Last Person to Post here Wins [7]

I know that had nothing to do with what was going on, of course...

RANDOM!

Deal with WHAT?!r

I am not surprised that you posted a RWBY quote, @dragonfphoenix.

Oh, and could somebody please answer this: why do Americans call full stops "periods"?

Huh?

If you are confused and you are the one who called a full stop a period, how confused must I not be?

I called a period an end mark, not a full stop.

We just...do. I have no idea why. We call classes 'periods' too. (period 1, period 2, etc.) which I think is even weirder.

Periods are also used in hockey games.

No, those last two make perfect sense - we call classes periods too.

And, actually, r4, you said both!

r4p17 wrote:Oh yes, I forgot to put an end mark. *places period*

But you misunderstand - what you call periods/end marks we call full stops. I was simply contemplating the strangeness of American English.

For us, it's the strangeness of British English.

They know, we know, I know, we've known forever! Muahahaha! *Flashes of lightning and thunder*

Touché, @meandbooks. Although English does have its origins in England, a part of Britain...

You could argue that it has origins in German, Greek, Dutch, Latin, French and a host of other languages as well