Typography and karaoke
You thought grammar nazis were bad? Try typography nazis.
The main issue I have with that article is that it’s near impossible to follow those rules and have it display correctly for each and every person. No two internet users are the same. Different browsers, operating systems, and language packs installed means different machine interpretations of the same code. These rules are pretty important for serious print media, but not really practical for online use.
Still, it’s good to know. Even if I do have a raging hate-on for sixty-six and ninety-nine quotes in heavy text.
The university has a cultural fair going on all week. What that actually means is that a large group of college kids are hanging around near the event center and having an outdoor karaoke fest. Chinese college students love emo, for some reason. They sing it off key and in really bad Engrish, but it still isn’t funny due to the fact that they don’t stop singing until two in the morning. It was funny for the first three hours, sure, but I’m trying to sleep, guys. =( Can’t you sing in battered English tomorrow morning or something?
Oh, right! Lost my voice again. I’m not really even sick; I just can’t talk. I’ve never lost my voice quite this early in the year. Let’s hope that it’s not a sign that I’m going to be mute two times a year instead of one.
June 1st, 2008 11:20
Hey, there! Don’t know if I should reply on you LJ or here these days. I figured you might not be able to see my comments on LJ, so why not here?
I wasn’t sure if you were living next to a university over there. Now I know, heh. It’s because one of your family members is a professor, right?
I know a few music fanatics that would claw out their eyes at most karaoke places. They can’t even pick apart the minor things because everything else grates on them.
Uh. I actually read that article, and it made my head hurt. And put me in a bad mood. Bah, typographical nazis. The only one that I agreed with was the one with brackets. My humbly ignorant self tells me that it’s an easy thing to fix.
I hope the muteness thing doesn’t happen more often over there. Or else you’ll have to use those cards more often. “Ask me anything!” And look, no sixty-sixes and ninety-nines!