Words: Jay or Nay Friday - Page 5

igorsk · 06-02-2008, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pshrynk

What? they put you in a gulag if you improperly use commas?

Well, not really

. What I mean is while in English you sort of can choose whether to put a comma or not, at least in some cases (e.g. see serial comma), in Russian there's a definite rule for almost every imaginable possibility.

zelda_pinwheel · 06-02-2008, 11:57 AM

actually a gulag for improper use of punctuation (or at the very least, the threat of one) might do some people a lot of good. we always seem to make gulags for the wrong reasons.

GeoffC · 06-02-2008, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

actually a gulag for improper use of punctuation (or at the very least, the threat of one) might do some people a lot of good. we always seem to make gulags for the wrong reasons.

Gulp's quietly...

Capital letters after a period, too...

zelda_pinwheel · 06-02-2008, 12:11 PM

it's ok, i'm allowed : my second name is cummings.

pshrynk · 06-02-2008, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Gulp's quietly...

Capital letters after a period, too...

ZP's got keyboard issues, lately. We try not to talk about it in her presence...

zelda_pinwheel · 06-02-2008, 12:19 PM

no no, it's ok, i've found a solution : i'm going to ask for Irish citizenship. then i'll have a justification for never typing "of" in its complete form.
(and the top o the afternoon to you too).

ideally though i need to find a language which never uses the letter "f" at all.

pshrynk · 06-02-2008, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

no no, it's ok, i've found a solution : i'm going to ask for Irish citizenship. then i'll have a justification for never typing "of" in its complete form.
(and the top o the afternoon to you too).

ideally though i need to find a language which never uses the letter "f" at all.

hmmm... welsh doesn't seem to have many vowels... no... polish has a lot of s's z's, k's... nope... sunni... nope... here it is! outer klatchian! just the ticket. now allwe gotta do is find another person who speaks a dead language from a fictional universe and ZP's in the pink!

GeoffC · 06-02-2008, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pshrynk

hmmm... welsh doesn't seem to have many vowels... no... polish has a lot of s's z's, k's... nope... sunni... nope... here it is! outer klatchian! just the ticket. now allwe gotta do is find another person who speaks a dead language from a fictional universe and ZP's in the pink!

pfft...

zelda_pinwheel · 06-02-2008, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffC

pfft...

Seriously.

(note extremely subtle tap o the nose in direction of other thread... see what i did there ?)

GeoffC · 06-02-2008, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

Seriously.

(note extremely subtle tap o the nose in direction of other thread... see what i did there ?)

I'm always serious...

Of course I noticed

zelda_pinwheel · 06-02-2008, 01:11 PM

oh, that wasn't a question.

GeoffC · 06-02-2008, 01:12 PM

nor was it an answer.

pshrynk · 06-02-2008, 01:14 PM

Ummm... Exclamatory remark? Was it one of those?

zelda_pinwheel · 06-02-2008, 01:14 PM

perhaps "concurrence" is the word you're looking for.

pshrynk · 06-02-2008, 01:18 PM

No, no. Got concurrence right here under the stack of overdue reports I must write. Definitely not looking for concurrence.

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06-02-2008, 11:57 AM	#62
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	actually a gulag for improper use of punctuation (or at the very least, the threat of one) might do some people a lot of good. we always seem to make gulags for the wrong reasons.

06-02-2008, 12:11 PM	#64
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	it's ok, i'm allowed : my second name is cummings.

06-02-2008, 12:19 PM	#66
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	no no, it's ok, i've found a solution : i'm going to ask for Irish citizenship. then i'll have a justification for never typing "of" in its complete form. (and the top o the afternoon to you too). ideally though i need to find a language which never uses the letter "f" at all.

06-02-2008, 01:11 PM	#71
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	oh, that wasn't a question.

06-02-2008, 01:12 PM	#72
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	nor was it an answer.

06-02-2008, 01:14 PM	#73
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Ummm... Exclamatory remark? Was it one of those?

06-02-2008, 01:18 PM	#75
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	No, no. Got concurrence right here under the stack of overdue reports I must write. Definitely not looking for concurrence.

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