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

2020-09-22 Thread meine
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:15:02AM +0100, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote: > The real issue here is how one would import the Arkansas's spell > checker into Vim. :setlocal spell spelllang=en_ark for further settings and suggestions, please read h: spell This is why I love Vim so much, all

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

2020-09-22 Thread meine
+1 On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 06:40:29AM +, 'caveman رجل الكهف' via vim_use wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Monday, September 21, 2020 7:01 PM, Tony Mechelynck > wrote: > > > Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of > > Arkansas (whose name is to be

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

2020-09-22 Thread meine
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:01:11PM +0200, 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

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

2020-09-22 Thread Brennan Vincent
On 9/22/20 4:15 AM, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote: ‪On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 07:40, 'caveman رجل الكهف' via vim_use wrote:‬ ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, September 21, 2020 7:01 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of

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

2020-09-22 Thread 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use
‪On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 07:40, 'caveman رجل الكهف' via vim_use wrote:‬ > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Monday, September 21, 2020 7:01 PM, 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

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

2020-09-22 Thread 'caveman رجل الكهف' via vim_use
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, September 21, 2020 7:01 PM, 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

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

2020-09-22 Thread Emily Jackson
> On Sep 21, 2020, at 1:46 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.

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