Posts by Jason Bassford Supports Monica
In "150+ Short Two-Sentence Horror Stories To Freak You Out," Michael Koh compiled a list of two-sentence horror stories. He started of by saying that "horror stories don’t need to be long in orde...
For some reason, when I read this question, my thoughts were immediately drawn to the book The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. At one point in the classic science fiction story, the protagonist is...
There is a discussion of the use of postscripts in email messages on English Language & Usage. The discussion was closed as being primarily opinion based, but one thing to consider is that a p...
Correcting a translation is something different than just correcting a typo. The difference between what's been printed here and what you think it should be seems more like a misinterpretation on t...
You seem to want there to be a throwaway relationship on the one hand but not on the other hand. There are of course subtleties and degrees, but, in a broad analysis, either it is a throwaway rela...
If you are writing a paper in a context where the type of shortening in A is a recognized device for the kind of contrast you use in B, then you can use it. Personally, I've never seen anything li...
There's nothing wrong with the word erotica. That's exactly how it's categorized in bookstores, where it's publicly displayed and not considered something to be hidden from anyone. [Merriam-Web...
From the MLA Handbook, 8th ed., p. 55: There are circumstances in which a citation like "(Baron 194)" doesn't provide enough information to lead ambiguously to a specific entry. If you borrow f...
I will provide quotes from The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., and from The Editors Blog. The links to Chicago are behind a paywall and, unfortunately, can only be viewed if you have a subscript...
In fiction, there are several possibilities: Have the narrator explain the acronym outside of actual dialogue, assuming that the narrator is written in a way to express their thoughts. Have a cha...
