mav Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 So I can use grammar, however should there be one or two spaces following a . or , whan typing? Regards, Martin Edited by - mav on 28 Oct 2002 21:24:53 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooper nut Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 alright gezza! finally someone who talks propa like iz doz You're only supposed to blow the b****y doors off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 2 spaces after a . and 1 space after a , can we do affect/effect now please 🤔 HOOPY Membership Number 4136 R706KGU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 If one is typing in the correct way, one types thus: two spaces should be allowed between a full stop and the next sentence. When using other punctuation mid-sentence, there is only the one space. FH Mav, you just sent me an e-mail with an attachment. As I didn't know what it was, it went the way of all 'unsolicited mail' .... sorry 😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 It was a word doc that contains the life of ........ You want me to resend it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 Affect/effect - often confused and to save getting too technical, affect is usually a verb: "Owning a Se7en won't affect our chances of arriving in Cambridge." Effect is usually a noun: "Owning a Se7en will have no effect on our chances of arriving in Cambridge. One can effect the withdrawal of all Se7ens from Cambridge but this is normally only used by pedants such as FH and Noger, using the term for effect, because we have a propensity for affectations 😳 Mav, it's only been dumped in the OE waste bin, so I'll go and rescue it Ta Edited by - fullharness on 28 Oct 2002 21:40:00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 One is using unusually long words this evening Boss. Brainteaser: Do you know howmany letters are in the longest word in the OED? This was asked at a local Pub quiz as a tie breaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 Q. What is the longest word in the dictionary? A. It depends... It might be 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', defined by the OED as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word"), places (such as 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch', a village in Wales; see the Web site, which has an audio pronunciation of the word), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Other words famous for being sesquipedalian: antidisestablishmentarianism ("opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England") floccinaucinihilipilification honorificabilitudinitatibus (Which appears in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, and which has been cited as [dubious] evidence that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays) Or perhaps smiles is the longest word, because there's a mile between the first letter and the last. FH *eek* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 parsec HOOPY Membership Number 4136 R706KGU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 On the other hand it could be one of those silly questions 😳 *wink* *wink* Sorry about your lack of TV ☹️ Personally, I'd rather read or Blatchat - there's little on TV nowadays with any decent content FH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 Hoopy, you're interrupting me talking to myself "Parsec is also fast, doing thousands of lines per second on todays machines, which might make it an acceptable alternative to bottom-up parser generators like Hoopy" Edited by - fullharness on 28 Oct 2002 22:19:35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 sossiges next weekend> HOOPY Membership Number 4136 R706KGU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FH Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 😬 😬 😬 Also looking forward to 'sossiges' but in almost-panic mode as we cant find a dog sitter for the week-end.... H E L P Edited by - fullharness on 28 Oct 2002 22:24:55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 bring the dog with 🤔 HOOPY Membership Number 4136 R706KGU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 Well, 1. Bringing not one but two golden retrievers means no Se7en ☹️ we'd have to come in the company truck instead 😳 2. Do you realise that golden retrievers lurve sossiges 🤔 = 3. No sossiges for Hoopy 😬 . . . not a plan Next suggestion please Edited by - fullharness on 28 Oct 2002 23:22:39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 I've heard there will be a LOT of sossiges, I'm sure even both dogs won't be able to eat them all fitting both in a seven could be a problem though... could you come in a seven each, with a dog in each passenger seat 🤔 😬 HOOPY Membership Number 4136 R706KGU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 ☹️ We don't have two any more ☹️ Times is 'ard ☹️ FH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 ☹️ ☹️ Dogs always seem to like sticking their head out of the window of tintops - could you strap them to the rollbar 🤔 hmmm... maybe not... HOOPY Membership Number 4136 R706KGU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morls Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 Wow, it's like sitting at the back in school down here.. a real refuge of the dammned... and I quite like it I assumed all the wibble had gone to CAM7. Mark ☹️ My Caterham Silver Jubilee No. 7 is for sale ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 CAM7 is the wibble equivalant of a dog sticking it's head out of the window of a Ferrari Enzo at full speed There is gentler wibble here. Ahg dogs. We have 4 spaniels (1 is ours, others are his mates) staying on Nov 2nd/3rd, so wouldn't mind two more, although Brockham is a fair way from Sossige place. The longest word in The Oxford English Dictionary....is "Dictionary" ! What is the longest word you can make out of just the top row of a typerwiter keyboard ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby dooby doo Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 that would be the noise a kid makes on a roller coaster: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee HOOPY Membership Number 4136 R706KGU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Elizabeth Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 That is mere onomatopoeia Hoop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibster. Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 Whereas some grownups om a roller coaster would go Poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Very nasty at high speed 😳 Paul If there's beer, we'll drink it. If not, we'll wait. 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurence Wilson Posted October 29, 2002 Share Posted October 29, 2002 I asked Jeeves and he told me that the longest word you can make from the top row of letters on the keyboard is typewriter ! If you wish to refrain from repeating any letters then you still have piroque, poutier and wipeout. Piroque is a Cajun French word for a dug out canoe (I'm clutching at straws here FH!). Poutier I'm not quite sure should even be a word - although it seems www.lip-plumper-online.com use it to describe results after just one week ❗ Interesting. Peardrop Edited by - Peardrop on 29 Oct 2002 10:58:04 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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