resonant | December Daily: hills to die on, grammatically (Reply)

laurenthemself -- "What grammatical (or punctuation, spelling) hill would you die on?"

Maaan, I don't know if it was good idea to let me loose on this.

If I can only choose one? Friends, I choose the vocative comma.

Everyone, pay attention. If you're addressing someone by a name or a descriptive title, then there needs to be a comma between that title and the rest of the sentence, fellow writers. This is true whether the name/title is at the start of the sentence or at the end, folks. British schoolteachers of a certain era, I blame you for creating this extremely common activator of my pet peeve system.

Aside from that:

- I have the usual ex-journalist's hair-trigger on the subject of less vs. fewer (the latter for things that can be counted, so the sign on the express lane needs to say "Eight Items Or Fewer").

- The whole genital arrangement is the vulva; the vagina is only the channel itself.

- Please stop conflating top/bottom as in pitch/catch with top/bottom as in dominant/submissive, and please stop writing as though every couple or every sex act must have a top and a bottom of either sort.

- A drabble has one.hundred.words.

ride_4ever if you are a maker of New Year's resolutions, post at least one -- if you are not, then comment about the concept of New Year's resolutions OR write a snippet-sized list of New Year's resolutions from the POV of one dSC6D character.