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Re: Anyone receive a Y2K report card yet?
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Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:00:06 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote:
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> Has anyone received their Y2K report card (1) yet?
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> I just got mine from the State Department Academey of Pre-Millenial Panic.
> I scored a D- with the note "needs to apply self and take homework
> seriously" scribbled in red ink.
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> Anyone else get theirs?
I thought you had to be a country to get one of these?
Sorry, Sproat, being from a different planet or alternate reality (not
sure which it is in your case) doesn't count.
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> Cheers,
> - jsproat
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> 1. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990913/tc/yk_world_1.html
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> p.s. Whoops! (2) I originally posted this to the wrong ng...
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> 2. Larry, what's the format for a post-script in the same message as
> footnotes? :-,
I have no idea, never need one because I never make that particular
misteak. Just ask me.
I'd say you get to set the precedent here, if this were a normal place.
but since you asked me, you're waiving that right. I am happy to
overanalyse this for you. Let me see, what you have is a footnote, then
a PS, and then a footnote to the PS, yes?
OK.
Well, drawing from the printed correspondence rules (1), a PS (post
signature) normally goes after the signature. Hence the name PS And the
signature is located on the last page of the missive. You arguably, were
it a printed missive, put your PS up too high.
Most informal correspondence does not have footnotes. We have strained
convention (in the name of fun) by introducing them. On the printed
page, footnotes either go at the bottom margin (often separated by a
rule, and the text is raised to make space), at the end of the chapter,
or at the end of a book. Their numbering can be consecutive, or can
restart at each chapter.
We have by convention here decided that footnotes go ahead of the
signature for reasons of not confusing the readers, I believe.
I would rule that a PS belongs below the signature. Else it's not a PS.
And therefore, footnotes to the PS (which can restart at 1, your option,
or be incremental from the last one in the missive body) would go below
it.
Helps?
1 - The Elements of Style, by Strunk. Timeless. Highly recommended for
anyone who wants to be a Writer (2).
2 - as opposed to merely writing, or being a Hack writer.
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