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WGAF??!
[/John Candy]
“Those aren’t pillows!!!”
[//John Candy]
[nit] RAWDuke, it was Steve Martin who said “Those aren’t pillows.” The dialogue:
[John Candy kisses Steve Martin’s ear]
SM: Why did you kiss my ear?
JC: Why are you holding my hand?
SM: Where’s your other hand?
JC: Between two pillows.
SM: THOSE AREN’T PILLOWS!
[/nit]
Munch - big PTA fan
Thanks, Munch. My memory isn’t what I remember it to be;)
WTF: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
I actually saw this on the marquee for some bar announcing a local band that was playing there. Underneath the band’s name (I don’t remember what it was) it said W T F .
2trew, I know what you’re talking about. Another one to add to the list is SPC card. SPC is Student Price Card, offered to, obviously, the students here. My friends who are no longer in school often ask me to borrow my SPC card to get discounts at various places. I always reply with a “You’re asking for my student price card card?” They [sometimes] realize their mistake and correct themselves. Then, a week later, it’s always “Can I borrow your SPC card?” I don’t know why I bother; they’ll never learn.
Captain Amazing, I’m all for clearing up confusion. What I’m saying though, is that it’s annoying when it’s redundant. If a certain person doesn’t want anyone to be confused about abbreviations, then simply leave it out. Why do people write
when they can simply put
As for numbers written as words or just numbers written as numbers, what I was taught as a rule was if I was taking notes that only I would look at later, then writing them as numbers is fine. However, if it was for an official document or even a test, then writing out the word would be the proper way.
I was taught that you should always write out the numbers from one to ten, and then write them as numbers from eleven onwards. Needless to say… I’ve strayed from that teaching many, many times.
However, I’ve rarely strayed from the second part of that rule, which is to never start a sentence off with a number written as such.
F_X
Hmmm. I’ve been told that the rule is that you write it out for numbers from one to ninety-nine, and afterwards write them as numbers.
For example:
Ninety-nine kids were at the game. They ate 101 sausages.
However, I think it was just one of those rules teachers made up to simplify things because the real rule was more complex.
Whether (and when) to spell out numbers is a style decision. There is no single “rule.” The Chicago Manual of Style has an entire chapter on the treatment of numbers.
Now, with that out of the way . . .
Anybody remember Dilbert’s TTP project? TTP stands for The TTP Project.
Always suspected he was a unix programmer.
OMG it took me waaay too long to figure that one out. :o
BTW, I was reading a recap of Six Feet Under on TelevisonWithoutPity.com and it took me forever to get DGDJ. As I’ve already demonstrated I’m not too swift in this area, but that was a toughy. Dead Guy Du Jour! If they’d just spelled it out once I could have slept much better that night. I’m not slow, I’m acronym challenged!
Some annoying Acronym/Redundency issues I deal with daily that irk the hell out of me.
NIC (Network Interface Card) Card
and just about any networking related acronymm ending with “P” followed by the word protocol eg
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Protocol
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) Protocol
the worst though is
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) Protocol
I always thought that the number(#) thing on official documents was a kind of double-check against mistakes. If I record that someone was paid seven thousand, one hundred and twenty four dollars ($7124) the two numbers can be refeenced against each other.
So if the document has “seven thousand, one hundred and twenty four dollars ($714)” or “seven thousand, one hundred and four dollars ($7124)” then anyone reading the document should be able to spot that something’s wrong and go check it out.
Protocol is very important. Perhaps we should create a Universal Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol “Protocol” Protocol to govern the protocol relating to the use of the word protocol in discussing TCP/IP protocols?
Now I can’t even tell if I spelled it right to begin with. My job here is done.
The reason it’s done that way is because LAIA (lawyers are incredibly anal).
Wet Toad Farts.
Right?
OMGIASSFT.