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magicfish Inner circle 7036 Posts 
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Or is it, "Correct, sir."?
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts
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On Jun 15, 2018, S2000magician wrote: True. But what other pronouns are ever contracted orthographically? The problem, as I see it, is that the spelling rules we learned in school were *both* phonological AND grammatical, and there is orthographical tension between the two. Grammar, phonology, orthography: these things blend--or fail to blend--too much for people to get all huffed up and persnickety. Yet we do. I do, too. I myself blame not only the French, but Willm Shakspere. |
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dave_matkin Inner circle 4522 Posts
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On Sep 3, 2006, pradell wrote: No the emoticon isn't working... Unless you intended it that way. 
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On Sep 29, 2006, Muckey Spleen wrote: I can do "careful proofread"ing until the cows come home. I will still probably miss my own errors. It's part of my dyslexia. When I'm on my PC I have access to Text Help Read and Write Gold which will read it back to me, allow me to check for homophones and then read it to me again. It's a great tool, it also lets me put a digital coloured filter up on my screen to help with my Irlen syndrome too! It's not a cheap program though. I have a similar app on my iPad ... It's not as easy to use as the PC version. Thanks for all the ideas everyone. |
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bcstoner New user 24 Posts
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If you were writing your PhD thesis, I could understand caring about your spelling/punctuation to that degree. But you are posting on an anonymous internet forum with a bunch of strangers you don't know and more than likely will never meet.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts
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On Aug 25, 2019, bcstoner wrote: Yeah, but once you're finished, people sorta expect you to be able to use the same care--even for Internet forums. Or, as I like to say to myself, "Be careful, Jeff. Bill is watching!" |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27302 Posts
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So, now acronyms are no longer typed in all capital letters. Is coke still it?
Ask Siri how to spell "wooster", "chumley" or "fenshaw". [not for danny] Through one end of the telescope it's all 1337. Through the other it seems Elizabethan means au courant. What differance to the runcible abcederian after dialectic went to Russia and rhetoric became an ignoble gas? [/not for danny]
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27302 Posts
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@stone, agreed. Also tensions across geography, time and between institutions.
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magicfish Inner circle 7036 Posts
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On Sep 25, 2019, Jonathan Townsend wrote: These are often conflated, though. So apart from that, broadly speaking in the modern public mind it constitutes a worldview, shaping belief and even perception, implicitly, that the world is like this. And is often pitted in opposition to religious beliefs, though, of course science (ideally) deals in empirical facts, not values. Game theory. Is that the theory of woodcock, partridge or guinea fowl? Personal... |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27302 Posts
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LASER, Laser, or just laser these days?
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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That's the general chronological declension isn't it? That is, if a word lasts that long.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27302 Posts
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Chronological as in late 20th century. But at the same time we developed 1337.
Today it's i. e. but not eg'd. We have printed works from five centuries ago.
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magicfish Inner circle 7036 Posts
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On Sep 26, 2019, Jonathan Townsend wrote: It depends whether it is at the beginning of a sentence or not. |
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magicalday 0 Posts
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"Laser" is the current accepted and standard spelling for the term, derived from an acronym that stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation." While "LASER" (all capital letters) was initially used to represent the acronym, "laser" (lowercase) has become the most common and widely accepted spelling in modern usage. It's now considered a regular noun rather than an acronym, and as such, it's written in lowercase letters.
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