A reminder to new members regarding spelling, grammar and punctuation

Mason-Dixon Line

Ha ha.

Heirs rock!

That’s in Australia, right?

Ask don’t ask.

Near Arliss Springs.

Just a hop, skip, and a plop from Turd in the Hole.

If I could add to the list of suggestions for newbies: don’t be afraid to insert spaces in your posts - one solid, five-inch mass of typing is extremely difficult to read. The rule of thumb I use is to insert a couple of hard returns after about an inch of typing (give-or-take, depending on the sentences of course).

Ummm, there are some who ask for perfection and there are some who care about minor gaffes as well.

This is a run-on sentence: you need a comma between “perfection” and “and.”

Daniel

Yes, yes, yes, this is all very nice…can we please get on with the non-sequiters & inside jokes. Puhleeeeeeeaaaze? :cool:

I do believe that the period should have been outside the Quotation marks.

And pull up your goddam pants and turn your hat around so the brim faces forwards, you little punks. And stop slouching…

Around these parts, the period is supposed to be inside the quotation mark. Those some of us prefer it the other way. There was a thread on this once.

Also, Left Hand of Dorkness, I believe that comma is optional.

Hmmm…isn’t that just when you’re quoting? - e.g. And then she said, “Oh no you dint just say dat.” ← [period inside quotation mark because it’s the end of the sentence being quoted]

Perhaps technically, but IMO it flows more smoothly without one; alternately, one could merely omit the second “there are” and make it even smoother.

As would I, though I doubt any here have the time or inclination to list all of my failures in grammar and usage. But for those whose flesh crawls whenever they read my posts I feel I must include a gratuitous emoticon: :wink:

It’s not spelled e e cummings. It really is E.E. Cummings.

See here for more info.

i was under the impression that cummings himself preferred the uncapitalized version and that he tried to legally change his name to e. e. cummings 9but was unsuccessful0. a google search showed use of both capitalized and uncapitalized versions, so i’m more inclined 9unless it’s for an academic setting, in which case i make sure what the prof wants0 to go with e. e. rather than E. E…

ymmv.

I’m gonna go with what his widow says:

“…according to Mrs. Cummings, he did not have his name legally put into lowercase, and that it is an error to say so.”

Who’d know him better, your prof or the widow?