Lara’s Comments (group member since Nov 16, 2008)

Lara’s comments from the More RPG! group.

^ I do, I do.
< Is definitely not recommending that any other Odyssians should follow in her example, no sir. (I just told them it got eaten by my dog, basically. Metaphorically speaking. And they weren't happy but they dealt with it.)
v Is a Good Odyssian and will not be trying this.

^ Er, no.
< Never finished her portfolio at all once she found she could get away with it in the first conference of eighth grade.
v Burns things.

^ Ah no.
< Is really tired of people misspelling 'too'.
v Knows what pedantic means.

^ Pfft, I would never think such a thing, dearest grammarian.

< Would like to take the moment to quote an excellent Harry Potter fanfiction on the subject of grammar, namely, its abuse.

Listen closely.

"I have copied the following from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary I have on hand in order to be one, most
correct in my assumptions and two, most helpful from such a great distance.
com·ma
n.
1. Grammar. A punctuation mark ( , ) used to indicate a separation of ideas or of elements within the structure
of a sentence.
2. A pause or separation; a caesura.
Repeat after me, Mr. Black: I do believe in commas. I do, I do.
Keep saying it until a fairy comes up and gives you a swift kick right between the eyes."

--Remus Lupin, '76

An acceptable response would be

"I KNEW MOST OF THAT LETTER WOULD BE GRAMMATICAL ADVICE. you are borderline
compulsive, has anyone ever told you that? other than me? This obsession with punctuation marks signals, I
think, a disturbing fixation on minutiae that can lead only to eventual madness and a solitary death surrounded
by cats and a thousand folded pairs of socks. Good advice though it may be, I am choosing to ignore all of it, since I have created a personal grammar that
adheres to my needs both moral and punctuational. After all, with the world in its current lamentable state, I
sincerely believe that rather than WASTING commas with the rest of my fat capitalist pig brothers on frivolous
consumerist sentences like these, they should be donated to the more needy, such as the chinese, who as I
understand it have NO COMMAS AT ALL."

-- Sirius, '76 because such a response is, and let us face it with open arms, hilarious.

An unnacceptable response would be 'lol grammar nazi'.

Please bear that in mind for all your future responses to what I believe could be considered a joint remonstration.

v Will never, ever misuse a comma again without humorous explanation involving the phrase fat capitalist pig if at all possible.

^ I'm afraid not, I rather dislike it in fact.
< Said oops.
v Wonders whence all this article confusion.

^ No.
< Is not a Lara-demon, is THE Lara-demon.
v Has a yam.

^ Too true.
< Firmly believes that everyone should embrace the secular commercialism that is Christmas, no matter what their technical faith, since it's not as if the rest of the world cares. Also, presents.
V Almost certainly disagrees.

Lunabell is banned for inconsistency in her viewpoints on the word hypocrisy.

Sarah is banned for hypocrisy.

Darby is banned for making sweeping generalizations about classifications that can be quite useful for medical procedures, &c., &c.

She'd intended to avoid the clearing - the aphrodisiacs and hallucinogens she was here to collect were deeper into the woods - but she recognized Xapneir's voice - he was a sometime client, of a sort.

"Hold-up?" she murmured to herself, slipping behind the blackened bole of an oak, the better to observe the scene. "Unusual setting for it. And magic involved. Hmm."

Name: Solia
Power: Illusionist
Type of creature: Half-elf
Other: By profession, a whore; by inclination, an artist. At least, that's what she tells her customers.