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.
I assume this is not something Nice Admin Lady has any control over but I thought I'd mention it.
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Posted 10 years ago #
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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.
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.
And yet there it is.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Fixed.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
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.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
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