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Edit Post Username  Need to register? Password:  Forgot password? Subject: Icon: Formatting Mode: Normal Advanced Help Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Script MT Bold Stencil Verdana Lucida Console -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 6 White Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: HTML is Off Smilies areOff BB Code is Off [img] Code is Off Others can aim to be the forums’ resident experts on propriety. I’ll take a not-so-somber shot at being the capitalization, punctuation, and spelling maven.[quote]Originally posted by FateWineRoses: So I’ll tell you the same thing I told eagle. You don’t like the tone of the thread or the board you’re more than welcome to go away.[/quote]The period at the end of the first sentence is fine: It is, indeed, a sentence. There are a couple of other places in each sentence where I might have opted for a comma myself, but there are no [i]errors[/i] as such. FateWineRoses chose to say the sentences in one breath and without pause, projecting a certain frame of mind. Note that I could have chosen to write “It is indeed a sentence” and preceded it with a period rather than with a colon. A matter of style, not a matter right or wrong. My call. Just as it’s FateWineRoses’ call as the writer for the quote above. Few prescriptivists would object, including me. Almost no descriptivists should find anything wrong. Only those with the eye of an eagle. As for capitalizing [i]eagle[/i] — the user’s screen name is not capitalized, so lower case is an impeccable choice. However, eagle334th has politely requested that the diminutive “Eagle” be capitalized. If that’s the way she wants it, that’s the way to go. Unless you want to annoy her. --------------------------------------- Writing [i]frame of mind[/i] caused me to think of substitutes before deciding to stick with that idiom: mood, mental attitude, state of mind. Yesterday, when I was serving as a taxi driver for my grandson, I used an idiom and he asked me what it meant. I told him and then spent a few minutes explaining to a six-year-old what [i]idioms[/i] are. After my explanation, he made a statement, followed by, “I was glad to get that off my chest.” I started to explain that [i]get that off my chest[/i] was also an idiom, because he didn’t actually have anything on his chest to get off. He interrupted me to say that he had heard it in [i]Finding Nemo[/i], and that he knew it was an idiom because fish don’t have chests. He had caught on quickly. He should be able to take over for Barbara Wallraff as head of the Grammar Police in a few years. And for me as the Editor of the [url=http://www.pseudodictionary.com/]PseudoDictionary[/url], my site for made-up words. You’re welcome to visit and add a word to our lexicon. It really [i]is[/i] easy to come up with new words. I’ve thought of one while writing this post. Typos ([i]Tyops[/i] before I corrected my typo, giving me another new word needing a definition. Something related to [i]psyops[/i].) have resulted in several entries I’ve made to the PseudoDictionary myself. A typing error that changes an [i]i[/i] to an [i]e[/i] is the most common error that results in a new word. For instance, I came up with one just a few minutes ago: [i]netpecker[/i] instead of [i]nitpicker[/i]. The PseudoDictionary entry will look something like this: [url=http://www.pseudodictionary.com/netpecker[b]netpecker[/b]][/url] - An Internet nitpicker. e.g., If that’s the way the netpecker wants it, that’s the way to go. If I felt compelled to go out of my way to find an objection to or feel offended by this thread — that is, to be a [i]netpecker[/i] — it would probably be the choice of [i]Men and Ladies[/i] in the topic, as opposed to [i]Men and Women[/i] or [i]Ladies and Gentlemen[/i]. The latter choices are both egalitarian and parallel. --------------------------------------- Did not intend to post this. Only meant to preview it to check formatting for putting in a forum on another site that has no preview facility. If the delete feature had been working before there was a response, I would have deleted it. Disable smileys? Use signature? Turn BBCode off? ! Delete this message !

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