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| Name | The MLAStreetGang |
|---|---|
| Born | January 1, 1951 |
| Family and friends | |
| Parents | Chicago Manual of Style and Harvard citation |
| Motto" | "We citing in these streets!" |
| Enemies | APA style |
The MLAStreetGang is a styleguide promotion splinter group of the Modern Language Association. Formed by more...expressive...members of the Modern Language Association in 1952, it was founded to combat the proliferation of clown union American Psychological Association, which sometimes goes by its stage name, ICP.[1]
Known for their ruthless precision with semicolons and relentless enforcement of properly italicized titles,[2] MLAStreetGang members roam campuses and literary conferences in tweed jackets[3] emblazoned with elbow patches and gang tattoos quoting Strunk and White.[4][5]
Their secret handshake consists entirely of air quotes, and initiation rites notoriously involve proofreading under extreme conditions—such as grading freshman essays while trapped in an elevator playing continuous reruns of TED Talks.[6]
Distance from MLA
editThough officially disavowed by the MLA as an extremist group,[7] the gang remains steadfast, vandalizing APA strongholds by spray-painting page numbers before direct quotes and tagging walls with intimidating threats like "Headline Style Titles or Else!" and "Double-space this, psychologists!"[8]
Despite their hardcore persona, MLAStreetGang is best known for their biannual bake sales, where annotated bibliographies accompany each pastry, and cupcakes are meticulously cited with sprinkles representing ellipses.[9]
Works cited
edit- ↑ Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's Bashai Tudu." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50
- ↑ Ibid & 1923, 724.
- ↑ Ibid & 1923, 5.
- ↑ Ibid & 1923, 83.
- ↑ Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.*
- ↑ “Hush.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar, season 4, Mutant Enemy, 1999.
- ↑ Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal, vol. 50, no. 1, 2007, pp. 173-96. ProQuest, doi:10.1017/S0018246X06005966. Accessed 27 May 2009.
- ↑ Beyoncé. "Pray You Catch Me." Lemonade, Parkwood Entertainment, 2016, www.beyonce.com/album/lemonade-visual-album/.
- ↑ Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage-Random House, 1988.