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Is there a standard way to represent digital communications in works of fiction? I want to write a story that involves a twitch chat, and putting the chat in speech marks doesn't feel right. I'm not going to homestuck levels of dumping whole chatlogs. IMO that's boring as heck, but I do want to put two or three consecutive lines of the chat's spam/shitposting in the story. Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jan 28, 2020 |
# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 23:35 |
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Thanks guys.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2020 23:55 |
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On the subject of it's, what's wrong with it's as a shortening of it has? No one says "it has been a while." I feel like there's an emerging use case for this. It's been in our speech for some time.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 02:44 |
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You mean going back to pre Elizabethan times when English words could be spellt any way that made the right sound?
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 03:10 |
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The deleted post.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2020 03:46 |
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I noticed a few punctuation guides in the OP, but the ones I could read without shelling out money seemed to require some level of prerequisite knowledge. Are any of the books listed good for a rube who doesn't know what an independent clause is or what makes a sentence complete? I'm not asking to be told by you what those things are, just wondering if any of those guides start from the beginning instead of the middle. At the minute I'm just writing based on what sense I've made of the thing's I've read, but criticism always comes back with "this letter should not be capitalised because (some voodoo poo poo)"
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2021 08:09 |
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Thanks for the reply.Wallet posted:From what I recall back when I studied developmental linguistics, people's ability to produce "correct" prose is strongly tied to how much they read as adolescents. That's a worrying thought on account of me not reading books until recently. Hopefully I can catch up! Wallet posted:
That's a fair bit to take in but I hope I've got this right: There's separate elements to this writing business; namely, syntax (which deals with clauses/sentences) and punctuation (which deals with marks). If I learn syntax, then I'll have a good chance of understanding the punctuation guides here.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2021 19:27 |
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I'd go with a colon for the above "He was tall: Nearly everyone had to crane their neck to see his face." I can't tell you why though. The semicolon version of the sentence feels like there'd need to be more after craning to see his face.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2021 18:39 |
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There's a rule that you don't start your sentences with things like and or but. And everyone knows that sucks.
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2021 23:06 |
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"Have Idea: Looking for someone to execute it."
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