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Re: Cost overruns
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:25:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Allan Bedford writes:
> Newsgroup note: This posting is probably more suited to off-topic.geek.
> However, I'm always nervous about highjacking a thread to another newsgroup,
> in case people wanted to keep it in a certain vein. I hope all the smilies
> I've included are enough to indicate that I'm trying to keep this posting
> light and non-combative. I most certainly will not cross-post this to
> .debate, since I don't ever post there. If I'm wrong on any count, please
> don't start calling me 'allAn'. Thanks. :)
Haha! I think you did a fine job of keeping this light and non-combative.
On topic (or is it off-topic, I get confused in this area of Lugnet, or
LUGNet, or wherever we are)... I must admit that one of the reasons I chose
to point out the capitalization-rule-post was as much for the word Lego as
it was a joking-jibe regarding how "JOHN" signed his post. Fact is that for
several years I used to always sign my own emails as "HENDO" or "HENDO-MAN"
because I also enjoyed the all caps way of making myself seem important.
As much as I can understand and respect your view on that article being
"old-school", I have come to grasp the logic and reasoning behind arbitrary
caps in that acronyms are all caps and proper nouns are capped only at the
beginning. Old-school or not, I have grown to prefer that method, and thus
switched to simply "Hendo". I also write it as "Lego®".
Now, to show that my grammar is based in logic and not simply tradition, I
point out that throughout this message I have ignored a different
grammatical rule that I feel is outdated and without reason. When a quoted
item is the last item in a phrase, the rule is to put the end punctuation
(period, or sometimes comma) within the quotation marks. Personally, unless
the quote material includes such a mark, I fail to see the logic in doing
this, and thus my periods and commas are often outside of the quotes. I
guess this makes me a grammatical hypocrite. :D
-Hendo
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| (...) You wrote, "Just the other day I called to request a song on a local radio station and had to explain I was "having a beer and playing with Lego Toys." Though, I didn't name the beer brand." You've got to stop drinking and building man! ;) (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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