Calculators: Sometimes … Are just that damn important
I am stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs.
Take a passage signed by zipthwung, an astute online commenter: “pornography if for the ruling classes and their violent vulgar all consuming appetites. Or their slaves.”
Interesting. But so as not to distract you with the typos, should I have repunctuated it, adding commas and plunking a hyphen into “all-consuming”? Should I have turned that “if” to “is”?
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Consider another example. To show that Web users are curious about human reproduction, I might quote kavya on Yahoo Answers, word for word: “How is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?”
Holy shit, I don’t know how I missed How is Babby Formed? — absolutely ridiculous.
(via reddit)
