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As will soon become apparent, November has been a helluva month. That’s all I’ll say about that.
Oh, dude. That quotation-marks blog raised my blood pressure. Had to close it after only a little scrolling. I think reading it regularly would shave years from my life.
I think now that I'm passed the first 80 pages, or so, I'll have an easier time with Kevin. The whole teenager killing his classmates thing isn't what will bother me; it was the mother writing about her ambivalence to motherhood that totally freaked me out. As I said, personal issues.
Audacity is great. I'm not actually sure I'll be able to enhance his parts very much, but I should be able to at least make the overall recording sound better. I definitely want to set up some new interviews, in large part so I can learn more about recording better and to have the excuse to learn more about Audacity and sound engineering in general.
i saw that image at fail blog and nearly died laughing. total WIN!
I am _so_ with you on the “quotation marks”. Right up there with the misplaced apostrophe in the pantheon of grammatical mistakes that I ought to get used to but just won't. As a wise man once said, “The crux of the bisquit is the apostrophe.”
Also, flattered that your comment to me still makes your current comments.
Also, now that you've Canadianized and adopted all those U's, are you still missing the American Thanksgiving? The *real* Thanksgiving and not that metric October equivalent? I've measured the inside of my oven and am hosting 17 of 4 distinct generations tomorrow! Plan to introduce fiber and Kool-Aid as common thread. That and pie.
Just like we did a big Canadian Thanksgiving dinner with our friends when we
lived in the U.S., we're having our annual U.S. Thanksgiving feast on Friday
night (we delay by a day since people here, you know, have to work
tomorrow). We're already prepping to feed 25 (only two generations to be
represented, though).
I don't think I misuse quotations or apostrophes (well, nobody is perfect, I'm sure there are instances) – but if you have a hyphen/dash aversion, our friendship may just be in trouble :) I completely and knowlingly toss inappropriate dashes in my writing. In my head, it's how I talk. Sometimes it should be a comma, sometimes a period and other times there shouldn't be any punctuation at all. Okay right there where the period is, I wanted to put a dash and keep going. It's just a bad habit and since I have to reduce my caffeine intake, I'm keeping my dashes for now.
I see a whole new self-help series in the making, Kathy. A Substitute For
That Monkey On Your Back: The Dash. :)
(BTW, I love dashes—long and short. I also love parentheses.)
Thank goodness, cuz next to dashes, parentheses rule.
Have you seen the quotation marks blog? http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ my roommate's sister runs it, definitely worth checking out =)
Oh, and another favorite just-'cuz is the Passive Aggressive Notes blog — http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
Have you seen the quotation marks blog? http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ my roommate's sister runs it, definitely worth checking out =)
Oh, and another favorite just-'cuz is the Passive Aggressive Notes blog — http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
ooh, the book sounds disturbing – I don't think I could read it. also. I cannot wait to hear the Joss interview! I use Audacity for sound stuff at work pretty often – it's so easy to work with.
I don't know if you've seen the Blog of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks (http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/), but it's a treasure trove of ridiculous quotation mark use. my big pet peeve? misused apostrophes.