Comments on: Six Random Facts About Me: A Meme

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:06:16 +0000

Hooray for parenthetical asides (and puppies too)!

Florinda – I love me some em dashes too. And en dashes . . . and hyphens . . . and ellipses.

Suey – I love the ellipses too! And the preposition thing haunted me for a few years before I figured it out. Thank you Chicago Manual of Style.

Blake – What a weird coincidence about your sister! (I just tried to come up with a sentence that includes “a la” and failed.)

Trish – Thanks for tagging me for this! And for the SWOON. :)

Care – It sounds like we should get together with the puppies and organize something – while reading.

Jena – Wow! You just made me miss college – that magically place where one can write whole papers on parentheticals.

Matt – I have read How To Read Like a Writer. I loved it too. I’ve also heard that Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Novel is good. (By the way, nice capitalization of the Prose book title.) Aww! I love labs – puppies or otherwise.

Okay, so I just reemphasized my ~~love~~ obsession with the parenthetical.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:05:27 +0000

I pay attention to the grammar stuff, well, after all, I’m a teacher. Have you ever read How To Read Like a Writer by Francine Prose?

My puppy is soon to be an adult lab. He’s 2.5 years old. I miss the way he looks and the energy he has as a puppy, but I certainly don’t miss his escapades!

By: Jena

Jena — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:34:07 +0000

I think you and I would be great friends. I think the majority of my linguistics paper in grad school was about the use of parentheticals in Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. (And I’m married to a man whose only really form of punctuation is the ellipses. Sometimes I think he married me so he could always have someone there who knows about the others.)

By: Care

Care — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:01:02 +0000

I love Dr. Pepper! I have a pup named Oscar! I love to organize! (actually, I’m pretty lax on the maintaining side of that but I like the task of pulling a mess together.)

By: trish

trish — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:06:03 +0000

I’m enamored with you. You know why about is capitalized in the title? You like puppies? You’re an organizational freak? You like paranthetical asides?? SWOON!

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:59:46 +0000

I love parenthetical asides too. My blog is full of them.

I also like to use the term ‘a la’ to compare movie styles.

And I have a sister who is missing a finger (but not the whole thing).

Weird.

By: Suey

Suey — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:44:02 +0000

Thanks for clearing up the preposition in a title confusion! I’ve been wondering that for awhile now. Really… I have been.

(And I love parenthesis too… oh… and dots… or elipses… or whatever you call them!)

By: Florinda

Florinda — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:57:09 +0000

I was having a conversation with someone about parenthetical asides yesterday (I’m also a big fan – and of em-dashes too).

I call my dog “pup” and she’s eleven years old, so I know what you mean about your #5 random fact.