Grammar Discussions

[cove]

My iPad spells American style and will auto correct while I am not paying attention.
Currently reading a "cough-holes A Theory" to help me understand folks who have a DYKWIA complex out in public places like in airline queues and airline lounges.
The good news is cough is definitely still used in our 3 million square miles.

 

[Hvr]

Now what, exactly, does this mean... how does one join them? Head to tail, or...

If they were sponsored would they adjoining horses?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

When did we decide that (in Australia) cough was spelt cough?

I don't think we did! Just you can get away with writing 'cough' rather than 'a*se'?

 

[JessicaTam]

If they were sponsored would they adjoining horses?

I don't think we did! Just you can get away with writing 'cough' rather than 'a*se'?

I am now wondering if these posts are related?

 

[TheRealTMA]

I don't think we did! Just you can get away with writing 'cough' rather than 'a*se'?

How does one pronounce that? A-Star-Se or A-Asterisk-Se? Presumably donkey is easier for the youth of today and easier to tweet.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

My iPad spells American style and will auto correct while I am not paying attention.
Currently reading a "cough-holes A Theory" to help me understand folks who have a DYKWIA complex out in public places like in airline queues and airline lounges.
The good news is cough is definitely still used in our 3 million square miles.

You do realise you can change the language and region settings?

 

[JessicaTam]

I have heard of dropping an apostrophe but this is ridiculous.

 

[cove]

No I did not realise that I could do that. I have only just started deleting History on my IPad. May not be ready to go high tech just yet.
Don't want to get too gruntled.

 

[Hvr]

I love reading The Economist magazine and a copy I found on my recent travels had this fascinating article.
[h=1]Hysteria over hyphens[/h]Hyphens can be tricky, but they need not drive you crazy

“IF YOU take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad,” warns the style manual of the Oxford University Press. This maxim is quoted in The Economist’s own style book, which goes on about the punctuation mark for eight pages.People can get very excited over things like the presence or lack of a hyphen in “e-mail”.

Most of the world is trending towards “email”; hyphens disappear over time, in favour of the closed-up form. (“Today” overtook “to-day” in frequency around 1926 in America, according to data from Google Books, and a bit later than that in Britain.) The Economist, being stylistically conservative, still prefers “e-mail”, but that may well change one day even if absolutely nobody is confused by either form.

Two examples of when a hyphen really makes a difference.

The difference between a “third-world war” and a “third world war” is nothing to sniff at, and those selling a car might get rather more interest in the sale if they remember the hyphen in “a little-used car”.

 

[get me outta here]

Nice article quote. (Eats, Roots and Hypens)

I love reading The Economist magazine and a copy I found on my recent travels had this fascinating article.
[h=1]Hysteria over hyphens[/h]Hyphens can be tricky, but they need not drive you crazy






Two examples of when a hyphen really makes a difference.

 

[whatmeworry]

Spotted on Reddit.

 

[anat0l]

Spotted on Reddit.

...

May unwittingly say something about those who live in Brunswick.

Either that or the agents were being charged by the letter and wanted to cut costs

 

[whatmeworry]

May unwittingly say something about those who live in Brunswick.

Either that or the agents were being charged by the letter and wanted to cut costs

I think it may say more about the intelligence of Real Estate Agents.

 

[Warks]

Reading this headline from the news.com.au site my brain started to melt with the possibly ambiguities in this 'simple' statement.

[h=4]Nine caught in embarrassing Katy Perry lie[/h]

 

[Warks]

Sorry, another shocker:

Many expeditions have been sent to remote attols in search of the wreckage of the twin-engined Lockheed Electra aircraft.

Photo said to show Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan and Electra aircraft

 

[Warks]

You'd think a technology reporter might know how to spell or at least type.

AS THE world tries to ween itself off fossil fuels, scientists are racing towards one of the biggest breakthroughs in history that could provide virtually unlimited energy.
Theoretical physicist Professor Steven Cowley spruiked the immense potential of fusion, which he described as a “perfect energery source”, in a “deliberately provocative” talk at Syndey University on Thursday night.

Fusion reactor news: Will the ‘perfect energy source’ make electricity?

 

[Strategic Aviation]

You see such errors sprinkled throughout news media websites. It's possible that the reporter isn't responsible for the errors, depending on the outlet's procedures for filing and how many other people touch it before it is published.

 

[anat0l]

Couple of chestnuts noticed around the place from last week:

• "then" and "than". Perhaps easily confused for non-native speakers, but should be much easier to understand the difference compared to "compliment" and "complement" (or "stationary" and "stationery").
• "adds", as in the plural of the short form of advertisement. Just, no...

 

[Captain Halliday]

If you're not going to enforce the policy, why bother with a sign?

 

[anat0l]

If you're not going to enforce the policy, why bother with a sign?

...

The interesting part would be how would you edit the sign so that it conveys the meaning more effectively, assuming that the sign cannot be reasonably unambiguous if one takes into account the fine print?