subjunctive mood and Microsoft

[John Dunlop]

As has been pointed out, in the word.application.errors newsgroup, this
method of posting is the norm.

Fine, stick; but please realise that in more civilised
newsgroups we conduct ourselves less boorishly.

TTFN.

 

[Hagrinas Mivali]

:

"as in this case"

Here's the skinny from Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th
Edition:
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usage:

Like has been used as a conjunction since the 14th century. [snip]
Your comment puts you in a somewhat pedantic position, wouldn't you
say?

That's telling it like it is.

Is it so wrong to be pedantic?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As a former teacher, I have no objection to being considered pedantic.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Then why do you keep posting in ours?

 

[Steve Hayes]

As has been pointed out, in the word.application.errors newsgroup, this
method of posting is the norm.

Which method?

 

[Hagrinas Mivali]

This one.

Which method?

 

[blmblm]

As has been pointed out, in the word.application.errors newsgroup,
this method of posting is the norm.

Peter Moylan wrote:

[ ... ]

Nevertheless, neither you nor Martin should be automatically
snipping Suzanne's signature, because she does not have a valid
signature separator. (The final space is missing.)

In spite of her bizarre practice of including the entire
message to which she is responding underneath her own
comment, Ms. Barnhill does get her signature delimiter
right. Does your newsreader strip the space? Does mine
have a space at your end?

Yes, and in alt.usage.english (AUE) the other method of posting is the norm.
Crossposting between these goups makes things very interesting, like in this
case. Also, in AUE, some trim extraneous attribution stuff as I have done
above.

Readers may be interested to hear that there's a discussion about
multiposting versus crossposting going on in an unrelated thread
in comp.programming, and someone made exactly this point -- that
multiposting (which is generally frowned on in most of the groups I
frequent) had its points, for example when the groups involved have
very different cultures. I cited this (a.u.e./m.p.w.a.e.) thread as
an example.

(I wonder how many people follow both a.u.e. and comp.programming!)

 

[Skitt]

As a former teacher, I have no objection to being considered pedantic.

"Pedantic" has several meanings, and, with the exception of the oldest one,
they are not particularly flattering.

M-W Online dictionary has:

Main Entry: pe·dan·tic
Pronunciation: pi-'dan-tik
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or being a pedant
2 : narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned
3 : UNIMAGINATIVE, PEDESTRIAN

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What part of my post exactly did you not understand?

 

[Skitt]

What part of my post exactly did you not understand?

Huh? I think you may have missed my gentle barb, but that just supports it.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What makes you think it was either gentle or a barb? Do you think I mind
being unimaginative and pedestrian? <g> Copy editors and proofreaders have
to be detail-oriented, consistent, and at times pedantic.

 

[Skitt]

What makes you think it was either gentle or a barb? Do you think I
mind being unimaginative and pedestrian? <g> Copy editors and
proofreaders have to be detail-oriented, consistent, and at times
pedantic.

Oh well, OK then. Never mind, and all that. In any case, I don't belong in
this newsgroup, but it has been a pleasure chatting with you.

(Thanks for not commenting on an atrocious editing goof of mine in a
previous post.)

Cheers and good-bye.

 

[Dave Cross]

Such a tool might have prevented the two instances (their and there) in the
original message.