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by "pretty much" you're saying they're almost or very nearly, but not quite, jerks? Good to know that I pretty much qualify from your perspective!
*you're perspective
pretty much
brevity bitches
"Consistently". Yes, I'm a jerk.
the period goes inside the quotation marks.
My first double post!
There's actually been a movement away from that lately in some US writing and grammar circles. It's not as controversial as the Oxford comma (which is correct and anyone who says differently is wrong and dumb), but there is some active debate whether or not period should be inside or outside.
By grammar circles, do you mean message boards on the Internet? I'm unfamiliar with any U.S. style guides that say to put punctuation outside quotation marks. That is in contrast to the Oxford comma, which some style guides explicity* say to not use, despite its omission being a huge affront to common sense and decency.
*explicitly
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according to Muttley.
This is superior to both the American convention (period always inside of the quote mark) & the British convention (period always outside the quote mark).
Thus, when the quote is only part of a containing sentence, the period goes outside of the quote mark. If the quote is the entire sentence, the period goes inside the quote mark. This is the correct way to do it.
Yes. It's about clarity.
I always thought that would make sense, but, not having a respected authority to back me up, I often took the coward's way out and rewrote the sentence. Thank you, Professor Muttley!
How does one done do that?
Don't not write gooder.
"I'm gooder than you."
What exactly is a said jerk?
That's what she said.
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or something like that....
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even before Boeing and Nike had business cards.....
Are you serious, my man? You know how many slavers were Dutch?
I used to build greenhouses with an all Dutch crew. We would travel around the country to different places and stayed in hotels everywhere, pairing up two by two in our rooms.
My roommate was a 280 pound gentlemen named Walter, who after every work day would come back to the hotel room, wash himself up, then lay around the room the rest of the night in nothing but a banana hammock.
So in the future, when asking what the Dutch have ever done to anyone, please remember my horrific tale of Dutch buggery.
Everyone in Western Michigan is Dutch. My HS friends who went to Christian reformed school in GR referred to the phenomenon of Dutch Butt Syndrome.
BTW--I was wondering when the grammar thread would hit here.
I think you're referring to Dutch (butt) Disease.
I see what you did there.
Their*
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*Ellipsis
Clearly Detroit Blue hasn't gotten his period yet. Let's not make fun.
intensive purposes you could of?