another grammar thread

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:10 pm

nobody Wrote:

This lady will set your grammar straight...

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... 8B64433940

She swings both ways, so she'd still be into it - so, hook this bitch up with that magnificent bastard Cliff Yablonski.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:18 pm

myspace user 'grammarlady' Wrote:

Here's a fun fact: there are no split infinitives in the works of Shakespeare. Do you want to write more like him? Well, maybe, if you happen to be the resurrected corpse of Richard Marlowe. But perhaps upon further consideration you might concede that Shakespeare isn't always that easy to understand either. He wrote beautiful words, certainly, but that doesn't mean the grammatical conventions of his day work today.

Who is Richard Marlowe?

Does she mean Christopher? If so, was his middle name Richard?

nobody · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:20 pm

Cliff's great...but I'll always have a fondness for Leonard Crabs, ever since he showed me what the law was really about...

Aural Fixation · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:37 pm

To further confuse you, according to The Gregg Reference Manual, a “leading style manual for anyone to master the on-the-job standards of current business writing”, the answer is as follows:

Quote:

Periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation mark. This is the preferred American style. (Some writers in the United States follow the British style: Place the period outside when it punctuates the whole sentence, inside when it punctuates only the quoted material. Place the comma outside, since it always punctuates the sentence, not the quoted material.)

So, in this case, I was both right and wrong.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:07 pm

Aural Fixation Wrote:

To further confuse you, according to The (tastefully-named) Gregg Reference Manual, a “leading style manual for anyone to master the on-the-job standards of current business writing”, the answer is as follows:

Quote:

Periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation mark. This is the preferred American style. (Some writers in the United States follow the British style: Place the period outside when it punctuates the whole sentence, inside when it punctuates only the quoted material. Place the comma outside, since it always punctuates the sentence, not the quoted material.)

So, in this case, I was both right and wrong.

audiobill · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:51 pm

I usually try to keep work out of my personal life, but I'll jump in. As an English specialist I can assuredly say, "The punctuation mark always goes to the left of the quotation mark -- it's that simple!"

Cheers,

audiobill

fuse · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:59 pm

Yeah, go with inside unless it screws up the meaning.

Is your favorite song "Car Wash"? The question mark isn't part of the title, so get it outside.

This is the accepted American version of the quotation thing. The Brits prefer it outside. And they like Robbie Williams, so there ya go.

Diggity Dawg · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:14 pm

Someone needs to invent a "spell checker" for punctuation.

Get on that shit, somebody.

harry · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:24 am

Aural Fixation Wrote:

To further confuse you, according to The Gregg Reference Manual, a “leading style manual for anyone to master the on-the-job standards of current business writing”, the answer is as follows:

Quote:

Periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation mark. This is the preferred American style. (Some writers in the United States follow the British style: Place the period outside when it punctuates the whole sentence, inside when it punctuates only the quoted material. Place the comma outside, since it always punctuates the sentence, not the quoted material.)

So, in this case, I was both right and wrong.

This is what I was taught in the unending series of writing and linguistics classes that led to my multiple useless degrees.

no guru · **Posted:** Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:31 am

Sergei Bubka Wrote:

myspace user 'grammarlady' Wrote:

Here's a fun fact: there are no split infinitives in the works of Shakespeare. Do you want to write more like him? Well, maybe, if you happen to be the resurrected corpse of Richard Marlowe. But perhaps upon further consideration you might concede that Shakespeare isn't always that easy to understand either. He wrote beautiful words, certainly, but that doesn't mean the grammatical conventions of his day work today.

Who is Richard Marlowe?

Does she mean Christopher? If so, was his middle name Richard?

Bela Lugosi played Dr. Richard Marlowe in Voodoo Man (1944).

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