Oh, no! Grammar nazi strike!

Nameless Voice on 19/6/2008 at 20:28

But since the "with no S" is only additional information and not a required part of the sentence, it should be separated by a <s>coma</s> comma. ;)

nickie on 19/6/2008 at 20:37

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typo) Typographicals! That would be a comma I expect. :cheeky:

I'm still totally shocked by the grammatical errors under the TTLG banner.

Jenesis on 20/6/2008 at 19:13

Quote Posted by Nameless Voice

the plural of "Euro" and "Cent" are "Euro" and "Cent", respectively, with no S.

Well, sort of. That's the usage on legal documents, and on the notes to keep them simpler, but the official recommendation of the European Commission Translation Service is to use the 'natural' plurals in material intended for the general public, and to limit the shorter plurals to legislative documents. This recommendation was ignored by the Irish Department of Finance, however.

Seeing who's the biggest pedant is oddly entertaining.

Mortal Monkey on 20/6/2008 at 21:05

Quote Posted by nickie

(http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/etc/writing-bugs.html) Respectively No. 50.

I especially like No. 59:

Quote:

Do not use GIF images for figures, as GIFs produce horrible print quality and are huge. Export into PostScript. At that stage, you'll learn to "appreciate" Microsoft products. xfig and gnuplot generally produce PostScript that can be included without difficulties.

I think I'll take that article with a grain of salt.

nickie on 20/6/2008 at 21:22

You like (http://www.engin.umich.edu/graphic-identity/styleguide/punctuation.html) this one better? OK I know it doesn't say specifically about respectively but it does use it with commas in some sentences. And it is foreign (Michigan Engineering ) :laff:

Oh go on. I want to win Jenesis' pendant prize.

Mortal Monkey on 24/6/2008 at 19:08

That one actually uses "respectively" in front of the series, which shows that Nameless Voice's way of using it is indeed ambiguous.

Quote Posted by nickie

Do [y]ou like (http://www.engin.umich.edu/graphic-identity/styleguide/punctuation.html) this one better? OK, I know it doesn't say specifically about respectively but it does use it with commas in some sentences. And it is foreign (Michigan Engineering). :laff:

Oh go on. I want to win Jenesis' pendant prize.

nickie on 25/6/2008 at 07:55

:laff: :laff:

I give in - you win the pendant. :)

Tannar on 3/8/2008 at 07:47

I think in this case the apostrophe in RPG's can be looked at not as a plural or possessive but rather as a contraction - as in "doesn't instead of "does not".

Eshaktaar on 3/8/2008 at 08:47

But it doesn't contract anything that's not already abbreviated in RPG.

Queue on 3/8/2008 at 20:23

There shouldn't be either an "s", or an "'s", at the end of RPG. If there is to be a plural then the pluralism already exists within the "G": i.e. games. The same goes for a possessive (the "'s") form.

A really useful book, one everyone should own, is "The Element of Style," by Strunk and White. This was quite possibly the best present my old English teacher ever bestowed upon her students.