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 π₯°
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?
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Sounds like true love to me
Hot take I know, but I don't think he should be shitting on your pillows.
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You had me scanning the image (of text without alt text: bad, OP! BAD!) for a
:pretty hard until I settled on The New York Times messagefor a while. Had me wondering how else The New York Times is supposed to write that, because it looks correct.
This is why quoting exists.
Did you finally find the culprit?
After a while, thus achieving another mild infuriation. π―
Sure, but: it was right there all along.
Separately, Elon might be on Earth, but he's also sometimes on earth. Although he's more of an indoors boy.
How would you write that, then?
Pretty much the same, but without a colon.
So, "Breaking News Susan Crawford"?
The complaint isnβt about the colon in OPβs image, itβs the colon in OPβs 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
"On earth" (e.g. "richest man on earth") is one of those idioms, so the E is lowercase. See here.
It's a bit confusing, but they aren't literally referring to "the planet Earth" in an astronomical sense. If you were writing a sci-fi story and comparing the wealth of the richest man on Earth to, say, the richest man on Mars, then it would be capitalized.
Keep looking
but,
Yeah. Never managed to properly get the hand of punctuation.
For a person complaining about pedantic language stuff youβre really falling apart π
I know precious few rules and when even those don't matter, I know even less.
βKay
Then why make this post in the first place?
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Hang of, not hand of.
I donβt know what kind of thread I stumbled into, but I love it.
It's ok, my colon doesn't work very well either.
Too much cream in one place, not enough in another.