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Initial post: 14 Mar 2012 17:58:48 GMT
RAB says:
Is it because the OP's brain is that overloaded with the tricky conundrum they're offering up, or something more sinister?

Is it the Amazon Forum Mafia attempting to discredit their cyber-foes before the mudslinging has even started?

I think it's past time the people knew the truth.
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In reply to an earlier post on 14 Mar 2012 20:14:42 GMT
Kodokushi says:
Nice typo ;)

One overloaded brain ? ... or plain old stupidity =P hehe
The downside of being an armchair scientist =D
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Posted on 14 Mar 2012 20:17:58 GMT
RAB says:
I can assure you it was purely accidental.
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Posted on 14 Mar 2012 20:51:43 GMT
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monica says:
It's because many of them can't leave their role-playing behind at sci-fi conventions and continue to pretend that they're from Cygnae 233-X, where spellings are subtly different to those on Earth.

You forgot the apostrophe in 'title's', by the way.
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Posted on 14 Mar 2012 21:10:31 GMT
RAB says:
Hah!
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In reply to an earlier post on 14 Mar 2012 22:10:54 GMT
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In reply to an earlier post on 14 Mar 2012 22:26:34 GMT
RAB says:
I saw what you put originally. Just saying.
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Posted on 14 Mar 2012 22:27:43 GMT
Kodokushi says:
lol I got confused whether title classes as a proper noun or not .. so changed my mind about three times and settled on deleting haha
I take it apostrophe after the s was right then ?
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Posted on 14 Mar 2012 22:28:36 GMT
RAB says:
There isn't meant to be an apostrophe. Monica made a funny.

*eagerly awaits correction*
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Posted on 14 Mar 2012 22:33:07 GMT
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Kodokushi says:
I see .. it has an apostrophe if it's a plural noun .. but doesn't have one if it's an ordinary noun .. and I haven't got a clue what titles comes under, it's a plural and yet ordinary, so after not really giving one have settled on either haha
FFS why am I even thinking about English grammar at half 11 at night ?! =/
I'm going to bed now and will dream about apostrophes and titles ... yay !!

P.S. According to Word either is fine, no green squiggly line with no apostrophe or apostrophe after (and no red squiggly line from Google for squiggly, I am surprised !!) and yes I am that sad I checked, because it was making my head hurt trying to think ....
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In reply to an earlier post on 14 Mar 2012 22:34:40 GMT
RAB says:
"it has an apostrophe if it's a plural noun"

No it doesn't.... It's mainly for ownership and contractions....
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In reply to an earlier post on 14 Mar 2012 22:38:54 GMT
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Kodokushi says:
It's for omission or possession ... I suggest you get in touch with Oxford English Dictionary then =P

Nyah nyah nyahhhh =) (says me about to be completely blown apart in wrongness hahah)
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In reply to an earlier post on 14 Mar 2012 22:41:13 GMT
RAB says:
But all of those indicate possession, which I wasn't doing. Plus your definition said exactly what I said.
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Posted on 14 Mar 2012 22:46:56 GMT
Kodokushi says:
But it could be argued that the titles belong to the Science Forum, which is possession.
Anyway .. either is fine, with one at the end or without.
So you keep your lack of apostrophe, I'll have it.
Settled ?
I've got to get up in 5 hours, leave me and my lack of apostrophic knowledge alone !! *shakes fist*
Good night, go grammar Nazi on another thread =P
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Posted on 14 Mar 2012 22:56:38 GMT
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RAB says:
But the thread is in the Science Forum's possession, not the other way around. That's why titles doesn't need an apostrophe and why Monica made a funny.

Edit: You brought Nazis into it, I win!
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Posted on 15 Mar 2012 07:55:12 GMT
monica says:
Ach, mein Gott. A proper noun is a name: Chicago, Jacob, United Nations. Whether a noun's (apostrophe because that's--and so was that--a contraction) proper or not has nothing to do with apostrophes. Kodokushi's (apostrophe to show possession) OED doesn't say otherwise, I know. There's a journal called Science; if it has a chat-room, it could be called Science's forum if you wanted to stretch it. Only way I can think of my original remark being correct would be if RAB had written something like 'No, it's not called that--that title's wrong', meaning 'title is'. Fetch me the smelling salts before I fall over the brink of despair.
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Posted on 15 Mar 2012 08:01:18 GMT
RAB says:
This is why we can't have nice things, Monica.
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In reply to an earlier post on 15 Mar 2012 14:51:17 GMT
Philip Duerdoth says:
monica: A proper noun is a name: Chicago, Jacob, United Nations.

Und Monica, auch, monica.
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Posted on 15 Mar 2012 19:35:16 GMT
monica says:
Ah, well done, Philip. Should say though that I deliberately left user name in lower-case because I thought (wrongly, at least so far) that doing so would be a clue that I was using a proper noun in wordplay upon an improper one. (Something I couldn't have done in German, come to think of it.)

Of course it is, RAB. Law of compensation. Every time someone uses spell-check for guidance on English usage, every time someone 'proves' his argument by linking to an internet site, vry tm s1 use txtspk 2 post n 4um, another nice thing is cast into that bottomless ravine of despair.
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In reply to an earlier post on 17 Mar 2012 09:28:38 GMT
Philip Duerdoth says:
monica: that I was using a proper noun in wordplay upon an improper one.

Must admit I hadn't noticed that until I was halfway through typing the post above, but didn't realise it was deliberate. Perhaps you might try Moniker! :-) Now that wouldn't be so common (or Common?).
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Posted on 17 Mar 2012 18:33:18 GMT
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In reply to an earlier post on 17 Mar 2012 20:08:18 GMT
gille liath says:
There's the answer to RAB's question: most of the threads are started by Spin.
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In reply to an earlier post on 18 Mar 2012 09:06:05 GMT
Philip Duerdoth says:
Spin says:
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Up to your usual standard, Mr S.
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In reply to an earlier post on 18 Mar 2012 21:31:18 GMT
Spin says:
Philip: It took you some time to type that out, did it not? I only wish the punchline was worthy of the effort. =)
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In reply to an earlier post on 18 Mar 2012 22:54:41 GMT
gille liath says:
Copy & paste - amazing what they can do nowadays...
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