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Michael Roberts
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Posted: 18 August 2017 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Don't be.

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Whoa whoa whoa, no need to be so aggressive 
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Dale Lerette
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Posted: 19 August 2017 at 2:24am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

So I guess ending a sentence with an ellipsis means you are really . . . 

Sorry for being so extreme.

Edit: I have anger issues


Edited by Dale Lerette on 19 August 2017 at 2:26am
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Joe Welsh
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Posted: 19 August 2017 at 4:38am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

I saw the same ...um Documentary.  The discussion was quite animated, but I also was surprised to learn about the period.  

The magic of the show was that I looked up the information sources and learned a few things I didn't know.

Joe
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 19 August 2017 at 5:23am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

JB asked what was not clear about his initial post.
I wasn't sure whether the documentary was saying that the use of a comma exclusively meant someone was being angry - in every use.

Next up was the use of dots instead of commas in numbers.
This seems to be a mainland European thing. I'm not sure when they started to do this, but everyone I work with over there say that it has been like this their entire lives, so I'm thinking we are seeing it now in the UK and USA as migration increases.
I'm not defending it as it has caused many a confused moment in the collaborative projects I have worked on in the past, before I started establishing the number rules at the beginning of each project.

'They recycled one tonne?'
'No, they recycled one thousand tonnes'
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Rob Ocelot
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Posted: 19 August 2017 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Maybe straying off topic a bit here, but one thing that really bugs me is when Europeans write about certain decades on web fora they add suffixes that don't read well.

"80ies", as an example reads to me as "eighty-ees".  The number 80 already contains the 'ee' suffix.  It might look better on the page/screen than 80s but no one seems to pay much attention to how others are supposed to read what they've written.  Same with possessive apostrophes after a name that already ends in an s.   It's now all about the person writing it rather than the intended (or unintended) audience.

Mind you, I'm not a fan of "l33t" speak where you substitute numbers for letters or whole words (b4/before, m8/mate, 0wnd/pwned/ownded) either.  

There's a nice middle ground between economy of letters and readability.   It's called English.
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