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I got my book back, yay!
(You may or may not recall I lent it to Hot Sales Girl, before she quit
the company.)
Ooo... but, um, why does it small of roses now?? o_O
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Invisible wrote:
> I got my book back, yay!
>
> (You may or may not recall I lent it to Hot Sales Girl, before she quit
> the company.)
>
> Ooo... but, um, why does it small of roses now?? o_O
I don't see the relevance between the subject and the content.
Wait, unless...
Myst?
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> I got my book back, yay!
>>
>> (You may or may not recall I lent it to Hot Sales Girl, before she quit
>> the company.)
>>
>> Ooo... but, um, why does it small of roses now?? o_O
>
> I don't see the relevance between the subject and the content.
>
> Wait, unless...
>
> Myst?
It's the title of the book I got back.
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
If you can find a copy... it's a seriously interesting book.
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Invisible wrote:
> Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
> for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Notice the curios capitalisation and other assorted grammar... [This is
how the original is formatted.]
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>
>> Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It
>> Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
>
> Notice the curios capitalisation
It's standard. Everything but conjunctions and articles and prepositions
gets capitalized, and those others if they start the sentence of course.
> and other assorted grammar...
... which needs a comma before the first "and" in American.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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>> Notice the curios capitalisation
>
> It's standard. Everything but conjunctions and articles and prepositions
> gets capitalized, and those others if they start the sentence of course.
So why are "It" and "Is" capitalised, but not "to" and "and"? That seems
rather inconsistent to me.
>> and other assorted grammar...
>
> ... which needs a comma before the first "and" in American.
Really? In UK English, you never put a comma before an "and". Unless
it's a new clause in the sentence anyway.
"X, Y and Z" is the correct way here, but they wrote "X, Y, and Z".
I couldn't comment on whether or not it's correct US English.
(Did I tell you about the friendly cashier who told my grandad that "you
speak our language very well"? Au contrare, *you* speak *our* language
rather badly! :-P But there we are...)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Notice the curios capitalisation
>>
>> It's standard. Everything but conjunctions and articles and
>> prepositions gets capitalized, and those others if they start the
>> sentence of course.
>
> So why are "It" and "Is" capitalised, but not "to" and "and"? That seems
> rather inconsistent to me.
"It" is a pronoun and "Is" is a verb. I didn't say it made sense. I said
it was a consistent rule.
> Really? In UK English, you never put a comma before an "and". Unless
> it's a new clause in the sentence anyway.
This is a new clause in the sentence.
In particular, it's an independent clause. Which is to say, if you took
the "and" off, it would be a complete sentence with subject and verb.
Hence, it gets a comma before the conjunction to separate it from the
preceding clause. Commas separate things, and hyphens join them.
But as I said, this is explicitly American rules, and the UK rules
differ here.
> "X, Y and Z" is the correct way here, but they wrote "X, Y, and Z".
> I couldn't comment on whether or not it's correct US English.
You need the comma before the "and" at the end of a list of the list
element before or after the "and" has a preposition or conjunction in
it. Otherwise it's optional.
They had two flavors: strawberries and creme, or coffee and chocolate.
> (Did I tell you about the friendly cashier who told my grandad that "you
> speak our language very well"? Au contrare, *you* speak *our* language
> rather badly! :-P But there we are...)
Heh.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:59:07 +0000, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Notice the curios capitalisation and other assorted grammar... [This is
> how the original is formatted.]
For a book title, this is correct capitalisation; the grammar is probably
just because it's not really a sentence, it's a title.
Jim
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Invisible wrote:
> I got my book back, yay!
>
> (You may or may not recall I lent it to Hot Sales Girl, before she quit
> the company.)
>
> Ooo... but, um, why does it small of roses now?? o_O
I'll need to assume you mean smell rather thAn small.
-Aero
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