I'm out I know everyone is happy I'm going to class to learn how to spell. lol I hope I make an a tonight

Gosh, are you taking PoisonIvy with you?

I'm sure she is, because it seems to be her alternate personality.

I want to publicly apologize to Kevin for being a part of the derailment of this thread--but I swear I started out trying to be helpful!

In other news--that sock puppet thing is FUNNY too! I mean, she's not even trying to post any differently. Does she really not see it?? Sad.

I much prefer Chicago style with its footnotes or endnotes instead of in-line citations. I find that in-line citations break up the flow of the text.

I agree, though I've never learned Chicago style. You'd think living in Illinois that they would have taught us that but no-o-o-o-o. It'd be hard for me to change now.

She's a high school kid, right? I guess that entitles her to a little slack.

I actually thought she was a transfer student...

From DSTChaos and Me...
 

Mo-tea-sir!!! ;)

You need to go to the Delta Sigma Theta national website and see what is defined as hazing by that organization. Hazing=those Intake activities not sanctioned by the national body of the organization. Whether those activities are harmful is subjective.

For example, what if b3eing forced to clean someone's home causes you to have an allergic reaction, because they have a cat and you end up in the hospital. No one INTENDED for it to be harmful, but it was. In addition it was demeaning and degrading.

hijacking in progress . . .
 

I LIKE MLA style - am I the only one? Footnotes make my head hurt.
Also, the book is nice and thick - useful when being attacked by those opposed to good grammar and spelling.

To continue the tangent...
 

I guess I just prefer reading the body of the work uninterrupted by citations. If I'm using a piece for research I first want to read it over to get an idea of what it says and the tone. Then I go back and find passages I like, at which point I care about the source. The in-line citations, to me, break up the reading process. I guess it comes because I'm a historian by training and I like reading "stories." :p And for what it's worth, the Chicago Manual of Style is no magazine... I imagine a good whomp on the head with it would cause a nice, shiny bruise.

PS: I too am a grammar Nazi, but I refuse to say "an historian" unless the pompous punks who insist upon the use of "an" before an aspirate H will say "an hockey puck."

While we're all being huge nerds, this is my favorite grammar book. I had a professor my freshman year of college (Honors King Aurthur's Literature, Writing Intensive, great class) that made us all get one. Includes such phrases as: "The subject is that part of the sentence about which something is divulged; it is what the sentence's other words are gossiping about...". It's brilliant, really.

I can't believe I had to leave yesterday & missed out on this once in a lifetime opportunity to see Jessie's car!

OK, back to the grammar nerds & their favorite writing style. I've got to go find some breakfast. :p

Love me some Transitive Vampire
 

YES - I love these books, and used them in teaching. I also am a big fan of Lynn Truss of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" fame.
Grammar nerds, unite.