(09-21-2015, 02:54 PM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: I left part of my quote in the above larger quote for the sake of using red to point out that I did not in fact say I "am" writing a novel.Â
Fair enough, though am I correct that the larger point that you follow the conventions of that medium is accurate?
(09-21-2015, 02:54 PM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: In this case, though, in as much as roleplaying can be equated to a written form of improv acting, I think it's fair to point out that what you're suggesting is to compare the presentation of the production (e.g. the play or show that the script is meant for) to the preparation for the production. Spinning that back to the fact that this is text and not voice/video, I'm sure we can agree that J.K. Rowling probably has computer files in which she wrote up dialogue for the characters in her books - preparation - but when the time came for actual presentation, the book you buy in the store has quotations around all of the dialogue.
If you were to record and transcribe the improv production, though, you'd get something that follows its own conventions -- a transcription.
Transcriptions don't usually typically quotation marks either. Is online RP more like a screenplay, a play, a novel, or a transcription? Which is the right convention to use? I think this thread is evidence that one hasn't been decided yet. My larger point is that I feel it's awfully harsh to judge on this particular stylistic issue that seems to depend to some extent on where and when you started RPing and what the people around you tend to use. Among people I RP with regularly, quotation marks in say are very, very rare, and the future conditional nonexistent (to reference another thread on style
). I suspect things are different in your corner of the RP community. I don't we can legitimately say which is right and which is wrong -- just which more people use in a particular circle.Conversely, people who use "mute point" or "irregardless" in RP should be immediately blacklisted.
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