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| Topic | Oh my GOD! Learn to use quotations marks!!! (What are your pet peeves?) |
| MannerSaurus 01/07/18 8:47:31 PM #1: | It drives me wild when someone doesn't know how to alternate quotation marks when they quote within a quote. It's like you are lacking basic education, and I can't understand it. It's extremely simple, just alternate your damn double/single quotations. If you write: "Yeah, and I don't know what you mean by "those people" but we're going to have a hard time here." You are a fucking idiot. Because if you were to write that with parentheses, it would go: (Yeah, and I don't know what you mean by) those people (but we're going to have a hard time here.) If these people wrote the programming code for world banks or air plane control computers, our country would be in chaos. I'm not even a grammar-Nazi about anything else, just this one particular thing. What is your pet peeve, so to speak? It could be about anything. --- Hoppe hoppe Reiter, und kein Engel steigt herab mein Herz schlagt nicht mehr weiter, NUR DER REGEN WEINT AM GRAB ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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