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Offline Mince

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Brackets and Full Stops.
« on: August 12, 2016, 12:45:22 PM »
So let's say you have these sentences:

Beau Peep is an amazing cartoon strip. It's actually probably the best.

Now let's say you want to put the second sentence in brackets. How would you do it?

1. Beau Peep is an amazing cartoon strip. (It's actually probably the best.)

2. Beau Peep is an amazing cartoon strip. (It's actually probably the best).

Sandy Buttcheeks

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2016, 05:38:06 PM »
I'd do it in crayon.

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2016, 06:05:41 PM »
You can use crayons?

Egg

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2016, 07:49:25 PM »
Well it is the best so why the need for actually and probably!

I'm not allowed crayons......long story!

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2016, 08:09:46 PM »
I'm not allowed crayons......long story!

Was it a long crayon?

Redundant

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2016, 09:57:12 PM »
So let's say you have these sentences:

Beau Peep is an amazing cartoon strip. It's actually probably the best.

Now let's say you want to put the second sentence in brackets. How would you do it?

1. Beau Peep is an amazing cartoon strip. (It's actually probably the best.)

2. Beau Peep is an amazing cartoon strip. (It's actually probably the best).

If the brackets contain an entire sentence, then the full stop goes inside too, (if it's a continuation of a sentence then the full stop goes outside).

And in reality no-one, with the obvious exceptions, would give a monkees elbow.   I am fairly sure that I have managed both versions on more than one occasion, and eyelids remained unbatted.
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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2016, 10:54:34 PM »
And in reality no-one, with the obvious exceptions, would give a monkees elbow.

Who are the exceptions? The Yankees?

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2016, 07:56:43 AM »
I was going to pick one but spent so much time trying to get the blue links to work.
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Sandy Buttcheeks

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2016, 10:41:47 PM »
And in reality no-one, with the obvious exceptions, would give a monkees elbow.

Who are the exceptions? The Yankees?

Hey Hey, we're The Monkees...

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2016, 12:07:28 AM »
Sometimes I draw a blank on the spelling of really simple words. The brain just goes to sleep for a while.

Apparently, Roger once mixed up ""life sentence" with "death penalty" in one of his strips and ended up with "life penalty for cattle-rustling", though I guess that's hardly surprising anyway so I'm not sure what my point is there.

And I can't spell negligee, which is why I don't insult Sandy as often as I might.

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2016, 09:30:47 AM »
Beau Peep is an amazing cartoon strip (it's actually probably the best).
I apologise, in advance.

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2016, 09:47:49 AM »
That's just wrong.

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2016, 12:27:28 PM »

I know. It should be:

Beau Peep is an amazing cartoon strip (it's actually, probably, the best).
I apologise, in advance.

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2016, 12:31:36 PM »
Can I have a semi colon instead of brackets?

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Re: Brackets and Full Stops.
« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2016, 02:40:33 PM »
So out of two choices with brackets, you're going to choose the one with the semicolon. I see how it is.

And yes, a semicolon would be fine there.

I'm not even talking to Tarks.  >:(