#idek if that was grammatically correct

[cetoddle]

i think i'm going to end up dropping most of my photocard collections...i don't want to cause i rlly do enjoy collecting but i need the money so bad rn :')

[tantamounttoflirtation]

Ok so here's my question. Does post-fall Hannibal have a hard time putting his person suit back on? He spent 3 years in jail being as bitchy as possible and now he has to go back to pretending again. He would probably be alright but I feel like every once in a while he wouldn't be able to stop himself from being a cunt to someone; not in a rude™️ way but definitely not in a subtle way either.

[jinhyun]

pairing: hwang hyunjin x reader

genre: ????? idek, fluff ig, f2l, drunk confession

request: "Drunk texts from reader to best friend skz, but reader writes everything grammatically correct and doesn't make mistakes. (I literally have a friend like this lmao). Also maybe some mutual pining, like idiots to lovers style?"

a/n: i know it said bsf skz so you might've meant it like one of those ot8 texts i always make but i only had the imagination for one (1) of it and as a hyunjin stan (which so are you my beloved 🦭 anon) i just had to go with him. sorry not sorry. i hope you enjoy<3

second part here!

[duckprintspress]

Round Table Discussion: Grammar Pet Peeves

Today, March 4th, is National Grammar Day! Last year, we celebrated with six of our favorite grammar quirks. This year, we’re going to the other end of the spectrum: we had a conversation with our editors and blog contributors about grammar things we hate. They may be technically correct, but that doesn’t mean they don’t make us crazy. Eighteen people, many anonymous, contributed to this discussion.

Dangling Modifiers

boneturtle: Dangling modifiers, hands down. Even when I can decipher what the writer meant based on context, it viscerally hurts me every time. When I am editing I have to stand up and take a lap around my apartment when I hit a dangling modifier. Remind myself that I am here to help. Learn more about dangling modifiers.

Commas

anonymous: Commas are not difficult! Commas end phrases. Full stop. That’s all they do. Is a phrase necessary to the grammatical coherence of the sentence? if the answer is yes, no commas because that phrase hasn’t ended. If the answer is no, commas! comma hug that bish if it’s the middle of a sentence. The difference between grammatical and informational is whether or not the sentence makes sense without the phrase. 

Examples: 

The man who ordered the six double anchovy pizzas claims to have a dolphin in his pool. 

You need “who ordered the six double anchovy pizzas” because you need to identify which man you’re talking about. The world is full of many men. 

The ancient Buick, which Madeleine purchased via Craigslist, belched black smoke whenever she pressed the accelerator. 

We don’t need to know how Madeleine purchased the car for the sentence to make sense. You don’t even meed “Madeleine” for the grammar to make sense. Therefore, hug that phrase! 

(a comma on each side of the phrase) or give it a dramatic send off with a comma and an end punctuation. (i could go into conjunctions, too, but those are a little more complex, and if you were taught them properly, i understand not getting the comma use 😂 ) 

Prepositions at the End of Sentences

Tris Lawrence: There was a dictionary (Merriam-Webster? Oxford? idek) that posted recently on social media about how the rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition came from English scholars trying to make English line up with Latin, and that it’s totally okay to do it… and I’m just wanting to point to it to yell THIS because uhhh trying to rework sentences to not end in a preposition often creates clunky awkward things (my opinion, I recognize this).

D. V. Morse: Ending sentences/clauses with a preposition. Well, not doing that is supposed to be the rule, but depending on the sentence, it can be a convoluted mess to try and avoid it. Winston Churchill famously told someone off after they “caught” him breaking that rule, saying, “This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” (Yes, I had to look that up.)

Pronoun Confusion

anonymous: I hate playing the pronoun game when reading. I hate it in life when someone comes up to me and tells me a story involving 2 people of the same pronouns and stops using names halfway through, and I hate it while reading too. Nothing makes me fall out of scene more if I don’t know who just did/said what. Use names. That’s why we have them.

