Punctuation: a grammatical rant (or, rather, a rant about grammar)
You know what really really really bugs me, and I always forget about it until I see it again?
SURRENDER DOROTHY
I mean, I understand that she's on a broom and all, but.... would a comma be too much to ask? I can't tell what she wants here. Is it surrender, Dorothy - meaning, Dorothy, give yourself up, a command to Dorothy Gale of Kansas? Or is it actually "surrender Dorothy" - a command to the people of the Emerald City to hand over said little girl? If so, wouldn't "hand over Dorothy" or "give me the girl" have been easier to skywrite? What the FUCK, Wicked Witch? I can't tell what you want, so your command is void for vagueness. The reasonable person would be unable to tell if they had complied. (shout out, law school peeps)
You know what else bugs me?
THIS SONG.
You know why? The chorus is: "I love you period/do you love me question mark/please please exclamation point/i wanna hold you in parentheses" and... THERE NEEDS TO BE A COMMA BETWEEN THE PLEASES. Not to mention it's a sentence fragment. In a song about learning correct grammar and trying to impress the girl who's tutoring you with your command of the English language.
You know what I have to say to that?
UR DOIN IT RONG.
SURRENDER DOROTHY
I mean, I understand that she's on a broom and all, but.... would a comma be too much to ask? I can't tell what she wants here. Is it surrender, Dorothy - meaning, Dorothy, give yourself up, a command to Dorothy Gale of Kansas? Or is it actually "surrender Dorothy" - a command to the people of the Emerald City to hand over said little girl? If so, wouldn't "hand over Dorothy" or "give me the girl" have been easier to skywrite? What the FUCK, Wicked Witch? I can't tell what you want, so your command is void for vagueness. The reasonable person would be unable to tell if they had complied. (shout out, law school peeps)
You know what else bugs me?
THIS SONG.
Click to viewYou know why? The chorus is: "I love you period/do you love me question mark/please please exclamation point/i wanna hold you in parentheses" and... THERE NEEDS TO BE A COMMA BETWEEN THE PLEASES. Not to mention it's a sentence fragment. In a song about learning correct grammar and trying to impress the girl who's tutoring you with your command of the English language.
You know what I have to say to that?
UR DOIN IT RONG.