This made me LOL.

Am I a star in here yet or what?

Yeah my grammar/spelling sucks so what. I have actually never ventured into this thread. Because I know my grammar sucks.

I know I violate many of the rules of English grammar.

But I will take notice of my violations and try to correct them in the future.

Check any recent American dictionary and find that "dialog" is now a modern accepted variant for dialogue, and it is used frequently by American writers instead of the old English form.

i guess dialog is acceptable

I love *TT* and everything, but if you wanna see tearing it up, look no further:

(This one below is funny because the sentence has 4 "your"s in it and 3 of them are actually correct!):

(This one's pretty amazing):

Anyway... this is only over the past month. But you get the idea, so I'll stop there.

We love you *TT*!!! Even if you're writing your posts with a lack of third grade grammar skills!

you're wrong. american usage almost always puts commas and periods inside the quotation. exceptions are made if the comma or period would cause confusion (such as quoting a url), or when a parenthetical reference immediately follows; phb's use falls under neither category.

Look that up on Google did you? Many writers don't follow that stupid rule that has been taught in grade school. It's like the obsolete rule for not beginning sentences with conjunctions (which some teachers still teach). Good writers tend to do what makes sense and avoids confusion.

i look a lot of stuff up on google. the internet is pretty useful. and it proves that you're wrong.

I'd go with Spadebidder's take.

Putting it inside the quote is both illogical and ******ed.

Also, why would anyone take lessons from someone with so little literacy that they cannot even use the correct capitalisation?

I think that rule is taught to younger pupils to avoid the simple mistakes that children often make when learning English.

e.g. "John went to school. And met Jason".

Those who do not progress beyond basic English often, mistakenly, think the rule applies in all circumstances.

I would use RV's because V's is a shortened form of Vehicles.

You're wrong. Since you don't write RV', then you can't write RV's. Yes, you're contracting letters in "vehicle," but you're forming a new word: RV. No RV', so why add the apostrophe just because you're making it plural? Hint: because plural words don't need apostrophes. Same with DVD. DVDs is correct. CDs is correct. DVD's is wrong, and so is RV's.

People misusing this and that slightly tilts me.

^^^ That is right and this is wrong.

From the Lounge:

"If Shakespeare wrote the Big Lebowski"

Yikes.

That one I don't get. Is it "If Shakespeare had written the Big Lebowski"? IMO the sentence above is grammatically correct.

YO is incorrect.

There is a huge billboard here in St. Louis for a car insurance company with a picture of Albert Einstein that says "I wish I thought of that." Yikes.

you're still wrong. just because you insist otherwise doesn't make you correct. and just because you think it's illogical doesn't make it improper usage. in fact, if you bothered to educate yourself, you'd find that there's an historical, practical, and, indeed, very logical reason behind it.

from http://www.reformation21.org/blog/20...iting-well.php

Awesome.

I'm really not going to take lessons from someone who cannot even use basic capitalisation.

If you believe there's a logical reason for it then state that reason rather than just making a bald assertion which, by the way, puts you in exactly the same position as myself.

JFC, am I in crazytown here? Periods go inside quotes, end of discussion.

Your opinion (which is itself wrong, BTW).

Nonsense.

An interesting take but completely wrong.

The reason that you can put an apostrophe between the 'V' and the ''s' is that it is a contraction of one word.

Common practice is that you can form an abbreviation by using initial letters without (as was once considered necessary) placing a full stop after each letter. But that uses the initial of each word. When you pluralise the abbreviation the 's' is part of the final word and this fact can be indicated by the use of an apostrophe.

You may or may not be in crazy town but if you think that your saying something makes it correct you are certainly crazy.

Like your associate you neglect to provide any evidence for you dogmatically prescriptive view.

http://grammartips.homestead.com/inside.html

From above ^

When it comes to commas and periods, though, logic doesn't enter into the equation, at least not in the United States. Universal American usage places commas and periods inside the quotation marks, regardless of logic.

~"Diane," she said, "put the book down and go outside for a little while."

~"I will in a minute," she replied, "as soon as I finish this chapter."

This rule applies even when the unit enclosed at the end of the sentence is just a single word rather than an actual quotation:

~To get to the next page, just press the little button marked "Enter."

The only exception is when that last little item enclosed in quotation marks is just a letter or a number, in which case the period or comma will go outside the closing quotation marks:


~The buried treasure was marked on the map with a large "X".

~The only grade that will satisfy her is an "A".

~On this scale, the highest ranking is a "1", not a "10".

There you go.

Clue: The USA is not the only country in the world.

American English may use this weird and completely illogical (your quote admits it has nothing to do with logic in the US - whereas other English speaking people do use a logical system) rule but plain English does not.