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Did zmjezhd mantle Faldage or did he add and expand?
I was responding to Faldage's posting. I did not intend to mantle him consciously or unconsciously, and I meant no disrespect. I am sorry, and I apologize.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Oh, nuncle, I was just sort of kidding. You know you're my favorite nearby linguist.
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zm, I almost always start a sentence with a cap unless the referent isn't upper case, such as "zm" or "tsu", though I might slip once in a while. As for final punctuation, this is a time-honored style, and if you flip through the pages of, e.g. a Time Mag, you will find many instances
It makes the writer seem less assertive, and if there's one thing you don't want to seem on WS, it's assertive. Also by the time I cash in I will have saved four million, three hundred and forty-five thousand, seven hundred fifty two keystrokes
Is there anyone on WS who doesn't recognize this sentence as a question
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Is there anyone on WS who doesn't recognize this sentence as a question question
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I thought of another solution. Men use male-specific pronouns, women female.
Methinks I thunk good.
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And as the putative mantlee, I say Nuncle added and expanded. No apologies needed, Nunc.
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I thought of another solution. Men use male-specific pronouns, women female.
Methinks I thunk good. Not in my sharn. Jill rues the roost.
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zm, I almost always start a sentence with a cap unless the referent isn't upper case, such as "zm" or "tsu", though I might slip once in a while. As for final punctuation, this is a time-honored style, and if you flip through the pages of, e.g. a Time Mag, you will find many instances
You talking to me, Dahil? [Looks around the empty office.] You got the wrong referent. I believe it was tsuwm who mentioned the synchronicity of alarm at linguistic laziness and the stylistic lack of sentence final punctuation.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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I was just sort of kidding
OK.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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