Re: Email format.

[Martin Groenescheij]

OpenOffice is not an email program, in that way it will not help with 
your email problems.
OpenOffice is an Office program with Writer as an equivalent for Word 
and Calc for Excell
In Writer (Word) you are able to use every font that is installed on 
your computer, you are

in control of setting for Initial Caps or not.
This said you need to understand to work with Styles and it takes time 
to learn this.


The good news is that OpenOffice never ask for money, but make sure you 
only download

it from www.openoffice.org


On 07/08/16 9:19 AM, Nikoli A. McCracken wrote:

HI: I was using Windows Live Mail; suddenly, I got a notice from Outlook that 
they would no longer provide service for it. I switched to Outlook.
BIG mistake! It offers ONE lousy font, and only 4 choices of size. I hate it. I 
tried to go back to Charter, as they are my primary ISP. Same problem;
I hate their format. I’m 78 years old, 100% disabled, and Charter’s format is a 
mess. Two-thirds of the page is taken up with messages, address, other
Notifications, and the area for the actual message is terrible. Also has a 
limited number of fonts. And I have old eyes, and trifocals!
In addition, I have part of a book I was writing, working on it for over 7 
years. It did make it safely onto this computer from a backup file I had.
But it seems incapable of merging the old font with any new font, because it 
was first generated on Windows XP. So I can read it, but not add to
It. Do I have to retype all 500 pages?
Or, will your program help me? I am running Windows 10, downloaded from Windows 
8.1 during the ‘free download’ period. That’s over. Plus,
I’m getting weary of their constant demands for money. After just one year, I 
was going to have to buy another edition of Word, Excel, etc.
And for me, a proofreader, they also do one thing that is the last damn straw! 
The first letter of every sentence in an article or email, is Initial cap!
Who the hey writes like that anymore? Didn’t that go away along about 
Shakespeare’s time? I went to Msoft Tech support, and they blandly said
There was no way to change it!
Help!?
Best wishes, Nikoli A.”Penny” McCracken
tursiop...@charter.net
  


Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Email format.

[Nikoli A. McCracken]

HI: I was using Windows Live Mail; suddenly, I got a notice from Outlook that 
they would no longer provide service for it. I switched to Outlook.
BIG mistake! It offers ONE lousy font, and only 4 choices of size. I hate it. I 
tried to go back to Charter, as they are my primary ISP. Same problem;
I hate their format. I’m 78 years old, 100% disabled, and Charter’s format is a 
mess. Two-thirds of the page is taken up with messages, address, other
Notifications, and the area for the actual message is terrible. Also has a 
limited number of fonts. And I have old eyes, and trifocals!
In addition, I have part of a book I was writing, working on it for over 7 
years. It did make it safely onto this computer from a backup file I had.
But it seems incapable of merging the old font with any new font, because it 
was first generated on Windows XP. So I can read it, but not add to
It. Do I have to retype all 500 pages?
Or, will your program help me? I am running Windows 10, downloaded from Windows 
8.1 during the ‘free download’ period. That’s over. Plus,
I’m getting weary of their constant demands for money. After just one year, I 
was going to have to buy another edition of Word, Excel, etc. 
And for me, a proofreader, they also do one thing that is the last damn straw! 
The first letter of every sentence in an article or email, is Initial cap!
Who the hey writes like that anymore? Didn’t that go away along about 
Shakespeare’s time? I went to Msoft Tech support, and they blandly said
There was no way to change it! 
Help!?
Best wishes, Nikoli A.”Penny” McCracken
tursiop...@charter.net 
 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Re: [was:] Double line spacing

[Brian Barker]

At 17:53 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
just a quick (last) word: I take dictionaries to describe usage, not 
prescribe it ...


True.


... thus they lag actual usage.


Hmm...

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Re: [was:] Double line spacing

[Felmon Davis]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:


At 13:43 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:

I suggest that we agree to disagree ...


You can disagree without my needing to agree that you can. If agreeing to 
disagree means that I accept that "virii" is as arguable as "viruses", then I 
don't.


... each knowing that we are each separately correct as to preferred usages 
in our respective geographic areas.


The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language says "viruses". 
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary says "viruses". Other 
dictionaries give no irregular plural, implying the same. Sorry, but your 
defence of "virii" as an Americanism is simply untrue: USian dictionaries 
imply it's a misuse even there.


just a quick (last) word: I take dictionaries to describe usage, not 
prescribe it thus they lag actual usage.


not sure what authority dictionary writers would have to dictate 
usage anyway.


f.

