Very important political issue

[redandguilty]

The period after Obama's "Forward." slogan.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/02...bamas-forward-slogan/?iid=nf-article-mostpop1

rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble!!

I friggin' hate this campaign cycle.

 

[KAWDUP]

I don't keep it at my desk, but I do have Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style at home. Don't you get it? Of course I am going to determine who I vote for in this election solely by which candidate uses the best grammar in slogans.

Who wouldn't? :*)

 

[redandguilty]

I don't keep it at my desk, but I do have Strunk and White?s The Elements of Style at home. Don't you get it? Of course I am going to determine who I vote for in this election solely by which candidate uses the best grammar in slogans.

Who wouldn't? :*)

I don't have S&W, but I do have some 2nd rate book on my desk though. If I didn't have such luck with google searches, I would have S&W though.

In middleschool an English teacher was let go and they were stuck putting the football coach in charge for the year. He walked us through Struck & White. Simple.

 

[tinselwolverine]

"First, there is the matter of whether one can place a period after the word “forward” at all."

???

"Excuse me, Mr. Security Guard, I can't find the ATM. Did I walk past it, or is it still forward?"

"Forward."

 

[redandguilty]

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_...-buckeyes?eref=sihp&sct=hp_bf2_a8&hpt=hp_bn16

"I watched that [the Michigan] game on TV, and Shazier didn't play very good," [Urban Meyer] said.

"well"!!! "...Shazier didn't play very well"

That decides it! I'm a Michigan fan.

 

[TheVictors]

After many delays, re-routings and a 3am arrival into Denver a text to my buddy from his wife, as we stayed up drinking waiting for him was meant to read, "LOL" after his rant about traveling.

But instead of "LOL" it read, "LOL?"

His response was hilarious ... "LOL? No, not LOL! Nothing funny at all --"

 

[KAWDUP]

"First, there is the matter of whether one can place a period after the word “forward” at all."

???

"Excuse me, Mr. Security Guard, I can't find the ATM. Did I walk past it, or is it still forward?"

"Forward."

Is it still forward? Do you mean ahead? Not sure that is correct usage unless you are referring to a specific place. Maybe a bad example. When acting as a noun or verb or even an adverb, it, of course, can end a sentence. When acting as an adjective, it would normally not be correct grammar to end a sentence with it. There are so many definitions for it, though, the writer was not clear what his comment applied to.

Certainly in the context of the slogan, since its meaning is not implied, you could argue it both ways, which I think may have been the point. The quote you posted was obviously by a grammar snob in their limited view of its meaning.

Don't even get me started about the nautical forward on a boat being allowed to be both an adjective and a noun.

But hey, maybe you don't care - you just wanted to add your own pointlessness to the argument. :*)

That is the story of my debating career.

 

[tinselwolverine]

"David Axelrod, strategist for both of Obama’s campaigns, told the Wall Street Journal that he likes the slogan: “There’s some finality to it.” He suggested that those who thought the punctuation was too final could add two more dots, creating an ellipsis, “and it’ll seem like it keeps on going..."

I like Axelrod's idea...

But -

How are ya gonna add them?

Are you gonna walk right up to the presidential podium with a small jar of white paint and a little brush, and paint them on, right in front of the president, while he's giving a stump speach...?