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LGBTQIAPK is too much.

It’s too much and everyone needs to get on board with “queer”

Nobody mention “QUILTBAG”

Wait LGBTQIAPK is a real thing? Damn. That's way too long. Queer is inclusive and much easier. When I was much younger and at least a little crazier my friends nicknamed me "Pan" after a particularly insane evening but it wasn't actually a thing then. OG Pan right here.

nah the apk is the wrapper for the app

xp ite become, if u will, a bit of a pans labyrinth out there

wait did dmac just ‘amazing’ his own comment itt?

controversial indeed

i dont discriminate

i have so many feelings about that K

I feel old now because I have to look up what some of these letters mean

we had four when I was a youth

now I have one answer and many more questions

whats the k

"kink"

not to kink shame but come on

I feel it's cool that there is a long acronym that defines a culture of respect and inclusion

on the other hand I'm on the verge of turning this from the controversial opinion thread into the conservative opinion thread

the sooner we acknowledge that WTF are the only three sex letters we need the better

LGBTQIAPK is too much.

― Screaming into the void has never been easier (Sanpaku), Monday, March 12, 2018 7:35 PM (two hours ago)

i googled this and got "about 8,790 results" so i'm guessing it's not that much of a thing yet

Apparently the K stands for 'kink' which doesn't really work in the way all the others letters do, surely? If the P is 'pansexual' then hmm, maybe, if 'polyamorous' then yeah, perhaps a few problems there. Does this actually now describe the majority of people? I'm still not sure if the Q is for 'queer' or 'questioning' to be honest.

the Q is for catch-all

We used to kick a boy in the nuts

Q stands for quality vs quantity

So it's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Irrationally Angry Pansexual Kink?

well wouldnt u be?

The oxford comma is a mess.

^^^

are you sure? i think it serves a valuable function, eliminates confusion, and more accurately mimics the pattern of speech

I don't know how many of my own stylistic fave opinions are controversial, but:

Oxford commas are optional to everyone and preferred personally

People are welcome to use one or two spaces after a period; people who rigorously enforce a only-one-space-after-a-period rule are savages

There is no difference functionally between a ; and a -- and a ... and a .. except levels of formality and familiarity. If I've drunk coffee and am pretending that I'm a paid writer then I'll ; if I have a number of clauses I might paste them together with a bunch of -- and if I'm writing a suggestion in an e-mail to a client that I'm hoping they'll accept I'll falsify some tentativeness with some ... and if it's a text to a friend and they're annoying me and I'm trying to let them know without telling them then it's ..

I adore mid-sentence ? or ! followed by a single space and no re-capitalization. What a wonderful device! how I adore it.

End punctuation belongs within the quotes

that’s 100% good imo.

Otm, and clearly written with love, too.

I usually feel a bit bad for people who litter their writing with double spaces, but it's a feeling bad of the empathic kind.

em-dash 4 life —

I blew everyone's mind in a meeting (with lots of lawyers and senior people) about 3 years ago when I brought up that you no longer have to use two spaces after end punctuation. No one believed me.

Oxford commas look unbelievably messy and juvenile to me. I understand the purpose, though.

I only learned about the end of two spaces on ilx in the past decade. If it hadn't been for this message board, I doubt I would have ever learned.

Yes, i too am a late-learner of one space convention. Sporadic compliance tbh.

Lol i spose one-space there.

As a website editor, I've spent too much of my time deleting double spaces and I wish people would bloody stop doing it (but only when I have to edit them).

I've had to do a bunch of stuff in LaTeX lately (and for the foreseeable future, really) and it bugs me that it adds the double space by default

One of the first things I do whenever I get a Word doc from anyone that's eventually going to be public facing is CTRL+H, Find " ", Replace With " ", Replace All.

I think sooo many people still have no clue that they don't have to do double space. They stopped teaching that in school right?

xp Phil, that's the first I do, too, when editing. For heavy lifting we use TextSoap, though colleagues of mine have doctored that for me as I found it quite complicated. Works a charm though and saves loads of time.

I've had to do a bunch of stuff in LaTeX lately (and for the foreseeable future, really) and it bugs me that it adds the double space by default

There’s only one espace insécable before colons, semi-colons and guillemets, though.

some lawyers still make you do double space so I'm kind of in the habit of doing it even though I know it doesn't need to be done.

people who rigorously enforce a only-one-space-after-a-period rule are savages

It's really satisfying to open a document that multiple people have toiled over for hundreds of hours, for many revisions, and run a quick find-and-replace for this. Word has completed searching the document and made 187 replacements.

also the world wide web is a savage

some lawyers still make you do double space

do y'all not use Microsoft Word, because this is a setting iirc

I had an employee who I hired, he gave me his first document and saw that he double spaced after a period. Immediate regrets for the hire. He just said that is the way he has always done it, and he was 26!! Young people should know better. Anyway, he had a hard time changing, so I had him run a script/macro I found that would remove the space. He did this before every document he sent me.

I think in 2018 we shouldn't care how many spaces are all over the document when we type it, it's just a clean-up rule that gets done either on demand or before saving the darn thing

My colleague double-spaces, I forbear to bring it up. But yeah mh otm nobody should have to think about this.

all documents should bE In spoNgeBoB mEme foRMaT

the one thing that still gets me, but makes me laugh and not angry, is that people typing into blog editing software on the web apparently don't always have grammar check?

I've seen two different articles with a double "the" lately. In the old days you'd fuck that up by having a line break and end up ending and beginning with "the" but since line breaks aren't a static thing on the web you end up with "the the" in the middle of a line

double spacing should be mandatory