On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 03:08:58PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Iiuc, the "comment" pertains to the "comment" rather than the > > "syntax of send hook", ie: correct usage of the English "written" > > word. > > I believe he understood that and was making a joke, i.e. in English > should the single quotes be escaped then. > > At least I laughed. :)
Indeed, as did I! :) On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 01:20:32AM -0400, Mark Filipak wrote: > On Sat,May 10 06:49:PM, Derek Martin wrote: > > Mostly I reply here due to a curiosity: Why is "'messed'" in single > > quotes here? I see people do this increasingly often, and I don't get > > why. > > Are you a coder, Derek? I use single-quotes when I'm coding because it's > faster; I don't have to hit the shift key. Perhaps the objectionable > text you saw came from a coder. I am a coder, but this is English text, not code. :) But more to the point: The variant of quotes is not what I was commenting on so much as the fact that they were used at all, when there was no compelling reason to do so. And don't get me wrong... I don't expect that people will always post proper formal English (of whichever variant they speak). I wasn't picking on Guy's English per se... Really I was commenting on the increasing prevalence of this odd usage. It's almost as bad as adding apostrophes for plurals or third-person present tense verbs (e.g. "apostrope's" instead of "apostrophes" or "He let's his dog out" vs. "He lets his dog out."). And also FWIW, the one thing I was quite serious about was having had too much rum. =8^) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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