[QUOTE=levdrakon]
I wonder about the space before punctuation thing . Maybe people are accessing the boards through alternate devices ? They’re tapping it out on their cellphones ?
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Or maybe tap-dancing it in on keyboards?
I dunno, it just seems plain lazy to me, whenever I see it.
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara]
The plural of apostrophe is apostrophes.
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One of my former proofreading clients would insist it’s apostroph’ies.
A hundred-and-ten percent. Just please don’t.
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense]
Really, my beef is using 9’s and 0’s instead of ('s and )'s.
You know who you are!!
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I just saw the person doing it again. I remembered you said this, and it totally cracked me up. But now I’m wondering if it’s done on purpose? :dubious:
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Oh yeah? Since when did ‘disappear’ get transitively verbed?
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It is usually people who are disappeared (by despotic governments, especially in South American countries, where it is a calque of “desaparecidos”), not objects in banal contexts.
[QUOTE=Wile E]
Yeah, it’s kind of annoying but I just say to myself “Look! e.e. cummings is posting! Cool!”
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Ha! This one makes my morning!
Sailboat
Hey, here’s another one.Drives me up the wall.How do you manage to hit the space bar between every word, but you just can’t manage to hit it after a period?
Maybe that’s what all the people who put spaces before periods are doing… they’re trying to make up for the no-space morons.
[QUOTE=Ethilrist]
Maybe that’s what all the people who put spaces before periods are doing… they’re trying to make up for the no-space morons.
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No , then they would be posting like this . And , mostly , they don’t.