Your user name makes this comment art.

So what? Are you missing the point of how you just don’t go around using quotation marks willy-nilly when your audience will have absolutely no clue what you are trying to convey by using them?

This seems like a pretty good forum to address this issue... I freakin HATE talking on the phone... Like if I could disable the phone feature on my iPhone, I totally would. I’m not sure what it is, but seeing a friends name pop up on my phone just fills me with dread. Some friends have complained to me about it and I…

No one should ever talk on the phone because phone calls are the worst form of torture. Yes, worse than waterboarding or pulling out someone’s fingernails. Give me texts or give me death.

I’ve always liked you too, but I think you’re very wrong here. Perhaps we can agree to disagree?

It’s already happened.

ICE is just a listing of people to call and other emergency info. If you get lucky and someone looks at it, they might call, but you’re not going to answer, ‘cause you don’t do that.

How would you already be there if you don’t know what’s happening because you won’t answer your phone or listen to voicemails? Either you’re going to have to do one of those things in order to receive the information, or someone’s going to have to text you the worst news ever because you stubbornly refuse to…

One of these days, you’re going to get a text telling you your mother or father just died.

Try me. First year teacher commuting to Brooklyn. Major traffic on the Belt Parkway, leave the house at 5:45 am. Can’t take cell phone out at work with the students, and often work through my lunch/am running around the building/taking the moment to actually USE THE BATHROOM during that time. Mandatory after school…

I’m just following your style. All these words have very different personal meanings for me regardless if they also still convey traditional meaning in my use and intention.

And the letter-writer got it right, too! You’d think that might’ve helped.

She’s not. I’m a “bad person” for “being” an “Ivy alumna.” Because back when “I” was still “there” and “living my life” and “dating” my “boyfriend” and being very “happy”, I “occasionally” mentioned “it” when “science” “came up” and I wanted to “discuss” my MD-PhD thesis “work.” I’m no longer there, and Fellow is far,…

Like I was saying, the quotation marks don’t make any sense. It’s still a phone call.

No, I’m serious. Many conversations with that one about her and her husband’s very white, STEM-fellowship, Phd programs, those of their respective parents, etc. There was a thread some months ago about their (naturally very patrician) nude bondage photos that was probably my favourite (in a sick way) in the entire…

But it’s also accurate to note that the phone conversation is no longer the preferred method of communication.

Don’t get her started; she’ll go on and on about her “Ivy League” “education” and so on...

Why did you put quotation marks around the word calls? It really doesn’t make any sense.

Of all the mnemonic devices out there Stationery = Paper is the one of the very simplest, there’s no excuse.