Apostrophe crimes

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 12:56 Thu 17 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:really enjoying my Talisker?
After last weekend, that is not what you should be doing. Do I detect, ahem, a lapse?
Oops.

And this after I (tried to) force you to eat a salad. We are doing our best to keep you on the straight and narrow!

Post by **DRT** » 13:07 Thu 17 Oct 2013

AHB wrote:
DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
DRT wrote:really enjoying my Talisker?
After last weekend, that is not what you should be doing. Do I detect, ahem, a lapse?
Oops.
And this after I (tried to) force you to eat a salad. We are doing our best to keep you on the straight and narrow!

The salad poisoned me and I forgot not to drink the Talisker. Evil stuff salad is.

Post by **Alex Bridgeman** » 13:24 Thu 17 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Evil stuff salad is.

And now you're constructing your posts as if you were Yoda...

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:41 Thu 17 Oct 2013

AHB wrote:
DRT wrote:Evil stuff salad is.
And now you're constructing your posts as if you were Yoda...

That'll be the salad deficiency.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 14:43 Thu 17 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Evil stuff salad is.

Salad is what food eats.

Post by **jdaw1** » 16:48 Sat 19 Oct 2013

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=63071#p63071]Here[/url] DRT wrote:I don't think AW77s example is !

! is a persons tendency to !

What is being debated here is a persons tendency !

Thrice?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 16:49 Sat 19 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=63071#p63071]Here[/url] DRT wrote:I don't think AW77s example is !

! is a persons tendency to !

What is being debated here is a persons tendency !
Thrice?

Cruel. You beat me to it.

Post by **DRT** » 17:13 Sat 19 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=63071#p63071]Here[/url] DRT wrote:I don't think AW77s example is !

! is a persons tendency to !

What is being debated here is a persons tendency !
Thrice?

I feel so ashamed.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:38 Sat 19 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=63071#p63071]Here[/url] DRT wrote:I don't think AW77s example is !

! is a persons tendency to !

What is being debated here is a persons tendency !
Thrice?
I feel so ashamed.

I have noticed that there is an inconsistency in the targets selected for apostrophic ridicule re-education. One of the reasons I didn't post this (admittedly horrendous) set of crimes was that DRT was shamed only recently. The wheel must surely turn; or else every crime must be punished alike, whoever commits it.

Post by **DRT** » 17:40 Sat 19 Oct 2013

Who do you think has gotten away with murder?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:00 Sat 19 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Who do you think has gotten away with murder?

sshhh... *whispers*... Tom...

Post by **DRT** » 18:04 Sat 19 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Who do you think has gotten away with murder?
sshhh... *whispers*... Tom...

Go for it.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:14 Sat 19 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Who do you think has gotten away with murder?
sshhh... *whispers*... Tom...
Go for it.

No no. Once you go down that route, it's all out war. Ah no. We'll just wait until you fall on your arse again.

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:58 Sat 19 Oct 2013

I have not bothered with those for whom English is a second language, nor with Tom because he just won’t care. But I’m not stopping anybody else from trying to repair his punctuation. Good luck.

Post by **DRT** » 20:00 Sat 19 Oct 2013

I think the general rule is that exemption is given to those whose first language is not English and those beyond redemption, which would include but not only be Tom.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:47 Sat 19 Oct 2013

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=63126#p63126]Here[/url] uncle tom wrote:A delta (Ã°) year

eth = Ã° â‰ δ = delta.

Edit:

uncle tom, by PM, wrote:Well spotted!

- Corrected.

Post by **DRT** » 21:01 Sat 19 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:We'll just wait until you fall on your arse again.

Phew! It hit the ground with a bump a couple of minutes ago but I bounced back up before anyone noticed

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:03 Sat 19 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:We'll just wait until you fall on your arse again.
Phew! It hit the ground with a bump a couple of minutes ago but I bounced back up before anyone noticed

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:04 Sat 19 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:but I bounced back up before anyone noticed

I had noticed, and was writing to Daniel to say that it was his turn to post here, when, just in time, you fixed it.

Post by **DRT** » 22:04 Sun 20 Oct 2013

In a PM discussing apostrophes djewesbury wrote:Derek has inserted it somewhere its not meant to be.

Irony?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:06 Sun 20 Oct 2013

Too clever by half my son. You didnt get my joke.

Post by **DRT** » 22:07 Sun 20 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Too clever by half my son. You didnt get my joke.

An easy excuse to make after the fact.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:07 Sun 20 Oct 2013

Ha you missed that one. Which proves my point.

Post by **DRT** » 22:09 Sun 20 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:Ha you missed that one. Which proves my point.

No, I didn't. Rule 42b says that intentional apostrophe crimes in the apostrophe crimes thread go uncommented upon and are treated with the contempt they deserve.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:10 Sun 20 Oct 2013

Im jus' playin' with you.

Post by **DRT** » 22:11 Sun 20 Oct 2013

Where's my black cap? I'm going to need that later.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:29 Sun 20 Oct 2013

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2726#p63227]Here[/url], DRT wrote:Antartica? (main island)

Post by **DRT** » 22:36 Sun 20 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2726#p63227]Here[/url], DRT wrote:Antartica? (main island)

No crime committed.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:44 Sun 20 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2726#p63227]Here[/url], DRT wrote:Antartica? (main island)
No crime committed.

