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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (46)	1/1/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Janice: Quayle, Dole, Bush, Clinton, Gingrich, Gore...n. The series goes on and leads nowhere. We are given no leadership by those chosen to lead. Don't get me started. Maybe tomorrow. It must be past your bedtime anyway, Janice. Nite. Jack

To: Janice Shell who wrote (46)	1/1/1998 8:52:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Janice ; RE> Though I liked Dan Quayle better: "It's a terrible thing to lose your mind, or to be born without one". He should know. << You made a funny, and I laughed. ----------------------------------------------- Truly though, how could a person with out a mind be as devious as Dan Quayle ? ------------------- It may not be correct but sometimes I use "thingy" to refer to something hard to describe, also I often type thanx instead of thanks, however I try not to mess up the idea. :-) Jim

To: Janice Shell who wrote (46)	1/2/1998 1:41:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Hi Janice, Whilst we're having a swingin' time at the skule lab, we might as well point out that, at SI, punctuation errors are more common than any other type of infraction (barring perhaps, illegal use of sense when investing). Computer keyboards aid and abet these crimes as they are not properly set up to conveniently implement correct punctuation. I'm as guilty as any other, and I promise to make a more concerted effort toward 'punctuative correctness' if for no other reason than to not have you point a finger at me on the FBN thread. Strictly speaking, the following are evils which no proper publication would ever produce (pick any book or magazine): 1. Quotes are not " ", they are &#147 &#148. " is allowable when expressing a measurement: The stick is 9" long. The same logic applies for &#145 &#146, and ' '. 2. A pause is not two hyphens (--), it is the em-dash, &#151. Another dash type is the en-dash which is longer than a hyphen and shorter than an em-dash. It is used when expressing a range such as time: 9am &#150 10am. 3. Sentences should not be followed by two periods. This is an old throwback to high-school typing class and the Smith-Corona age. Typewriters do not employ proportional fonts so the use of two spaces became a necessary evil. The world of proper publishing, computer-aided or otherwise, uses one space at the end of a sentence. As I mentioned before, being proper is not an easy task, but since taht is teh focus of tihs forum, here &#146tis: You must invoke the Holy Code of ASCII. Type an ampersand (&). Type a pound sign (#). Type the relevant code number (151, 146, &#133). If I show you in the literal sense, it won't display my instructional intent so ignore the periods I've inserted; do not add spaces. Quotes: &.#.147 produces &#147. 148 produces it's companion. Dashes: &.#.151 produces &#151, the em-dash. The en-dash uses 150. Extra bonus: the ellipsis: no, it's not three periods, it's &.#.133 &#133 Making matters more difficult is the fact that if you edit your post after submitting it, you must go back and re-enter the ASCII codes&#151they don't carry over. Are we through, yet? -MrB

To: Janice Shell who wrote (46)	1/2/1998 2:24:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Now, for my next trick, I will correct my own error from the previous post. Please pass the salt as crow is rather bland this late at night. Where I said, &#147Sentences should not be followed by two periods,&#148 I did mean to say that the period itself should not be followed by two spaces. That would be one small &#147oops&#148 for me, one giant leap for SI-kind. Sosumi. Since, I'm here, I might as well share a few tidbits for our friends who speak another language besides English of the American kind. The correct &#145aesthetic&#146 is &.#.230 or, &#230sthetic. Also, try &.#.233 for caf&#233 (or is it 232 for caf&#232&#151French is a foreign language to me). 246 is a wildly Teutonic &#246 in six delicious cabbage-like flavors. Who could forget our good pal, the &#231 (231)? -MrB