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
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However, the larger, more serious problem: "Are you sure 'is' is a verb? It doesn't do anything."
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Well, yes. I think in non-fiction, f'rinstance, APA requires only the first word and then proper names to be capped, but MLA uses the standard I quoted above (though it's been many years since I looked at either one, so that may have changed).
However, the larger, more serious problem: "Are you sure 'is' is a verb? It doesn't do anything."
*weeps for the future*
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That is also why I tell students: use EndNotes. It will change your data base into the proper form for you. Even if you don't like the way it looks.
As for the weeping? We could solve our drought problem. That statement, I swear on stack of Gideons, is a direct quote. And the tip of the iceberg.
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I don't remember Turabian, but I do remember the annoyance of doing a psych bib according to MLA standards and having to redo it to APA etc. and arguing MLA (which I keep typing MAL) v. Chicago at one job. Now I'm lucky anything I work on is grammatical, as it's mostly all written by lawyers. *shudders*
As for the weeping? We could solve our drought problem. That statement, I swear on stack of Gideons, is a direct quote. And the tip of the iceberg.
You know, I don't have the best background in grammar - most of what I know I either know from having absorbed from reading so much as a kid, or from when I took Italian and had to learn English grammar then, but is is a verb! How do people not know this?
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I've had to teach that rule to almost every new writer we've had at my workplace since I was hired four years ago. (And, given the revolving door of employees we have there, that's a LOT of writers.)
My boss, by contrast, has a mental block on the word "your." She's convinced that it's a preposition, and so refuses to capitalize it. Seriously.
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Sigh.
My boss, by contrast, has a mental block on the word "your." She's convinced that it's a preposition, and so refuses to capitalize it. Seriously.
Well, we all know your boss is insane, so that shouldn't surprise me as much as it does.
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