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splash_the_cat

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... )

fandom, fandom_stargate, fandom_stargate_sam/jack

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nandamai May 11 2005, 23:08:41 UTC

HEY! NO FAIR!

Let's take bets on whether any of them actually go to my page, shall we?

nandamai May 11 2005, 23:09:15 UTC

Oh, and I did have Jack hum that once. :D

splash_the_cat May 11 2005, 23:11:57 UTC

There is, in fact, a method to my madness. :)

nandamai May 11 2005, 23:12:40 UTC

Hee!

havocthecat May 11 2005, 23:25:38 UTC

Wow. It's so sad how I'd leap at the chance to join that group. Could we throw grammar manuals at fanficcers who use bad punctuation?

splash_the_cat May 13 2005, 02:59:32 UTC

Yes!

audrich May 12 2005, 11:28:33 UTC

*loves Julie lots and lots*

*gathers all the commas and clutches them to her ample bosom*

Come to me, all my children! We shall fly into the night!
Yay! Ye shall be planted and burst forth into treble clefs!

*realises Julie will so whip her ass for using !!!*
*uses them again !!!!!!!!*

_earthshine_ May 12 2005, 15:55:46 UTC

OK, please forgive me if my gears got stuck in nitpick mode, but do you mean bass clefs? :) :) :)

Say... Do emoticons count? Like, am I causing a massive surplus of open-parenthesis somewhere just because I smile more than I frown?

audrich May 13 2005, 09:02:24 UTC

but do you mean bass clefs?

LOL! Well, I guess bass clefs would make more sense, but I like treble clefs; they're all curly and cute *g*

::struggles against restrainsts::

And I use these *g* far too often *g* which really annoys people *g* but I can't help it *g* I'm a giggly person *g*

_earthshine_ May 13 2005, 16:40:49 UTC

Gotcha... Now I can see the commas growing around all curly from the center and then going trebly. It is almost painfully cute, isn't it?

I don't mind the *emote* protocol. I'm not 'net hip enough to know the *g* is short for *giggle* until you told me, tho. I suppose a short form is important, tho, if you're giggling that much! :)

(...and now I still have to wonder if there's an open paren out there feeling lonely every time I smile...) :(

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botanicaladric May 12 2005, 19:25:52 UTC

What's an emdash?

botanicaladric May 12 2005, 19:27:33 UTC

http://cctc.commnet.edu/grammar/