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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:32:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120814083254.032cb003@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201208140116.05814.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>

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On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:16:05 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > ...unlike grocers' apostrophe's, which crop up everywhere and are far
> > more grating for me.  
> 
> Agreed, except that I think you mean greengrocers'.

Both are valid. Greengrocers' is the more common, grocers' is shorter.
When you are paid by the word, the difference is important :)

> I also find that 
> commas seem to be thrown at random into a piece of prose in the
> apparent hope that a few will land where they might do some good.

I know what you mean, but that is more a matter of style than rules. I
have been criticised by editors for using too many and too few.

> Even
> Penrose is sometimes guilty of that. And don't start me on the
> egregious Oxford comma.

I wouldn't dare.

> Nor on the German insistence on separating the
> verb from the object with a comma, as though the action could proceed
> without something to act on.

Different language, different rules. Put another way, I don't speak
German so I don't care :)


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-14  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-12  0:09 [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12  1:33 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12  1:41   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12  2:28     ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12  3:10       ` Dale
2012-08-13  9:18         ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-08-13 11:21           ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-12  9:47 ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-12 10:01   ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-12 13:31     ` Mick
2012-08-12 22:52       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12 23:08         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13  1:43           ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-13  8:03             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-13 17:43               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-14  0:16               ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2012-08-14  7:32                 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-08-12 23:14         ` Dale
2012-08-13 17:46           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-13 21:31             ` Mick
2012-08-12 18:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-12 19:34   ` Mick
2012-08-12 20:06     ` Michael Mol

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