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Felmon Davis

"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more 
specific."

-- Jane Wagner


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Re: Double line spacing

[Marna Greyvenstein]

I am enjoying this language lesson ... A little distraction is good, when you 
need it. 
It is not the information I'm looking for, but it .. Helped.  
Thank you.
M

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone

Jim McLaughlin  wrote:

>A writer whom I rather like was credited with commenting that my country
>and his were unfortunately separated by a  common language. I have always
>thought that to be
>a quite accurate observation.
>
>I suggest that we agree to disagree and each withdraw from the field, each
>knowing that we are each separately correct as to preferred usages in our
>respective geographic areas.
>Languages , even Latin, are living things and continually evolve.  Perhaps
>only Carthaginian appears to not do so. Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio
>Africanus) seems to have taken care of that.
>
>In any event, I think that half breed, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
>had an apt point.
>
>I promise to not make fun of your side's silly pronunciations of "clerk"
>and spelling and pronunciation of "aluminum" if you will refrain from
>calling me silly for my usage preferences.
>
>
>
>
>On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Brian Barker 
>wrote:
>
>> At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
>>
>>> virii
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second declension
>> noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural would be "viri", not
>> *"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural of "vir" and means "men". (I
>> suppose some people do believe that all men are slime.)
>>
>> *"Virii" would be the plural of the (non-existent) *"virius".
>>
>> Brian Barker
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Re: [was:] Double line spacing

[Brian Barker]

At 13:43 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:

I suggest that we agree to disagree ...


You can disagree without my needing to agree that you can. If 
agreeing to disagree means that I accept that "virii" is as arguable 
as "viruses", then I don't.


... each knowing that we are each separately correct as to preferred 
usages in our respective geographic areas.


The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language says 
"viruses". Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary says 
"viruses". Other dictionaries give no irregular plural, implying the 
same. Sorry, but your defence of "virii" as an Americanism is simply 
untrue: USian dictionaries imply it's a misuse even there.



Languages, even Latin, are living things and continually evolve.


I thought every schoolboy knew that Latin was dead? (In any case, we 
were talking about a plural in English.)


I promise to not make fun of your side's silly pronunciations of 
"clerk" and spelling and pronunciation of "aluminum" ...


So you spell and pronounce helum, lithum, sodum, magnesum, potassum, 
calcum, titanum, etc. similarly?



... if you will refrain from calling me silly for my usage preferences.


Oh, I never did. On the contrary, I called the non-word "virii" a 
silly formation; I made no such suggestion about you. That's important.


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Re: [was:] Double line spacing

[Brian Barker]

At 17:19 06/08/2016 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote:

1 virus 2 viri 3 virii 4 viriv. .. 9 virix


Ho, ho! A good one!

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Re: [OT] "lightly spread pedantry" (was: Double line spacing)

[Brian Barker]

At 17:10 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:

aw, and I was going to ask about 'data'!


Philip Howard, who used to write on words for The [London] Times, had 
a short chapter in one of his books entitled "Data is not what they 
used to be"!


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Re: Double line spacing

[Julian Thomas]

1 virus 2 viri 3 virii 4 viriv. .. 9 virix

From my i6.

Julian Thomas http:jt-mj.net
In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western NY State!


> On Aug 6, 2016, at 15:40, Felmon Davis  wrote:
> 
> 
> so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'?


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Re: [OT] "lightly spread pedantry" (was: Double line spacing)

[Felmon Davis]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:


At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:

...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?


"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs a plural 
in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".


(Er, should we get back to software?!)


aw, and I was going to ask about 'data'!

was (silly) fun!

back to business.

f.


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If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%?

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Re: [OT] "lightly spread pedantry" (was: Double line spacing)

[Brian Barker]

At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:

...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?


"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs 
a plural in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".


(Er, should we get back to software?!)

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Re: Double line spacing

[Jim McLaughlin]

A writer whom I rather like was credited with commenting that my country
and his were unfortunately separated by a  common language. I have always
thought that to be
a quite accurate observation.

I suggest that we agree to disagree and each withdraw from the field, each
knowing that we are each separately correct as to preferred usages in our
respective geographic areas.
Languages , even Latin, are living things and continually evolve.  Perhaps
only Carthaginian appears to not do so. Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio
Africanus) seems to have taken care of that.

