(09-21-2015, 02:33 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: The problem is assuming that omitting quotation marks in /say is an error. It's not. It's purely a stylistic difference based on how one reads the medium. We can look at a typo or misuse of a contraction and say, "Yes. That's an error." Quotation marks or the lack thereof in /say don't fall into that category, because you're not writing a sentence in a novel. You're actually doing text generation that's rather more like a script, and they don't use quotation marks in scripts.
So, these are entirely different things.
You might be doing text generation, but I'm pretty sure I'm writing as if it's a novel (e.g. properly, or as much so as possible). One of us is writing a story. The other is apparently doing some computer programming or something, I don't know. :p
From your perspective, then, yes, they're very different things and I can understand, thinking in terms of your roleplay being computer programming and not writing, that you would want to avoid a lot of punctuation. One stray apostrophe and your entire post does nothing but return "Abort, Retry, Fail?" over and over.Â
From my perspective, since I'm writing and not doing computer programming, they're pretty much the same thing.
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This player has a sense of humor. If the content of the post suggests otherwise, please err on the side of amusement and friendship, because that's almost certainly the intent. We're all on the same team: Team Roleplayer! Have a smile, have a chuckle, and have a slice of pie. Isn't pie great?
