I need a date redux
And so life at the Chateau becomes all the more unlikely: check out my Craigslist personal.
Thanks to Voula and Ming for encouraging and then perpetrating - of their own initiative, I repeat, with little or no direction from me - what could be a most bloggable social experiment. And also for the kind words that made me blush.
Bonus points for me if I get more than one date out of it.
Chateau Nice - are we avant-garde or what?
Thanks to Voula and Ming for encouraging and then perpetrating - of their own initiative, I repeat, with little or no direction from me - what could be a most bloggable social experiment. And also for the kind words that made me blush.
Bonus points for me if I get more than one date out of it.
Chateau Nice - are we avant-garde or what?
posted by Monsieur Bonhomme at 10:38 PM
11 Comments:
That is good that you opened with a thing that you think is funny as to weed out potential gals who either don't get the cow bell reference or are the type to dislike that sketch.
I actually tried the same approach for my Lavalife profile (using a quote from Best in Show - "I like soup and snowpeas") but it didn't really work. No one got the reference. I got a lot of confused responses. I hope you have more luck (I think the cow bell thing is known better)!
Oops - signed in with the wrong profile- it's me - Kat in Kenya who wrote the above...
Funnily, we came up with that because we couldn't think of anything that didn't sound creepy. Not that Pat is creepy. Just that...well, you know.
To date we've had 4 responses(!) but one of them "doesn't meet people online". (Yes Loretta, the period is sitting outside the quote.)
I agree that the period should be outside the quote. That's just me though. I've had this argument before. Looks funny inside the quote because the period isn't quoted, and it terminates the whole sentence, and not just the quoted part.
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as an impartial cupcake man, I say leave the period inside the quote.
analogy - consider a quote that contains a QUESTION:
The kindly old man asked, "Can you spare a fresh turnip for my donkey?"
vs
The kindly old man asked, "Can you spare a fresh turnip for my donkey"?
- if left to the quotation marks, these are two different sentences, but realistically they should be identical.
I know ABM is saying periods aren't 'in the quote' in some instances, and I know periods and question marks aren't identical - but for consistency's sake predictable notational rules are needed. Trying to remember where to stick your quotes based on the semantics alone is tedious and fraught with error, so we all just agree to stick em inside.
I mean, stick the periods inside.
I like eggs.
Good luck!
It's a great ad!!
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But doesn't the English language have more exceptions than most? Why stop all of a sudden when it comes to our faulty, catch-all punctuation rules. I would also add that a sentence (such as the one in your example) that is used mainly to quote someone in speech is different for a sentence that contains part of a quoted phrase in it.
But I didn't study English. However I did study Communications and frankly, for the sake of clear communication, I say we develop a coherent set of rules for proper punctuation.
Amen.
Sweet mother of god. The punctuation always goes inside the quote. To do otherwise is to break my heart.
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