i think i will prob get chi man someday, maybe when i graduate. but i write a lot at work and i haven't felt a real need for it. also when i read stuff the attorneys at work have written i feel bad for their clients because it's usually pretty lol shitty. i can't tell if they're bad writers or just rushed/tired but it's like they've never looked any kind of style guide :(((((
― wowgold (harbl), Sunday, 8 March 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
lol yeah my old atty bosses were so excited at my writing skillz it was kinda sad. in my case, it was that they were mostly all scientist types and verbal stuff was just not their strong point, so they were happy to have me make them sound eloquent. i do not have turabian! i really won't be writing any more papers or theses after this one and mla is the department standard. i like styles, though.
― tehresa, Sunday, 8 March 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
oh i forgot i also have the economist style guide because my friend gave it to me for my birthday one year bc he knew i was a nerd and also because he moved to australia where they spell things funny.
― tehresa, Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i feel half-sad about myself when my friends know to give me that stuff. i have "the new webster's grammar guide" because my friend found it somewhere and thought of me. i've never even looked at it though!
― wowgold (harbl), Sunday, 8 March 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i haven't used the economist guide because i am wary of superfluous Us.
― tehresa, Sunday, 8 March 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish jergins had something to add
― wowgold (harbl), Sunday, 8 March 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
he's too busy tweeting.
― tehresa, Sunday, 8 March 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
twitter at a wedding in spokane wa after a couple silly things happen, when u need 5 minutes away from the crush of family and a best of the 60s dancefloor, it's a good thing
― jergins, Monday, 9 March 2009 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link
do u follow s&w's principles of composition when you tweet
― wowgold (harbl), Monday, 9 March 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe i should start doing this.then again, maybe i shouldn't.
― tehresa, Monday, 9 March 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
btw wedding tweets were entertaining.
― tehresa, Monday, 9 March 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
language is gay, just use the words u want
― boner state university (cankles), Monday, March 9, 2009 7:30 PM (4 minutes ago)
― wowgold (harbl), Tuesday, 10 March 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
mlgay can suck it but i feel our days together are numbered so \(^_^)/
― tehresa, Monday, 16 March 2009 06:43 (fifteen years ago) link
happy birthday EOS
― lxy, Thursday, 16 April 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i feel compelled to say here that i have at best mixed feelings abt elements of style
― max max max max, Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah :-\
― trouble child (harbl), Thursday, 16 April 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
editing makes me wanna barf
― trouble child (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i will do itfor a price
― tehresa, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
*barfs*
― trouble child (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
this author is an idiot and i hate him
― trouble child (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm trying to decide/remember if i've missed your bold controversial statements that you don't really mean. help me out someone, do i...did i?
― jergins, Monday, 20 April 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
ilu jergins <3
― trouble child (harbl), Monday, 20 April 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
jk :)
anyone have the illustrated version?
yah dude, I have this. the illustrations are cute, and big ups to the editors for modernizing the text a bit and correcting some of the early 20th c. gender bias. however, this
By the time this paragraph sees print, psyched, nerd, ripoff, dude, geek and funkywill be the words of yesteryear.
...is practically hate speech, and I advise you to do a lot of soul-searching before buying this edition.
― unregistered, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i like a little old-fashioned gender bias in my style guides
― trouble child (harbl), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
it's more real
― jergins, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
gender-neutral "he/she" "s/he" "(s)he" pronouns are TEDIOUS and BAD, I admit. I don't remember if the style guide sticks up for them or not.
― unregistered, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
zie
― trouble child (harbl), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I once suggested to LJ that he read this book
― step hen faps in September 2008 (step hen faps), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link