I think, yeah, things like that Feferi♠Sollux fic are a lot more likely to surface in a fandom like HS that has that tumblr-speech culture. You do see that particular construction fairly often - there's the
let's
be
tanglebuddies!
horrorfic too, and, yeah, others?
I want people thinking about punctuation not just critically and grammatically, but about effect and tone, and how to manipulate it to make it EVEN MORE EXPRESSIVE.
Being an editor is this weird position. Because on the one hand, it's a crowd of people who are intrinsically fascinated by grammar and puntuation and syntax. But on the other hand, you're basically the language police, politely shoving your foot in the door of change. Excuse me, but I think you'll find that "teh interwebs" should according to house style be "the Internet". Etcetera. I'm constantly pinwheeling between "language is a living thing let it go free!" opinions and "wait, no, that's wrong, do it right" opinions.
With lmao honestly I just want people to stop dropping it onto the end of completely factual sentences that nobody would ever laugh at. This took a long time to draw lmao. wtf is that. oowhoo
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Date: 2012-06-30 07:28 am (UTC)let's
be
tanglebuddies!
horrorfic too, and, yeah, others?
I want people thinking about punctuation not just critically and grammatically, but about effect and tone, and how to manipulate it to make it EVEN MORE EXPRESSIVE.
Being an editor is this weird position. Because on the one hand, it's a crowd of people who are intrinsically fascinated by grammar and puntuation and syntax. But on the other hand, you're basically the language police, politely shoving your foot in the door of change. Excuse me, but I think you'll find that "teh interwebs" should according to house style be "the Internet". Etcetera. I'm constantly pinwheeling between "language is a living thing let it go free!" opinions and "wait, no, that's wrong, do it right" opinions.
With lmao honestly I just want people to stop dropping it onto the end of completely factual sentences that nobody would ever laugh at. This took a long time to draw lmao. wtf is that. oowhoo