Really?

Post by **DRT** » 22:47 Sun 20 Oct 2013

It is a landmass completely surround by water. Just like Rockall.

Post by **DRT** » 22:49 Sun 20 Oct 2013

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djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:53 Sun 20 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Antartica

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Post by **DRT** » 22:54 Sun 20 Oct 2013

Didn't work.

Try again. Or just admit you are wrong.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:56 Sun 20 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:Didn't work.

Try again. Or just admit you are wrong.

It's the third letter of the alphabet I'm concentrating on here....

Post by **DRT** » 22:58 Sun 20 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Didn't work.

Try again. Or just admit you are wrong.
It's the third letter of the alphabet I'm concentrating on here....

{Hangs head in shame and walks off behind the bike sheds to cry uncontrollably or bully a weakling}

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 23:00 Sun 20 Oct 2013

DRT wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:Didn't work.

Try again. Or just admit you are wrong.
It's the third letter of the alphabet I'm concentrating on here....
{Hangs head in shame and walks off behind the bike sheds to cry uncontrollably or bully a weakling}

It's the way you stuck to your guns that I most admire. Now, good night. Blub on.

Post by **jdaw1** » 17:25 Mon 21 Oct 2013

vinousmedia.com wrote:the 2010 literally explodes from the glass with seemingly endless layers of fruit

And the ‟seemingly” was so good.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:27 Mon 21 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
vinousmedia.com wrote:the 2010 literally explodes from the glass with seemingly endless layers of fruit
And the ‟seemingly” was so good.

I'm not sure this wine should be allowed.. It sounds (literally) terrifying..

Post by **jdaw1** » 08:50 Sat 26 Oct 2013

The BBC, in [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24654682]transcribing an interview with Sir Roger Moore[/url], wrote:I haven't had full approval from all the publishers, but its going to be called One Lucky !

Post by **PhilW** » 14:02 Sat 26 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:
vinousmedia.com wrote:the 2010 literally explodes from the glass with seemingly endless layers of fruit
And the ‟seemingly” was so good.

Not seeing the crime...?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:03 Sat 26 Oct 2013

PhilW wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
vinousmedia.com wrote:the 2010 literally explodes from the glass with seemingly endless layers of fruit
And the ‟seemingly” was so good.
Not seeing the crime...?

Because it's not an apostrophe crime, it's an abuse of the English language - literally. I think JDAW needs a new thread, called 'JDAW's syntax and grammar watch'. Or something.

Post by **jdaw1** » 14:23 Sat 26 Oct 2013

Literally, or metaphorically?

Post by **PhilW** » 14:25 Sat 26 Oct 2013

I guessed it could be "seemingly endless" but didn't want to start another discussion which would be "almost exactly" the same as one we had last year, if that were the issue.

Post by **PhilW** » 14:27 Sat 26 Oct 2013

djewesbury wrote:I think JDAW needs a new thread, called 'JDAW's syntax and grammar watch'. Or something.

I think this thread serves well enough for all language abuses; we don't need "oxymoron crimes", "spelling crimes" etc...

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:28 Sat 26 Oct 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Literally, or metaphorically?

Sometimes I wonder if.. No. Nothing.

Post by **PhilW** » 14:35 Sat 26 Oct 2013

PhilW wrote:At auction last year a pair of bottles of 1900 Constantino Colheita went for £420 hammer, of which the seller would have received about £350, so about £175/bottle. I believe these were in very good condition with good fill levels and no capsule damage, if I remember correctly. Depending on condition and storage of your bottles, I would suggest that you might therefore expect to get up to around £160/bottle in a private sale, which is fairly close to Glenn's estimate also.

Hmm. Perhaps not a crime exactly, but I'm reprimanding myself for comma over-enthusiasm. Indeed now I think about it, I absolve myself and blame JDAW for giving me a dose of the commas (and also for the fact that I'm thinking about circles, squares and octagons when I should be doing company accounts!).

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:21 Thu 31 Oct 2013

LGTrotter, [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7626#p63751]here,[/url] wrote:Mr Saintsbury's favourite port was one that had been in cask for 8 years I think, the one he said that had exorcised it's devil and replaced it with an angel. Irrelavent I realise but it came to me just then. I'll have to go and find the book now.

Post by **jdaw1** » 00:31 Thu 31 Oct 2013

I recently PM’d him asking about his first language. But if the sharks have bitten, then all in.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=63733#p63733]Here[/url] LGTrotter wrote:(you see now why I did not get into Julians question)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 00:36 Thu 31 Oct 2013

I knew the scourge awaited, I apologise. There will be many, many more.

Just to flagellate a little further (bought up catholic) I came within an ace of of writing 'no' instead of 'know' earlier. I weep for the future.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 00:38 Thu 31 Oct 2013

LGTrotter wrote:(bought up

This is the gift that keeps giving. We might need a new forum just for this.