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Take the apostrophe key off your keyboard, just get rid of it.
January 26, 2023, 11:17 AM
Patrick-SP2022Take the apostrophe key off your keyboard, just get rid of it.
quote:
Originally posted by OKCGene:
I think I still have an ancient copy of Strunk & White The Elements Of Style.
I haven’t touched it in 30 or 35 years.
Anyone remember this?
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I have the Fourth Edition sitting on my bookshelf.
Picked it up a year or two ago as a handy reference.
January 30, 2023, 01:43 PM
motor59I want that mug!
suaviter in modo, fortiter in re
January 30, 2023, 10:47 PM
Rawnyquote:
Originally posted by motor59:
I want that mug!
No, you want
this mug!
June 01, 2025, 08:51 AM
sigfreundResurrecting an old thread that seems appropriate again.
“ [Evil] can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. … Against stupidity we are defenseless. … [R]easons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need not be believed … and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside ….”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer June 01, 2025, 09:10 AM
V-Tailquote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
Resurrecting an old thread that seems appropriate again.
Are you sure that you don't mean the old thread seem's appropriate?
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים June 01, 2025, 01:21 PM
gpbst3For a second I thought you were talking about the ` above the Tab key. I`m going to start using it as an apostrophe and make my words sassy.
June 01, 2025, 02:08 PM
RichardCquote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
Resurrecting an old thread that seems appropriate again.
'taint .
June 01, 2025, 02:52 PM
V-Tail'tis
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים June 01, 2025, 03:25 PM
nhtagmemberI like that mug
I should get one
June 03, 2025, 06:08 AM
trapper189The mug is missing things then my socket set.
June 06, 2025, 07:28 PM
P220 Smudgequote:
Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I should get one
Should've when you could've. Now they're unavailable, which is a shame. I want one.
Only one on that list that trips me up at times is "its" showing possession. I guess there are worse problems to have. I have a friend who insists on doing number 16 even though I used to call him on it. We had a big goddamn fight over that one. Now he just does it because he's stubborn and it still drives me up the wall, which might be the only reason to still does it.
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Endeavoring to master the subtle art of the grapefruit spoon.
June 07, 2025, 03:07 PM
Rey HRHThe key to properly using apostrophes is minding your p's and q's, and knowing the difference between dos and don'ts.
[URL=https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Plurals/faq0008.html#:~:text=Plurals%20almost%20never%20take%20an,and%20don'ts%E2%80%9D).]The Chicago Manual of Style[/URL]
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
June 07, 2025, 07:52 PM
vthoky^^^^
Rey’s link
Politicians seem to have forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around.
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God bless America. August 12, 2026, 06:59 PM
sigfreundAn older thread. But still obviously relevant.
“ [Evil] can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. … Against stupidity we are defenseless. … [R]easons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one's prejudgment simply need not be believed … and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside ….”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer August 12, 2026, 07:26 PM
FredwardI've got that fucking cup.
Written English is becoming a dead language. The HR from my former employer posted the results of a job fair today. She started out by saying, "Imma..." It went downhill from there.
I'm getting real tired of reading shit that looks like it was cut and pasted from the book, "A Clockwork Orange."
August 15, 2026, 09:44 AM
nhracecraftThe lady doth protest too much, methink's.
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Serious about crackers. August 16, 2026, 08:50 AM
V-Tailquote:
Originally posted by OKCGene:
I think I still have an ancient copy of Strunk & White The Elements Of Style.
I haven’t touched it in 30 or 35 years.
Anyone remember this?
I kept a copy on my desk when I worked at Bell Labs. We had to create a lot of documentation to accompany our design work.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים August 17, 2026, 08:13 AM
remshooterIam kind of like Elmer Keith (famouse for bad spelling ,grammar ,puncuations )when it comes to punctuation and grammar .I like how after an editor wrote him he needed to use more punctuation and proper grammar. He supposedly typed out a whole page of ........,,,,,,,;;;;;;'''''''!!!!!!""""""??????.......ect...ect...ect and told the editor .here is more punctuation . just put them were you need them... lol
August 23, 2026, 03:17 PM
cparktdSeen on the road-side on a round hay bale...
Hey 4 Sal
I bet every single person that passed by understood the message immediately and perfectly well.
I scored at the 93 percentile on the Navy aptitude/classification test for mechanical reasoning. But only in the 20s in spelling and grammar. I passed French in HS the same year failed English... First world problems... Not everyone can, or cares to be, grammatically correct!
If things changed, things would be different.