Two questions:
- If you caught what you thought was a father beating his child, would it make it more or less acceptable if he said,
“It’s okay, it’s not domestic abuse: I’ve never seen this kid before in my life!”?
- Seriously, I know you’re never supposed to put a punctuation mark outside of quotation marks, but how the hell would you write that previous sentence otherwise? And don’t tell me to rephrase the sentence: the demands of comedy are too stringent for your poor English-majoring mind to comprehend.
