Re: PPB: Poem for Kathy / Will Dockery

[email protected] (The Doctor) posted:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Will Dockery  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [email protected] (The Doctor) posted:
>>> Will Dockery  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Cujo DeSockpuppet  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> Will Dockery <[email protected]> wrote in
>>> >> news:[email protected]: 
>>> >>> [email protected] (HarryLime) posted:
>>> >>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>> >>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
> 
> >> >> >> >> >>>> Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Valentine's Day:
> >> >> >> >> >>> >> Poem for Kathy, by Will Dockery
> >> >> >> >> >>> >> 
> >> >> >> >> >>> >> [...]
> >> >> >> >> >>> >> I can't think of
> >> >> >> >> >>> >> anything else I should write.
> >> >> >> >> >>> >> If I try
> >> >> >> >> >>> >> my emotions explode.
> >> >> >> >> >>> >
> >> >> >> >> >>> > This is an eventful area of time in my personal history, as
> >> >> >> >> >>> > some who know my biography will understand. 
> >> >> >> >> >>> 
> >> >> >> >> >>> Was.  This *was* and eventful time in your personal history. 
> >> >> >> >> >>> History is, by definition, in the past, so past tense is
> >> >> >> >> >>> required. 
> >> >> >> >> >>> 
> >> >> >> >> >>> Also, time does not have spatial dimensions, so there is no such
> >> >> >> >> >>> thing as an "area of time." 
> >> >> >> >> >>> 
> >> >> >> >> >>> You really need to enroll in a basic English course. 
> >> >> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks for the feedback, but watch out,Cujo will call you a
> >> >> >> >> >> "grammar Nazi." 
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >It's all you've whined about for days, Douchebag. I notice you won't
> >> >> >> >> >admit I'm right, so see if No-Nads can offer you some slurpage
> >> >> >> >> >instead. 
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >Here you go, Dreckweasel: 
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >Kooks love playing Grammar Gestapo. Ever notice that, Kook? 
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >But to answer your incorrect assessment, I'll point out the
> >> >> >> >> >following: 
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >"When quotation marks are used at the end of a sentence, the
> >> >> >> >> >placement of the period depends on whether the quote is a complete
> >> >> >> >> >sentence or a phrase. 
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >If the quote is a complete sentence, the period is placed inside the
> >> >> >> >> >closing quotation mark. For example: 
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >She said, "I'm going to the store."
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >If the quote is only a phrase, the period is placed outside the
> >> >> >> >> >closing quotation mark. For example: 
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >She said she was going to "the store on Main Street".
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >Note that this rule applies to American English. In British English,
> >> >> >> >> >the period is typically placed outside the closing quotation mark,
> >> >> >> >> >even for complete sentences." 
> >> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> >> So let's go back to the original sentence.
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > Here you go:
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > ----------------------------
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > "Miguel Sucio" wrote:
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > As is always the case, I'm sure he
> >> >> >> > will be doing his "when time permits",
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > There it is. ^^^
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > Let's ask a couple of our English language experts, Michael Pendragon
> >> >> >> > and George J. Dance about this. 
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > Did Miguel use correct grammar in the above, if us the correct form:
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > Or is "When time permits," the proper form?
> >> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> > ----------------------------
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Here:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > As is always the case, I'm sure he
> >> >> >> > will be doing his "when time permits",
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> That's a fragment 
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Yes, a quote showing the error.
> >> >>
> >> >> Note where these go now.
> >> >
> >> >I see they're going to:
> >> >
> >> >alt.arts.poetry.comments,edm.general
> >> >
> >> >But I don't really know the reason for sending it to "edm.general?" 
> >> >
> >> >A brief explanation would help.
> >> >
> >> 
> >> Cujo and Rudy Bruce Canoza
> >> 
> >> are suckpuppets of
> >> 
> >> the evil edm.general denizen Idlehands and Dr.WTF .
> >> 
> >> I am certain % will have fun.
> >> 
> >> Let us redirect Cujo and Bruce into their master's lair.
> >
> >I remember %, he was posting on the poetry newsgroups a while back.
>
> He is here in edm.general, somewhere.

I saw % posting for a while the other day.

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