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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Dec 30, 2006 0:20:33 GMT -5
Was watching tv tonight - a small gripe ... there is a difference between being hanged and being hung. If Saddam is hanged that's one thing, if he's hung its an entirely different story.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Dec 30, 2006 10:12:15 GMT -5
Guess that means the commentators are stupid.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Dec 30, 2006 16:05:28 GMT -5
maybe he was both?
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Dec 30, 2006 16:50:23 GMT -5
A multi-tasker if you will ...
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Dec 30, 2006 16:52:46 GMT -5
If he was hung, I can see why so many people wanted to be in his baath party ...
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HealyHoya
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Post by HealyHoya on Jan 2, 2007 18:26:23 GMT -5
If he was hung, I can see why so many people wanted to be in his baath party ... That's got to be "quote of the year" material.
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Bahstin
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Post by Bahstin on Jan 2, 2007 18:48:35 GMT -5
If he was hung, I can see why so many people wanted to be in his baath party ... Irony. "If he were hung..." Indirect statements take the subjuntive. Nerd Alert.
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Post by StPetersburgHoya (Inactive) on Jan 2, 2007 19:16:14 GMT -5
If he was hung, I can see why so many people wanted to be in his baath party ... Irony. "If he were hung..." Indirect statements take the subjuntive. Nerd Alert. Well done, sir.
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Post by Frank Black on Jan 16, 2007 20:28:44 GMT -5
If he was hung, I can see why so many people wanted to be in his baath party ... Awesome, I laughed out loud at that one.
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Filo
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Post by Filo on Feb 26, 2007 14:21:42 GMT -5
**Pet Peeve Alert** **Pet Peeve Alert**
When you suffer a defeat, you "lose" (a team may be "losing," not "loosing") When you are the opposite of tight, you are "loose"
Ugh. I see this several times a day. I know, I know, I am being a verbal nerd. But this bugs me as much as some of the goofy math arguments bug the stats guys.
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hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Feb 27, 2007 13:03:51 GMT -5
I will throw one out there. The inappropriate use of "real quick." Well, I might have made a mistake there as well, since I have yet to come up with an accurate use of "real quick." Barring some oddball situation where someone's name or nickname was either Real or Quick, I can't think of a valid use of the phrase.
Even as spoken words where "reel" could be the word, it is still difficult to find a proper sentence structure using "reel quick."
Quick reel, reel quickly, really quick and really quickly all are fine. Nothing jumps out for "reel quick" or "real quick." And yet rarely does a day go by where you don't hear that wording structure at least once.
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 27, 2007 14:07:15 GMT -5
The excessive use of quotation marks bothers me.
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hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Feb 27, 2007 15:06:44 GMT -5
Okay tables, I will laugh along with you on that one.
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Post by dajuan on Feb 27, 2007 17:13:35 GMT -5
(Paging Lichoya)
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Post by dajuan on Feb 27, 2007 17:22:26 GMT -5
If hifi could reform as well as sixer, the flood of complaints would dry up. Probably wouldn't help his grammar, any, though. That quote is from Bubbrubb from another thread, but I thought it pertinent to this one. I have a question regarding the use of two commas around the word 'any'. I know Bubbrubb's expression is something of a colloquialism, but it got me wondering how one would handle that statement. The two commas look like they create a parenthetical, but that doesn't seem to fit. Then again, one comma (in either place) seems awkward - as does no commas at all.
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hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Feb 27, 2007 17:43:33 GMT -5
dajuan, I don't want to nitpick, but the proper use of the dash is two hyphens spaced, not one. Don't shoot me though, I didn't write the damn book.
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hoyarooter
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Post by hoyarooter on Feb 27, 2007 21:32:33 GMT -5
dajuan, I don't want to nitpick, but the proper use of the dash is two hyphens spaced, not one. Don't shoot me though, I didn't write the damn book. Wow, this is the last straw. It's one thing to flood our board with Gator-related tripe, but when you start correcting us on grammatical issues, it's time for expulsion.
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 27, 2007 22:52:31 GMT -5
dajuan, I don't want to nitpick, but the proper use of the dash is two hyphens spaced, not one. Don't shoot me though, I didn't write the damn book. You're technically correct. The Chicago Manual of Style is quite clear that the dash to which you refer (the em-dash, which is used to indicate a break in thought) is one dash that is not set off by spaces. It's commonly created in MS Word by typing a word, hitting two hyphens sequentially, and then typing the next word. When you hit the space bar after the second word, the em-dash is created between the two words. If, as you type, you include a space both before and after the two sequential hyphen, you'll then automatically create an en-dash, which is not proper. An en-dash is typically used to indicate sequences of numbers (i.e. pages in a footnote). Accordingly, I would use two hyphens on Hoyatalk to represent this: Example: Then again, one comma (in either place) seems awkward--as does no commas at all.
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Post by dajuan on Feb 28, 2007 9:32:22 GMT -5
Thank you for explaining Hoyatables. I'm accustomed to writing in word, which automatically turns an n-dash into an m-dash when it is surrounded by a space on both sides.
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hoyatables
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 28, 2007 10:11:58 GMT -5
Thank you for explaining Hoyatables. I'm accustomed to writing in word, which automatically turns an n-dash into an m-dash when it is surrounded by a space on both sides. Happy to see that useless copy-editing knowledge has some purpose!
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