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#147291 09/07/05 02:14 PM
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Quoque is an adverb, and it is placed after the word it modifies. ]i]Tu quoque is similar to the English phrase you, too. It may be from quom (older form of cum 'with') + que (enclitic conjunction 'and), but maybe not. And example of que in action is in the expansion of the famous acronym: SPQR = senatus populusque Romanus (the Roman senate and people).



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(By the way: if threads digress as widely as this one has from the original subject line, is it customary to start a new thread? Just wondering).

The custom on this board has been to follow various permutations of a thread as long and as far as they'll go. Occasionally, someone will start a new thread due to an inspiration from an old one, but that seems to happen only when the conversation on the new idea hasn't really gotten started yet on the old one.

Reading threads on the AWAD board is an adventure. I've learn more interesting things here by accident than by purposeful inquiry.







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Once a thread reaches 100 posts, it is customary to continue it in a new thread to improve download times.


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Once a thread reaches 100 posts, it is customary to continue it in a new thread

BZZZZAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!

Wrong!

100 posts is the point at which it reaches the no-no zone. The greatest number of posts that this Board allows on one page is 99. The magic number to watch out for is 98; the number of replies. Adding the 1 for the original post gives the 99 that we don't want to exceed.

The problem is two fold: Having to go to a second page is a pain and years from now, when someone wants to link to the thread in question, the Board will only show the first 99 posts. Attempts to go to the second page will send the searcher off into CyberLimbo.


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>>100 posts is the point at which it reaches the no-no zone. The greatest number of posts that this Board allows on one page is 99. The magic number to watch out for is 98; the number of replies. Adding the 1 for the original post gives the 99 that we don't want to exceed.<<

Isn't that what I imprecisely said?

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I think "CyberLimbo" is where you go if you die and you haven't been really good but you haven't been really bad, either.


#147297 09/08/05 09:22 AM
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Adding the 1 for the original post gives the 99 that we don't want to exceed.
Yeah, like no one here's ever done that!

I think CyberLimbo requires Cyberbbean music and two people to lower the pole. [running away as fast as my cyberlegs'll fly]



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We trained our dogs to hold the pole. Cyberian huskies, of course.



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what I imprecisely said

What I read was that one start a new thread after it has reached 100 posts.

A) this is one too many to start with and

2) most people, without forewarning, would wait until the Replies column on the main Forum page reads 100, which is two too many.


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