I ahte the MLA

I don't even know what the MLA is, other than a great big oppresive body of unniceness that hovers over my writing and tells me I'm going to hell for improperly citing a webpage. Donkey fornicating candlabra buggerers!

Let me write my own damned way.

So I take it you're not being ironic with the title of this thread?

Ooh, zing!

SNAP!

I think he was going for some form of Pig Latin so it would rhyme with MLA.

Flux said:
i fucking love the MLA. cite it or bite it, bitches!

Word. The MLA citing method is actually much easier to deal with than the moldy old footnote method that old-timers like me were taught. Go back to teeny superscript numbers stuck all over the page and endless "ibids"?? No thank you.

Easybib.com, baby.

apa kicks mla ass any day!

Right now, the RIAA is taking up all my hatred of acronyms. I mean, the MLA hasn't sued any 12 year olds lately.

i go for a blend of MLA and Chicago. I call it "Milagro" and it has served me well so far.

modern language association of america (funny only one "a," huh?)
i fucking love them. my mla handbook saved my thesis, and i got to tell one of my bitchy professors to shove it. how do you get to be a member of this association?

That's because it actually only stands for the Modern Language Association.

Take a creative writing course then. Research papers require standard notation so that you are more easily pushed through the system that is college.

Actually, I prefer Chicago. The MLA is hopelessly antiquated, and I don't have much fondness for APA, either. However, that switch from MLA to Chicago in college was pretty traumatic.

DAMN! I thought you ATE the MLA.
It’s good that they are still unconsumed; they still need a reasonable standard of citation for electronic sources. But after that, feel free to chow down.

*my* handbook has the "of america" bit. maybe i got a special one. perhaps there's an mla of asia?