Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

2020-09-21 Thread arocker
> > Or maybe I've missed the point. > > Ottavio Caruso > Surely, the point is that a body that passes laws like that has way too much spare time. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more

Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

2020-09-21 Thread Salman Halim
> > > > I am not a native speaker of English, but I think it is correct (and > > obvious) that the Saxon genitive of Arkansas is Arkansas's and not > > Arkansas'. The latter is only reserved for plural nouns ("my friends' > > party", "my parents' house," but "James's car", Charles's book). > > > >

Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

2020-09-21 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/21/20 2:46 PM, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 16:01, Tony Mechelynck > wrote: >> >> Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of >> Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the >> "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the

Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

2020-09-21 Thread 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 16:01, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of > Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the > "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the state's name must be written > «Arkansas's» and not «Arkansas'».

Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

2020-09-21 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Tony wrote: > Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of > Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the > "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the state's name must be written > «Arkansas's» and not «Arkansas'». (I'm using French quotes to > emphasize

Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

2020-09-21 Thread Tony Mechelynck
Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the state's name must be written «Arkansas's» and not «Arkansas'». (I'm using French quotes to emphasize the difference with the

Re: Spell checking not working correctly for me

2020-09-21 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
On 21 Sep 2020, at 11:11, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Mi, 16 Sep 2020, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> yesterday I tried in a long time the spell checking feature. Besides a >> strange German dictionary “z=“ does not work for me. When I hit z= the >> cursor jumps to the beginning of

Re: Spell checking not working correctly for me

2020-09-21 Thread Niels Kobschätzki
On 20 Sep 2020, at 19:42, Paul wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 06:08:38AM +0200, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: yesterday I tried in a long time the spell checking feature. Besides a strange German dictionary “z=“ does not work for me. When I hit z= the cursor jumps to the beginning of the line.

Re: Spell checking not working correctly for me

2020-09-21 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Mi, 16 Sep 2020, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I tried in a long time the spell checking feature. Besides a > strange German dictionary “z=“ does not work for me. When I hit z= the > cursor jumps to the beginning of the line. ctrl+x s works though for > getting spelling