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Emoticons within parentheses? (Like this :-) )

Mike — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:33:23 GMT

Has anyone got any guidelines for using parentheses around a phrase that ends with a "smile" emoticon? My copy of Strunk & White doesn't cover this.

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Hope for spelling-challenged dominants?

PoolB — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:43:16 GMT

http://bondage.com/topic_id/121217/p/1/forums/topic.html

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from means at?

qatana — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 00:55:24 GMT

Hey how come when people work at home they say they work From home? Doesn't "from" imply that they've left?

I work At home. If i left the house to do my job then i'd be working from home.

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verbiage

qatana — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:24:46 GMT

Transition. A passing or passagefrom one condition, action or (rarely)place, to another;change.
That's what it meant in my 1955 Oxford Universal Dictionary(with my name in gilt on the spine!)

When,oh when, did this word become a verb meaning "to move from one place to another"?

i mean, you can transfer, transport, transmit,transmigrate, i don't feel like typing the rest of the page. Why must we "transition"??

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Very unique

Dunk — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 04:51:39 GMT

I've been having an argument with my girlfriend for a while now. Is it OK to say that something is 'very unique.' She thinks that something is either unique or not unique. There is no 'very unique.' There are no degrees of uniqueness.

Help settle our little dispute, and save our relationship from certain peril. What say the experts in this tribe?

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canadans

harry — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:59:43 GMT

i jogged past a long line of flags from various countries this morning and for some reason this occurred to me:

costa rica - costa rican
granada - granadan
samoa - samoan

the rule seems to be that you just add an 'n'.

so why don't we have canadans living up north?!

;-)

harry

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Apostrophe's [sic]

fofalex — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 03:06:54 GMT

I got an email from one of the quality engineers where I work that had this in it:

want's

Arrgh. I also see an alarming amount of apostrophes misused to pluralize (sample's). WTF?

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Hanging is too good for these people

sianyb — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:45:40 GMT

My pet neck-hair erector is "leveraged". As in "we leveraged the deal and made them give us their lunch money".

Leverage=noun
Leveraged=pompous moron

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And the Golden Pedant Goes To....

spidra — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:58:19 GMT

Poo B! Who ribbed me about a typo I made in my own goddamned tribe. This man is a tireless champion of pedantry. The merely tightass quail before him!

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A Pedant's Tale

starchymcpants — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 04:08:36 GMT

As I was meandering along the sidewalk a few days ago, I noticed a woman with a shirt on. In and of itself, that might not seem an event worth recounting, but bear in mind that this shirt had words printed on it. What, you may ask, were those words?

"KNOW
IT ALL"

I felt temptation overtake me, but restraint won the day. As much as I wanted to, I did not ask her, "Shouldn't that be hyphenated? Do you really mean that statement as an imperative?"

Now, of course, I only regret my tactful silence.

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AUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!

spidra — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:42:23 GMT

From a City of Berkeley Press Release:

"All of these cases involved lone female drivers who were brandished with a knife and forced into the passenger seat."

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My Pedantry Will Not be Stopped

starchymcpants — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:53:48 GMT

I just picked up a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style.

Yes. Oh yes.

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so..

Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:40:36 GMT

no one is being very pedantic...in fact I hear crickets chirping...:) I am ready for the pedantry...lets go! :)

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Why the ILOP??

theminx — Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:43:13 GMT

Because I always wanted to join an International League.

The only other one with which I was even remotely connected was the International League of Intellectual Fascists (an Ayn Rand groupie group), and, pedant though I am, I did not care to be associated with that league...I am not fond of any sort of fascism. But that was another time, another place.

And I know, you will all (both) now crack the pedantic whip at me for having begun two sentences with conjunctions.

Bwa-ha-ha!!!!

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okay, I'll bite

dq — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:14:48 GMT

"YOUR" (yr, yôr, yr; yr when unstressed)

adj. The possessive form of you.

Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments.

A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right.

Informal. Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener: your basic three-story frame house.

[versus]

"YOU'RE" (yr; yr when unstressed)

Contraction of you are.

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this has bothered me since jr high and people would sign my yearbook: "your a grate guy", "your realy funny", etc

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