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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:39:25 GMT -5
Spring- You devil- Now I have to take the plunge and buy a DVD so I can enjoy all of the early buffy and Angel episodes (all of the episodes available on tv have deleted bits to facilitate commercials.)
Seriously your two reviews are sparkling and thought provoking and we are incredibly lucky to have you to make the viewing of buffy so much more enjoyable and worthwhile. Please quit your day job so as to devote all of your time to said reviews.
And Vlad- I am blown away with how responsive you are to the merest suggestion- that site is amazing- IIIT totally enhances both your reputation and that of SCOOPME.
( Oh- that is not my recommendation for Love At First Bite- I have not been 31 for a long time- but I do plan to watch the movie)
This board is amazingly refreshing- after a kickass day at work it is nice to come here and read witty,insightful, snarky (Nan...) interesting comments by like minded people...rock on ( i cannot believe I wrote that- my kids would die of shame)
Nan- I know I misspelled encomniums, "I am sorry". (I am a non conformist with a bad memory)
"snarky grad student"
ellie jason
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:39:51 GMT -5
Thanks for the discerning eye Nan. It's all rectified...I think. If you see anything else let me know.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:40:28 GMT -5
I started to go to Spring's review, "Halloween" and it was colored dark blue which as mentioned before, is somewhat hard to read. I think that after I click on the word and read Spring's review, the link will turn white. Does that help you nail down the "dark blue" problem at all?
Alexandra K.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:41:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I realize Buffy will never be with Xander in the way I would like most, and it looks like we're never going to see much more between them at all. As I said before, maybe taking him for granted is a good thing in it's way, and he deals with that pretty well now. I don't see any meaningful plot regarding Xander for the rest of the series. He'll probably have to be saved once or twice, and he'll contribute somehow i suppose. I just watched Potential again...and it felt like his talk with Dawn was a goodbye to his character's story. He's come full circle, and the writers are done with him. They're going to pay attention to the characters with power now. This season is about power, and Xander isn't really in that mix in the supernatural sense. As for the teenage choices Buffy made, there were a lot of complex issues involved back in the day. Personally I think she would've given Xander a legitimate shot were it not for Willow, and I can't fault her for that. Buff made a reference to her choice of relationship with him in "Bad Girls" during a patrol with Faith, when they discuss sex--at least Xander bagged one Slayer :-). Anyway, Buffy chooses not to go there because she's afraid of losing him (that's not exactly what she said, but it's what she meant). I can accept that....I'd just like to hear her tell him so. At this point it's pointless to wish for something that isn't going to happen. I can only hope he gets a few meaningful lines, but I don't expect it. I'll miss his character; it taught me a lot about myself.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:42:18 GMT -5
Nan:
Punctuation sometimes goes outside the quotation marks when the marks aren't being used to define what is being said, no? For example, when they are are being used to define a title, or point out that the word is being used euphemistically (or somewhat inappropriately)? Like this:
Buffy said, "I love Slaying."
Buffy meant that she loved killing, but she didn't want to put it that way, so instead she said she loved "slaying".
I just read "The Saturday Evening Post".
I think vlad overcorrected my essay, if you know what I mean - though there were instances where it was needed, and I appreciate your sharp eye.
Spring Summers
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:43:37 GMT -5
It depends on what the punctuation is, Spring. If it's a period or a comma, it ALWAYS goes inside.
Hence, your example,
I just read "The Saturday Evening Post".
should be
I just read "The Saturday Evening Post."
No periods or commas outside the commas, ever. Other punctuation marks go inside or outside, depending on what they belong to: the quoted material or the sentence in which the quoted material is embedded.
Sorry to belabor this. That's one of the reasons I wish I had everybody's alias e-mail address--so I could comment privately when addressing only one reader, rather than burden the board with it.
Ah, well.... All good things with time.
I'll go back and take a peek at your essay, Spring, and see if any other small tweaks are needed.
Nan Dibble
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:44:07 GMT -5
It's absolutely perfect now, Spring. Vlad even correctly left a dash outside the quotes, right where it belongs. A judicious and inconspicuous job of correction.
Yea, Vlad! Yea, Spring!
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:44:37 GMT -5
Dare one ask WHAT?
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:45:08 GMT -5
Rusty's post to which I replied is "timed" about 45 minutes from now. I just sent Kim a post about the problem, beginning, "Hi, it's the nag again."
Nan
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:45:51 GMT -5
I go to the site all the time now, and I just wanted to tell you how great I think it is. I'm proud to be a small part of something so cool. If I could write poetry I'd submit something, but the material that's already there is too good. I'm considering contributing original material of some kind, but I'm a little intimidated by the quality of my predecessors. Either way, thanks to Vlad I have a new site to visit every day, and it rocks.
