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- Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:12 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
- Replies: 47
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...I hope that was properly conveyed as self-mocking irony. I took it that way, as I am sure you meant it. There are few instances among the rules of punctuation that allow choices between two rights. The apostrophe after a letter or number is one, and the last comma in a series is another. So take...
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:48 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
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- Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:00 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
- Replies: 47
- Views: 264835
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:33 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
- Views: 489091
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:24 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
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- Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:19 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
- Replies: 47
- Views: 264835
As I indicated in my earlier post, I'm not bothered by the presence or the absence of apostrophes to form plurals of a letters or numbers. The Chicago Manual of Style (at least the edition I have) requires the apostrophe. My old Harbrace Handbook allows a choice of putting it in or leaving it out. T...
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:26 am
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
- Views: 489091
I'm familiar with the Gullah dialect but didn't bring it up here, since it's confined to a population. It's also called Geechee. There is a very good novel called I've Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, by Susan Straight, that deals with the Gullah-speaking people. It's not as eas...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:40 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Latin's descendants
- Replies: 115
- Views: 489091
Everyone tends to oversimplify the Southern accent. Along the east coast, there are at least three: Coastal, Midlands, and Piedmont/Appalachian--the former and latter being very distinct. (Midlands accents are another story altogether.) Charleston natives tend to drop their r's (river = rivuh, dinne...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:01 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
- Replies: 47
- Views: 264835
Just to pick a nit here, but if you were a teenager in the 60s, doesn't that mean you were a child in the 50s. Which leads us to yet another quibbling point: 50's or 50s. That apostrophe should mean it's possessive, no? Well, I was born in 1948, but I was in high school and college in the 60's (or ...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:50 pm
- Forum: Slang
- Topic: The Slang Generation Checkup
- Replies: 47
- Views: 264835
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:15 pm
- Forum: WELCOME HOME!
- Topic: Hello
- Replies: 11
- Views: 49783
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:18 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: DASN'T
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15501
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:08 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: DASN'T
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15501
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:50 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: DASN'T
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15501
- Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:18 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: DASN'T
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15501