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NATO Standard Phonetic Alphabet,

The phonetic alphabet was developed as a way to spell things out over radio communications that may be less then ideal, I.E. a lot of static or weak signal. All the words were chosen because they have a distinct sound that is easy to pick out. Military and police communications use the phonetic alphabet heavily and can be helpful to know for talking over CB’s or FRS (walky talky) radios.

im saving this for later as that is smooth af

i don’t know why i love this so much but i do

saving this for later dont mind me 

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

Long live the pets

hope your pets stay healthy in 2017

xD what the fuck, i love it

your crimes are known. the frog council sits in judgement.

Secret santa thing

well ive joined an event and as soon as i saw the notification i am offically ready to panic cause i now have to research it and i hope i do it right wish me luck

to anyone whom it concerns, 

there is a website called archive.org and they have all sorts of stuff (online information, library stuff, textbooks, movies etc)  buuuuuuuuut if you search archiveofourown or a specific tag (i looked up irondad and it did have results) you can see some fics from there, it isnt much but its still nice to be able to feed my mental instability somewhere lol 

I have a flute and his name is Lionel

musicians of tumbr reblog with your instrment and its name

ill go first, i play violin and her name is sardine

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

When you get this you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool!!)

Is it bad i just got this?? cause i was seeing what i missed on activity and noticed it. well here we go i guess

N1- My figure. It may sound weird or conceited but im not skinny i got chub and weigh almost 170 but my figure still looks nice and im proud of it.

N2 My eyes. They may be shit brown buuuuuuut they are pretty

N3 My skin. I only get zits and stuff when im about to start which is really a small miracle if i think about it.

N4 My height. I may bitch about it all the time but it is easy to get to lower areas and to fix things under a table near a bed or the harder to reach places ( there is only one hindrance in that department but only other girls would get it ..... or at least some)

N5- My personality. It sounds weird but for me im an introvert but im pretty good at making friends so i must be doing something right you know so i like that i am some what partially socially competent