Hutch CC/Mizzou commit arrested

[MakeItRain]

Sometimes both, like if I was quoting a question.  For example:

Tortuga's really making the most of summer break.  Staying up all night, doing important things like asking me "does period go inside or outside?".  That's the Summer of Tortuga.

This is a textbook example. As in, it should be used in some sort of textbook it is so good.

In or out actually depends on what style you are writing.  If you are using the AP stylebook you must have the punctuation inside the quotes.  MLA allows the punctuation to be moved outside of the quotes.  Most people unintentionally attempt MLA style.  Obviously journalists or people who went to J school use AP style.

[felix rex]

Southern Command is an innie, Northern Command is an outie! 

[Clevey 2 Times]

Sometimes both, like if I was quoting a question.  For example:

Tortuga's really making the most of summer break.  Staying up all night, doing important things like asking me "does period go inside or outside?".  That's the Summer of Tortuga.

This is a textbook example. As in, it should be used in some sort of textbook it is so good.

In or out actually depends on what style you are writing.  If you are using the AP stylebook you must have the punctuation inside the quotes.  MLA allows the punctuation to be moved outside of the quotes.  Most people unintentionally attempt MLA style.  Obviously journalists or people who went to J school use AP style.

The better question, which remains a mystery to me..."why in the hell are there multiple writing style guides?".....

[Kat Kid]

Sometimes both, like if I was quoting a question.  For example:

Tortuga's really making the most of summer break.  Staying up all night, doing important things like asking me "does period go inside or outside?".  That's the Summer of Tortuga.

This is a textbook example. As in, it should be used in some sort of textbook it is so good.

In or out actually depends on what style you are writing.  If you are using the AP stylebook you must have the punctuation inside the quotes.  MLA allows the punctuation to be moved outside of the quotes.  Most people unintentionally attempt MLA style.  Obviously journalists or people who went to J school use AP style.

The better question, which remains a mystery to me..."why in the hell are there multiple writing style guides?".....

If that is a better question and remains a mystery to you, then you are being dumb or are in fact a dumb person.

[Clevey 2 Times]

Sometimes both, like if I was quoting a question.  For example:

Tortuga's really making the most of summer break.  Staying up all night, doing important things like asking me "does period go inside or outside?".  That's the Summer of Tortuga.

This is a textbook example. As in, it should be used in some sort of textbook it is so good.

In or out actually depends on what style you are writing.  If you are using the AP stylebook you must have the punctuation inside the quotes.  MLA allows the punctuation to be moved outside of the quotes.  Most people unintentionally attempt MLA style.  Obviously journalists or people who went to J school use AP style.

The better question, which remains a mystery to me..."why in the hell are there multiple writing style guides?".....

If that is a better question and remains a mystery to you, then you are being dumb or are in fact a dumb person.

I'll reserve the right to determine what remains a mystery to me.

Multiple writing style guides? Mysterious

Belief in a higher power? No mystery, we're all just worm food in the end.

Why Miami never contacted Frank? Mysterious

People addicted to eating corn starch? WTF, a mystery

Tortuga's intellectual capacity? Not a mystery, obviously a shallow genetic pool

[Kat Kid]

Sometimes both, like if I was quoting a question.  For example:

Tortuga's really making the most of summer break.  Staying up all night, doing important things like asking me "does period go inside or outside?".  That's the Summer of Tortuga.

This is a textbook example. As in, it should be used in some sort of textbook it is so good.

In or out actually depends on what style you are writing.  If you are using the AP stylebook you must have the punctuation inside the quotes.  MLA allows the punctuation to be moved outside of the quotes.  Most people unintentionally attempt MLA style.  Obviously journalists or people who went to J school use AP style.

The better question, which remains a mystery to me..."why in the hell are there multiple writing style guides?".....

If that is a better question and remains a mystery to you, then you are being dumb or are in fact a dumb person.

I'll reserve the right to determine what remains a mystery to me.

Multiple writing style guides? Mysterious

Belief in a higher power? No mystery, we're all just worm food in the end.

Why Miami never contacted Frank? Mysterious

People addicted to eating corn starch? WTF, a mystery

Tortuga's intellectual capacity? Not a mystery, obviously a shallow genetic pool

no, yes, no, yes, NO.

[sys]

tortuga is being a meanie.

there are multiple style guides because no english-speaking organization has ever achieved enough popularity and arrogance to dominate the conversation regarding the proper manner to organize and formulate written communication in english.  the competing "dictionaries" (literally, an ary of diction), style guides and grammar handbooks are no more than the collected opinions of a person or group of persons regarding an effective means of english communication.  they seek to impose either a (purportedly educated and benevolent) stylistic dictatorism, or the preserved modalities of the communication of a given time and place, on present and future english-language communicators.

irregardless.  eff 'em.

[felix rex]

tortuga is being a meanie.

there are multiple style guides because no english-speaking organization has ever achieved enough popularity and arrogance to dominate the conversation regarding the proper manner to organize and formulate written communication in english.  the competing "dictionaries" (literally, an ary of diction), style guides and grammar handbooks are no more than the collected opinions of a person or group of persons regarding an effective means of english communication.  they seek to impose either a (purportedly educated and benevolent) stylistic dictatorism, or the preserved modalities of the communication of a given time and place, on present and future english-language communicators.

irregardless.  eff 'em.

Exactly. Could care less what some descriptive bunch of grammar snobs conversate about all day. If you snuck a period inside the quotes, good for you.

