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Who knows a variety of winter squash that has excellent fruit like kabocha or delicate, really nice tasting seeds, and also nice sturdy blossoms for eating? It would do no harm if they were also nice eaten green.
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I am a grownup and I do not use comma splices in the narrative passages. However, sometimes in dialog the comma splice seems to express the speaker's articulation better than "correct" punctuation. But I'm worried because I don't know what's being expressed there. For example:
"Leave them alone, they're not hurting anything."
"Leave them alone. They're not hurting anything."
or:
"He just came in here Saturday, he looked like a hobo."
"He just came in here Saturday. He looked like a hobo."
or:
"I'm not saying anything, I'm not like that."
"I'm not saying anything. I'm not like that."
or:
"They wouldn't give you the time of day, you had to get your own watch."
"They wouldn't give you the time of day. You had to get your own watch."
(sentences constructed at random) Is there the same difference between the comma-splice and short-sentence versions in each case? If so, what is it? If not, what are the different differences? I can hear differences in my mind, but what are they telling me about the speakers? What do these things mean?
On another front, I have a big vermillion squash in the microwave and I'm going to make a rich, rich soup. With sage.
And Emma's feeling better so she went away.
"Leave them alone, they're not hurting anything."
"Leave them alone. They're not hurting anything."
or:
"He just came in here Saturday, he looked like a hobo."
"He just came in here Saturday. He looked like a hobo."
or:
"I'm not saying anything, I'm not like that."
"I'm not saying anything. I'm not like that."
or:
"They wouldn't give you the time of day, you had to get your own watch."
"They wouldn't give you the time of day. You had to get your own watch."
(sentences constructed at random) Is there the same difference between the comma-splice and short-sentence versions in each case? If so, what is it? If not, what are the different differences? I can hear differences in my mind, but what are they telling me about the speakers? What do these things mean?
On another front, I have a big vermillion squash in the microwave and I'm going to make a rich, rich soup. With sage.
And Emma's feeling better so she went away.
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I don't know what the letters stand for, but I know what it is: it's a bit of HTML that fetches a daily thing like a blog. I've been collecting RSS feeds (suggestions welcome) so I can get all this stuff in my livejournal flist. One of my favorites is rijksfeed which is an almost-daily presentation of a painting from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, along with a breif commentary. Today it's the painting of the tailor and his apprentices and what's so cool about that is I saw that very painting! in person! this summer!
On another front, in the last three days I wrote 5K on the Altagracia book. This is one that started as a self-indulgent school romance set on my terraformed art-project world, all about culture clash and angst, which to me are like the most self-indulgent things evar to write about. Anyway it has developed almost into a whole novel, with a bunch of exposition (including a breakout infodump second chapter "Walkabout on Abundance" which starts
( even though I hope this is not boring, I'm not taking any chances )
On another front, I now officially love squash.
On another front, in the last three days I wrote 5K on the Altagracia book. This is one that started as a self-indulgent school romance set on my terraformed art-project world, all about culture clash and angst, which to me are like the most self-indulgent things evar to write about. Anyway it has developed almost into a whole novel, with a bunch of exposition (including a breakout infodump second chapter "Walkabout on Abundance" which starts
( even though I hope this is not boring, I'm not taking any chances )
On another front, I now officially love squash.
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