Good grammar is so very sexy.

Please note that this grammar guide is attached to a site that features explicit slash, gay erotica featuring media characters, in this case mostly the men from "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys". Since I know this has been an issue of debate in various places, I am indeed a woman, so if you have archaic notions of sexuality and gender, get over them. This chick likes it dirty.

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Stella_Omega said:

I'm halfway through a bottle of merlot as I type this. Raise a glass to a great writer, and sin no more with the punctuation, you hear me?

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Stella_Omega said:

I'm posting this because I've just read something absolutely lovely -- that was marred by a common misuse of commas. I see this misuse all too often, and it makes me sad and, these days, impatient. Pissy, even!

Here is a link to a grammar guide. It was written by a woman who has recently passed away. She was brilliant; a professor of Literature, in fact, and she wrote slashy fanfic that transcended the genre. I'm going to miss her terribly.
This guide is of value to almost everyone no matter the gender preferences, but I am going to include her own disclaimer;

This woman wrote Real Literature, in the judgement of The New Yorker. She put just as much care into her erotica.
I'm halfway through a bottle of merlot as I type this. Raise a glass to a great writer, and sin no more with the punctuation, you hear me?

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English Lady said:

I'm buggered.

M grammar is poor but I do believe I'm learning. It's a slow process, though.

Thank God for editors say I!

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Stella_Omega said:

Here is a link to a grammar guide. It was written by a woman who has recently passed away. She was brilliant; a professor of Literature, in fact, and she wrote slashy fanfic that transcended the genre. I'm going to miss her terribly.
This guide is of value to almost everyone no matter the gender preferences, but I am going to include her own disclaimer;

This woman wrote Real Literature, in the judgement of The New Yorker. She put just as much care into her erotica.
I'm halfway through a bottle of merlot as I type this. Raise a glass to a great writer, and sin no more with the punctuation, you hear me?

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Rumple Foreskin said:

Now EL, I wouldn't go so far as to say your grammar is poor. IMHO, a better choice of terms might be, indigent. Sounds a bit classier anyway.

Rumple Foreskin

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sereneone4u said:

Oh goodness...you dont want to read anything of mine then.

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Peggy liked what she saw, she wanted to fuck, she took her dress off and spread her legs, Joe got hard right away.

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"Peggy" Joe said, "you have a hot mouth!"

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"I'm going to lick your pussy for a whole hour." Joe promised the happy girl.

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"You can keep my panties, Joe." She folded them and tucked them into his pocket.

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Stella_Omega said:

This woman wrote Real Literature, in the judgement of The New Yorker. She put just as much care into her erotica.
I'm halfway through a bottle of merlot as I type this. Raise a glass to a great writer, and sin no more with the punctuation, you hear me?

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Stella_Omega said:

I do! I want you to edit first, though- please?

Commas, fuckin' commas. Can't live with them, can't shoot them.
Here's what other people do that I hate; they string four sentences together with commas.
Man, that drive me nuts. Those are four different sentences, as they are written.
Here's what I do that I hate; I forget to use commas to end reported dialogue. I just underwent an extended corrections sessions (glad I'm a switch) on that subject. notice the lack of a comma in that first quote? There ought to be one. That's me. Or; There can only be, I've finally gotten it into my head, one (1) period in a sentence! Joe can tell her with a question mark or an exclamation point. But if you end a quote with a period, the next grammatical item must be a new sentence;

(I like this kind of grammar lesson!)

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Goldie Munro said:

Its a good choice of subject!

This is really about punctuation and this is a dying art basically because the nuances of commas, colons and semi-colons are mostly not understood, and I might argue needed, in most written communication. I rarely use the semi-colon. I am one of those who uses indiscriminate dashes - it annonys many but the semi-colon is one of those punctuation marks that really remind me of a bygone age.

My bete noir is the misuse of the apostrophe.

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Dar~ said:

I am always on time. *nods*

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Stella_Omega said:

You're right, it's about punctuation, and I can't edit my thread title...

I like semicolons for the same reason, that they seem so nostalgic. They can make a very elegant construction, and evoke a earlier time....

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Goldie Munro said:

I find semi-colons ugly and I must admit to feeling quite squeemish when i see them!

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Stella_Omega said:

I think they have punctuation-phobia treatments nowadays....

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Vermilion said:

Fiance just reminded me why I love him again.

He propounded his new theory was that good grammar was like good personal hygiene - I'll leave you to think on that for a while...

x
V

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