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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=13093#13093]Here[/url], starting a thread entitled [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1550]Single Quinta's[/url], Simon Lisle wrote:I have very little experiance on this part of vintage port.Apart from the Symingtons and the other big hitters,Which is your top three of the smaller not so well known Quinta's that are consistently making good port.
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=13252#13252]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:This time I'm definitely going to porto, assuming its the right plane!
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=13253#13253]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:So at least we are agreed its toms fault!
Yeah, but at least he spelt "definitely" correctly.jdaw1 wrote:[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=13252#13252]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:This time I'm definitely going to porto, assuming its the right plane!
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=13867#13867]Here[/url] g-man wrote:adding to julians' 63 and 75, the 47?
Are you assuming there is only one Julian? Scrub that.jdaw1 wrote:G-man: repeat offender on whom I have been too soft.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=13867#13867]Here[/url] g-man wrote:adding to julians' 63 and 75, the 47?
KillerB wrote:Are you assuming there is only one Julian? Scrub that.jdaw1 wrote:G-man: repeat offender on whom I have been too soft.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=13867#13867]Here[/url] g-man wrote:adding to julians' 63 and 75, the 47?
Anyway, G-Man assures me that his native tongue is Taiwanese and you are not allowed Apostrophe Crimes on non-native speakers.
1. Apologies: my understanding was that G-man had been speaking English from an age sufficiently young to be eligible for this thread.KillerB wrote:Anyway, G-Man assures me that his native tongue is Taiwanese and you are not allowed Apostrophe Crimes on non-native speakers.
Can't remember. G-man? BTW, remember that I am protecting you from months of on-line grammatical abuse. Whatever you do, do not admit to being born in New Jersey.jdaw1 wrote:1. Apologies: my understanding was that G-man had been speaking English from an age sufficiently young to be eligible for this thread.KillerB wrote:Anyway, G-Man assures me that his native tongue is Taiwanese and you are not allowed Apostrophe Crimes on non-native speakers.
2. Taiwanese?! Do you really mean Min Nan rather than Mandarin? Cool.
Commendation for careful phrasing. The abuse would be, of course, grammatical. But on the subject of punctuation.KillerB wrote:months of on-line grammatical abuse
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=14756#14756]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:enough fruity scrumptiousness to be wiped out in it's youth.
… to ensure that AHB’s kitchen …[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=14799#14799]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:to ensure AHBs kitchen floor remains uninhabited
Firstly, "that" isn't an apostrophe and therefore should not be reported here as a crime.jdaw1 wrote:… to ensure that AHB’s kitchen …[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=14799#14799]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:to ensure AHBs kitchen floor remains uninhabited
I’m grateful that you didn’t say “insure†, which would have been still more heinous.
No they are not. The kitchen (and its floor) belongs to AHB, therefore it is AHB's kitchen and requires a possessive apostrophe. There are few occasions when the apostrophe is optional and this is not one of them. Whatever jdaw1's explanation it would not have meant this, unless he has some strange tiddly-winks club (no apostrophe required here, the club does not belong to tiddly-winks) definition that only he understands.Derek T. wrote:Firstly, "that" isn't an apostrophe and therefore should not be reported here as a crime.jdaw1 wrote:… to ensure that AHB’s kitchen …[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=14799#14799]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:to ensure AHBs kitchen floor remains uninhabited
Secondly, AHBs and AHB's are equally valid, as you once explained to me.
Are you having a bad day?
Derek
KillerB wrote: the 'that' is implied and should not be included as a crime, let alone an apostrophe crime. Only an extreme pedant would...
… notice the use of three dots (“...†) rather than an ellipsis (“…†)?KillerB wrote:Only an extreme pedant would...
Why the bolded quotation marks? Accidentally put inside the quoted text’s bolding? OK, it happens.Derek T. wrote:"that"
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16025#16025]Here[/url] DRT wrote:older one's that I haven't researched
Damn! I had been doing quite well with my apostrophe's recently and now I've gone and blown it.jdaw1 wrote:[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16025#16025]Here[/url] DRT wrote:older one's that I haven't researched
I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16228#16228]Here[/url] JacobH wrote:[edit to remove an offending apostrophe…]
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Are you flying continental by any chance?!jdaw1 wrote:Continental.com wrote:Enter the infants full name as it appears on the travel document.
I’m fairly sure I was the only person on-line at that point, so I think this should be scratched, in order to encourage others to correct their mistakesjdaw1 wrote:I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16228#16228]Here[/url] JacobH wrote:[edit to remove an offending apostrophe…]
No - stop turning into Julian's Mini-me.JacobH wrote:I’m fairly sure I was the only person on-line at that point, so I think this should be scratched, in order to encourage others to correct their mistakesjdaw1 wrote:I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16228#16228]Here[/url] JacobH wrote:[edit to remove an offending apostrophe…]
Also, should we not have a meta-crime for the prevailing use of the prime (') over the apostrophe (’)?
