#comma rules

[presswoodterryryan]

Alice the Mathonaut’s Guide to Big Numbers

By Alice Hello again, fellow explorers of silliness and smarts! 🎉 It’s me, Alice the Mathonaut, swinging by with my dazzling cape and cosmic calculator to throw a vibrant fiesta in celebration of my brilliant big sister Ariel and her brand-new paper that’s bursting with excitement! This incredible brain-blaster dives deep into the fascinating world of reading and writing ENORMOUS numbers—the…

[darkacademiaarchivist]

German writer's curse (putting way too many commas in every sentence and rendomly capitalizing Words)

[holdens-baseball-mitt]

I love how every single one of the Caulfield siblings is mentioned offhandedly to just be really good at Language Arts.

DB has his books, Allie has his poetry, Holden is literally only passing language arts and has to be reminded to fuck up comma rules, and Phoebe has her little stories about Hazle Weatherfield.

[pbpsbff]

seeing people say use of em dash is the way to tell if something is written by chatgpt is so scary because i just happen to love the em dash. like i got that keyboard shortcut on LOCK.

[cedyat]

"It has led me to a rather peculiar contemplation and the result is not pleasant."

Recently I came across this passage that I though was somewhat remarkable, so I tried to translate it.

From Frederick William III to Louise

Bartenstein, May 5th 1807 "A saying goes: 'Small gifts preserve a friendship and big ones don't spoil it.' Do not think however that I want to talk about those [kind of gifts]. This what I have to offer you is, although very peculiar and in my opinion unique in its way, so very different that neither the first nor the second trait could be attributed to it. And what is this extraordinary gift, which is so rare and so precious, that it can not be compared to anything? That is a question that will undoubtedly pique your curiosity, even if you expect that the gift - whose wrapping you may already be touching - is no less valuable than say gold, diamonds, other kitsch or whatever, in short those things that women sometimes love more than anything on earth. [...] In short the rare, unusually and unique present that I took the liberty to lay down at your feet is - my braid. I finally believed that I could and had to decide to sacrifice it to you and I am sending it to you still quite so as I just had it cut off. Please preserve it as a deposit - a deposit for everything you want if that is enough for you."

From Louise to Frederick William

Königsberg, May 6th 1807 "The gift you gave me is truly novel and I will certainly keep this braid for the rest of my life. It has led me to a rather peculiar contemplation and the result is not pleasant. Two years ago nobody in Prussia would have dared to think about this change, because of the notion and the merit which was attributed to the old suit of the Prussian army. The Seven Years War had extended its might even to the style of hair and those that would have wanted to change it would have committed high treason. The power of the French Revolution has allowed this change because no one will want to wear a braid to immortalized the memory of the day of October 14th [Battles of Jena and Auerstedt], which was lost the revolutionaries. Anyways, I laughed to tears about the little braid and it shall be treasured untouched until the world ends. [...] I still have to tell you that your gift has really brought me great joy, because I had wished for this change of toilette for a long time and in war everything that can simplify the needs of toilette is truly good."

Since I apparently have nothing better to do I tried to find out more about this braid and came across a twitter post by a historian, who mentions that he rediscovered this exact braid packed in a bag while digging trough the Prussian archive in Berlin. So while not necessarily "untouched" it still is preserved to this day.

From: "Briefwechsel der Königin Luise und ihrem Gemahl Friedrich Wilhelm III", p. 298-299

[onequeermushroom]

why are english comma rules like that. they don't make any sense and aren't consistent at all. i hate this

[poppy5991]

My readers on AO3 apparently have me feeling too confident because I signed up to do book reviews for a little money on OnlineBookClub and by god did the editor roast me for using a comma between correlative conjunctions

[firecrxtch]

Asking Nicely

Summary: Ian is being stubborn. Luckily, Mickey knows how to handle him

Tags: light dom/sub, gentle dom mickey, stubborn ian, fingers in mouth, frotting

Word count: 1,9k

Rating: E

READ ON AO3

[adhdo5]

I think Lan Xichen would like to be an adventurous eater in theory but in practice his food tolerances are only somewhat higher than Wangji's

[bil-daddy]

bildad im on my period (i just got it recently) and im scared of the blood :(

Hey, kid (human, presumably). Sorry you got initiated into this particular club, that nobody particularly wants to be in (I blame @the-almighty-god). Periods suck, even when you're not afraid of blood, but being scared of blood makes it worse.

I know it's easier said than done, but try not thinking of it as blood. Because technically, it's not just blood, it's more than that and it's your body doing what it needs to do to eliminate waste, same as numbers 1&2, which are gross, yeah, but also completely necessary and normal so everyone gets used to it. So you could just think of your period as going number 3.

Can I ask what's scaring you about the blood?

If it's seeing the blood, then maybe keep the lights off/low while you clean up and change pad/tampon/menstrual cup so you don't see the red, and it just looks like chocolate sauce in the dark. Or you could try black period panties, and just toss them into a plastic bag to be laundered when you're done, and maybe you won't see any blood at all.

If it's the smell, wear a mask and/or spray some perfume/febreeze/poo-pourri to cover up the scent.

If it's the texture of blood, wear medical gloves.

There are also birth controls that can stop you having periods, or make it so you have fewer a year. But that's something to discuss with your doctor and your parents (if you just got your period for the first time recently, I'm assuming you're still with your parents).

Or, if you feel up to it, you could try to habituate yourself to the blood and get used to it until you're not afraid anymore. This might happen on it's own, anyway, since your period'll come once a month.

In the meantime, have some midol and a hot waterbottle (platonic)

[protoindoeuropean]

i was confused reading this, because i did not parse at all that there's three people being talked about here. when it went from "the feminist" to "your fiancee" i was like ?? this is one person? because using the supposed "oxford comma" makes this necessarily read as an apposition ("along with [your fiancee, (who is) a militant feminist], and [your ex].") on the other hand without the appositional comma, this is perfectly understandable ("along with [your fiancee], [a militant feminist] and [your ex].")

[pagesofkenna]

no shade intended but it's honestly very hot that, despite Schaubach misusing the die(singular)/dice(plural) noun form in the game system bts earlier, 5 minutes into the episode Brennan is using the correct form

[angelofchaos001]

Replaced - Crimson Faith's Story (2 & 3)

First - Prev - Next

(2 and 3 are together due to past me being an idiot)

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Using semicolons isn’t that hard actually, and you can absolutely do it.

Did someone tell you they’re really complicated, so it’s best to just avoid them?

Fuck that person! Can you figure out commas? Full stops? Great! You can figure out semicolons.

Stop believing this bullshit that no one will understand them if you use them. People cope just fine. Even if they don’t know the rules themselves, they won’t suddenly lose the ability to read if they encounter one.

Use a fucking semicolon.

[unganseylike]

“ace up my sleeve,” lord huron // The Raven Cycle

this was originally going to be a story about gansey but he and blue are the same, so it became about them. so its about being born just to die then live then die again curses destiny and free will and endings and defying all that anyway

[theawkwardvillainess]

M*crosoft W*rd stop trying to correct my completely normal grammatical constructions it's you who's illiterate not me