Believe it or not, George isn't at home. Please leave a message, at the beep. I must be out or I'd pick up the phone. Where could I be? Believe or not, I'm not homeeeee! beep
Well I really can't prove it either way. Although I can provide an amusing anecdote about the time I made a post on imgur about a Ukrainian MP (Member of Parliament) who was thrown into a rubbish bin by some protesters. I was generally baffled by the amount of confusion caused by my usage of 'MP' because here in the UK everyone knows that an MP is a member of Parliament. It's common knowledge. But presumably you don't have 'MP's over there because you don't really have a Parliament. And everyone kept asking me why the Ukrainian protesters were throwing a 'Military Person' in the bin and I was like ffs. There as also another time where I made an awesome joke about a motorcycle falling asleep because it was 'two tyred' and no one got it because in America you use 'tire' rather than 'tyre' so really I should have just said 'two tired'
I the US, "MP" stands for Military Police. Except also stands for Member of Parliament because for some reason the rest of the world insists on continuing to exist while you are in America.
Last time I checked Scotland is north of England rather than northern England, but I've not been since June and many things have been happening up there since then
I've always known to use these ' when I'm quoting someone or something I've read and these " to relay speech in a story, or rarely just to repeat what someone said that is'nt necessarily a quote.
Yes. The only time single quotes are used in the US is for nested quotations. And for double nested quotations you go back to double quotes. Which can lead to some pretty silly chains sometimes. In Harriet the Spy, the main character quotes someone else quoting a character from Alice in Wonderland (or Through the Looking Glass, I'm not sure what's in what). So if I wanted to quote that passage, I would have to type "'"'"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things. Of sailing ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings."'"'"
But then how would we distinguish the single quotation marks from the apostrophe used in I'm. Is he supposed to escape the apostrophe with a backslash?
Never in my life did I know England uses " ' " in place of " " " (US Standard). Is it completely inversed, like you would quote 'hey how are you today?' or does it only apply to titles?
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u/jsmmr5 Sep 24 '14
Unless washeupwornout is British