Penelope Modra

@ftrain @SnoozeInBrief When you walk through a gap To your room for a nap That’s a doorway

@lined_cats ❤️

@andrewjtagg @TheGoodCopy Thanks, Andy. It was great to meet you! And this tweet is going straight to the poolroom 🙏

Spent the afternoon at the BEST non-medical course I have ever done. Thank you @pennymodra and @TheGoodCopy thegoodcopy.com.au/pages/school

@incrediblemelk You know my feelings on this, Brain

I feel so annoyed at myself for my yearning to be part of academia, an institution within which I am marginal at best, and which will never truly accept me

@LouiseTheBooker @neilhimself Lou, I saw this and *immediately* saved it to my secret Arguments Against the Oxford file

So apparently Adele was Ben Affleck all the time. Well, he fooled me. Definitely his greatest role.

@LouiseTheBooker @IvaCheung This touches my soul

@MaryNorrisTNY @BCDreyer You are both staples of the curriculum! As we say in Aus, ‘massive legends’, and not in the sense of containing a lot of mass. (Mary, we’re doing max caps in class next week, so 🙏 for this perfectly timed tote quote.)

And just like that, we made the syllabus in Melbourne! @BCDreyer Good day to @pennymodra, who gave me the tote bag: Copy Editors Do It with Style Guides.

the crucial 4th ice cream bowl was lost at some point, forever altering the vibe

Without downloading any new pictures, show me your creative process in one image.

@scarschwartz At least we still have ‘stimmoes’ if we ever need it

@bencjenkins Tonight I used the baboons in my editing class to teach the parts of speech. It is the tweet that keeps on giving 🐒🙏

I've said it before and I'll say it again, mostly because it is a very useful word.

@The_GrammarGeek @GrammarTable Our Ellen, which art at the grammar table

Please feel free to use the relative pronoun "that" in reference to me.

@GrammarTable A woman who I know stole my bird book called to apologise. 🤯

Which one of these is your favorite? 1. A woman who I know stole my bird book. 2. A woman I know stole my bird book. 3. A woman that I know stole my bird book. 4. A woman whom I know stole my bird book.

How’s your current mental health (answer in gif form).

@GrammarTable Gmail once gave the suggested auto response ‘I just resent it.’ 😮 I looked at it for so long before I realised ‘Oooh. ‘Re-sent.’

"Resent" and "resent" look an awful lot alike.

@DamanLangguth @DrJaneMunro @RMIT_PWE It’s almost but not completely dead 🤓

@DrJaneMunro @pennymodra @RMIT_PWE Asking for a friend : is the adverb dead ?

Who knew studying grammar and editing as an adult would be so much fun?! Tuesdays are for tricky words. @pennymodra @RMIT_PWE

@MrCamW twitter.com/wikiooc/status…

@robheych @Tito_Ambyo I have so many thoughts. • I think an emoji can totally replace a full stop 🛑 • But when an emoji replaces a word, keep the sentence punctuation. Get me a ☕️. • When you’re questioning, doesn’t a question mark feel necessary? Or is this questioning enough 🤷‍♀️

@Tito_Ambyo @pennymodra what's the verdict?

A question for linguists/grammarians/spellcasters/symbologists: if a sentence ends with an emoji, does it still need a terminator? Or can it end with an emoji like this 🤷🏽‍♂️

I’m a chalkie at the stock exchange!

@robheych @TheAtlantic @inkl Ooh!

@pennymodra, I think you'd enjoy this read: I Can’t Stand These Words Anymore - @TheAtlantic via @inkl inkl.com/a/kkvZYdcozQR