-Jacob
I did have a solicitation to that effect, but I’m more a “use the correct character† pedant rather than a †put it in the right place† oneKillerB wrote:No - stop turning into Julian's Mini-me.JacobH wrote:I’m fairly sure I was the only person on-line at that point, so I think this should be scratched, in order to encourage others to correct their mistakesjdaw1 wrote:I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16228#16228]Here[/url] JacobH wrote:[edit to remove an offending apostrophe…]
Also, should we not have a meta-crime for the prevailing use of the prime (') over the apostrophe (’)?
-Jacob
Julian does that as well - it's a slippery slope.JacobH wrote:I did have a solicitation to that effect, but I’m more a “use the correct character† pedant rather than a †put it in the right place† oneKillerB wrote:No - stop turning into Julian's Mini-me.JacobH wrote:I’m fairly sure I was the only person on-line at that point, so I think this should be scratched, in order to encourage others to correct their mistakesjdaw1 wrote:I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16228#16228]Here[/url] JacobH wrote:[edit to remove an offending apostrophe…]
Also, should we not have a meta-crime for the prevailing use of the prime (') over the apostrophe (’)?
-Jacob
I suspect that you`re also a Mac user. If there´s a way for me to easily use an apostrophe rather than a prime via a Windows keyboard, I've yet to find it¡JacobH wrote:I did have a solicitation to that effect, but I’m more a “use the correct character† pedant rather than a †put it in the right place† one
It’s actually much worse than that; I switched to Debian a few years ago (though one advantage is that it is very easy to set custom layouts). Anyway, it’s a while since I’ve done this on windows, but I thought the left and right single quotation marks could be achieved by setting your keyboard layout to US-International and then using using Atl-Gr and 9 or 0? If I remember correctly, though, it’s almost impossible to manually generate double ones without lots of messing around.AHB wrote:I suspect that you`re also a Mac user. If there´s a way for me to easily use an apostrophe rather than a prime via a Windows keyboard, I've yet to find it¡
Very cute Alex, but I suspect that most people will miss it, hence the pointlessness of it all (not life, the apostrophe thingy).AHB wrote:I suspect that you`re also a Mac user. If there´s a way for me to easily use an apostrophe rather than a prime via a Windows keyboard, I've yet to find it¡JacobH wrote:I did have a solicitation to that effect, but I’m more a “use the correct character† pedant rather than a †put it in the right place† one
Alt-0145, Alt-0146, Alt-0147, Alt-0148.AHB wrote:I suspect that you`re also a Mac user. If there´s a way for me to easily use an apostrophe rather than a prime via a Windows keyboard, I've yet to find it¡JacobH wrote:I did have a solicitation to that effect, but I’m more a “use the correct character† pedant rather than a †put it in the right place† one
Fair enough: I have never been very good at remembering the names of those dubious ASCII legacy characters. However, neither is Unicode, who name U+0027 (') “apostrophe† and U+0022 (") “quotation mark†.jdaw1 wrote: I am also lightly questioning this use of the word “prime†. Surely the prime characters are those in “6′2″†, rather than the non-directional quotation marks?
Despite what KillerB might think, I have quite a lot of sympathy for people who make grammatical typos on forum threads. It’s things that make it into print for which I have less time. Especially when, like this, they use straight rather than curly apostrophes and quotation marks throughout.Warre (on a piece of card which came with an LBV) wrote:Founded in 1670, Warre's is the oldest British Port House and is owned by the Symington family, Port producers since the 19th century and who's ancestor made one of the first…
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16540#16540]Here[/url] DRT wrote:Undoubtedly the best drinking wine of the night - but it wasn't it's night
I typed, deleted, typed, deleted and typed again. If the night doesn't belong to "it" who does it belong to?jdaw1 wrote:[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=16540#16540]Here[/url] DRT wrote:Undoubtedly the best drinking wine of the night - but it wasn't it's night
So the possessive form of 'it' is 'its'?jdaw1 wrote:Oh dear: “it’s† means “it is†; “it’s† is not possessive.
Yes. Try this simple quiz to verify mastery of the skill.DRT wrote:So the possessive form of 'it' is 'its'?
100% - 10 out of 10 - Top Marksjdaw1 wrote:Yes. Try this simple quiz to verify mastery of the skill.DRT wrote:So the possessive form of 'it' is 'its'?
Top equal, I’m quite sure.DRT wrote:100% - 10 out of 10 - Top Marks
Including one’s apostrophes.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=17017#17017]Here[/url] Andy V wrote:its almost impossible to get everything perfect
Whatch ja want?jdaw1 wrote:Including one’s apostrophes.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=17017#17017]Here[/url] Andy V wrote:its almost impossible to get everything perfect
Yes, avoiding that split infinitive is awkward. The likes of “to check doubly†, or even “to check twice†, have a quite different tone and sense. And using a hyphen to make a compound verb (“to double-check†) can alienate the reader by appearing overly pedantic. So I don’t wholly disagree with your choice.Andy V wrote:to double check
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=17057#17057]Here[/url] Andy V wrote:we need to update the first thread with what bottles the other attendee's are bringing.
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=17457#p17457]Here[/url] benread wrote:A few early contenders based on last nights form then!
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