#or seeing a sentence with a comma or elipses and reading it normal and then reading it while saying ‘comma’ and ‘dot dot dot’ for them

[eleventeenratsinaflannelsuit]

i swear to fuck latin class teaching me that technically a vocative noun (ie. a name when someone is calling it) is supposed to be incased in commas is fucking destroying my fanfiction reading pleasure

because i keep seeing things like “Hello Larry, come help with this snapwobble problem”

and all my mind can offer

is that it’s supposed to be “Hello, Larry, come help me with this snapwobble problem.”

#it’s bad enough that i already get periodically stuck just spelling a word (that is already spelled correctly) out in my head over and over #or seeing a sentence with a comma or elipses and reading it normal and then reading it while saying ‘comma’ and ‘dot dot dot’ for them #and whenever i see dates #like years #i have to order the numbers in numerical order and then go through all the possible mathematical combinations to make New Numbers #like if it said 1928 #id have 1289 and 1+9+8+2 = 20 and 1 tag 8 and 9*2 both equal 18 #and then 18 + 18 = 36 #and then 36 +36 = 72 #and so on and so forth #also that 9-1=8 so then it’s 828 which is basically 414 #then you add 4 and one to get 5 and multiply 5 by the last 4 to get 20 and then 20 times 5 is 100 and 100/10 is 10 and the 9+1 and 8+2 #are both equal to 10 #and 10 is a really Good Number #and you can split it into 1 and 0 and anything divided bh zero is just… nonexistent #and thats cool #and anyways i do that with like all the dates i see and i am #conversely #rather bad at remembering dates #my story-reading is a /tad/ jerkey and split-up lol #just a tad #rat.txt #math #i guess