― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
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― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
(Ha, although I think we all get snobby on this topic when it comes to whatever we personally do: I am that way people describing themselves as "writers.")
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link
It makes more sense for a longer event with many bands, especially something like All Tomorrow's Parties where it's a specific artist's vision of what's teh hotness in music at the moment.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 12 January 2007 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Why? If you book a night of five bands, surely you then book a weekend of them, too?
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
So: Messrs Schroeder's horse.
― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 12 January 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 12 January 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 12 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
eh? but there's more than one schroeder, and you'd say "the schroeders' horse" ... nah, i'm with nabisco.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, maybe if you're choosing artists on more than just "a bunch of bands that will please a certain demographic and bring people to the festival." Even then, "curated" is a bit pretentious.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
the crowd's horse the messrs schroeder's horse
it's the presence of the "the" which rescues it from impossible eccentricity -- it pushes it over into extreme formality
but if formality is the order of the day, you shd probably opt for "the horse of the messrs schoeder" -- which handily pussies out of the prob
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 13 January 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link
"sixfold" vs. "six-fold" (et al)
Is there a rule on these? One right, one wrong, acceptable alternatives, different uses? Months ago my boss indicated what he felt was correct - I think one was an adjective and one an adverb - and as it seemed perfectly clear and self-evident at the time, no one wrote it down. And of course I can't find it discussed authoritatively on the internet.
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
best thing to do is get yourself a good dictionary - i always recommend the oxford dictionary for writers and editors - and make that your style bible: ie try to ensure everyone you're working with sticks to it. but that's easier said than done, as i know only too well :(
i can e-mail you a copy of my legendary 1996 undergraduate dissertation on punctuation if you want, but you'll need a) pagemaker 5 and b) a really, really high tedium threshold.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
xpostno dissertations, thanks :)
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Our style is to use one word wherever possible, including some instances where a word might be hyphenated by other publications. Hyphens tend to clutter up text (particularly when the computer breaks already hyphenated words at the end of lines).Inventions, ideas and new concepts often begin life as two words, then become hyphenated, before finally becoming accepted as one word. Why wait? "Wire-less" and "down-stairs" were once hyphenated. In pursuit of this it is preferable to go further than Collins does in many cases: eg trenchcoat is two words in Collins but one under our style; words such as handspring, madhouse and talkshow should all be one word, not two words, and not hyphenated.Do use hyphens where not using one would be ambiguous, eg to distinguish "black-cab drivers come under attack" from "black cab-drivers come under attack".Do not use after adverbs ending in -ly, eg politically naive, wholly owned, but hyphens are needed with short and common adverbs, eg ill-prepared report, hard-bitten hack, much-needed grammar lesson, well-established principle of style (note though that in the construction "the principle of style is well established" there is no need to hyphenate).Finally, do use hyphens to form compound adjectives, eg two-tonne vessel, three-year deal, 19th-century artist.
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
sixfold = adverb e.g. "Their numbers increased sixfold."six-fold = adjective e.g. "This is a six-fold napkin." (I don't know what a "six-fold napkin" is, I just made something up.)
___fold = one word, whereas "six-fold" is just two words crammed together that you use as an adjective to describe something that has six folds in it.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't just make this shit up, you know :(
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
cof cof cof
― stet (stet), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Staying white and nerdy: Pop parodist Weird Al bigs Youtube up for his Grammy nominated album Straight Outta Lynwood.
Maybe for the same reason I prefer "big-upped" to "bigged up" (i.e., I'm thinking of "big up" as a singular unit), this strikes me as all kinds of wrong. Surely it should be "Weird Al big-ups YouTube"? But I also get the logic behind this -- they're simply treating "big up" like other multi-word verbs like "take up" (there's nothing off about "Weird Al takes YouTube up on its offer to do a weekly video"). Still, though.
(Also, "Weird Al" should be in quotes, but that's his own personal style.)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link