Morning Lau,
> (and I used
> that "that that" without qualms
>
I might be able to do better :
The owner of the "Dog And Duck" pub wanted a new sign painting and employed a
craftsman to do so. (You can tell how old this joke is, there are no craftsmen
left !)
When done, he went to admire th
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> Morning Lau,
>
>
>> (and I used
>> that "that that" without qualms
>>
> I might be able to do better :
>
> The owner of the "Dog And Duck" pub wanted a new sign painting and employed a
> craftsman to do so. (You can tell how old this joke is, there are no
> craftsm
Lynn Truss missed this one.
Get the family to punctuate: Woman without her man is nothing
John.
On 1 Jun 2006, at 01:22, Tony Firshman wrote:
> Laurence Reeves wrote:
>
>>
>> A la TF,
> A le TF surely (8-)#
> I deplore the loss of meaning specificity that a missed
>> apostrophe causes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> (and I used
>> that "that that" without qualms
>>
> I might be able to do better :
>
> The owner of the "Dog And Duck" pub wanted a new sign painting and
> employed a craftsman to do so. (You can tell how old this joke is, there
> are no craftsmen left !)
>
> When
Laurence Reeves writes:
> PPS. Tony still hasn't told me whether he'd like to have fewer or less
> computable numbers than points in a (mathematical) line.
Id vote for fewer because the words "numbers" and "points" represent
discrete objects. The reason it is confusing is that we are mixing up th
John Taylor writes:
> Lynn Truss missed this one.
>
> Get the family to punctuate: Woman without her man is nothing
Shouldnt that be: Lynne Truss? Missed this one.
See E,S&L p9
Per
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I don't think so, my daughter has my copy, but where is the
apostrophe in "shouldnt"?
John.
On 1 Jun 2006, at 10:24, P Witte wrote:
> John Taylor writes:
>
>> Lynn Truss missed this one.
>>
>> Get the family to punctuate: Woman without her man is nothing
>
> Shouldnt that be: Lynne Trus
Την Fri, 26 May 2006 12:51:02 -0400,ο(η) John Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> έγραψε:
> "More" can be applied to both quantity and numbers, so why cannot "less"
> It is regular practise now to talk about me and you, not you and I.
> While I agree with you on the use of fewer and less, it must be
> re
Not only did the Ancient Greeks develop a great language they understood human
nature quite well. At least if this is an accurate quote/translation:
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they
con
Την Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:31:04 -0400,ο(η) Bill Cable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
έγραψε:
> Not only did the Ancient Greeks develop a great language they understood
> human
> nature quite well. At least if this is an accurate quote/translation:
>
> "A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devoti
Την Wed, 31 May 2006 08:03:06 -0400,ο(η) Laurence Reeves
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> Deafening silences?
>
Windows XP (eXtra Performance)
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From: "David Tubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] apostrophes
> At 13:30 31/05/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>There is no missing apostrophe. The people's, yes, but in this case
>>peoples is pl
PS. (this is a Pre-script, just for variety). I've always liked:
While marking their work, the teacher noted that John had written "had",
whereas Jim had had "had had". "Had had" had had the teacher's approval.
Just to wind up this one, from way back, Tony Firshman wrote:
> One very common one no
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
...
> Curious fact: there are also 2 zeros! +0 and -0.
When I worked with Data/Basic on Pick, -0 was used to represent infinity[1].
Add 1 and you got the largest positive number possible, subtract 1 and you
got the largest negative number possible.
[1] Data/Basic used f
Laurence Reeves wrote:
> PS. (this is a Pre-script, just for variety).
Shouldn't that be AS: Ante Script?
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Phoebus R. Dokos writes:
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> I would say that usability defines what is right. The perfect example
> would be Greek. Ancient Greek for example had words for almost everything.
> Modern Greek doesn't and as a consequence it is a lot more periphrastic
> now than ever.
> For example an average incr
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