*My computer lost my WORD program. I had an important Personal Journal that
I've created since Sept 17, 2007.*
*That's the date of my spinal cord injury and I keep this as a log to my
learning through my new life in a wheelchair.*
**
*I was frantic that I was so afraid that I could not retreive
First of all, sorry for my bad english...
Hi, I’m an brazilian user and enthusiast of OpenOffice, I love the OO suite,
but everytime that I need to change/dislocate the number of the pages in
some document, I always have the same problem:
I just go in Insertheaderdefault; and after click in the
Both my parents are Irish. I was born in Leicestershire, England and
I became French by marriage. I usually write in English
(U.K.-Les-Irish) and occasionally in French (Burgundy). What language
would I have written in if I had been born in Hong Kong, I wonder?
Patrick Grace (Paticus Graccus)
A fine comment!
Again, apologies for any annoyance caused by my off-key comments earlier.
Despite appearances, I am not some raving anti-American, nor am I a 'BBC
English' pedant.
I am someone, however, who believes that there is value in accurately conveying
instructions. To that end,
On 30 Jan 2011 at 1:42, Harold Fuchs wrote:
The minute you say (as you did) ... and there's the regional variations
... you leave standard English behind and enter some world inhabited by the
bewildered. It's there ARE the regional variations. The verb should agree
with its predicate. So
On 1/29/2011 7:17 AM, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote:
When (for example), an interface tells me about spreadsheet 'formulas'
and not 'formulae', I think the people responsible have forgotten the user.
Off topic, a diatribe, in agreement with the position of
Zaphod and others.
The so called
On 1/29/2011 11:55 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
I disagree - but Fowler is the authority, not me :-{
Fowler is wrong. The correct spelling is formulae.
DBTsr
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 10:32:53 -0500
David B Teague davidbtea...@comporium.net wrote:
Hello David,
The so called Americanisms mentioned here are not
Americanisms. They are BARBARISMS, committed by poorly
Oh, FFS! Nobody says; prithee, ye, thee, thine, verily, or forsooth any
more.
In
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copied.]
On 1/29/2011 9:26 PM, barb delia wrote:
*My computer lost my WORD program. I had an important Personal Journal that
I've created since Sept 17, 2007.*
*That's the date of my spinal
David B Teague wrote:
On 1/29/2011 7:17 AM, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote:
When (for example), an interface tells me about spreadsheet 'formulas'
and not 'formulae', I think the people responsible have forgotten the
user.
Off topic, a diatribe, in agreement with the position of Zaphod and
others.
The discussion seems to have gone astray. The choosing of, or arriving at,
a particular default dictionary was, I think, the original point. The
comments, while interesting and somewhat illuminating, show our digression.
Language is a means of transmitting the thoughts of one to the
On 2011/01/30 5:07 PM Pat wrote:
The discussion seems to have gone astray. The choosing of, or arriving at, a particular
default dictionary was, I think, the original point. The comments, while interesting and
somewhat illuminating, show our digression.
The discussion started about the
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