Subject:
|
Re: Courier article
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.org.ca.vlc
|
Date:
|
Thu, 2 Aug 2001 00:12:11 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1221 times
|
| |
|
|
"Mark James" <mark.james@ehsrealtime.com> wrote in message
news:GHEsHn.CAz@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.org.ca.vlc, Xandria Husby writes:
> > Here's the link:
> > http://www.akasa.bc.ca/vlc/courier.gif
>
> Very nicely written, I'd say. Good photo too. Was moved to typing when I • saw
> the unfortunate hyphenation of 'figurine'. In the mid 80s I used to
> contribute to the UK's then-biggest 'military modelling' magazine. I think
> the typesetters and proof readers actively tried to use that same
> hypenation. You *never* saw 'figur-ine'! My favourite was along the lines • of
> "...notice the exquisitely painted figurine rolling in the gutter" in an
> article on some Hogarthian diorama...
Yes... my eyes bugged out for a moment... "urine" and "Lego" just aren't
meant to be together. heh heh. It truly is a conspiracy ;-)
>
> What's wrong with 'metre' by the way? Do you want feet/yards or 'meter'?
I'm a child of the switch over generation. I still do distances in imperial
with weights and liquids in metric. I always count Lego in studs or
inches -- my brain can't handle metric for such measurements. Besides X
number of feet sounds so much larger than X number of metres ;-)
Xan
>
> Mark
--
Xandria's Lego Realm:
http://www.akasa.bc.ca/xandria/a_lego/
VLC:
http://www.akasa.bc.ca/vlc
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Courier article
|
| (...) the unfortunate hyphenation of 'figurine'. In the mid 80s I used to contribute to the UK's then-biggest 'military modelling' magazine. I think the typesetters and proof readers actively tried to use that same hypenation. You *never* saw (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
|
3 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
