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05-16-2014, 11:53 PM | #5492 |
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06-04-2014, 02:13 PM | #5493 | |
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06-15-2014, 05:08 PM | #5494 |
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And here's a selfie of Norton, my Kindle, my left hand, and part of our gazebo taken three days before last Christmas.
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06-15-2014, 05:47 PM | #5495 |
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Hiya Norton! That looks like an interesting book, too.
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06-15-2014, 06:06 PM | #5496 |
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If you're interested, the name of it is Yes, I COULD Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk by Bill Walsh. It's, of course, a book on English grammar. I'm finding that the more I learn about the subject, the stupider I feel, and I think that's partly because there are so many unsettled issues in living languages. Oxford comma, anyone?
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06-15-2014, 06:46 PM | #5497 |
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Yes please -- to the Oxford comma. I think that's when you like to use a comma between your lists, your other items, your further lists, and the "and" listed after them? Like this? I prefer it. I'll look at that book.
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06-16-2014, 07:19 AM | #5498 |
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06-16-2014, 09:24 AM | #5499 |
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06-16-2014, 12:38 PM | #5501 |
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I am still stuck having to think about not typing two spaces at the end of every sentence.
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06-16-2014, 01:28 PM | #5502 |
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I don't even think about it. I just *do* type two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. End of sentence. (err, end of subject for me, I mean!)
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06-16-2014, 03:04 PM | #5503 |
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I had a professor that was thoroughly against double-spaces so I switched my ways.
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06-16-2014, 03:12 PM | #5504 |
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Corrupt-A-Topic (anymore off-topic and it would be on-topic)
Before we ever had a home PC, my wife taught me that two spaces after a period was the proper way to type. I stayed with that until bulletin boards (remember those?) and early, limited word processors broke that good habit by too many times placing one of the spaces I typed after the period and the next on the line below just before the next sentence. Now I use just one space, unless it involves something to be printed out that I want to look professional.
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06-16-2014, 03:38 PM | #5505 |
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My typing class in high school taught that it had to be two spaces. This was on real typewriters, not computers. Computers may have changed the rules, but I haven't changed. Yet.
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