it's... aaaaaaaaalive!lhianaJuly 23 2006, 04:12:41 UTC
Aha, you are still around! Hello, you.
It just seems that a lot of people do not know the proper occasion to use quotations. I understand that I'm an editor, and correcting punctuation is part of my job, but you'd think that people who write freelance for a living would know at least the basic dos and don'ts.
Okay, okay... so I'm a freak.lhianaJuly 24 2006, 03:23:49 UTC
You know what else gets me... is when people write me "e"-mails... and the only form of punctuation in the whole thing... is "ellipses"... it's not that I think there's anything "wrong" with ellipses... but they are not "appropriate" in most cases...
Now if I could add in some exclamation points (aha!!!) and nickels, my "pet peeve" post would be complete!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Okay, okay... so I'm a freak.theunquietnightJuly 24 2006, 17:13:59 UTC
I've been writing so little lately I feel like I've backslid so much gramatically. You aren't a freak, believe me, I feel the same way about certain things I run across in my job as well.
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:-)
sorry that was a joke of course, any particular reason why quotation marks have become a pain in the ass?
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It just seems that a lot of people do not know the proper occasion to use quotations. I understand that I'm an editor, and correcting punctuation is part of my job, but you'd think that people who write freelance for a living would know at least the basic dos and don'ts.
Cranky day at work, is all. :-)
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Now if I could add in some exclamation points (aha!!!) and nickels, my "pet peeve" post would be complete!!!!!!!!!!!!
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