Squashed and roasted

[desperance]

I do wish someone would sit Stupid Cat down and just explain to him, what is good catfud and what is not.

I am not quite at my digestive best today - which may be due to the end of a course of medication, or it may be due to the incontinent quantity of beer I consumed last night, being out on the town with Sean - so I thought I'd make soup for lunch, with the butternut squash I'd roasted yesterday.

Think again. Young Sir apparently thinks roasted butternut squash is quite the thing for a growing cat...

So I'm making a mushroom and apple soup with just a hint of roasted butternut squash. Sigh. It'll be fine, but honestly. Butternut squash?

[By the way, does anyone out there know whether, when you italicise a word, it is proper form to italicise also the punctuation that follows it? Question marks, exclamation marks, etc? Or not?]

Comments

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

I have a friend whose cat loved pumpkin. It was the only way she could get him to take medication. She checked with the vet and it turned out to be really good for his digestion, especially if he was constipated. So, umm... you might have an interesting day or so if butternut squash has the same effect.

I usually don't italicise punctuation because (a) it looks weird; and (b) if the next sentence isn't italicised, the punctuation can end up squished into the following letter.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the warning. Sigh.

Re punctuation, I can never decide which looks weirder, italicised or not; and re (b), the reverse is of course also true, that if you don't italicise the punctuation it can end up squished by the previous letter leaning over into it. There are no victories here, on either side; I just want to find out if there's a convention.

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

I checked with my partner the English teacher about italicisation and punctuation. She says that you italicise the punctuation if the punctuation is attached to the sentence and not to a related quotation.