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Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's.
Write the way you want to, not the way you think you should.
Traditional grammar
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.
Capital, therefore, announces from its first appearance a new epoch in the process of social production.
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.
Capital is kind of a banking concept.
Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
I like to have a title before I start writing.
No, no, Watson, it is all wrong. These certainly are my ts, ys, and ms, and the capital A is very good, but what on earth induced you to obey a note with such a manifestly inaccurate q?
I write the way I write.
Lower case Ss are notoriously difficult to get right. But in Helvetica it's not straight - you want to go in there and tighten it up. And the 'a' looks so woolly and ill-conceived, it really winds me up.
The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.
Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know.
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
In language clarity is everything.
YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOU
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
Everything starts from a dot.
You are the capital U in Unhelpful.
The boss says 'I'; the leader, 'we'.
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
Spelling and punctuation are completely irrelevant; unless you are hoping to be understood.
Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.
Throughout this section, I'm gonna be calling the United States of America "AMERICA" and you are going to deal with this because America is just flat out easier to type than "The States" or "The U.S. of A." or "That Big Basket of Jerks under Canada
Punctuation lets your writing breathe...
What is necessary is to rectify names.
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.
I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters.
Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want to find themselves in it.
When we talk about Poetry, with a capital P, we are apt to think only of the more intense emotions or the more magical phrase: nevertheless there are a great many casements in poetry which are not magic, and which do not open on the foam of perilous seas, but are perfectly good windows for all that.
We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it - by making it lower case.
It has sick on the sleeve. And no apostrophe.
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
orr we find a typo in a book.
Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.
Capital is no longer the invisible center governing the production process; as it accumulates, it spreads to the ends of the earth in the form of tangible objects. The entire expanse of society is its portrait.
The Grim Reaper, Gloria corrected herself - if anyone deserved capital letters it was surely Death. Gloria would rather like to be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn't necessarily be grim, she suspected she would be quite cheerful (Come along now, don't make such a fuss).
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.
In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.
I'm going to change my image - backward caps, the lot.
Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?
Capital T-truth is about life before death.
English is not my first language.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
You're Times New Roman, but I'm more Comic Sans.
When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.
I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.
If you are going to emphasize certain words in the headline, be sure that they are the words that say something.
Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!
Typography exists to honor content.
Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them
unless, of course, I address myself as an other.
In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
The Word ought to be exposed in the words
I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name to look up the address. I tell myself that lots of writers agonize over titles, and often get them wrong at first.
I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.
I am a verb, not a noun.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].
Naming can limit as well as empower.
To name is to make visible.
Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.
Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.
Our names contain our fates; living as we do in a place where names have not acquired the meaninglessness of the West, and are still more than mere sounds, we are also the victims of our titles.
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
Titles can be as dangerous as names,
Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.
Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
For true beauty - beauty, as it were, with a capital B - is terrifying; it puts us in our place; it reflects back to us our own ugliness. It is the prize beyond price.
The point is not to let the orthography distract the reader from the meaning.
I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
Capital dictates the fate of humanity.
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
Always avoid alliteration.
A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell.
A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
You might say she feels in italics and thinks in capital letters!
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper's stance on the great big headline letters is: You got 'em, you use 'em.
Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?
A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
In true prose everything must be underlined.
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.
Hapmshire" typo,
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
I don't correct anyone's grammar unless they're under five.