It’s common to the point of mootness, but: when describing the planet, Earth is a proper noun and should be capitalized. Otherwise you are referring to soil.
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While we’re on the topic, that’s not how colons work.
When you can smell his colon on your pillow 🥰
You want pink eye? Cause that’s how you get pink eye
Omg pink is such a pretty colour I’d lovvvvvve that
Even a pink sock?
😏
How would you write that, then?
Pretty much the same, but without a colon.
So, “Breaking News Susan Crawford”?
The complaint isn’t about the colon in OP’s image, it’s the colon in OP’s explanation.
OP complaining about an insignificant capitalization mistake in a Twitter post, while making a far more egregious grammatical error in their explanation is just…*chef’s kiss*
It isn’t even an error, though. It’s just wrong. “Earth” should be lowercase. I can understand being pedantic, but pedantic and wrong is super irritating.
The original post is technically correct on the topic of capitalization for “Earth”. When referring to the planet, it is a proper noun, thus capitalized. source
However, that is a pretty egregious use of a colon XD
Yeah. Never managed to properly get the hand of punctuation.
Hang of, not hand of.
I don’t know what kind of thread I stumbled into, but I love it.
My rule with langauge:
If you understand what they’re trying to say, then they did a good enough job expressing themselves.
(Also I love how this post is getting loads of upvotes because people are just seeing Bernie’s message and liking it lol).
I get the message and generally don’t care for prescriptive grammar, but for some reason this particular rule haunts me.
Let those votes be a lesson: camouflage your actual point behind a picture everyone loves and you will … win fake internet points?
win fake internet points?
Don’t even get those here
Who names a planet after dirt?
Most of it isn’t even covered in dirt. Should have named it Water, or at least Rock.
For all we know, in that moment Elon was standing on some dirt, making him the wealthiest person on lower-case earth.
