Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:03 Thu 31 Oct 2013
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Apostrophe crimes
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Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 08:11 Thu 31 Oct 2013
Can't blame this one on the iphone...!AHB wrote:More than 55, less than 81.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 09:31 Thu 31 Oct 2013
Because of the scandals, some dioceses will become bankrupt. So to have ‟bought up catholic” buildings from those dioceses might be a solid investment.
But the comment wasn’t obviously in context.
But the comment wasn’t obviously in context.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 15:31 Thu 31 Oct 2013
My understanding is that it has always been possible for Catholics to purchase penance, sometimes under the table, sometimes above. So "bought up" Catholic makes perfect sense, especially when referring to one's (possibly misspent) youth.jdaw1 wrote:Because of the scandals, some dioceses will become bankrupt. So to have ‟bought up catholic” buildings from those dioceses might be a solid investment.
But the comment wasn’t obviously in context.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 16:39 Thu 31 Oct 2013
I can confirm that Glenn is correct, but he is perhaps missing the subtle difference between "bought-up" and "bought up", which is presumably the basis of the charge?Glenn E. wrote:My understanding is that it has always been possible for Catholics to purchase penance, sometimes under the table, sometimes above. So "bought up" Catholic makes perfect sense, especially when referring to one's (possibly misspent) youth.jdaw1 wrote:Because of the scandals, some dioceses will become bankrupt. So to have ‟bought up catholic” buildings from those dioceses might be a solid investment.
But the comment wasn’t obviously in context.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 22:10 Thu 31 Oct 2013
djewesbury wrote:This is the gift that keeps giving. We might need a new forum just for this.LGTrotter wrote:(bought up
djewesbury wrote: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.
Is it weird to feel flattered at being the meat in this pedant sandwich?jdaw1 wrote: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)
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:13 Thu 31 Oct 2013
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:55 Sat 02 Nov 2013
Delicious.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2726&p=64053#p64053]Here[/url] LGTrotter wrote:By the way Daniel I see you did not rise to the challenge of describing Roys bum.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 00:03 Sun 03 Nov 2013
I'm not careful enough to be a smart arse. Or were you expressing a view about those buns when you say 'delicious'?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 00:06 Sun 03 Nov 2013
No. You have committed the crime for which this thread was created. It is merely a "delicious" example of such a crime.LGTrotter wrote:were you expressing a view about those buns when you say 'delicious'?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 00:14 Sun 03 Nov 2013
I'm sorry, I got it wrong. There; I said it. Can we move on now? Because I will be here, on the wrong end of this thread a lot. I blame a poor education system and my natural capacity to cheat on tests. Which I did and therefore did not learn all about spelling and punctuation and grammar.
And I can see a lot of people getting a lot of pleasure out of this. Who am I to deny them?
And I can see a lot of people getting a lot of pleasure out of this. Who am I to deny them?
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Posted: 00:16 Sun 03 Nov 2013
The existence of this thread and my desire not to appear in it have greatly improved my grammar and use of punctuation.In the fourth post in this thread DRT wrote:I plead guilty with no defence offered, apart from the weak mitigation stated below.
If Jdaw1 wishes to highlight my many apostrophie crimes that will appear here then I willl not be offendedn in any way.
