On dinosaurs, cockroaches, and pokemons.

I could not help but wander throughout the whole text of "Q as in Quotation" and "Survival of the Fittest", since the arguments both essays present are somewhat controversial. But then again, my mind wanders again, into what is exactly the definition of controversy. And I might state, that this is not just quite the case. There isn't really controversy in what constitutes the english language, unless we're talking about the oxford comma... but that's a different story, involving bright green kermit frog shoes and sarcastic graduation speeches.

But returning to the text, I brainstormed over the fact that my language teacher somehow despises semi colons. Maybe due to the fact that they're relatively new, compared to dinosaur commas, which have existed since, well, dinosaurs. But then I realized that dinosaurs went extinct, and weren't really the first creatures to inhabit earth. So maybe, I can name semi colons dinosaurs, and commas cockroaches.
Yes, that's better.

After all, the text is called "Survival of the Fittest", and commas, like cockroaches, can withstand an atomic bomb. Maybe this is why my teacher hates semi colons. Maybe they won't survive a meteorite crash. But then again, we won't either. So if the homo sapiens species goes extinct, semi colons will go extinct with it.

There's also the discussion on how apparently everything has been abbreviated up to now. Maybe we'll end up writing in abbreviation form. Maybe my granddaughter will type in abbreviations and I won't understand what she's writing about. She'll be able to dirty talk... Maybe evolution wasn't a very good idea. It leads to bad parenting.

And then, for "Q as in Quotation", my mind wandered into Pokemon, the 90's animated television show I used to watch when I got home after school in second grade. There was this pink blob animal-like thing. It was adorable, and it's name was Ditto.

That's Ditto. And he can imitate Pokemons, but his eyes and face never change. For example:

As you can see, that's not really Pikachu's face. And that's how I feel about quotations. We're extracting a sentence that isn't ours, and implanting it in our own writing. It will never be exactly the same, and as much as we try to explain what we feel when we read the original text, nothing's gonna compare to the original.

And as Ditto tries to imitate others. he's much more adorable in his original version.