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bob dobbs is dead posted:they have continually done it since inception 93 years ago when peeps did this https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis posted:We do change our style from time to time. My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.
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Sagebrush posted:don't care, language changes, they don't write chirurgeon or garlick or mirrour so why the making GBS threads gently caress do they keep that particular one? they write it "reëlect" for christ sake
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the communications department where i work adheres to some dipshit chud style guide that has determined that the oxford comma is improper and incorrect and i am loving livid about it
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Roosevelt posted:the communications department where i work adheres to some dipshit chud style guide that has determined that the oxford comma is improper and incorrect and i am loving livid about it Have you considered leaving copies of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves around their work areas?
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Sagebrush posted:
It does look super odd, but it makes sense
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MononcQc posted:It kind of makes sense. The diaeresis (not the umlaut) is used to point out that two sequential vowels are pronounced separately. So coöperate should sound differently from poop. diæresis
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MononcQc posted:It kind of makes sense. The diaeresis (not the umlaut) is used to point out that two sequential vowels are pronounced separately. So coöperate should sound differently from poop. yes, but it's not required like why not go full ipa -- then there's no ambiguity
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Roosevelt posted:the communications department where i work adheres to some dipshit chud style guide that has determined that the oxford comma is improper and incorrect and i am loving livid about it also kill all chuds
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Sagebrush posted:i loving hate this part of their style guide playboy does it too. it's a standard shtick for trash rags to try to seem legitimate and intellectual
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also i'm born and raised american and i spell it grey for w/e reason, my brain just doesn't acknowledge gray as a spelling option and seems weird. i've also had report comments come back to change all "grey" to gray with "THIS IS AMERICA NOT ENGLAND!!!" once
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Sagebrush posted:i loving hate this part of their style guide it's good because it makes all the Alex trimbolis mad
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qirex posted:his $3 baseball hat, unpleasant delivery and lack of personal grooming overshadow whatever true things he is saying? we finally fuckin did it gang... we found a schlubby computer guy.
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Xaris posted:oxford comma loving owns, gently caress the haters. i've had report markup comments w/r/t deleting my oxford commas. idgi, it literally doesn't hurt to have around and always improves clarity or does nothing at worst. oxford comma is good. not using it cost a local company here $5 million due to ambiguous contract language.
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Xaris posted:also i'm born and raised american and i spell it grey for w/e reason, my brain just doesn't acknowledge gray as a spelling option and seems weird. i've also had report comments come back to change all "grey" to gray with "THIS IS AMERICA NOT ENGLAND!!!" once british tabletop games had me spelling all kindsa things wrong until i was like 15
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:concrete is reinforced with steel in order to allow it to resist bending or tensile stress (concrete by itself doesn't really do bending) i appreciate the insight; thanks.
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Xaris posted:also i'm born and raised american and i spell it grey for w/e reason, my brain just doesn't acknowledge gray as a spelling option and seems weird. i've also had report comments come back to change all "grey" to gray with "THIS IS AMERICA NOT ENGLAND!!!" once the sky is grey. the code is gray. i feel ya
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hmmmm but i read a thing that said concrete is infinite lifespan and every reinforced concrete actually sucks and will crap out within a decade, im sure this is not just survivorship bias on roman architecture and a genuine reflection of the limit of the materials
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Shaggar posted:people who aren't in cars are unworthy of love shaggar teaches computers to love and solves the trolley problem at the same time Sagebrush posted:i loving hate this part of their style guide stymieïng Pile Of Garbage posted:got my copy of bad blood yesterday and hot drat it's a page turner. almost polished off half the book over night, had to force myself to put it down and get some sleep! deffo yospos book of the year read it in one day. Thinking about getting a copy for my doctor's office, no one there could believe it
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JawnV6 posted:hmmmm but i read a thing that said concrete is infinite lifespan and every reinforced concrete actually sucks and will crap out within a decade, im sure this is not just survivorship bias on roman architecture and a genuine reflection of the limit of the materials it’s true if you stick a metal bar through things it kills them. people, conversations, bridges, it’s all the same principle. rebar is a planned obsolescence conspiracy of the mafia-controlled construction industry
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:holy poo poo this article is good proest loving click dude
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also reminder that the only reason that we spell it "gray" not "grey", "center" not "centre", "color" not "colour" etc. is because noah webster wrote a spelling book which had everything changed on purpose because "america deserved its own language". he also invented spelling bees to get it drilled in the holes of every young kid
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I'll just be over here reading Fox News where they have headlines like "Immigrants cost each US citizen $50G per year" loving G
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muckswirler posted:I'll just be over here reading Fox News where they have headlines like "Immigrants cost each US citizen $50G per year" is that gigadollars or gibidollars?
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President Beep posted:dude where’s my carbs this is a good post
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Suspicious Dish posted:also reminder that the only reason that we spell it "gray" not "grey", "center" not "centre", "color" not "colour" etc. is because noah webster wrote a spelling book which had everything changed on purpose because "america deserved its own language". he also invented spelling bees to get it drilled in the holes of every young kid
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fishmech posted:im greay
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Munkeymon posted:I hope the demise of Sears/Kmart means the city can finally scrape this fuckin thing off the map for cheap. weird to think that goddamn KMart was so hip and cool in the 70s (60s?) that they let them plonk one down on and erase a chunk of a major street but hey everyone had lead poisoning brain way worse back then I guess That bridge leading nowhere / parking lot behind the Kmart is a work of art.
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such noble. many no evil. wow. https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/16/google-sundar-pichai-china-search-engine/
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anthonypants posted:at least we spell and pronounce aluminum correctly Ironically, you accidentally wrote it the wrong way.
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those who ignore history are doomed to be the new leaders of industry
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yeah it's a particular flavor of google x/hooli xyz villainous technologist that will justify any death or oppression of currently alive people by citing megadeath figures they cobble together out of statistics
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"it's okay that we crashed a rocket into an elementary school, killing hundreds of schoolchildren, think of how many lives we'll save by becoming an interplanetary society"
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:british tabletop games had me spelling all kindsa things wrong until i was like 15 spelling it right IMO. people don't say gray and cray the same way and spelling ought to be allowed to change (back) to reflect that
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Munkeymon posted:spelling it right IMO. people don't say gray and cray the same way and spelling ought to be allowed to change (back) to reflect that grey and cray rhyme, though.
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