I wonder some times too who the heck is this marinated.... You see the difference now ESL. When I get out of temper or loose my temper I write things as the pronounced and never spell check. i.e. "us" is "as' to a god damned greek. ...now I am tempered.... Yanni Marinated S/V Princess Thalia Columbia 8.7 #73 Hamilton-Fifty Point @ H3 N 43.13.406 W 73.37.431
----- Original Message ----- From: "Norm of Bandersnatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Bandwidth > > Eric, > > You are right. Basically the-semi colon is a stronger comma, and a colon > stronger yet. All three tell the reader how long to pause as they go > along > the sentence. > > This is why it is so helpful to read your message out loud to yourself, > you > can get a feel for how your recipient gets the message. Using good > punctuation and other techniques helps get the message from your mind to > the reader's mind clearly. > > I recall years ago there was a series of print ads written by Kurt > Vonnegut > about these things. It was a great idea and I cut a couple out. > > Strunk and White's 'Elements of Style' is the classic little book. I also > heard of a newspaper 'style' book that is famous (but I can't recall it, > maybe the Chicago Trubune) for these little standards of clear writing. > > Always run a spell checker over your copy too, nothing staggers the > transfer of thought like bad spelling forcing the reader to figure out > what > is really being said. > > Someone active on the List comes to mind. When I read his stuff I always > wonder what he is marinating in. (sorry Yanni, the debil made me do > it...) > > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > Lying Julington Creek > 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > > > > >> I seem to remember something about the colon being proper when it > precedes >> a list of things, but not if the list contains proper complete sentences. >> I bet I'm wrong though... >> >> Eric Thompson > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.9/1637 - Release Date: 27/08/2008 > 7:01 AM > > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
