Comments on: Punctuation Alert http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TL http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-48472 TL Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:31:22 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-48472 Hello! Having been sent into oblivion by the <i>google-arse</i> I subsequentally arrived here. I intend setting April's challenge on a particular writer's forum. Subject being; The Maid, The Mother and The Crone. Each part to be written in a different tense. <i>first person, second person and third person</i> no specific order, but they all must link. My stumbling efforts to source background material managed to place me on this blog (for some obscure reason). I humbly apologise for my interruption but I find your blog tremendously delightful. (never knew these things existed). I couldn't help listening to your discussions regarding <i><b>ellipsis</b></i> (I hate being a lurker, although I hate to be an uninvited party also). I agree with most of you but I do have a tendency to use the omnipotent ellipsis, not overly mind you, just enough to leave the reader in a state of expectation. To be able to follow the thread in their own miniscule minds to their own conclusions, promises. That said, I have no compunctions as to whether the ellipsis is matriarchal or patriarchal. As Sam posted: <i>Fun factoid: women use ellipses far more often than men do.</i> My mind is set. My thanks for your perserverance. TL Hello!

Having been sent into oblivion by the google-arse I subsequentally arrived here.

I intend setting April’s challenge on a particular writer’s forum. Subject being; The Maid, The Mother and The Crone. Each part to be written in a different tense. first person, second person and third person no specific order, but they all must link.

My stumbling efforts to source background material managed to place me on this blog (for some obscure reason). I humbly apologise for my interruption but I find your blog tremendously delightful. (never knew these things existed). I couldn’t help listening to your discussions regarding ellipsis (I hate being a lurker, although I hate to be an uninvited party also). I agree with most of you but I do have a tendency to use the omnipotent ellipsis, not overly mind you, just enough to leave the reader in a state of expectation. To be able to follow the thread in their own miniscule minds to their own conclusions, promises.

That said, I have no compunctions as to whether the ellipsis is matriarchal or patriarchal. As Sam posted: Fun factoid: women use ellipses far more often than men do. My mind is set.

My thanks for your perserverance.

TL

]]> By: » If Google Embraced Evil - First Person Perfect http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-21205 » If Google Embraced Evil - First Person Perfect Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:49:54 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-21205 [...] I’m gradually learning the codes for various special characters. My most-used are apostrophe, quotation marks, ellipsis, en space and em dash. Left and right angle brackets occasionally. Use of ellipses has been more sparing since Twisty came down on them hard. [...] [...] I’m gradually learning the codes for various special characters. My most-used are apostrophe, quotation marks, ellipsis, en space and em dash. Left and right angle brackets occasionally. Use of ellipses has been more sparing since Twisty came down on them hard. [...]

]]> By: rumblelizard http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19095 rumblelizard Tue, 16 May 2006 02:36:21 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19095 Has anyone else here been following the dust-up with this deeply effed-up "NYMOM" character <a href="http://pandagon.net/2006/05/09/just-one-modicum-of-common-sense-please/" rel="nofollow">over at Pandagon</a>? Apparently, according to NYMOM, the reason more men are getting custody of children when families split up is because feminism exists, or that feminists are in league with MRAs, or something. I'm not sure exactly what the wackytroll's argument is, because she keeps on using ellipses so hideously and so profusely that it makes me tear my eyeballs out before I can figure out what she's saying. I think all blogs with comments should take a page from Twisty's manual and subject comments with ellipses to moderation. Has anyone else here been following the dust-up with this deeply effed-up “NYMOM” character over at Pandagon? Apparently, according to NYMOM, the reason more men are getting custody of children when families split up is because feminism exists, or that feminists are in league with MRAs, or something. I’m not sure exactly what the wackytroll’s argument is, because she keeps on using ellipses so hideously and so profusely that it makes me tear my eyeballs out before I can figure out what she’s saying.

I think all blogs with comments should take a page from Twisty’s manual and subject comments with ellipses to moderation.

]]> By: hedonistic http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19040 hedonistic Mon, 15 May 2006 15:14:49 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19040 shoot. where's the spell check? LOL! shoot. where’s the spell check? LOL!

]]> By: hedonistic http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19039 hedonistic Mon, 15 May 2006 15:10:45 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19039 Upper middle is still middle! The middle class is charicterized by it's striving to self-improve via aesthetics (language, manner, dress, lifestyle). It's a beautiful thing, really, because it makes life so much more (resist the ellipsis! resist! resist!) pleasing. The upper-middles just have more $$$ and leisure time to indulge. The ultimate upper-middle-class writer: In my opinion, Edith Wharton. Seems some of the best American novels are about upper-middles bonking their heads against the glass ceiling that separates them from the uppers, or about their anxieties about losing their places within the middle-class heirarchy. In these stories, aesthetic considerations rule! Upper middle is still middle! The middle class is charicterized by it’s striving to self-improve via aesthetics (language, manner, dress, lifestyle). It’s a beautiful thing, really, because it makes life so much more (resist the ellipsis! resist! resist!) pleasing. The upper-middles just have more $$$ and leisure time to indulge.

The ultimate upper-middle-class writer: In my opinion, Edith Wharton. Seems some of the best American novels are about upper-middles bonking their heads against the glass ceiling that separates them from the uppers, or about their anxieties about losing their places within the middle-class heirarchy. In these stories, aesthetic considerations rule!

]]> By: Chris Clarke http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19037 Chris Clarke Mon, 15 May 2006 14:38:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19037 Actually, h., you said upper middle. But point taken on the rich. Actually, h., you said upper middle. But point taken on the rich.

]]> By: hedonistic http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19009 hedonistic Mon, 15 May 2006 04:11:07 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19009 Oh and Chris, I never claimed, as you stated so eloquently, that the "fetishized regard for grammatical niceties is the exclusive province of the privileged classes." I said it was middle class (unless you call middle class "priveleged?"). In any case the I've noticed the upper classes - royalty excepted - generally couldn't give two shits about protocol (spelling, grammar, or which fork to use), as they generally have nothing to aspire to. I also find they tend to be the worst spellers and punctuators of all (may I present Exhibit A: GW Bush?). But enough of that. I'm just killing time at midnight while trying to keep my cats from killing each other. Oh and Chris, I never claimed, as you stated so eloquently, that the “fetishized regard for grammatical niceties is the exclusive province of the privileged classes.” I said it was middle class (unless you call middle class “priveleged?”).

In any case the I’ve noticed the upper classes – royalty excepted – generally couldn’t give two shits about protocol (spelling, grammar, or which fork to use), as they generally have nothing to aspire to. I also find they tend to be the worst spellers and punctuators of all (may I present Exhibit A: GW Bush?).

But enough of that. I’m just killing time at midnight while trying to keep my cats from killing each other.

]]> By: Pony http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19006 Pony Mon, 15 May 2006 03:12:41 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19006 Never mind your els. Answer MAGS. pant pant. Never mind your els. Answer MAGS. pant pant.

]]> By: Chris Clarke http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19005 Chris Clarke Mon, 15 May 2006 03:04:30 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19005 hmm. half my comment disappeared. Musta munged the HTML. Anyhow, you're right, Pony, but my favorite typo in my snit was the extra L in mis-spelled. hmm. half my comment disappeared. Musta munged the HTML.

Anyhow, you’re right, Pony, but my favorite typo in my snit was the extra L in mis-spelled.

]]> By: Chris Clarke http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19004 Chris Clarke Mon, 15 May 2006 03:03:14 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/05/12/punctuation-alert/#comment-19004 <em>Isn’t it *noblesse* oblige? </em> Isn’t it *noblesse* oblige?

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