ellipse.

...unless you were referring to writers who are eccentric. (Ha! Eccentric! Math joke! Get it? I'm such a geek.)

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splash_the_cat May 12 2005, 12:39:53 UTC
There is a reason I don't mock other people's spelling. :)

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_earthshine_ May 12 2005, 15:52:35 UTC
No worries. I was just jumping on the nitpick bandwagon. *munch*munch*

:)

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