Sport Coats and Jeans

[tcmquincy]

Lmao thank you for the grammar correction. I swear even when I say "couldn't care less" somebody corrects it to the wrong one.

 

[emptym]

You, a foolish man in jeans: "this is what the stre-"

Me, a wise man in wide wool trousers: *roundhouse kick to your face*

I like to adapt more of a liberal worldview with punctuation placement around quotations. If it's a full on quote, I'll leave the punctuation inside, but if I'm using quotations for emphasis, I'll generally go "against the grain".

I think you're actually conforming to the trend. (I, and others, blame Wikipedia for this corruption of the American youth.)

Grammar police alert:

Spoiler

Just FYI unless you’re actually quoting someone then single quote marks will suffice as should have been the case in the original post.
Also, in the case that you’re not quoting someone and correctly using single quotes, then it’s perfectly correct for the full stop to be outside the quote marks, as the single quote marks are attached to the word for emphasis not the entire sentence.

I’ve never understood the American idiom “I could care less”, so it’s encouraging that you (presumably American?) are fighting the good fight on that one!

Grammar and punctuation - the difference between knowing your **** and knowing you’re ****!

Americans almost never use single quotation marks, unless we're indicating a quote w/in a quote. But I agree that he could have used them. Placing periods outside of quotation marks is fine under British rules, but not American ones. Also, his quotation marks weren't for emphasis but more to deemphasize or soften the force of the words (as in so-called "expert" or "rules").
Glad we agree on "couldn't care less"! (Yes, for American English, exclamation points and question marks fall outside the quotation marks if not part of a quote.)

Lmao thank you for the grammar correction. I swear even when I say "couldn't care less" somebody corrects it to the wrong one.

A perfect opportunity for you to educate them (in the original sense of dragging them out of the cave)! Actually, I'm not a fan of the expression either way. I wouldn't have corrected you normally, but I saw that you're about to start your senior year, and I know how much grammar and punctuation errors bug profs. I used to teach college writing and even wrote an English placement exam for a university. It was standard for incoming first-year students for about 10 yrs.

 

[Eli Curt]

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I think you're actually conforming to the trend. (I blame Wikipedia for this corruption of the American youth.)


Americans almost never use single quotation marks. But I agree that he could have used that too.
Periods outside of quotation marks is fine under British rules, but not American ones.
Unrelated to this, his quotation marks weren't for emphasis but more to deemphasize or soften the force of the words.
Glad we agree on "couldn't care less"! (Yes, for American English, exclamation points and question marks fall outside the quotation marks if not part of a quote.)

I could care less works too. E.g. I could care less about your standoffish black-jeans-and-sportcoat rule (if such a level existed, but I'm already at the lowest level of caring. So, I don't).

 

[dieworkwear]

This is a good time to plug David Mitchell

 

[emptym]

^The end reminds me of one of my favorite Steve Martin clips:

I could care less works too. E.g. I could care less about your standoffish black-jeans-and-sportcoat rule (if such a level existed, but I'm already at the lowest level of caring. So, I don't).

 

[imatlas]

“I could care less” implies that there is a lesser degree of caring possible.

“I could not care less” implies that no such degree exists; this is the most you could possibly care about the subject, which is very little.

 

[Numbernine]

Growing up in the semi-literate rural south I find some things just can't be expressed properly without the use of double negatives.

 

[Coffandcig]

Growing up in the semi-literate rural south I find some things just can't be expressed properly without the use of double negatives.

Ain't you never learned nothing?

 

[Numbernine]

Ain't you never learned nothing?

No. I can't get no satisfaction.

 

[Clouseau]

You finally shaved your mustache ?


Regarding Black jeans with SC :


NO

YES

 

[tcmquincy]

You finally shaved your mustache ?


Regarding Black jeans with SC :

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NO

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YES

I appreciate the advice. Don't mean to be rude, but would your "yes" picture be more of a grey than a black? More info would be appreciated

 

[tcmquincy]

Or is your point that a "lighter black" is better than a "darker black"?

 

[Clouseau]

Black denim fabric like Blue denim fabric looks much better than all black tainted jeans.

 

[drfwtx]

Linen on linen. And denim. And suede.

 

[dieworkwear]

jeans barely visible, but there! also like the cut of this jacket