[Kat Kid]

tortuga is being a meanie.

there are multiple style guides because no english-speaking organization has ever achieved enough popularity and arrogance to dominate the conversation regarding the proper manner to organize and formulate written communication in english.  the competing "dictionaries" (literally, an ary of diction), style guides and grammar handbooks are no more than the collected opinions of a person or group of persons regarding an effective means of english communication.  they seek to impose either a (purportedly educated and benevolent) stylistic dictatorism, or the preserved modalities of the communication of a given time and place, on present and future english-language communicators.

irregardless.  eff 'em.

shorter Cleveland: "Why don't everyone speak Amuricun?  MYSTERY TO ME!"

[MakeItRain]

tortuga is being a meanie.

there are multiple style guides because no english-speaking organization has ever achieved enough popularity and arrogance to dominate the conversation regarding the proper manner to organize and formulate written communication in english.  the competing "dictionaries" (literally, an ary of diction), style guides and grammar handbooks are no more than the collected opinions of a person or group of persons regarding an effective means of english communication.  they seek to impose either a (purportedly educated and benevolent) stylistic dictatorism, or the preserved modalities of the communication of a given time and place, on present and future english-language communicators.

irregardless.  eff 'em.

Exactly. Could care less what some descriptive bunch of grammar snobs conversate about all day. If you snuck a period inside the quotes, good for you.

Grammar snobs use MLA, journos are by no stretch of the imagination grammar snobs.  BTW technically you'd be sneaking the period outside the quotes, not inside.

[Clevey 2 Times]

Sometimes both, like if I was quoting a question.  For example:

Tortuga's really making the most of summer break.  Staying up all night, doing important things like asking me "does period go inside or outside?".  That's the Summer of Tortuga.

This is a textbook example. As in, it should be used in some sort of textbook it is so good.

In or out actually depends on what style you are writing.  If you are using the AP stylebook you must have the punctuation inside the quotes.  MLA allows the punctuation to be moved outside of the quotes.  Most people unintentionally attempt MLA style.  Obviously journalists or people who went to J school use AP style.

The better question, which remains a mystery to me..."why in the hell are there multiple writing style guides?".....

If that is a better question and remains a mystery to you, then you are being dumb or are in fact a dumb person.

I'll reserve the right to determine what remains a mystery to me.

Multiple writing style guides? Mysterious

Belief in a higher power? No mystery, we're all just worm food in the end.

Why Miami never contacted Frank? Mysterious

People addicted to eating corn starch? WTF, a mystery

Tortuga's intellectual capacity? Not a mystery, obviously a shallow genetic pool

no, yes, no, yes, NO.

Ha, I like where you went with that.

My point was not to criticize people who cannot speak English, or "Americun", only to point out that it makes no effing sense from a practical perspective for every god damn group of intellectuals to create their own style guide....just arrogance and an attempt to make them seem more institutionally relevant.

Now we can all return to loving each other.

[felix rex]

tortuga is being a meanie.

there are multiple style guides because no english-speaking organization has ever achieved enough popularity and arrogance to dominate the conversation regarding the proper manner to organize and formulate written communication in english.  the competing "dictionaries" (literally, an ary of diction), style guides and grammar handbooks are no more than the collected opinions of a person or group of persons regarding an effective means of english communication.  they seek to impose either a (purportedly educated and benevolent) stylistic dictatorism, or the preserved modalities of the communication of a given time and place, on present and future english-language communicators.

irregardless.  eff 'em.

Exactly. Could care less what some descriptive bunch of grammar snobs conversate about all day. If you snuck a period inside the quotes, good for you.

Grammar snobs use MLA, journos are by no stretch of the imagination grammar snobs.  BTW technically you'd be sneaking the period outside the quotes, not inside.

could care less

[Emo EMAW]

Guys, one of my grad school professors confirmed for me that the period goes inside the quotation. 

[Trim]

I've decided I'm going to do whatever the eff I want with my quotations and punctuation, regardless of what I read here.

[Clevey 2 Times]

I've decided I'm going to do whatever the eff I want with my quotations and punctuation, regardless of what I read here.

+1

 

[Clevey 2 Times]

Guys, one of my grad school professors confirmed for me that the period goes inside the quotation. 

I've met some pretty unintelligent grad school professors....just saying...

[GoodForAnother]

it can go inside or outside

and I have an english degree guys

[Clevey 2 Times]

I'm really starting to hate myself for continuing to read this thread.

[steve dave]

so this mizzou guy huh?  wow

[ChiComCat]

I think we should just start doing it both inside and outside.  You know, just to be safe

For example:

The thread was going fantastically, until Steve Dave got to thinking "I'm going to try to derail it by talking about some mizzou guy nobody has ever heard of.".

[Dr Rick Daris]

I think we should just start doing it both inside and outside.  You know, just to be safe

For example:

The thread was going fantastically, until Steve Dave got to thinking "I'm going to try to derail it by talking about some mizzou guy nobody has ever heard of.".

Yeah. My close circle of friends and I have recently nicknamed SD "threadkiller". Tough call but it had to happen.

[Emo EMAW]

Guys, one of my grad school professors confirmed for me that the period goes inside the quotation. 

I've met some pretty unintelligent grad school professors....just saying...

He used to be a newspaper copywriter so...

[MakeItRain]

Guys, one of my grad school professors confirmed for me that the period goes inside the quotation. 

I've met some pretty unintelligent grad school professors....just saying...

He used to be a newspaper copywriter so...

Yeah he was referring to the AP style manual, I have already gone over this.  You both seem pretty unintelligent 

[Emo EMAW]

Is possible.

[steve dave]

I get a lot of chuckles out of MIR ruining people like that.  oh man.