Most of the time, I think it's damn fucking weird that old-ass cultures, what who invented words and grammar and shit that we use every day, lacked both 'white space' and punctuation in their writing. And capitalization (or rather, diminution). I couldn't read this shit without that shit. But then I watch myself debate whether a certain comma belongs in a certain place. I think about how it would work either way. I think about how two hundred years ago, when a motherfucker would comma off every single clause of his sentence whether it "needed" it or not like some kind of German (I am looking at you, David Hume), current practices would seem nigh on blasphemous. How that approach to commas doesn't seem any more wrong than my own. EVENTUALLYIWONDERWHETHERTHEYDIDNOTHAVEITRIGHTINTHEFIRSTPLACEHAVINGINTRODUCEDWRITTENLANGUAGEANDALL
Just a special shout-out to the computer gods, who won't allow me to paste text into the editor window here from some random text editor of my own without overriding the font I chose for the website. Thanks, computer gods. The next calf is all yours.
ReplyDeleteI should have inserted, "without editing the post's HTML." Glad I could clear up this confusion for you before anything drastic had to happen.
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