Rob Sorenson
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:47:03 GMT -5
Well, I wish it was more exciting than this but my husband was helping me try to figure out how to post an image. I tried to do it myself and failed. Sorry to have put one on this site that may take awhile to load. I'm a complete failure at technology. My last one on the trail thread is a pretty good pic. all the rest are blank.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:48:22 GMT -5
To Rusty:
*chuckling* I think you didn't Rusty. *hug* I'll be sending a tutor over in a little while. We at the VHISN take our eduction practices seriously. You WILL learn how to post pics.
To Robert:
You visit all the time! Wow! Robert, I don't know how well you write poetry as I have never seen any from you. However, I would like to compliment you on your writing skills in general. I always look forward to a post from you. It is always well written and more than that, it always has something to say, something that usually forces me to sit back and think. You have a wonderful talent there in how your point of view works.
I found your review/description of Shadow of the Vampire to be exactly what I would love to see for each of the movies on the list. If there are any others on that list that you have seen and would like to comment on, please write them up and submit them to the site.
Again, I am glad you enjoy the site, and whether you intend to write for it or not, I am sure you are gonna see plenty more of your writings up there as you jsut can't seem to help but write interesting things on the board. (Unless of course you dislike that and want them removed.)
Spring and Nan:
Okay. Hmmm. I think I corrected the last analysis correctly. Nan seems ot think so, too. However, Spring, if you think I have "over-corrected" your work, let me know where and I'll reinvestigate and do my own research and we'll make sure we get it right. I apologize as I was being lazy and simply listened to Nan (and used what I already understood myself about the punctuation vs. quotation mark issue) without looking up the rules again for myself.
A suggestion:
From now on, trivial things like typos and minor grammar errors concerning content on the S3 site ought to really be handled via email to scubiefan@yahoo.com. I check the mail there almost as often as I check the ScoopMe board, so anyone's catch will be just as quickly implemented.
The ScoopMe board should be (and the S'cubie posting area especially) reserved for actual discussion of BtVS, JM, and just plain ol' goofing around. Let's not bog it with boring trivialities like punctuation and grammar and the like. I am as guilty as the next of getting caught up in these language talks, but I am begining to notice a distressing diminishment of Spike talk. Perhaps it's just lack of a new episode.
And finally:
A thanks to all for saying such kind things about my efforts and the site. Just remember, that site is yours. Check out the content. I bet less than 10 percent is mine. So it's you guys that's making it ROCK. I'm just pasting it all together for ya.
OH! One more thing:
The blue link problem is being investigated. I think I finally know what you are talking about, but you see, by the time I actually "see" the page, I have already "looked" at the picture so it appears as white to me. I'll look into making sure the links are all changed to white initially. Thanks.
Vlad, TA, tp
Edited By Vlad I at 1/31/2003 11:45:00 PM.
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:48:53 GMT -5
Looks like you figured it out, darlin'. Congratulations!
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:49:27 GMT -5
Guys, back again. I've been trying to catch up on posts. Alexandra, want you to know I now have the BtVS episodes in a notebook so I can refer back to them. What a job that was!!
Vlad, I am totally impressed with your computer expertise. I taught Computer Lit for awhile to both kids and adults. I got so tired of telling them to, "Read the screen," I burned out. Now, all I want from a computer is for it to work. I'm so old school, I'll still go back to DOS to work on a problem.
Spring, I am just blown away at your analysis of "School Hard" and "Halloween".
I want you guys to know, I teach English (I hesitate to let this out because my grammar and spelling will sometimes slip), and every day I see examples of concepts I'm trying to get across in episodes of BtVS. I would so much rather use Buffy than the current, or any, textbook. I'm seriously reading everything all of you have to say, printing some of it out for futher study and working on a way to maybe come up with, at the very least, a unit using Buffy. Spring, I loved the Gone With the Wind analogy. I'll be sure to list you all in the bibliography. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
You know, Shakespear wasn't thought to be any great mind in his day. He was considered too "commercial" I guess would be the modern word. Every day I gain new respect for Joss and his writing team, especially Marti Noxon.
In the meantime, I'll be lurking about
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Post by Dalton on Jul 2, 2003 13:50:52 GMT -5
I looked in on the ep board for Angel, and it's having the same problem we are here about fake times imposed on posts. So it's not just the Buffy board and not just the miscellaneous board. It's the site itself.
And I realize now that perhaps I could have written up the grammar stuff and sent it as a post to Vlad to forward on to Spring. That's assuming Spring has an alias e-mail addy and has informed Vlad of it. Oh, never mind. Too complicated.
Ya see, just correcting the essay without identifying the problem being corrected goes against all my remaining teacherly fibers. It's not enough for the piece to be right: someone has to *learn* something.
But I've been better about the small nitpicks lately, I believe. It's only that this piece of writing was posted out in public, in a way our conversations generally aren't, that--
Oh, never mind. (sigh)
Nan Dibble
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