Titles never end with a point

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Rule -> Titles never end with a point (1/29/2014 11:45:57 PM)
Just so that you know. Go to a bookshelf and try to find a book that has a title that ends in a single point. I am curious how many titles you had to examine before you found one that ends with a point. The same is true for all titles, including thread titles.

SoulAlloy -> RE: Titles never end with a point (1/29/2014 11:49:23 PM)
point as in full stop or point as in opinion?

MisterP61 -> RE: Titles never end with a point (1/30/2014 8:22:38 AM)
So... whats Your point?[:-]

DesFIP -> RE: Titles never end with a point (1/30/2014 3:36:22 PM)
Of course not. A title is not a full sentence. They rarely have punctuation except a necessary apostrophe or question mark. Why would you imagine they ought to.

Legacy0381 -> RE: Titles never end with a point (1/31/2014 4:57:24 AM)
War & Peace....

Legacy0381 -> RE: Titles never end with a point (1/31/2014 5:00:30 AM)
To kill a mockingbird...

Moonhead -> RE: Titles never end with a point (1/31/2014 8:18:00 AM)
An ellipsis isn't a full stop, and in those cases (which I confess I can't be arsed to check if they actually do end in an ellipsis) the dots are just there so the author can flaunt the fact that their title is an incomplete chunk of a quotation. (Faulkner, who used shitloads of fragments of quotations couldn't be bothered mucking about with ellipses, iirc.)

SoulAlloy -> RE: Titles never end with a point (1/31/2014 2:34:20 PM)
Hmmm, I think these ones do... Book 1 Book 2 DVD [8D]

LookieNoNookie -> RE: Titles never end with a point (1/31/2014 2:39:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Rule Just so that you know. Go to a bookshelf and try to find a book that has a title that ends in a single point. I am curious how many titles you had to examine before you found one that ends with a point. The same is true for all titles, including thread titles. Late 70's: "Steal this Book".

MercTech -> RE: Titles never end with a point (2/5/2014 5:36:05 PM)
A title isn't a sentence but a label.

Rule -> RE: Titles never end with a point (2/5/2014 6:04:47 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SoulAlloy Hmmm, I think these ones do... Book 1 Book 2 DVD [8D] lol [sm=goodpost.gif]

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