I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).
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 mistakes
Also, should we not have a meta-crime for the prevailing use of the prime (') over the apostrophe (’)?
I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).
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 mistakes
Also, should we not have a meta-crime for the prevailing use of the prime (') over the apostrophe (’)?
I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).
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 mistakes
Also, should we not have a meta-crime for the prevailing use of the prime (') over the apostrophe (’)?
-Jacob
No - stop turning into Julian's Mini-me.
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
I was too slow. But commendation for use of the ellipsis character (“…†), rather than three dots (“...†).
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 mistakes
Also, should we not have a meta-crime for the prevailing use of the prime (') over the apostrophe (’)?
-Jacob
No - stop turning into Julian's Mini-me.
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
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
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¡
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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¡
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.
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
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).
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
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¡
Alt-0145, Alt-0146, Alt-0147, Alt-0148.
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?
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?
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†.
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…
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.
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.
I have been away for 10+ days and am hugely disappointed that the 4 posts immediately above this one are the only contributions to MD during my absence. Are you guys trying to tell me something
"The first duty of Port is to be red" Ernest H. Cockburn
Also annoying me was ¶3.1.2’s insure/ensure confusion: “Additionally, the frequent rest periods within the timeline add to this conservatism and insure that each crewman and his PLSS remain in a nominal operating condition.†
Given such sloppiness it’s amazing that they made it there and back.
