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Posted: 16:50 Tue 10 Jul 2007
by Alex Bridgeman
S'easy!
’ is simply the italicised version of '
Am I right or am I right?
Actually, I assume that there is a code that goes with each of the symbols you've listed out. Is it consecutive from the top left to bottom right? If so, what code does it start with?
Thanks,
Alex
PS - give it a few days and if mine is the most intelligent answer you get to your question then please do educate us all.
PPS - if we're talking foreign languages here, then I probably could make a better educated guess.
Derek T.’s apostrophe crimes
Posted: 19:07 Fri 13 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
ADV’s apostrophe crime
Posted: 19:09 Fri 13 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
A more pedantic grumble. The “1700’s style of doing whatever† is fine, as the style is of the 1700s. But the 1700s as a set of years beginning with “17†: well that was usual back in the 1700s.
Re: Derek T.’s apostrophe crimes
Posted: 04:43 Sat 14 Jul 2007
by Todd P
Wow... three offenses in one short sentence.
Posted: 09:01 Sat 14 Jul 2007
by DRT
- is there a league table?
Re: ADV’s apostrophe crime
Posted: 00:03 Mon 16 Jul 2007
by KillerB
jdaw1 wrote:A more pedantic grumble. The “1700’s style of doing whatever† is fine, as the style is of the 1700s. But the 1700s as a set of years beginning with “17†: well that was usual back in the 1700s.
Not pedantic at all here, just precise. It is fine for an apostrophe to be used for plurals of numbers or dates, such as 1700's although now considered a little old-fashioned. Although I do accept that the above quote should refer to the late 18th century as the late 1700's suggests 1707-1709.
Conky: your | you’re
Posted: 20:19 Fri 20 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
Posted: 22:03 Fri 20 Jul 2007
by KillerB
Uh rurgh. Jdaw, little piece of advice:
When somebody offers you free transport, accommodation and hospitality, don't take the wee-wee out of them for the way that they phrased it.
As penance I had better pay for some port.
Posted: 00:04 Sat 21 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
KillerB wrote:Uh rurgh. Jdaw, little piece of advice:
When somebody offers you free transport, accommodation and hospitality, don't take the wee-wee out of them for the way that they phrased it.
Very good: I laughed out loud, and then had to tell the wife why I laughed. As penance I had better pay for some port.
Conky’s missing apostrophe
Posted: 12:13 Tue 24 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
Ghandi: open or close
Posted: 12:08 Thu 26 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
Posted: 19:28 Thu 26 Jul 2007
by Ghandih
Sorry, just to be clear, am I being slagged off for having my apostrophe dangling in the wrong direction? In my first posting??
Julian, I KNOW THINGS about you. Yes, you know things about me, too, but they're not so silly. You should think a little more carefully. An apology will suffice for now. And a nice emoticon.
Grovel
Posted: 19:46 Thu 26 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
Blackmail is it? Hmmm. {Thinks.}
OK.
On bended knee I offer my most sincere apologies for this needless slight upon your excellent character, upon your vast and superior intellect and apostrophe-using skills. I lie face down on the ground in humility, beating my chest (this is all metaphorical: ignore the details) with sackcloth and ashes. For I, but a mote of dust twinkling lightly in your rare magnificence, I, your pathetic serf, your lowly servant not fit to wash your feet, have spoken ill of you, my master, a master so powerfully evil that I tremble in your presence, a master of whom no ill may be spoken. I have allowed my thoughts to stray from the path of enlightened truth; I have blasphemed where I should have worshipped.
Will that do?
Oh no: that’s the other BB.
Posted: 07:26 Fri 27 Jul 2007
by Ghandih
That's a triffic emoticon, well done. Forgiven. What's BB?
BB = Bulletin Board
Posted: 12:31 Fri 27 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
BB = Bulletin Board. That was an in joke.
And it's a terrible emoticon: it moves, so distracts from the text.
Re: Grovel
Posted: 23:37 Fri 27 Jul 2007
by DRT
jdaw,
I think that constitutes Emoticon Theft
Derek
Re: Grovel
Posted: 08:27 Sat 28 Jul 2007
by Alex Bridgeman
jdaw1 wrote:Blackmail is it? Hmmm. {Thinks.}
OK.
On bended knee I offer my most sincere apologies for this needless slight upon your excellent character, upon your vast and superior intellect and apostrophe-using skills. I lie face down on the ground in humility, beating my chest (this is all metaphorical: ignore the details) with sackcloth and ashes. For I, but a mote of dust twinkling lightly in your rare magnificence, I, your pathetic serf, your lowly servant not fit to wash your feet, have spoken ill of you, my master, a master so powerfully evil that I tremble in your presence, a master of whom no ill may be spoken. I have allowed my thoughts to stray from the path of enlightened truth; I have blasphemed where I should have worshipped.
OK, so I laughed out loud. Very amusing.