Nina Waters: epithets. If I know the characters name…why? Also, when people use “you” in third person writing. There are times I’ll allow it as an editor/times when I do think it’s at least acceptable but not gonna lie, I absolutely hate it.

anonymous: My pet peeve … I read hundreds of essays in a given month for work, plus a whole lot of fanfic for fun. A rising issue that I have noticed in both places is incomplete sentences (lacking subjects, typically). I think it’s because people rely on Google’s grammar checker to tell them if something is wrong and…Google doesn’t check for that apparently. I’m increasingly convinced that my high schoolers simply weren’t taught sentence structure, because when I ask them to fix it they almost universally say some variant of “I don’t understand what you’re asking me to do.” Therefore, it might be punching down a little to complain about it. I’m not sure. It does drive me nuts though. Lol

“Would Of”

Neo Scarlett: Not quite sure if that falls under grammar, but I hate hate hate when people use “should of” instead of should’ve. Or “would of.” It just makes my toe nails curl up because it may sound right, but it looks wrong and is wrong.

Semi-Colons

Shea Sullivan: I saw a list punctuated by semicolons recently and that made me froth at the mouth a bit.

anonymous: I think any editor who’s worked with me knows that I have a pet peeve about using colons or semi-colons in dialogue. Or really, any punctuation mark that I don’t think people can actually pronounce. Semicolons can live anywhere that I don’t have to imagine a character actually pronouncing them.

English isn’t Dumb!

theirprofoundbond: As a former linguistics student, it bugs me a lot when people say that English is a dumb or stupid language because it has borrowed from so many languages. What people mean when they say this is, “English can be really difficult (even for native speakers).” But I wish people would say that, instead of “it’s dumb/stupid.” Languages are living things. Like other living things, they adapt and evolve. English is basically a beautiful, delightful platypus. Let it be a platypus.

Dei Walker: I remember seeing somewhere that English has four types of rules (I’m trying to find the citation today) and everyone conflates them. And I guess my pet peeve is that everyone treats them equally when they’re NOT. There are rules but not all of them are the same – there’s a difference between “adjectives precede nouns” (big truck, not *truck big) and “don’t split infinitives” (which is arbitrary).

And, because we couldn’t resist, here are some of our favorite things, because when we asked for pet peeves…some people still shared things they loved instead of things they hated.

Oxford Comma

Terra P. Waters: I really really love the Oxford comma.

boneturtle: me: [in kindergarten, using oxford comma]

teacher: no, we don’t add a comma between the last two objects in a list.

me: that’s illogical and incorrect.

anonymous: I will forever appreciate my second grade teacher’s explanation of Oxford comma use: Some sentences are harder to understand if you don’t use it, but no sentence will ever be harder to understand because you do use it. Preach, Mrs. D

anonymous: I am definitely Team Oxford Comma. I even have a bumper sticker which says so

Other Favorites

Shea Sullivan: I adore the emdash, to every editor’s chagrin.

Shadaras: zeugmas! I think they’re super cool!

Shea Sullivan and Hermit: I use sentence fragments a lot. Fragments my beloved.

English Grammar vs. Grammar in Other Languages

anonymous: so in English my favourite thing is the parallel Latin and Saxon registers because of how that affects grammar, but in Japanese my favourite grammatical thing is the use of an actual sound at the end of the sentence to denote a question, as opposed to how in English we use intonation? Also how in Japanese the sentence structure requires reasoning first and action second in terms of clauses. So rather than go “let’s go to the cinema because it’s raining and I’m cold,” you’d go “because it’s raining and I’m cold, let’s go to the cinema.” (My least favourite thing is the lack of spaces between words in the written form but that’s purely because I find that level of continuous letters intimidating to translate.)

I also love how Japanglish in the foreign communities in Japan starts to develop its own grammatical structure as a way of situating yourself in this space between the two languages. It’s used as a call-sign of belonging to that specific community, because in order to make some of the jokes and consciously break the rules of English or Japanese grammar and/or choose to obey one or the other, you’re basically displaying your control over both/knowledge of them. Like, the foreign community in Japan is often a disparate group of people with multiple different native languages who are relying on their knowledge of at least one non-native language but often two to signify their status in the group as Also An Outsider and I think that’s really interesting.

Nina Waters: Chinese and Japanese both drop subjects, and Chinese doesn’t have like… a/the… Japanese doesn’t have a future tense… Chinese kinda sorta doesn’t have tenses at all… (these are not pet peeves, btw, I love how learning a language with such different ways of approaching these things reshapes my brain). Chinese also doesn’t really have yes or no.

