I just write gawd instead of God or god. Well, I'll use god if I'm talking about Greek or Norse pantheons, or others, but as an atheist I don't feel the need to capitalize god when I'm referring to that biblical one.
I would love to live there, even if just for a short stint. Got a spare room for a l'il Puerto Rican guy? My job is portable, thus I am already employed. I long to know the thrill of a life where any little crawlie thing that crosses my path is guaranteed to be 100% lethal.
It just so happens I inhabit a 2 BR unit leaving 1 room "spare". It has storage stuff in it but mostly clothes. $165 / week + bills
I'm glad to see, but not surprised, that I'm not the only one here who absolutely detests the fact that "literally" has literally become its own antonym. I don't care if the dictionary is changed to accommodate this new colloquial meaning, I'll go to my grave opposing this folly.
Speaking of Australia, I absolutely despise the practice of creating new slang terms that are basically other words truncated and suffixed with "ie". As in: Breakfast = Breakie Barbecue = Barbie Biscuit = Bikkie Even the word Aussie. Seriously, just look at this page and do a search for "ie". http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html I don't know what it is about it, but it just makes my skin crawl. Perhaps we could start deporting them all back to the UK as convicts.
The use of "babe" as a term of endearment for people you're dating. I am not an infant, and we are not from Jersey Shore. Let it die.
This is a slight derail, but I can't stand the fact that "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing. They sound like they should be opposites! What is wrong with English? Argh.
Aha, you're weaseling out! What if one of your characters says it, as in: "I'm a Christian. Of course I believe in God." Do you cap it up?
We used YOLO as our yearly phrase for Band my Sophomore year, and the people that decided to use that were the ones with high grads and national music scholarships. Which is kind of ironic, actually.
Nope, I get even more weaselly and write, "I'm a Christian. Of course I believe!" Same basic meaning, no caps conundrum.
I'm now imagining someone saying "I could kill a burger" hehehe. Anyway yeah I've heard both "kill for" and "murder". Somehow I don't take issue with those the way I do "attack". What else should be banned? "Should of, could of, would of" - I know that isn't official but so many people are starting to write it. I've seen it even on this forum! Which is rather frightening given that we're all writers here and as such, should kinda know better
If they've not been mentioned already... had ran had ate had wrote When past tense hooks up with past participle, their offspring is abomination. *goes to fetch gom jabbar to dispatch abominations*
I do the same, in fact I outright refuse to capitalise the word god, despite being, on all accounts, a grammar Nazi. On the other hand, I do capitalise He when referring to Satan in my novel. It annoys Christians and solidifies the beliefs of my MC, so I figured- why not kill two birds with one stone?
I have always cringed so hard that my eyebrows could do with a transplant afterwards whenever I've had the great displeasure of reading ''he/she selected a pen/chocolate bar/whatever''... selected... it just makes me mad, I have no real reason to take such a lofty stand against it but there ya go.
Oh yeah. "Bored of" bugs me in the same way. Even though it's technically correct. But when did that creep in?
Yep. There's always another way to do it. But still.... Okay here's one for you—you're writing dialogue, remember. "I believe _____ exists."
It could be. But the question here is : is the person saying the dialogue using the word "god" as the name of a being? If it's being used as the being's name, then it's capped, isn't it? Whatever your personal belief in the god's actual existence. It's grammatical convention, not religious belief. I reckon....
Sorry yes. I thought we were filling in the blanks to avoid mentioning God. I agree, it's her name, and should thus be capitalised. I am pretty sure the most likely use of the word God for authors such as @Wreybies would be to have it appear at the start of a sentence of dialog, where he can capitalise with impunity, and not sully his values. eg: "God yes," he moaned. A pattern usable with your example also: "God is something I believe exists," he said, starting the sentence with the name, so that the capitalisation could be forgiven. I can understand the points raised previously, that people do not wish to ever imply support or suggest validity for the concept, therefore eschewing capitalisation. I personally do not believe, certainly not in the slot machine God of the Christians, but do not find it distasteful to capitalise, nor believe it validates the concept or belief in same.
Yeah, but the older way of saying it is "I'm really bored with (or bored by) this book, and have decided to stop reading it." Now, apparently, it's the done thing to say "I find myself really bored of this book and have decided to stop reading it." It just makes me want to scream every time I see it written. Strangely enough, I don't actually hear it said that often. I've been wondering why it irritates me so much. I don't know.
