German police say a motorist has been clocked driving at more than 199 mph on the Autobahn west of Berlin. He was traveling at more than 124 mph above the speed limit.
It’s a good thing we aren’t in school where they (are supposed to) teach you the exactly correct thing.
They also teach you in school that you don’t capitalize the first letter after an ellipsis, but you just did. It’s almost like, and I’m just spitballing here, it’s OK and generally acceptable in unofficial writing to make minor mistakes that are common enough.
They also teach you in school that you only use single quotes if your quote is inside of another quote. So why did you use single quotes twice in your unquoted sentence?
As for your statement that you either have one standard or none at all. Have you heard of the Oxford Comma? Have you read the rules for whether you put an apostrophe s after a singular possessive noun that ends in s? Even within a single country we can’t agree on common rules for a language.
It’s a good thing we aren’t in school where they (are supposed to) teach you the exactly correct thing.
They also teach you in school that you don’t capitalize the first letter after an ellipsis, but you just did. It’s almost like, and I’m just spitballing here, it’s OK and generally acceptable in unofficial writing to make minor mistakes that are common enough.
They also teach you in school that you only use single quotes if your quote is inside of another quote. So why did you use single quotes twice in your unquoted sentence?
As for your statement that you either have one standard or none at all. Have you heard of the Oxford Comma? Have you read the rules for whether you put an apostrophe s after a singular possessive noun that ends in s? Even within a single country we can’t agree on common rules for a language.