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Re: An English lesson

MartyBartfast — Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:58 am

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:58 am

wyliecoyoteuk wrote:

Actually, you are all in violation of my pending patent on "a mark that seperate's or sub'stitute's for a letter (or letter's) in a ca'se of contractive abbreviation, or a plural noun in the greengrocers style".
I wa's thinking of calling it "the apo'stroph'e"
You will be hearing from my lawyer's a's soon a's the patent's are granted.
My attorney a's'sure's me that thi's will go through, he u'sed to work for Micro'soft, so I think that I can trus't him.

Good, that means when youve got them patented then everyone will stop using them for fear of litigation, theyre completely superfluous and a waste of ink/chalk/bytes.

M:

Re: An English lesson

1slipperyfish — Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:11 am

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:11 am

h'ang on i h'ave been writing like th'at for a'bout 29 ye'ars now
paul

Re: An English lesson

wyliecoyoteuk — Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:50 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:50 pm

Actually, you are all in violation of my pending patent on "a mark that seperate's or sub'stitute's for a letter (or letter's) in a ca'se of contractive abbreviation, or a plural noun in the greengrocers style".
I wa's thinking of calling it "the apo'stroph'e"
You will be hearing from my lawyer's a's soon a's the patent's are granted.
My attorney a's'sure's me that thi's will go through, he u'sed to work for Micro'soft, so I think that I can trus't him.

Re: An English lesson

1slipperyfish — Fri May 26, 2006 1:35 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 1:35 pm

nelz wrote:

crispibits wrote:

I know in *nix, 'everything is a file', but even 1sf? Surely not...

He can be quite abrasive and wearing

thanks
paul

Re: An English lesson

nelz — Fri May 26, 2006 1:27 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 1:27 pm

crispibits wrote:

I know in *nix, 'everything is a file', but even 1sf? Surely not...

He can be quite abrasive and wearing

Re: An English lesson

M0PHP — Fri May 26, 2006 11:56 am

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:56 am

You can delete files when you no longer feel the need for them

Re: An English lesson

crispibits — Fri May 26, 2006 11:52 am

Author: crispibits

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:52 am

Ok, but 'text-processing-based-on-pseudo-character-groups-on-a-non-filebased-object jokes' wouldn't have been quite so snappy. I know in *nix, 'everything is a file', but even 1sf? Surely not...

Re: An English lesson

nelz — Fri May 26, 2006 11:20 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:20 am

It's text processing, not programming.

Regards,
Your friendly, local pedant

Re: An English lesson

M0PHP — Fri May 26, 2006 11:19 am

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:19 am

@crispibits: It's that fish, he brings us all down to his level

Re: An English lesson

crispibits — Fri May 26, 2006 11:08 am

Author: crispibits

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:08 am

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Programming jokes - we really have hit rock bottom...

Re: An English lesson

nelz — Fri May 26, 2006 11:06 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:06 am

1slipperyfish wrote:

ps somebody might have already sed this i couldn't be arsed reading it all

I tried that

Code:

cat 1sf | sed 's/[[:drivel:]]//'

and got absolutely nothing

Re: An English lesson

M0PHP — Fri May 26, 2006 10:56 am

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 10:56 am

1sf: Just because an article said something doesn't make it true

Re: An English lesson

towy71 — Fri May 26, 2006 10:49 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 10:49 am

1slipperyfish wrote:

ps somebody might have already sed this i couldn't be arsed reading it all

Aye well no surprise there then, we have noticed that your attention span is rather short

Re: An English lesson

1slipperyfish — Fri May 26, 2006 10:41 am

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 10:41 am

i was reeding an article reecently that sed their are know actual rules of spellings an grandma, just guidelines and the fact that you rote it in english makes it english, the queens english is a phrase and knot a set of rules.
spelling nazis go and kiss you're own bums
paul

ps somebody might have already sed this i couldn't be arsed reading it all

Re: An English lesson

towy71 — Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:43 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:43 pm

boom tish.....