On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 12:44:16 UTC, eles wrote:
Actually, IIRC (not native English speaker here), it was once
told me that the symbol for "I" (first person) is a different
one, something like a half of circle, but in print we use "I"
for convenience, as it is pronounced the same and it
Just a correction:
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 10:44:20 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
Since you've already been labelled as a pedant, perhaps you
should learn the difference between pedantry and Nazism.
I meant:
Since you've already labelled *me*
Anyways.
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 11:19:55 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
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On 8/30/2014 5:38 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
˙ǝƃɐnƃuɐן uʍo ɹıǝɥʇ ǝʇıɹʍ ɹo ʞɐǝds pןnoɥs ʎǝɥʇ ʍoɥ uo ǝןdoǝd
ɥsıןƃuƎ
ʇɔǝɹɹoɔ oʇ ƃuıʎɹʇ sʎɐʍןɐ ǝɹɐ ǝןdoǝd ɥsıןƃuƎ-uou ʇɐɥʇ snoıɹɐןıɥ
ʇı puıɟ
sʎɐʍןɐ I
I'm a native English speake
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 11:27:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:44:18 +
safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
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On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:59:16 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
>
There is no question that failing to capitalize the letter i
when it's us
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 10:49:33 UTC, Mengu wrote:
i will join you in your fight. i do not use upper case letters
when writing both in english and turkish. i find these rules
utterly useless as well.
the funny thing is that there are movements that fight for a
revision of written engl
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:44:18 +
safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
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On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:59:16 UTC, Gary Willoughby
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>
> Stop being such a grammar nazi.
>
I didn't bring it up because I felt like being pedantic, I
brought it up as a suggestion to make it more plea
On 8/30/2014 5:38 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
˙ǝƃɐnƃuɐן uʍo ɹıǝɥʇ ǝʇıɹʍ ɹo ʞɐǝds pןnoɥs ʎǝɥʇ ʍoɥ uo ǝןdoǝd ɥsıןƃuƎ
ʇɔǝɹɹoɔ oʇ ƃuıʎɹʇ sʎɐʍןɐ ǝɹɐ ǝןdoǝd ɥsıןƃuƎ-uou ʇɐɥʇ snoıɹɐןıɥ ʇı puıɟ
sʎɐʍןɐ I
I'm a native English speaker. Uncapitalized "I" makes a writer come
across like a common leet-spea
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 06:00:31 UTC, ketmar via
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:13:23 +
krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce
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Negligence to do so is, to me, either extreme laziness or lack
of respect to the reader.
neither, in fact. i believe that those rul
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:59:16 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
Stop being such a grammar nazi.
I didn't bring it up because I felt like being pedantic, I
brought it up as a suggestion to make it more pleasant to read.
Since you've already been labelled as a pedant, perhaps you
should
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:55:37 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 06:00:31 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
i believe that those rules are useless and senseless now, so
it's more like a "one man crusade".
It's not a "one man's crusade," it affects legi
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:59:16 UTC, Gary Willoughby
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On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:55:37 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 06:00:31 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
i believe that those rules are useless and senseless now, so
it's more like a "
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 07:55:36 +
safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> It also appears unprofessional and uneducated.
so i am.
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On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 06:00:31 UTC, ketmar via
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i believe that those rules are useless and senseless now, so
it's more like a "one man crusade".
It's not a "one man's crusade," it affects legibility and creates
dissonance within the text.
It also appear
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 07:55:37 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 06:00:31 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
i believe that those rules are useless and senseless now, so
it's more like a "one man crusade".
It's not a "one man's crusade," it affects legi
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:13:23 +
krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
> Negligence to
> do so is, to me, either extreme laziness or lack of respect to
> the reader.
neither, in fact. i believe that those rules are useless and senseless
now, so it's more like a "one man crusade". i know tha
After posting this yesterday i've so far had 9,900+ people visit
this article (with 96.90% being new visitors). Good exposure for
D i think. :)
It's my blog and i'll do as *i* please.
On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 16:13:33 UTC, ketmar via
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:17:53 +
krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce
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If you're writing in a language, try to appear literate.
but what if i can't, for example? i can read (and understand
without
dictio
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:17:53 +
krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> If you're writing in a language, try to appear literate.
but what if i can't, for example? i can read (and understand without
dictionary, and with jokes too) books of Pratchett, Carrol, Adams, even
Tolkien with his "ye o
On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 14:17:55 UTC, krzaq wrote:
On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:11:01 UTC, ketmar via
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:18:42 +
safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
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What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
don't even noticed that until
On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:11:01 UTC, ketmar via
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:18:42 +
safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
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What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
don't even noticed that until your post. but maybe that is
'cause i'm
not using capit
On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 20:41:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 8/28/14, 9:06 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
Direct link:
http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/
Post is on hackernews' front page as well. Congratulations! --
Andrei
Cool! :)
On 8/28/14, 9:06 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
Direct link:
http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/
Post is on hackernews' front page as well. Congratulations! -- Andrei
On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:18:42 +
safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
don't even noticed that until your post. but maybe that is 'cause i'm
not using capitals at all... ;-)
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On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 16:06:11 UTC, Gary Willoughby
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Direct link:
http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/
What do you have against capitalizing 'I' ?
It's annoying / distracting to read text filled with
uncapitalised 'I's.
Direct link:
http://nomad.so/2014/08/hidden-treasure-in-the-d-standard-library/
I've written a new blog post highlighting hidden treasure found
in the D standard library. I love finding this stuff so i've
shared my latest discoveries hoping to ignite some curiosity out
there.
I've put it on reddit so vote up! :)
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2etyz1/hidden_
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