I'll always use quotes when speaking IC diaglogue. Always.
It was how the people I first RPed with did it, and it made sense to me.
I don't really distinguish between /say and /emote because I'll mix and match them depending on how I want my sentence to start. I find it against my writing style to Do any type of Narration first sentence unless it's starting with Franz. For exceptions to that, I'll use /em and a bar ( | ) to denote that this isn't an action Franz is doing, and he isn't saying it.
I do break a "rule" of English grammar in all of this though. Putting the punctuation inside the quotes. Hate it. Perhaps that's the computer science influence, but it just seems so silly to do it within RP because I'm effectively just using the quote marks to denote spoken text. They're self-contained.
It was how the people I first RPed with did it, and it made sense to me.
I don't really distinguish between /say and /emote because I'll mix and match them depending on how I want my sentence to start. I find it against my writing style to Do any type of Narration first sentence unless it's starting with Franz. For exceptions to that, I'll use /em and a bar ( | ) to denote that this isn't an action Franz is doing, and he isn't saying it.
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"This would be something Franz said". And then maybe he would walk away.Code: (Select All)
/em would way away, perhaps mumbling "this is something I said".I do break a "rule" of English grammar in all of this though. Putting the punctuation inside the quotes. Hate it. Perhaps that's the computer science influence, but it just seems so silly to do it within RP because I'm effectively just using the quote marks to denote spoken text. They're self-contained.
