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Branch ([personal profile] branchandroot) wrote2005-06-15 09:00 pm

Creative Punctuation

Read this essay in its new home.

[identity profile] aishuu.livejournal.com 2005-06-16 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
You make my inner editor twitch. The "it's" thing has been driving me crazy lately.

Most of the rest of it, I agree with.

[identity profile] aishuu.livejournal.com 2005-06-16 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I couldn't. My inner editor earns my paycheck... I spend so much time a week LOOKING at this stuff and correcting it that when I see it ANYWHERE, I start going batshit.

[identity profile] akatonbo.livejournal.com 2005-06-16 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I keep looking at this and bits of it I agree with and bits of it just make me twitch.

Incidentally, you may be the only person I can think of who a) uses more commas than I do (maybe), and b) follows my rule about what name the POV character uses to refer to himself more scrupulously than I do.

(Also, the purpose of netspeak is so that you can identify which people are the kind of people who would use netspeak without irony.)

[identity profile] akatonbo.livejournal.com 2005-06-16 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
The less said about my love affair with parentheses, the better. ;)