*sighs*

[conuly]

So, apparently my English professor doesn't like the concept of logical punctuation. And she stared at me as she said it, too, so I must've messed up in the essay.

Honestly, it's LOGICAl punctuation. I don't *care* if it's not the standard, the standard won't change until we make it change. Just sitting around saying "gee, I wish there were a better way" isn't going to get us anywhere. Siblings! Rise up! Throw off the shackles of stupid convention, and fight the oppression of illogical punctuation! We will punctuate in the classrooms, we will punctuate in the chatrooms, and in our own private journals. We will punctuate at all costs, and we will never surrender! Today - punctuation! Tomorrow - spelling!

Comments

[conuly]

1. It's generally accepted that you're not supposed to double space after periods anymore because type is proportional - each letter takes up a different amount of space, so a double space looks REALLY HUGE instead of just delineating that there's a new sentence.

2. Punctuation inside quotes is currently American standard. I don't like it. It's illogical. Punctuation should go where it makes the most grammatical sense. So I push for logical punctuation. I won't "correct" you if you do otherwise (so long as you're consistent, that's the important thing), but as far as my own writing goes, I want to punctuate the logical way - if a period belongs inside a quote or parens, it goes there. If it doesn't belong there, logically, it doesn't go there.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

You can correct me if you want, but I won't change it, I'm too damned stubborn. :p
I am pretty consistent, though.

[conuly]

Consitency is key. Everything else is very nearly superfluous.