There’s a joke somewhere on Tumblr about that, though I actually think it’s about using “a” versus “the,” like, someone was giving a Russian speaker a hard time after they said “get in car” and they were like “only you English speakers are dumb enough to feel this is essential why would I be talking about getting into any random car of course I mean our car wtf.”

anonymous: on the subject of other languages, epithets are also something that happen differently in other languages. In French repeating a word (names included, and sometimes even pronouns) is considered bad writing. As in, way more than in English. Going by how grating the English translation of the Witcher books was to me when the French one was fine, I’d say it’s the same with Polish, at least. It’s also very interesting how brains adapt to writing styles in other languages.

What are some of your favorite and least favorite grammar quirks, in English or in the language of your choice?

[useramor]

coup de foudre rated: G | word count: 1.3k

“Buck—”

Eddie hasn’t prayed in a long time. He’s not sure there’s a god out there willing to listen to him anymore, anyway, doesn’t exactly think he's the kind of person who deserves that sort of grace. It’s fine, he’s working on those feelings. Therapy, and everything.

So it’s a little awkward and rusty and the hinges of belief squeak as he runs towards the ladder truck, every footstep that beats down against the ground a plea.

Please. I can’t lose him.

(some silly 6b spec inspired by the promo!! first 6b spec baby lets go)

read on ao3

hello i bring you *will smith showing off meme* THIS. it is midnight. idek if this is good or grammatically correct or makes any sense like. at all. anyway enjoy <3

ending is brought to u by my bff @swiftiebuckleys for this incredible post that killed me

[loonyblobs]

Completed it….heaven…absolute heaven…idek if my sentence is grammatically correct but heaven just heaven.

[jayjayspixiepop]

Credits to @jonahpedro from tiktok

@queenz-z NOW YOU HAVE 😃

[grubauer]

omg youre f*lipino?? hii kumusta po kayo lolz

skdjsk yes i am 😌 okay naman ako, ikaw?

[bakatenshii]

my god i cannot explain how badly i want to be kept inside a marble never thought i'd say that but here we are

ok I said I’m going to sleep pt2 but I had a Thought™️ and I couldn’t stop thinking and now I’m like 200 words in. speaking it into existence that I’ll finish it and post it, so I can finallt get back into the Groove of things. I have no idea where I’m going with it but all I can say is your wish may be fulfilled... (´～｀ヾ)

[amouria]

slamming my foot onto a white boy’s foot: that was very anne of green gables kate sheffield of me

[riverswater]

Hiii (elisa aka goldenhusbands btw, I hit post limit agsjsh) but I wanna scream about zouis!!! They really are thriving aren’t they :’), i love it here!! Louis again saving the day, I’m so emo, they love each other so much and aaaah, I CANNOT DEAL!!! I may or may not have let one or two tears fall down when I heard the news (also if it’s your birthday already, I hope you have a fantastic one, you deserve to have an amazing day, full of love and happiness!!) ✨

Ndhskfs Elisaaaa!! Even on post limit you sent me an ask about zouis? Jfshf I feel honored that's some dedication!!!

Yesterday was a dream innit don't even know how me managed to not set the world on fire after that fkabfks maybe we'll finally have some closure! Maybe this is the first step!! We're all here waiting and sending love to those two capricorn 🙏✨

And it is my birthday!!! 🎉🎉🎉 What a wonderful gift I had all throughout yesterday I- 🥺 I'm so grateful and happy to be in this fandom with so many amazing people

Thank you for the birthday wishes lovely!! I hope you'll have a wonderful day as well 💕💕💕

[catwlw-archive]

sometimes youtube takes a while to load so i’ll click a video and siwtch tabs and i just did that and forgot what i clicked so i had a grown man screaming bc of mario maker 2 in his cold open at very loud volumes in my earholes

[selfcarecap]

I wanted to write all day today but it’s 2pm and I just woke up and have never in my life had this little motivation to write

[sawthefaeriequeen]

why is this blue hellsite so frking imPERSONAL sdsgdhdjsjk

[dumplinggs]

Lmao I'm already sad since I know gelus is dead

[strwberieswsugar]

every line, every curve, every scrape of the pen is a little piece of me that translates on paper