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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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent 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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