In any event, I think that half breed, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
had an apt point.

I promise to not make fun of your side's silly pronunciations of "clerk"
and spelling and pronunciation of "aluminum" if you will refrain from
calling me silly for my usage preferences.




On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Brian Barker 
wrote:

> At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
>
>> virii
>>
>
> Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second declension
> noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural would be "viri", not
> *"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural of "vir" and means "men". (I
> suppose some people do believe that all men are slime.)
>
> *"Virii" would be the plural of the (non-existent) *"virius".
>
> Brian Barker
>
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Re: "lightly spread pedantry" [was: Double line spacing]

[James Knott]

On 08/06/2016 04:04 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> The idea that all Latin nouns ending -us form plurals ending -i is
> specious.
>

You mean martini isn't the plural of martinus?  ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_5h8CzRcI
Around 4:45

Wayne & Shuster were a famous Canadian comedy duo.

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[OT] "lightly spread pedantry" (was: Double line spacing)

[Felmon Davis]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:


At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:

virii


Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second declension 
noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural would be "viri", not 
*"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural of "vir" and means "men". (I 
suppose some people do believe that all men are slime.)


that's a great line (men and slime)!

ok, so how about this one - how do you pluralize 'agenda'?


*"Virii" would be the plural of the (non-existent) *"virius".


btw I just take it that 'virii' is now slang so acceptable on that 
score, kind of like 'deletia' which is also impossible in Latin.


f.

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Re: Double line spacing

[Brian Barker]

At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:

virii


Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second 
declension noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural 
would be "viri", not *"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural of 
"vir" and means "men". (I suppose some people do believe that all men 
are slime.)


*"Virii" would be the plural of the (non-existent) *"virius".

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Re: Double line spacing

[Jim McLaughlin]

virii

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Felmon Davis  wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Doug wrote:
>
> I agree that I brought up the word "manuscript" since something like a
>> term-paper or a dissertation might frequently
>> be called by that term, and I thought that the derivation from the Latin
>> would be of interest. To those interested in
>> language, it might be noted that "manus" even tho it has a masculine
>> ending, is feminine, not only in Latin, but in
>> Italian, (la mano) French, and even in the non-Romance language, German
>> (die Hand).
>>
>
> I do love a little lightly spread pedantry!
>
> so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'?
>
> f.
>
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Re: "lightly spread pedantry" [was: Double line spacing]

[Brian Barker]

At 15:40 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:

so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'?


This guy says that the Latin "virus" means something like "slime" and 
is a mass noun, having no plural: if you add slime to the slime you 
already have, you get more slime, not *"two slimes".


In English, "virus" is a count noun, needing a plural. Since the word 
doesn't have a Latin plural, the only possibility is a regular 
English plural, "viruses".


The idea that all Latin nouns ending -us form plurals ending -i is specious.

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ApacheCon Europa - Seville, Spain, Novmeber 16-18, 2016

[Matthias Seidel]

To whom it may concern, on www.openoffice.org:

"*ApacheCon Europa - Seville, Spain, Novmeber 16-18, 2016*"

This should be "November"...

Kind regards

Matthias Seidel



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Re: i,dd like to have open office

[James Knott]

On 08/06/2016 01:26 PM, Jerry Meije | JCM wrote:
> Dear madam ,Sir
>
> hereby i,dd like to download this , but i am experience difficulties ..
>
>
> here i ,dd like you to send me a link were i can download this program .
>
>
>

Download only from www.openoffice.org.  It's available in a variety of
languages and operating systems.


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Re: Double line spacing

[Felmon Davis]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Doug wrote:

I agree that I brought up the word "manuscript" since something like a 
term-paper or a dissertation might frequently
be called by that term, and I thought that the derivation from the Latin 
would be of interest. To those interested in
language, it might be noted that "manus" even tho it has a masculine ending, 
is feminine, not only in Latin, but in
Italian, (la mano) French, and even in the non-Romance language, German (die 
Hand).


I do love a little lightly spread pedantry!

so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'?

f.

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Felmon Davis

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
-- Mark Twain

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i,dd like to have open office

[Jerry Meije | JCM]

Dear madam ,Sir

hereby i,dd like to download this , but i am experience difficulties ..


here i ,dd like you to send me a link were i can download this program .


yours sincerely,

jerry meije

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