h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think that should be preview with a small 'p'. Perhaps God does not love you?

The Preview button has an uppercase P.

"The Preview button has an uppercase P."

No, it has either an uppercase p or it has a P.

Not on the carpet I hope.

You missed the opportunity to tell me that my second 'it has' was redundant.

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Just above is the full stop to my previous sentence, which I had intentionally left unfinished so I could add more information afterwards .

As for the misplaced apostrophe, it not strictly speaking (or stricly typing) mine: I had seen it done somewhere else and found it had a trendy look.

Shouldn't it be: either "the 'Preview' button" or "the preview button", depending on whether you put emphasis on its name or on the description of its purpose?

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Damn, blast and buggeration! I'm really not on form today.

>Damn, blast and buggeration! I'm really not on form today.<

Single spacing between sentences? Tut, tut.

Actually, double spacing between sentences is a leftover from the days of monospaced typefaces (especially on typewriters), in this age of propotionally spaced typefaces it is often considered unnecessary and many think it's actually detrimental to the overall appearance of a printed document. So there.

Not again... PropoRtionally.

>Not again... PropoRtionally.<

I need say no more.

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Pssst, Toy Box, you missed a 't' out of the second 'strictly' in the above sentence.

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I should think not! If you carried on talking like that we'd all drown in the pomposity!

"We apologise for the misprint in last week's paper in which we stated that Mr. Nick Harwitt was a defective in the Manchester police force. We meant, of course, that Mr. Harwitt is a detective in the Manchester police farce."

i don't know if anyone has mentioned this gripe before, but I really hate the whole double negative thing. ("I ain't done nuffink").What makes it even more unbearable is the fact that people have heard it so much on television and general society that it has become perfectly acceptable! Why does no-one correct these people? We need some sort of Jeremy Paxman grammar police force. It was nice speaking to you all, but I'm going to leave you to nit-pick over this entry.

Traveller in Time to hear that
"However we voted for xorry. Some analysis showed it to be xnorry. "

Oh, please, please send the grammar police to Lebanon, Missouri. They could write citations all day long if they simply went to any store and started listening to the lovely folks as they discussed what "they seen the other day when they had went to Walmarts". It is enough to make a pedant lose ones lunch in a projectile and unsavory manner.

I'm all in favour of pedantry applied to the formal written language. It should be done, and it's also, for some people, fun. The spoken language though, especially in informal situations, should be allowed to form its own rules without interference.

Thank you.

TRiG.

Yeah, right, like...what... ... ...evvuhhh.

RF

Well, with certain exceptions, perhaps!

TRiG.