So my roommate is an ad copy writer, which means she is super fussy about things like typos and punctuation. And if you have noticed, neither of those are really my strong suit. We were talking about the blog last night and she really got riled up that I had so many typos (well as riled up as you can get about typos). I really am trying to be better about it-but the spell checker on this blog is terrible and my internal spellchecker is inept as well.
What really bothered her was that I use a dash as a hyphen. I had no idea that - is not --. I'm so sorry if I offended anyone, but I think I will still be using - as a hyphen. It probably comes from never being in sister Mary perfect's penmanship and punctuation class. Or from being extremely lazy about such things-either excuse works for me.
From now on assume - means --. Or are you all out there still Hyperventilating over this? or should I say Hyphen --ventilating. :). (she coined that because she is extremely clever-that is why she writes ad copy and I make typos!)
You got the melting moment recipe out of me today so that's enough.
Now it's your turn to do some work and make some cookies.
Tomorrow I will start posting the recipes that I think no one will make because they are simply too much of a pain in the patooty. They are wonderful-but only someone as insane as me would make them.
Did I hear a few "oh that's me" comments from out there? :).
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Wait- I just use the "-" is this wrong?
ReplyDeleteAccording to my very grammatically correct roommate--yes, that is very wrong. Apparantly it indicates to the reader that the word is hyphenated and not a dash for punctuation. But guess what--there is no dash on the keyboard! so she says you have to use a double dash. Who knew.
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