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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

  1. social
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  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.
  
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

  cc.

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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

  
  
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  Wife came home upset ...

  by The Fall Guy in

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  2. humour

  ... 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
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  Crazy statements from JWTalk

  by Jehovah lol in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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!".

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  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.
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  Reposting old posts as new

  by steve2 in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  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.

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  Yes, sir82, guilty, as charged. I am a masher. Thanks for the 'splanation.

  I am so embarrassed!

  
  
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  Crazy statements from JWTalk

  by Jehovah lol in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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!".

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  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.
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  The awake on my doorstep

  by days of future passed in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i occasionaly get a magazine left on the porch of my house.

  this time it was an awake.

  is the world out of control?.

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  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.
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  "Each a glimpse and gone for ever"

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
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  here is a cart run away in the road.

  lumping along with a man and load.

  and here is a mill and there is a river:.

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  Half banana:

  What a delightful trip down memory lane, or, the railways of your mind! Sharing such enlivens my own sense of wonder, taking me back to the days of my own childhood when the Sunshine Express took a meandering path through deeply forested glens. The destination? The sunny shores of the Pacific Coast. Sunny, once the fog had lifted and remaining traces were burned off by a gradually strengthening sun.

  Likewise, a friend had a description of the clickety-clack produced by the train: honey menoosh, honey menoosh, . . .

  Funny how we get different visual and aural impressions from like experiences.

  THANKS!
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  "Each a glimpse and gone for ever"

  by compound complex in

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  here is a cart run away in the road.

  lumping along with a man and load.

  and here is a mill and there is a river:.

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  Thanks, jp, for giving a little practical, physiological background to our reactions. I really never gave that much thought before! Just figured it was all emotional.

  Best wishes.
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  "Each a glimpse and gone for ever"

  by compound complex in

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  here is a cart run away in the road.

  lumping along with a man and load.

  and here is a mill and there is a river:.

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  compound complex

  Thank you, Half banana, for responding with personal comments as well as with Blake's simple verse that reflect upon the transitory but joy-filled moments that we kiss hello, then goodbye.

  On a somewhat darker, reality-based note, John Updike observed, regarding fellow writer John Cheever's characters, that " his errant protagonists move, in their fragile suburban simulacra of paradise, from one island of momentary happiness to the imperiled next."