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Warp wrote:
> - People who constantly confuse the words "than" and "then".
AUGH >.<
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Darren New wrote:
> Or commas. Or, most recently, quotation marks to "mean" emphasis.
http://donotwantyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/quotationfail.jpg
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> http://donotwantyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/quotationfail.jpg
Ah... that puts the "ph" back into "phale". :-D
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I recall someone on IRC who thought "meant" was written "mean't",
LOL!
I'll have to remember that, and use it in sentences when I correct
peoples' apostrophes. (which isn't often, mind, but usually only when
they ask.)
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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On 10-Nov-08 15:31, Invisible wrote:
>
> - People who write "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."
Reminds me of a comment in a peer review process: "Latin, i.e. 'Mutatis
mutandis' may not be understood by all. A goal of all published works
should be clarity. This is obfuscation."
We didn't realize that "mutatis mutandis" is perfectly good Dutch but
possibly not used by everyone, so he had a point. Yet, using a sentence
containing i.e. to explain that had me rolling on the floor. And
"obfuscation" had the poor first author running towards his dictionary.
I keep this one in my collection of self contradicting expressions.
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Invisible wrote:
> Things that irritate me:
>
> - email messages that contain no punctuation of any kind just several
> sentences strung together presumably youre supposed to figure out
> sentence boundaries from context or something its really quite
> irritating though
>
> - Email messages that overuse punctuation!!!!
>
> - Sentences that end with a question mark despite not being questions.
> You know the kind of thing I mean:
>
> + What is the average flight time?
> + Draw a histogram of the light times?
>
> - Sentences that begin and end with "please". (Surely once is enough?)
>
> - Misuse of the apostrophe. (There's, like, 4 rules or something. Even a
> retard like me can understand it!)
>
> - People who write "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."
My pet peeve is people who use "per" to stand for "according to."
Regards,
John
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Invisible wrote:
> - Misuse of the apostrophe. (There's, like, 4 rules or something. Even a
> retard like me can understand it!)
http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html
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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> - Misuse of the apostrophe. (There's, like, 4 rules or something. Even a
>> retard like me can understand it!)
>
> http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html
http://angryflower.com/plural.gif
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I recall someone on IRC who thought "meant" was written "mean't", and when
> I told him it didn't have an apostrophe he was seriously surprised (he had
> always written it that way).
##c++ in freenode
[19:02:48] <PovAddict> Cecen: it doesn't matter if it modifies the iterator;
what matters is if it modifies the data pointed to by the iterator
[19:02:55] <Cecen> Er, that's what I mean't.
[19:02:59] <Cecen> I was thinking that after I typed it
[...]
[19:07:28] <Eelis> i think that last trivia just said "don't try
initializing anything that doesn't belong to you in your ctor-initializer!"
[19:07:30] * Cecen waits for someone to confirm.
[19:07:41] <Cecen> That's what I thought it mean't, too!
[19:08:09] <PovAddict> Cecen: meant doesn't have an apostrophe
[19:08:19] <Cecen> It doesn't?
[19:08:24] <Cecen> So it doesn't.
[19:08:27] <Cecen> Or does it?
[19:08:28] <PovAddict> it doesn't stand for "mean not"
[19:08:35] <PovAddict> or "mea not"
[19:08:42] <Cecen> Ah true, doesn't stand for that
[19:08:49] <rioch> the verb is mean, meant, meant
[19:08:52] <rioch> ;)
[19:09:08] <Cecen> None of my English teachers have picked that up :(
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote in message
news:49189241@news.povray.org...
> I have nothing against quote marks used properly. It's when someone says
> he "really" means it, it's just completely confusing. :-)
I don't think I've *ever* seen anyone using your e.g.
~Steve~ ;)
>
> --
> Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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