Things that Bug Me

[ewt]

Things that bug me:

-descriptive sentences that are incomplete in prose that is meant to actually make sense.

"The intensely beautiful red-glow setting of the sun." THIS SENTENCE NO VERB.

(note that I don't particularly mind when it is part of a list or whatever)

-Using "&" instead of "and" in anything that is not a short title that you are trying to fit onto a poster or sign. I know a few people who do this, and I do not understand why it happens. I am not saying it is wrong, just that it bugs me.

So, what do I do in my writing that bugs you?

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

"What are you looking at?" Bob asked Mary

"The intensely beautiful red-glow setting of the sun."

Works ok for me.

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

Sentences with no verbs are often a lot more expressive and there is nothing incorrect about them gramatically speaking as far as I am aware. Ampersands pretty.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, a sentence needs a verb to be a sentence. It needs a subject as well (at least an implied one).

[doseybat.livejournal.com]

Not being a native speaker I may not be the one to argue, but I thought they were actual sentences where the verb was implied rather than actually there.

[spodlife]

Not only do, particularly American, newspapers and websites drop "and" for "&", they often drop the "&" for just ","! Often it doesn't even save any space!