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.]

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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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