Alex
Two errors
Posted: 17:49 Mon 30 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
Conky’s apostrophe crimes
Posted: 13:53 Tue 31 Jul 2007
by jdaw1
Uncle Tom’s apostrophe crime
Posted: 18:49 Tue 07 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Posted: 19:12 Tue 07 Aug 2007
by Ghandih
Is this just here as some form of catharsis for jdaw?
Posted: 20:04 Tue 07 Aug 2007
by KillerB
Yes
Posted: 22:08 Tue 07 Aug 2007
by DRT
I think this thread is:
- Educational
- Fun
- Mildly infuriating*
Derek
* because it is so easy to spot the errors once jdaw points them out and is therefore infuriating when I give him the fodder he needs to post here
Posted: 22:17 Tue 07 Aug 2007
by Conky
I think this thread is...
The personification of Jdaw1's Dark Room and Pills, or the shed at the bottom of the garden, or one of those toys you rip the limbs off, or the cat you kick...
Alan
three dots (‟...”) are used instead of a true ellipsis chara
Posted: 15:56 Thu 09 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
At least this thread doesn’t list all the posts in which three dots (‟...”) are used instead of a true ellipsis character (“…”). Doing that that really would keep me busy.
Posted: 16:29 Thu 09 Aug 2007
by KillerB
It takes less effort to do this '...' than this '!' no matter which way you try it. I have no intention of using the ASCII character just to keep jdaw happy, especially as it is meant just to indicate an omission. I cannot be bothered with the ASCII dash either, you will always get a hyphen from me, and if you don't understand then there is something seriously wrong. Neither of these are available on a standard typewriter, so stuff 'em.
On a Mac option-; which is two key presses not three.
Posted: 16:33 Thu 09 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
On a Mac option-; which is two key presses not three.
Posted: 17:24 Thu 09 Aug 2007
by Conky
Jdaw1
Why would you want Flush Dots? There's only really Robert Bringhurst pushing for them.
I also hope you also dont mind the 4 dot ellipse, when its the end of the sentence.
I suspect your getting to wrapped up in the Chicago Manuel of Style, and its recommendations. Which is fine as it is one of THE reference books...on the usuage of
American English!
(I hope you paused at the ellipse for effect?)
Of course I prefer the mother tongue. I cant spell, or use apostrophe's, but I do prefer our Styling.
Alan
Posted: 16:37 Fri 10 Aug 2007
by Alex Bridgeman
Conky wrote:...I suspect your getting to...
Now that is just deliberately provocative for poor old Julian!
Alex
Sideways: displace everyone’s glass’s
Posted: 14:05 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Derek T.’s missing apostrophe
Posted: 14:07 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Missing an apostrophe doesn’t reduce my stress.
Conky’s missing apostrophes
Posted: 14:12 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Conky’s extra apostrophe
Posted: 14:17 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Conky’s missing apostrophe
Posted: 14:19 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Conky’s missing apostrophe
Posted: 14:21 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Conky’s missing apostrophes
Posted: 14:24 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Conky’s missing apostrophes
Posted: 14:28 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Conky’s missing apostrophe
Posted: 14:33 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
That’s seven in a row for Conky. He is hereby declared the ‟winner”, and exempted from quotation except for the most heinous crimes (as defined by me).
Uncle Tom’s extra apostrophe
Posted: 14:37 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Derek T.’s missing apostrophe
Posted: 14:42 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Derek T.’s missing apostrophe
Posted: 14:47 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Re: Conky’s missing apostrophe
Posted: 16:09 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by Conky
jdaw1 wrote:
That’s seven in a row for Conky. He is hereby declared the ‘winner’, and exempted from quotation except for the most heinous crimes (as defined by me).
I've finally won something!!!
Posted: 17:12 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by DRT
Welcome back, jdaw. Its good to see you're back on the case.
Derek T.’s extra apostrophe
Posted: 20:52 Thu 23 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Sideways: squashing wasp's in August
Posted: 12:32 Sun 26 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Squashing a wasp’s what, one wonders?
Derek T.: Friday's are bad for me
Posted: 12:36 Sun 26 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Girl Friday’s whats are bad for you? Do we really want to be told? Probably not.
Derek T.: “Chinese Girls Beer†
Posted: 12:38 Sun 26 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
A beer made from Chinese girls? Or maybe a Chinese beer made from girls of indeterminate nationality. Whichever, please share the recipe.
Derek T. libels Michael Broadbent
Posted: 23:22 Sun 26 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
Whereas, checking sources,
Michael Broadbent wrote:its fragrance lingering in the glass for five hours.
Posted: 23:29 Sun 26 Aug 2007
by DRT
I will correct the error in Mr Broadbents text - the story of the Chinese Girl Friday I will leave for the Offline
ligature “fi†
Posted: 23:35 Sun 26 Aug 2007
by jdaw1
If you want to be accurate (which I doubt you do) Broadbent uses the ligature ‟fi” rather than the typographically clunky ‟fi” in ‟five”, as, I’m sure you noted, did I.
You first correction did not quite catch this.