"Onstage" vs "on stage"

[fs_playground]

So I'm continuing "Ghost at Twilight" and "Encounter in Venice", editing both fics before I write. While I'm often amazed at the sheer amount of stupid grammar mistakes I've made, there are also situations in which I simply can't decide which word to choose

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[fs_playground]

Can one say "on the stage"? That's what I've been wondering.

English grammar rules are a pain...

[anonymous]

"lightcurve" is not a word :\

turns out not logging in is just as much work as logging in

[dagronrat]

For things like that I tend to decide my own rule... But then that's how I spent over a decade being stubbornly wrong about its versus it's so... *Shrugs.*

[anonymous]

usually "onstage" as one word implies there's an audience.

- Rae

too lazy to log in

@Dag - CONTRACTIONS ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE. If someone says "its mine", a) my brain hurts because I guess it owns them at the same time they own it?? - or it owns a mine - and b) they sound like they are four years old and have not been taught what a contraction is.

[fs_playground]

That's a great explanation. Thanks a lot!