Comments | rynne: grammar rantish thingy

rynne

grammar rantish thingy

Dec 14, 2005 03:32

I should either be in bed or finishing my essay, but instead I'm reading fanfic, and I keep coming across something that's getting really damn annoyingIn two days time ( Read more... )

grammar, rants

Comments 14

yeats December 14 2005, 11:45:28 UTC

I like to imagine that, in those instances, what's missing is a comma. Thus:

In two days, time will cease to exist.
In three weeks, time will beat up space and steal its lunch money.

*waves from this sleepless corner of fandom*

rynne December 14 2005, 11:48:37 UTC

Oh, lah. I love you. That's totally brilliant. :D

yeats December 14 2005, 11:52:17 UTC

Punctuation diversity, m'dear. Wave of the future. :D

underlucius December 14 2005, 12:23:57 UTC

Gah! I know - that drives me INSANE!!!! As does "the hippogriff shook it's head."

*smites*

Hello! Just thought I'd say Hi while I'm here, wanted you to know that I rarely comment, but I always read!

xxx

rynne December 14 2005, 22:19:55 UTC

Oh God, the its/it's thing drives me crazy, too, but usually if a fic has a bunch of those, it has other mistakes too, and I don't stick around to find out. But the two days' time, etc., doesn't seem to be that well known, because it's all over the place, even in otherwise grammatically good fics, and it's just akdgj;kgj;asdf.

fadagaski December 14 2005, 13:10:02 UTC

Amen to grammar rules and all that.

Your icon ... it has a spelling error. :S 'Possessive'. Four S's.

rynne December 14 2005, 22:17:15 UTC

Oh, I know. On two of the slides, too. But I have zero expertise at making/modifying icons, so I don't know how to fix it, and it was still the most appropriate icon for this post. :p

fadagaski December 15 2005, 00:56:24 UTC

Heh. ^_^

marauderthesn December 14 2005, 13:59:36 UTC

Apostrophes have become so unloved. It drives me crazy.

rynne December 14 2005, 22:17:51 UTC

I <333 apostrophes. :D

krabapple December 15 2005, 04:11:32 UTC

Hey, there ( ... )

rynne December 15 2005, 04:18:58 UTC

a) Good! I've got the entire day off tomorrow (except studying for my last final, but that's on Friday), so we can talk then. Not on Friday at all, cuz I've got that last final and then travelling back home. I personally prefer Y!M, 'cause you can be online to a few people and offline to everyone else, so do you mind if we use that?

b) Let's talk about the characterization stuff on IM, and maybe you can help me make Vader a bit less warm and fuzzy. :p

:D I'm glad you like Mara! I doo too. *g*

rynne December 15 2005, 04:22:10 UTC

...do too. I totally get you on wanting to be able to edit comments. XD