As our last Prime Minister once said:
Out of interest, and to ensure Meaningless Drivel levels are maintained, I spent my first 3 school years being taught under a system known as ITA. This comprised a unique alphabet, based on our standard 26 letters, with the addition of extra characters to represent sounds such as oo, ee etc. So a key was a kee (with the two e's joined together). There were many other special characters and letter combinations, including backwards P's and upper case letters which were the same shape as our normal lower case cousins. As far as I remember there was almost no punctuation involved."Education, Education, Education, I wish we had thought of paying any attention to it in the state school system before now"
The outcome of this experiment is that almost all of the people subjected to this social experiment cannot spell or punctuate to this day. Can I just say now, Thanx too the Educasion Secreterie of the erly 197'0s, yoo maad speelchekin softwaer a nesescity
Der'ek
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:00 Sun 03 Nov 2013
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 17:07 Wed 06 Nov 2013
"UK citizen"? Not since 1983 surely...DRT wrote: do I need to become English to retain my status as a UK citizen?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 17:26 Wed 06 Nov 2013
Should I have said British?RAYC wrote:"UK citizen"? Not since 1983 surely...DRT wrote: do I need to become English to retain my status as a UK citizen?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 17:28 Wed 06 Nov 2013
DRT’s remark was grammatical, and its meaning was obvious. It might not have been legally precise, but the unfamiliarity of the poloi with the law such as the special citizenship clauses for descendants of the Electress Sophia of Hanover keeps lawyers in Vintage Port. Surely a good thing?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:57 Mon 11 Nov 2013
The link being added by me.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:59 Mon 11 Nov 2013
That really made me laugh.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 02:01 Mon 11 Nov 2013
No laughing in class.LGTrotter wrote:That really made me laugh.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:35 Tue 12 Nov 2013
If it wasn't for the success of the first use I might not have punished the subsequent omission.LGTrotter wrote:Sorry 'bout work an all.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:38 Tue 12 Nov 2013
A poacher has become a fierce and unforgiving gamekeeper.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:39 Tue 12 Nov 2013
Why is there no emoticon for something useful like dropping ones tousers?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:39 Tue 12 Nov 2013
Beautifully put.LGTrotter wrote:Why is there no emoticon for something useful like dropping ones tousers?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:40 Tue 12 Nov 2013
Sketch a graphic and I will convert.LGTrotter wrote:Why is there no emoticon for something useful like dropping ones tousers?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:41 Tue 12 Nov 2013
Really?LGTrotter wrote:ones tousers?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:43 Tue 12 Nov 2013
Picture a half eaten raspberry crumble.jdaw1 wrote:Sketch a graphic and I will convert.LGTrotter wrote:Why is there no emoticon for something useful like dropping ones tousers?
I like to keep you happy and well fed.DRT wrote:Really?LGTrotter wrote:ones tousers?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 09:10 Wed 13 Nov 2013
LGTrotter wrote:Talk about Pat Butchers curtains!
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 22:22 Wed 13 Nov 2013
Comedy gold and a reasoned appeal for sanity; God responds;
DRT wrote:LGTrotter wrote:Talk about Pat Butchers curtains!
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 22:57 Wed 13 Nov 2013
Was this intended to have another apostrophe, I wonder? Or was it just an odd typo?LGTrotter wrote:I've got one of the odd volumes odd volumes.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:10 Thu 14 Nov 2013
LGTrotter wrote:Hang on a minute isn't London Bridge in America somewhere, or at least it's double?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 10:47 Fri 15 Nov 2013
> Isn't London Bridge in America somewhere, or at least it is double?djewesbury wrote:LGTrotter wrote:Hang on a minute isn't London Bridge in America somewhere, or at least it's double?
That could make sense. There is a London Bridge in Arizona, and another, uglier, in London. So ‟it is double”. But I accept that the proposed meaning is rather awkward.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 15:32 Fri 15 Nov 2013
I understand that this is what the Danes call a Meerkat that has escaped from a zoo and become intoxicated...AHB wrote: a Danish wine merchat
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 16:28 Fri 15 Nov 2013
Hardly an apostrophe crime...ah, my apologies. It is. You are pointing out that I should have written "...a Danish wine mercha't..."djewesbury wrote:I understand that this is what the Danes call a Meerkat that has escaped from a zoo and become intoxicated...AHB wrote: a Danish wine merchat
You are quite right and I stand corrected.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:09 Sat 16 Nov 2013
Don't throw glass in a stone house, or something similar.djewesbury wrote:Is it something that shoes up equally in Tapatalk as on the web?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:12 Sat 16 Nov 2013
i am tooping this on a phoone. In secret. While reading subtitles. Cut me some slacj.DRT wrote:Don't throw glass in a stone house, or something similar.djewesbury wrote:Is it something that shoes up equally in Tapatalk as on the web?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:04 Sun 17 Nov 2013
