Drew from Back of the Cereal Box wrote a great article about names in the TV show "Pushing Daisies." As with any writing of this length, Drew's article does contain a few mistakes.
After discussing the doubling in names of characters, Drew goes on to say:
The episode “Pigeon” features a different sort of doubling Elsa and her daughter Elsita, both of whom are played by the same actress, the very appealing Jayma Mays, who’s now on Glee and whose own name features an internal duplication of vowel sounds.
A colon would be required here, between stating the fact that doubling occurs and naming the specific instance.
He goes on to discuss a commanding character named Simone:
In that sense, I’m betting that that her creators has titular dictator of the game Simon Says in mind when they dreamed her up.
This is a case of simple subject-verb agreement, as the plural subject "creators" demands a plural verb, in this case "have." More specifically, the tense of the verb also comes into question. This is a past event, so we would need a past tense "had."
Source: http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2009/09/naming-conventions-in-pushing-daisies.html
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Monday, January 4, 2010
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
This piece from Back of the Cereal Box, while comical, does bring home the concept of how profound a change simple punctuation can make. From the post:
My question was quickly answered by her response, “Who you are? Why you come here?”
Interestingly, the article itself contains punctuation errors:
Upon speaking with various members of the proofing department at length about the question mark erroneously affixed to the end of the film’s title on various posters, press packets, TV commercials, certain versions of the trailer, and all incarnations of the various Where the Wild Things Are video games. I eventually arrived at Ms. Anoldi’s office — which exists in a room that I previously thought was only used to store old furniture — and asked her if she was, in fact, the person who inserted this punctuation mark.
Did you see it? That fragment right there? Instead of a period, Drew obviously intended to continue the thought of the sentence, necessitating a comma.
Also of note, a spelling error:
She eventually chased me away by repeatedly rapping me on the head with a wooden spoon that she had been using to stir a pot of what appeared to be marina sauce.
Has anyone out there ever heard of this alleged "marina" sauce?
Source: http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2009/09/but-truly-where-are-these-wild-things.html
My question was quickly answered by her response, “Who you are? Why you come here?”
Interestingly, the article itself contains punctuation errors:
Upon speaking with various members of the proofing department at length about the question mark erroneously affixed to the end of the film’s title on various posters, press packets, TV commercials, certain versions of the trailer, and all incarnations of the various Where the Wild Things Are video games. I eventually arrived at Ms. Anoldi’s office — which exists in a room that I previously thought was only used to store old furniture — and asked her if she was, in fact, the person who inserted this punctuation mark.
Did you see it? That fragment right there? Instead of a period, Drew obviously intended to continue the thought of the sentence, necessitating a comma.
Also of note, a spelling error:
She eventually chased me away by repeatedly rapping me on the head with a wooden spoon that she had been using to stir a pot of what appeared to be marina sauce.
Has anyone out there ever heard of this alleged "marina" sauce?
Source: http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2009/09/but-truly-where-are-these-wild-things.html
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
From Back of the Cereal Box, another linguistically-minded blog, the following was taken from a caption to a picture in a post discussing Final Fantasy IV's terminology.
final fantasyiv’s epopts and cutie pie epopt leonora
I take issue with the lack of capitalization in the title as well as failure to correctly separate the name from the number.
Source: http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2009/07/game-nerds-vocabulary-beyond-1-up-and.html
Edit: The spacing issue in the original post has been corrected, capitalization remains unchanged.
final fantasyiv’s epopts and cutie pie epopt leonora
I take issue with the lack of capitalization in the title as well as failure to correctly separate the name from the number.
Source: http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/2009/07/game-nerds-vocabulary-beyond-1-up-and.html
Edit: The spacing issue in the original post has been corrected, capitalization remains unchanged.
Labels:
Back of the Cereal Box,
spacing
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