Saturday Sep 25, 2004

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She likes the taste of my blood on her claws.
When I'm not looking, a private cat will rinse her teeth
in a savoury disolve.

Don't turn your back on me
and don't lick your lips when
I show you the cut.
It's only been recently
that you have tried to
sleep on the retractable keyboard rest.
It is nice
when you stand in front of the monitor;
you climbe from the right hand side and it's ok.
I know you will claw at me when you fall: you have learn't your lesson.
But don't lick your lips,
without smelling the blood,
when I show you the cut.
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anonymouse:
The eighties as a decade is always a plural and never a possessive FOR THE MOST PART. There was a series on VH1 called "I Love the '80s." In TV Guide, they printed it correctly; however, many of the graphics in the program wrote it as "80's." That's incorrect, and I see it A LOT. Especially since I'm interning as an assistant copy editor at a multiconglomerate entertaintment corporation.

If you want to say that the eighties had a colossol hairspray market, you may say, "The '80's hairspray market was colossol." Most style guides, however, will tell you the write it out as eighties' because the numerical form looks awkward. In fact, most style guides (including the Chicago Manual for journalism, the MLA, et cetera) will mark '80's as wrong but eighties' as right. It's weird, but grammar rules are often picky and weird.

I suggest you pick up this book. It's very useful. Also, go check out this article. And it is not "colosal." It's "colossal."

Although, now that I look at your profile, you are not American. So a style guide based on American modern usage won't be of much use to you. There are many Oxford guides to English usage that you might find helpful.
pumpkineater:
are you a schizophrenic? and i mean that in the nicest way. heh. all your name changes are hard to follow - i feel like i have friends i never even knew i had!

i do like your poem.

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