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« Reply #152 on: 11:34:54, 15-08-2007 » |
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Goerge?
And, over on the Aug 15th thread, 'cemara'? Are you ok, tinners? |
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« Reply #153 on: 11:38:03, 15-08-2007 » |
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I must apoligose. I'm really not quite sure what heppaned there.
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« Reply #154 on: 11:46:50, 15-08-2007 » |
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talking about ourselves in the third person
I've never seen anyone do it on here, although at least one member regularly talks about himself in the first person plural ... IM Sori. My voiCe talk isnut gudd. |
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« Reply #155 on: 11:52:42, 15-08-2007 » |
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On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #156 on: 12:59:21, 15-08-2007 » |
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Thanks tonybob but there is a real shortage of "inverted commas" on this forum, and indeed the inverted commas from my laptop looks distictly un-comma like, and what are 'these'? Speech marks? Help, get me a pedant, quickly! (Note good use of an adverb there).
| char. | description | unicode number | | ' | apostrophe | 0027 | | ‘ | single quotation mark (opening) | 2018 | | ’ | single quotation mark (closing) | 2019 | | “ | double quotation mark (opening) | 201C | | ” | double quotation mark (closing) | 201D |
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On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.
ah. riddley walker. a lot of people like that book. i think it sucks. |
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« Reply #158 on: 19:16:07, 15-08-2007 » |
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It seems to me that ellipses might in several uses be regarded as legitimate ancestors of the modern ellipses, and that there might be much use to be made of following the conventions used for the former in formulating conventions for the latter where ambiguity might arise. What think our members of the interrobang?  I will personally admit that I believe the advent of printed type has rather strangled the development of modern punctuation-marking. (Sometimes I long for a question mark with not a period at the end of its tail, but a comma). |
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« Reply #159 on: 19:33:32, 15-08-2007 » |
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Interesting. Perhaps it would do away altogether with phrases like "What the…?"
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« Reply #160 on: 20:00:53, 15-08-2007 » |
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Interesting. Perhaps it would do away altogether with phrases like "What the…?"
I don't see how it would, given that that, being composed of actual words as opposed to symbols that indicate meaning and some inflection, has a verbal interpretation as well. |
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What think our members of the interrobang?
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Ecco fatto  Echo: Oi, Narcissus. Who are you callin' fat? Tommo Ahem. Narcissus: Ecco fatto Echo: Ecco fatto Narcissus: Oi! Narcissus! Who are you callin' fat? Init. |
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Ecco fatto Echo: Oi, Narcissus. Who are you callin' fat? Tommo Ahem. Narcissus: Ecco fatto Echo: Ecco fatto Narcissus: Oi! Narcissus! Who are you callin' fat? Init. AHEM! Narcissus: Ecco fatto Echo: Ecco fatto Narcissus: Oi! Narcissus! Who are you callin' fat? Tommo |
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