"The Road"

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by 8ballrollin

It's probably his lack of punctuation - specifically an absence of quotation marks. Just a guess.

And you find a lack of punctuation offensive what the hell is wrong with punctuation which is just made up by grammarians, not real writers. Jeez.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Archaea

And you find a lack of punctuation offensive what the hell is wrong with punctuation which is just made up by grammarians, not real writers. Jeez.

Actually, punctuation was established primarily by printers and type-setters. This little book gives a fun history of punctuation:

http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Le...2173281&sr=8-1

But you are correct, the rules were established arbitrarily for the most part.

[Surfah]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

Actually, punctuation was established primarily by printers and type-setters. This little book gives a fun history of punctuation:

http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Le...2173281&sr=8-1

But you are correct, the rules were established arbitrarily for the most part.

Eats, Shoots Leaves was recommended to me by my librarian aunt. She thought I'd enjoy it as an English major and usually I love everything she recommends. This however got old after the introduction. Same jokes over and over.

[RockyBalboa]

Originally Posted by Archaea

And you find a lack of punctuation offensive what the hell is wrong with punctuation which is just made up by grammarians, not real writers. Jeez.

Relax with the hyperbole...no one said it was offensive. But yeah I find his style bizarre and am not going to justify to you why. You've been going to the MikeWaters school of assholery and been quite the aggressive dickhead lately with people. Relax shorty.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by surfah33

Eats, Shoots Leaves was recommended to me by my librarian aunt. She thought I'd enjoy it as an English major and usually I love everything she recommends. This however got old after the introduction. Same jokes over and over.

Yeah, but it's short. It a glorified pamphlet.

And I can't look at an exclamation mark without chuckling anymore.

[MikeWaters]

Funny to go over this bit of imbecility. Voices of the dead.

[Levin]

The only thing I found implausible about The Road was that the son and father came upon the large store of food at that house.

I mean, wouldn't all the people already have been eaten?

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by Levin

The only thing I found implausible about The Road was that the son and father came upon the large store of food at that house.

I mean, wouldn't all the people already have been eaten?

debate for morons.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

debate for morons.

i kinda forgot that, because it wasn't that interesting for me.

[Levin]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

debate for morons.

I was tring to make a moronic joke making your very point; didn't get it, I guess.