it's not just the question marks.
it's, putting commas in, totally unusual places too.
and then say not putting them anywhere in a sentence that needs them even though it runs on and on and on and....well you get the idea.
i wonder, if this question mark, bastard, and the comma, bastard, are in this? together
Posted by toeknuckles at January 6, 2006 06:34 PM
What. About. Every. Word. Separated. By. A. Period. For. Emphasis?
Posted by jk at January 6, 2006 07:04 PM
Oreverywordjoinedtogethertoindicatebreathlesshasteand/orobsessivethinking.
Thank you for updating every day for the last month. You may feel your life isn't exciting enough to warrant such, but I have looked forward to and enjoyed every entry.
Here, have the Medal of the Three Gold Stars: ***
Posted by Camilla at January 7, 2006 01:36 AM
They said "Baeg" or is it "Baig" around here.
Posted by CMorrigu at January 7, 2006 07:06 AM
I'd love to hear how she says "blog."
I do know that Bill Gates is the bane of my existence, in that he has PRE-PROGRAMMED Word to do some really funky shit with question marks, periods and bolding, unless one turns it off. The average writer who submits stuff to me never turns it off.
(god, that was boring. dull. stuffy. I hate editors sometimes.)
Posted by Mrs. Wonderful at January 8, 2006 07:30 AM
Oh! When you were talking about bags, it reminded me of a Mr. Show skit. It was a fake commercial for a useless invention called the Bag Hutch. The lady in the commercial had a clean kitchen, except there were bags everywhere and she is saying, "Bags, bags bags! What do I do with all these bags?" And the Bag Hutch (a cardboard box) appears, as if in answer to her desperate prayers! Heehee.
Oh, I get annoyed when people put a question mark at the end of a normal, informative sentence. They'll say: So this guy came into the store the other day, and looked like he was drunk?
While they may be trying to indicate a questioning tone, they should craft the sentence skillfully enough that the questioning tone is implicit.
Posted by AmyR at January 8, 2006 02:58 PM
Perhaps the guy in the yellow mac is German? I grew up by the Danish west coast, and we could always recognise the Germans because they were all wearing these buttercup yellow raincoats. :)
Posted by May at January 10, 2006 05:05 AM