Re: PPB: Poem for Kathy / Will Dockery

In article <[email protected]>,
Will Dockery  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>[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.
>

He is around.

>-- 
>Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:
>https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery


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