HUZZAH! Banned from Rentech.com!
ZephyrZodiac:
Sounds like you used to like reading labels and adverts, things like that!
Inge:
Well it keeps me quiet - look, I only lost one pair of lips up till now :)
ZephyrZodiac:
Well,I've lost three! JM must have a freezer full by now! Hope the FBI doesn't get wind of it!!!!!
Brynne:
My mom is fond of the word "discombobulate" (I didn't check to see if the spelling is correct there, but phonetically, that's how it sounds), only she thought it was discomBOOBulate. She passed that on to me, and I got laughed at by my friends in college for a.)using an unnecessarily big word and b.) pronouncing it wrong.
Bane~Child:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 19, 22:36:18
She showed me a copy of the accursed New York Times Manual of Style.
Was this in the heading of the article? I think with a word this awkward, the author/jounalist should have used an alternative like the 747S prototype or model, or something of this nature.
My eldest daughter has a degree in Journalism and they were not taught using the NY Times style, I think they used the AP style. I remember she too cringed at mention of the accursed NYT style. In the AP style, they don't allow the use of dashes in between words like, well-to-do. Does this make it a phrase then and not a word? They only use them to separate syllables at the end of a line or with a number sequence, as in the strictest sense of a dash. This naturally causes conflicts on a professional level, as the older guys, usually the editors, have a difference of opinion based on their old school methods. Even if this is warranted in professional copy, personally I prefer the use of dashes when grouping words into familiar phrases.
Then there is the comma. When I was learning grammar it was used to separate independent thoughts, natural pauses in a sentence or where you wanted a pause to appear for emphasis within a sentence. It was used before and after dates, proper names and place names. Now this all seems wrong, too. In this method you can end up with easily, 5 or 6 commas in just a short sentence. When I write this way, without the extra commas, some how it just feels wrong and it can lead to an entirely different interpretation.
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