"Style"For those who don't know what this is, it has nothing to do with "style" in the Carrie Bradshaw sense. It's a 1,000-page manual (or thereabouts) about how to properly reference. Footnotes, bibliographies, that kind of stuff. It helped me write my book, but my style - I discovered that myself! ;-)
you discovered your style a LONG time ago! speaking of which, this is another classic Amy shot :)
ReplyDeleteHelped. Hehe...you said, "helped."
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lori!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, Paul, thank you for spotting my grammatical - or would it be stylistic? - error.
You used a double negative a few posts back. I'm just sayin' :-P
I was just poking fun at the notion that the CMS is helpful. My experience with it was always tinged with more of a negative tone and saw it more as a hindrance than a help.
ReplyDeleteMe, use a double negative? I don't never use no double negatives! Never never.
Oh, I thought you were making some sly comment about how an inanimate object can't 'help' you, or that I was making it sound like the CMS wrote my book for me! :-P
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, my boyfriend was just commenting on how confusing the thing is. I just mean that if it was a question of guessing how to write my references, and using the manual, the manual was helpful. In the end, my copy editor cleaned up all of my footnotes, so I probably didn't even need this bad boy! (Although having the footnotes somewhat in order probably saved some time...)
he he...I believe you had used it kiddingly anyway :)
Sure, sure. :) It *is* a help to get that sort of thing right. I'm the sort of person who really appreciates (and needs) syntax in all aspects of my life so I certainly appreciate it. We should probably drop the subject now though because I think I need to call my therapist and explain this thread to her and how it's making me feel.
ReplyDeleteHe he...I sincerely hope that I haven't caused any permanent psychological damage by bringing it up! :) We all need a little bit of syntax to keep things together...
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I WISH you could come and give a grammar lesson to my students. There, did that cheer you up? ;-)
It sure did.
ReplyDeleteThey might not like my approach though - it can be somewhat militant and unforgiving. Not the sort of thing that inspires friendship -- kind of like fragments, em-dashes, en-dashes, and all kinds of lazy habits.
I'm pretty ruthless when it comes to grammar and spelling. I always was, but the fact that I used to be an English teacher only made me even more strict!
ReplyDeleteI just had a mean mom. ;)
ReplyDeleteYou two been talkin' all day when I was busy working!!! My goodness!! This reminds me - Paul, in your spare time ;) would you PLEASE figure out the HTML-schtuff to get it so that our comments appear below our posts, rather than have to go in and remember how many comments there were last time you looked, then have to go into a new window to read the comments so as not to lose your place in the scroll??
ReplyDeleteHuh? What are you talking about?
ReplyDeleteHA! I knew you would say that when you saw all of these messages, Lor! ;-) And to be fair, it was around 10PM here, so, at least my work day had finished... =)
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