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To: Windflier

It should be “melt down”, not “meltdown”.

It should be neither. You’ve misplaced the comma and the period.


22 posted on 12/19/2016 9:27:15 PM PST by Go No
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To: Go No

“You’ve misplaced the comma and the period.”

First correction I’ve gotten in some time. Thanks, but I posted it the way I was taught.


32 posted on 12/19/2016 9:36:54 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Go No

“You’ve misplaced the comma and the period.”

Depends on which style manual you’re using. In a few of the ones I used many decades ago (Chicago style, I believe), end quotation marks after other than direct quotations, such as to show irony or around individual words or letters always precede any comma or period for that clause. The MLA and most other style books agree with your style.


53 posted on 12/19/2016 10:21:50 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Go No

I think it should be “ they done be melted”


70 posted on 12/20/2016 2:50:49 AM PST by RaginRak
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To: Go No; Windflier
The correct phrase is indeed melt down, and not the noun, meltdown. And of course, the punctuation can float within or outside the quotes — I'm curious, however, about the innie/outie implications in legal text.

Regarding your criticism, the contraction, you've, combined with misplaced forms the present-perfect which is an ambiguous expression in terms of past specificity. And since we know the precise time of Windy's post, the past tense alone should work; specifically: You misplaced the comma and the period.

100 posted on 12/22/2016 7:17:03 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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