re: sHARPENED

[patrick conroy]

Grew up near them nek-o-woods. Loved "Fargo". Cemented my respect for Bill Macy too.

He's a turner, dontch'a know? Hmm - I'm thirsty. I'm off to the bubbler...

[Kevin Singleton]

Ahh. Dr. Pepper. I look for it, but it's hard to come by. Lotsa Pepsi, though. Ugh.

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By Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:11:13 -0500, Joe Wells decided to post "Re: sHARPENED" to rec.woodworking:

Irregardless of the lackadaisical sharpened, I've prolly orientated MYOWNSELF, I mean it's "ALL I KNOW," to saying "WALLA."

Got that?

HTH,

/ts

PS: even worse, it's proper usage to put the punctuation inside the quote marks, though they punctuate the sentence and not the quote....

[Larry Blanchard]

Smiley face and all?

And unless my memory is failing, that practice is new since those long ago days when I went to school :-).

[Australopithecus scobis]

Commas and periods go inside the quotation marks. Semicolons and colons go outside the closing quotation mark. Question marks and exclamation marks go inside the quote if they apply to the quote; otherwise, outside.

--Warriner's _English Grammar and Composition_

..._Don't_ make me draw my Fowler...

[Tom Watson]

Strunk and White is God.

Regards, Tom.

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

[Larry Jaques]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:38:48 -0400, Tom Watson calmly ranted:

Are.

_Don't_ make me draw my Webbie's Hernia Edition...

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[Michael Baglio]

On an entirely unrelated note, I owe you a word of thanks, since I swiped one o' your ideas.

Shellac on cast iron. Who'da thought? Awesome. "It needs waxed less often."

Michael Baglio

[Tom Veatch]

Now, that's pure dumb, if you ask me.

Which nobody did.

And my opinion, like everyone else's, doesn't have to be based on objective fact.

And frequently isn't.

Tom Veatch Wichita, KS USA

[Tom Watson]

Since it is the common name for a book it is singular. Think about it.

I'll see your hernia and raise you an OED.

Regards, Tom.

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

[Andy Dingley]

Not in England it isn't.

[Tom Watson]

Yeah, youse guys is pretty much stuck with Fowler's. The closest we have to that is the Chicago Manual of Style but it suffers from the same disease as Fowler - a lack of wit.

I base this charge on the definition of a fairly good English stylist, who said, "...brevity is the soul of wit..." and thus Fowle'sr (and it's colonial cousin, The Chicago Manual) must be lacking in wit, as they are obviously lacking in brevity.

The Elements of Style ( by messrs Strunk and White) on the other hand, is brief to a fault and thus nearly faultless in it's wit.

(watson - who learned to love the spit infinitive by reading brother fowler, back when it still might have mattered)

Regards, Tom.

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

[patriarch]

Tom Watson wrote in news: [e-mail]:

This term, the spit infinitive, was not a part of my education. Care to elucidate?

Patriarch

[Swingman]

Once a requirement for HS English, probably not seen now until graduate school.

[Australopithecus scobis]

To go...'to go' boldly

[Australopithecus scobis]

faultless in _its_ wit, dagnabit!

[jo4hn]

patooie.

[Tom Watson]

Der's for or fyve udders in dat post. wide ya pick on dat un?

Regards, Tom.

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

[Dave Balderstone]

I doubt even grad students see Strunk & White these days. Certainly J-School grads don't.

djb

[Australopithecus scobis]

Brevity