djewesbury wrote:when a solicitor advises you to transfer all your assets out of your name, your careful
Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:06 Sun 17 Nov 2013
Read the rest of the sentence:DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:when a solicitor advises you to transfer all your assets out of your name, your careful
"Your careful : paranoid ratio alters"
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:07 Sun 17 Nov 2013
I think you should ask JDAW for some of his sackcloth..djewesbury wrote:Read the rest of the sentence:DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:when a solicitor advises you to transfer all your assets out of your name, your careful
"Your careful : paranoid ratio alters"
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:11 Sun 17 Nov 2013
I might agree with you if it were not for the spaces either side of the colon. What you wrote can be interpreted as two statements, not the expression of a ratio.djewesbury wrote:I think you should ask JDAW for some of his sackcloth..djewesbury wrote:Read the rest of the sentence:DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:when a solicitor advises you to transfer all your assets out of your name, your careful
"Your careful : paranoid ratio alters"
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:15 Sun 17 Nov 2013
Didnae use spaces in the original post so nuhhhDRT wrote:I might agree with you if it were not for the spaces either side of the colon. What you wrote can be interpreted as two statements, not the expression of a ratio.djewesbury wrote:I think you should ask JDAW for some of his sackcloth..djewesbury wrote:Read the rest of the sentence:DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:when a solicitor advises you to transfer all your assets out of your name, your careful
"Your careful : paranoid ratio alters"
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:31 Sun 17 Nov 2013
I'm not quite sure who won the tallest dwarf competition here but well done, both of you.djewesbury wrote:Didnae use spaces in the original post so nuhhhDRT wrote:I might agree with you if it were not for the spaces either side of the colon. What you wrote can be interpreted as two statements, not the expression of a ratio.djewesbury wrote:I think you should ask JDAW for some of his sackcloth..djewesbury wrote:Read the rest of the sentence:DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:when a solicitor advises you to transfer all your assets out of your name, your careful
"Your careful : paranoid ratio alters"
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:33 Sun 17 Nov 2013
:glare:LGTrotter wrote:I'm not quite sure who won the tallest dwarf competition here but well done, both of you.djewesbury wrote:Didnae use spaces in the original post so nuhhhDRT wrote:I might agree with you if it were not for the spaces either side of the colon. What you wrote can be interpreted as two statements, not the expression of a ratio.djewesbury wrote:I think you should ask JDAW for some of his sackcloth..djewesbury wrote:Read the rest of the sentence:DRT wrote:djewesbury wrote:when a solicitor advises you to transfer all your assets out of your name, your careful
"Your careful : paranoid ratio alters"
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 15:08 Mon 18 Nov 2013
Obviously ‟childs” is not possessive no apostrophe so must be an adjective. But it cannot refer to the plural of child, as that would be ‟children”. Was there a play, whether game or show, invented by a Mr or Mrs Childs? Maybe, but generally when a proper name is used as an adjective it retains its upper case first letter. So that isn’t it.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=65711#p65711]Here[/url] LGTrotter wrote:The rest is childs play.
What a mystery.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 16:48 Fri 22 Nov 2013
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Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 16:57 Fri 22 Nov 2013
Worthy of a letter to a local newspaper. That isn’t an ordinary grocer’s apostrophe it is a literary event.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 16:58 Fri 22 Nov 2013
Agreed.jdaw1 wrote:Worthy of a letter to a local newspaper. That isn’t an ordinary grocer’s apostrophe it is a literary event.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:32 Mon 25 Nov 2013
In this solar system there is but one sun: ‟its rays”, not ‟their rays”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=66329#p66329]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:We must now wait for the sun to rise over the western United States, to cast their rays over the mountains and the ocean, and for a refreshed Glenn to type in his response
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:35 Mon 25 Nov 2013
Pusillanimous. How long have you been sitting on that one? And what film did you go to see?jdaw1 wrote:In this solar system there is but one sun: ‟its rays”, not ‟their rays”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=66329#p66329]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:We must now wait for the sun to rise over the western United States, to cast their rays over the mountains and the ocean, and for a refreshed Glenn to type in his response
I was talking about the mythical, metaphorical, metaphysical rays of the western United States, obviously.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:38 Mon 25 Nov 2013
Long enough to invite somebody else to post it (which would have been amusing), and be refused.djewesbury wrote:How long have you been sitting on that one?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:39 Mon 25 Nov 2013
!jdaw1 wrote:Long enough to invite somebody else to post it (which would have been amusing), and be refused.djewesbury wrote:How long have you been sitting on that one?