http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .
would someone please make this link clickable?.
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Thank you, jp and faithnomore:
It looks like as if my weekend will have me relearning a few things, particularly with regard to the editing jobs that lie before me, one a 700-page hard copy MS, the author of which is deceased; I have nowhere to send my queries.
Excellent point about removing "errors" yet retaining a turgid, opaque text. I'm all for clarity and reader-friendliness.
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .
would someone please make this link clickable?.
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Thanks, jp!
Yes -- vive la difference!
Just within the last 24 hours (go figure!) I've relented and opened my Nazi Grammarian's heart and mind to new and exciting literary experiences! Given the above I posted, I am amazed how consistent American writing is regarding commas and periods within the close of quotation marks.
There's prescriptive and there's descriptive . . .
Gratefully.
a little advice please.. it's now 7 months since i stopped going to meetings.
we still get regular calls by elders - at least every 2 weeks.
i can handle them.
It's like the sweet little Witness boy, dressed up in suit and tie, who stands on the householder's doorstep. He gives a heartfelt witness about Jehovah's kingdom and the paradise. The householder has a tear in her eye and accepts the child's offer of a tract.
She's been set up for a return visit.
Been there, done that.
Wishing you the best!
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .
would someone please make this link clickable?.
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What's the problem? The concern seems to be that fuzzy-minded speakers are eroding the distinction between nouns and verbs. But once again, the person on the street is not getting any respect. A simple quirk of everyday usage shows why the accusation is untrue. Take the baseball term "to fly out," a verb that comes from the noun "pop fly." The past form is "flied," not "flew" and "flown"; no mere mortal has ever flown out to center field. Similarly, in using the verb-from-noun "to ring the city" (form a ring around), people say "ringed," not "rang." -- ibid.
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .
would someone please make this link clickable?.
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So whence the popular anxiety? This is where a less than benign explanation comes in. Someone, somewhere, must be making decisions about "correct English" for the rest of us. Who? There is no English Language Academy. The legislators of "correct English," in fact, are an informal network of copy editors, dictionary usage panelists, style manual writers, English teachers, essayists and pundits.Their authority, they claim, comes from their dedication to carrying out standards that maximize the language's clarity, logic, consistency, precision, stability and expressive range. William Safire, who writes the weekly column "On Language" for the New York Times Magazine, calls himself a "language maven," from the Yiddish word meaning expert, and this gives us a convenient label for the entire group.
https://newrepublic.com/article/77732/grammar-puss-steven-pinker-language-william-safire
... because she'd stepped into some newly laid concrete.. i said to her, "don't be too hard on yourself.
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I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 years. I didn't want to interrupt her. -- Red Skelton
i'm sure many of you are aware of the jwtalk site, a message board which has yet to succumb to apostasy (give it time).. some of the forums there are visible to the public, and i've seen some crazy stuff.
here is a sampling:.
"satan is really trying his best to make things worst for the witnesses, knowing the 6,000 years is almost up, from eve's creation!".
Thanks, steve2 and darkspilver -- that helps.
I never quite got the mechanics/electronics of it until these recent queries and subsequent explanations. I figured it was my very old DELL giving me the business. My equally old but more expensive Apple PowerBook doesn't even allow me to interact here; I can only read text -- there are no images, etc.
Hence, my initial reasoning on the ineptitude of my ancient equipment.
darkspilver: Thus, despite the warning, posts do go through? Well, obviously they had, but it's only on a new thread.
i cannot find the report feature on the forum or has it been removed?.
in the past week or so poster jehovah lol appears to have re-posted as new his topic on jw talk.
i have checked and the posts are identical - perhaps not a big deal, but it's a little like internal spam.
Yes, sir82, guilty, as charged. I am a masher. Thanks for the 'splanation.
I am so embarrassed!
i'm sure many of you are aware of the jwtalk site, a message board which has yet to succumb to apostasy (give it time).. some of the forums there are visible to the public, and i've seen some crazy stuff.
here is a sampling:.
"satan is really trying his best to make things worst for the witnesses, knowing the 6,000 years is almost up, from eve's creation!".
The same happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
The post -- new thread -- never went through the three processing steps. When I effected a page change, I received a warning that I would lose my post. Yet, some three or four identical posts showed over a period of days. Over a similar time period, other members have commented likewise regarding their posts.
Just like here.
i occasionaly get a magazine left on the porch of my house.
this time it was an awake.
is the world out of control?.
Regarding the typical relating of bad news before telling the good news (there is a solution!), I recall that when the 30-minute Sunday talk was initiated, we were told that the emphasis would be on the good news. A more positive message.
I used to take notes on every talk, and there had been too much depressing negativity.
