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Try this then:

 

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But that's not how a paragraph should be formatted either. There's a huge gap in the line after the second "This text is indented." It looks like two separate paragraphs, only one was indented and the other wasn't.

That's why people use the white "....." &c.

I don't know. I don't think "MOAR MUNNYS!" is a very good thing to lose your job for.

What do you think you have a job for in the first place?

... Seriously? You could probably make hommade ones that are actually a decent quality (as opposed to the factory's terrible quality) for less than a dollar a pop.

Well, I'm serious. They were half-joking. (But, hey, half-joking is mathematically still half-sincere.)

Yeah. And even the factory ones are worth about twenty cents each.

 

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There's a problem?

Yeah. Keep typing more than a line.

Please tell me this is at some bizarre community college--preferably in an alternate universe--and not a state institution.

Did you know that if you Google "recursion," you'll be given the suggestion "Did you mean: recursion."

My favorite acronym is in Dilbert's The TTP Project.

 

TTP stands for The TTP Project.

GAAAH I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT.

Does it have clear junctures at which it naturally shifts in topic or mood? Was it written so as to be indivisible (e.g., My Dinner with Andre-style, single-minded cohesion)? Is art a game of numbers, or of emotion and intuition? (Protip, it's the second.) With the information you gave us, it's impossible to actually answer your question.

I would love to go over that story. When I edit, I can typically take a pretty focused look at (i.e., line-by-line commentary on) grammar, style, diction, and syntax, as well as overall artistic effectiveness as a narrative. So, if you're interested, shoot me a PM with the document.

BTW, Zarayna, I've seen a two-post Short Story before (HH had to give it specific permission, of course).

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Please tell me this was vanity published.

Creepy =/= scary.

A feeling of dread or the numinous is creepy, but not scary. Honestly, one form of wonderment is the very definition of "creepiness." So, I think that your Art class is overstating their response and/or misusing the word "scary."

On a side note, Gregory Peck, who played Finch in the movie, also played Abraham Lincoln.

And also Josef Mengele.

Voted Yes

Voted Yes

Voted Yes

Aren't you just a positive person?

Except all these guys in green.

 

But I don't think anywhere else has an Eagle with a flag on its head. I'll give you that.

What they think they can compare MUH FREEDOMZ with other countries? Hah! Everyone knows the real compar'son is that MURRICA>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> EVERBUDDY ELSE. That yurop country ain't never gunna got MUH FREEDOMSs. It's why we fought a little sumthin called the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, to get free from those freedom-hatin, tea-taxin English Yuropeans.

USA! !!!!11!! USA! !!!!! USA! !!!!!!11!! USA! !!!!

Source: 3rd grade American history class.

EDIT: Huh, I had no idea those exclamation mark emoticons automatically replaced strings of exclamation marks. Bretty good.

Edit by Velox: Made text not so glaringly huge.

>be Avokhah Tamer

>try to greentext

>use the wrong shade of green

Le shiggy donatello

If it's done well and adds to the story, it's definitely a plus. After all, experiment with form is a large part of effective writing. Faulkner, Twain, and Joyce all did this well.

However, if you're just slapping some semi-Cockney or semi-Southern spellings into the dialogue then it's pointless. An accent shouldn't just be used to add quaint variety.

I love the BLR soundbites; they're probably funnier than the songs.

Ron Paul: "Free bananas!"

How exactly would this qualify as trolling?

Guess what.

Can you provide the list of 64?

Grammar is important.

Spelling is, too.

And really, it should have been easy to anticipate that when you posted something that wasn't even news, just a misleading reiteration of something we already knew.

 

Sorry if I sound a bit spiteful; I'm trying to be civil about this, but it really feels like this news article was just a way of toying with readers and confusing people just for the sake of "discussion". The chances of BIONICLE coming back are not insignificant and not extremely promising, but the important thing is that there's no reason to think they have changed. The news article strongly implies that they have.

Yeah, I love how the "Rumors Abound" article is basically just instigating a bunch of pointless rumors. Decent editorial oversight would have said, "Wait, this isn't news; this isn't even yellow journalism."

Because, seriously, writing a story that starts off with the unsubstantiated assumption that there are already a lot of rumors about it, then framing the issue in such a way as to make it seem like something changed is just ridiculous. There's no really new information, and the purpose of the report is to dispel rumors that don't even exist. Really, "Rumors Abound" should have been titled "Rumors Will Abound."

IMO everyone has the right to admit that they're feeling bad.

 

But should the individual keep those 'days of darkness' to themselves, because others wouldn't like to hear about it?

Provided that all people are held to the same standards of independence and respect for others' desires of reasonable isolation, then there ought not to be any issues regarding such a sharing of emotion. When two people wear their hearts on their sleeves, they shall naturally support one another--or at least certainly ought to. Conversely, for one to whine to a man of a stiff upper lip is a transgression against this ideal of mutual respect, for he has never accosted the other with his fleeting emotional troubles. He has recognized and accepted that none wish to hear of his "days of darkness" and has followed this expectation; it is only polite, only considerate, that others afford him this same sympathy of silence. He well deserves it: He has acted as he would prefer to be treated. Being denied such sympathy is disconcerting, upsetting, uncomfortable, and at its base rude.

Hence, it is just as inconsiderate to expect everyone to share your expectations of emotional openness, as it is for another hypocritically to expect that all keep this to themselves. One may feel sorry for oneself as much as one wants, but to confront others with this sorrow, and to expect them to share in one's self-pity, is unreasonable. Those who share their emotions must share others', but those who do not display their burdens need not marvel at others'.

The trick to bucket reading lists is that you need to pick the longest books available. If you can't die until you read them, it'll extend your lifespan by hundreds of pages. (Trust me; I got an A in biology class.)

but the movies kinda killed that for me

Why should a work in a totally different medium, only tangentially related to the source material (if I know which movies you're talking about), and generally subject to the whims of other artists have any bearing on what you read?

Also, this looks more like a summer reading list, so, here, have a dump of important books--the final bosses of the literary world:

-The literary corpus of Vladimir Nabokov

-Ulysses

-Finnegans Wake

-The Tanakh (cover to cover)

-The Talmud (a.k.a. Shas--cover to cover)

-The Bible (cover to cover)

-al-Quran (cover to cover)

-The Sound and the Fury

-The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

-Anna Karenina

-The Iliad and The Odyssey

-Beowulf

-Godel, Escher, Bach

-Candide, or Optimism

-Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts

-The Stranger

-Gravity's Rainbow

-The Constitution of your home country

-One new bill introduced to your legislature every year

Oh, also, don't read Webster's dictionary. Go for something better, like the Oxford unabridged dictionary.

Eh... that's a start--in total you have probably enough for several years by now. I'll probably dump a few more when I can dredge up my own to-read list.

I herd from Trollestia that it's airing November 31st.

I herd from Trollestia

I herd

herd

I have no idea whether this pun was intentional.

It was awful when Greg tried to explain the difference between fire and plasma. He just burned my face off and said, "That ought to teach you to ask questions!"

Too often we forget (or ignore XD) the fact that the whole point of talking is to communicate. If you say I'm homophobic, and I understand you mean that I dislike homosexual people, then communication has been achieved. Success. If I then try to find wiggle room by claiming homophobic doesn't translate exactly the way you says it does, I'm creating an issue where there is none.

How anti-Semantic of you!