Okay, I'm going to be completely honest. I didn't even read the article.
Showing posts with label civil disobedience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil disobedience. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
"Punctuation Rebellion", or How I Stick it to the Man
For a while now, I've been refusing to put trailing punctuation inside of quotation marks, unless the trailing punctuation is an integral part of the thought delineated by said quotation marks. That rule about keeping the punctuation inside quotations is stupid and blunt and I hate it. Right on, this article.
Professional writers, what do you think about this? Are there rules that YOU would break for the greater good of all humankind, if you weren't so terrified of being reprimanded for insubordination?
Professional writers, what do you think about this? Are there rules that YOU would break for the greater good of all humankind, if you weren't so terrified of being reprimanded for insubordination?
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