http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 22:13:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-1098 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:38:12 +0000 malgor 1098@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When sestina poets get themselves in a muddle, I imagine they say 'I'm all at sixes and sixes'. Have you an example of sestina extended metaphor failure you can share, sauce? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-1093 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:28:11 +0000 sauce 1093@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Can we hijack this thread for other revolting pedantries?</p> <p>I'm critiquing poetry at the moment and some poets just cannot keep their extended metaphors up for a full sestina. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-1084 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:39:09 +0000 malgor 1084@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mr Thompson, I do believe that if a tag has already been entered, subsequent tags will auto-modify themselves to match the original version. So, 'finger's of fish' will turn itself into 'Fingers of Fish' if the original was entered with leading capitalisation and no apostrophe. This makes sense to avoid duplication. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-1017 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:44:30 +0000 Scroat 1017@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No - it's not fixed. She's still saying 'haitch.' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-981 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:04:42 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 981@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Now here's a clue which ought to be carefully weighed: I have been attempting to tag these various apostrophe threads with the form of "writer" complained of (solitary, plural, possessive plural) but the tag bag (at the top RH) swallows apostrophes. </p> <p>I was hoping to produce an interesting set of zoom-words in that blue box, at the top of the Forum, but have so far been unsuccessful. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-972 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:20:33 +0000 dominic 972@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Fixed. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-951 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:52:41 +0000 Scroat 951@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No - Oxfordshire/Berkshire border. </p> <p>Je suis désolée. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-875 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:48:36 +0000 rikkor 875@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Scroat, is your daughter from Ireland by any chance? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-870 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:01:24 +0000 MADJEZ 870@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>you could always arksk them not to ! (shudder). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-865 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:13:01 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 865@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>My children too! What is really annoying is that it is about the only time they ever sound the letter H (we live in 'ampshire). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-862 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:35:06 +0000 Scroat 862@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm afraid I'm as bad as the next chap when it comes to exactitude in punctuation. </p> <p>And my daughter has started saying 'haitch' instead of 'aitch.' A sad day indeed. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-826 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:38:01 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 826@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mr Roat, the old adadge is posted elsewhere and is reposted for your amusement: <em>when exception proves the rule, your pedant is a useful tool.</em> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-765 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:36:35 +0000 Scroat 765@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You're a pedantic butt </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-754 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:35:16 +0000 MADJEZ 754@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Newsbiscuit community relieved as MrChigleysAunt emerges from a comma. Should make a full recovery. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-752 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:25:28 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 752@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>More to the point, this website has US spell-check running. Arrrgh! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-653 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:05:57 +0000 Scroat 653@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>CRB checks for all of you. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-583 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:58:33 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 583@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>None of them actually do! Oh, Mr Thompson, you are a one! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-574 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:57:39 +0000 rikkor 574@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hint: pedantic is normally spelled "pendantic" here. It has something to do with wearing a necklace, I believe. I'm still waiting for them to figure out the possessive of more than one writer. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-573 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:38:23 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 573@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Those very tags also caught my attention. The problem with all the versions which you have tactfully provided, ma chère Tante, is that none of them actually do the job of correctly expressing what has to happen to any number of nouns separated from their gerunds and accompanied by free floating infinitives. </p> <p>To provide coherent and painless instructions for parsing, the expression should read: "separated by a comma". And that isn't the only thing wrong with it either, as you have pleasantly attempted to hint.</p> <p>And yet there it is. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=170#post-475 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:23:40 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 475@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>the Tags field at the foot of the New Topic form says "(comma seperated)", not "comma separated" (or should it be comma-separated?. Yes, children are starving around the World and people are blowing each other up, but still this pains me every time I see it. Civilization surely needn't crumble here at NewsBiscuit.<br /> I assume this is not something Nice Admin Lady has any control over but I thought I'd mention it. </p>