| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 14.1 | | SUMMIT::GRIFFIN | | Tue Sep 11 1984 23:39 | 6 |
| I was unpleasantly surprised to find out I was doing the same thing...
DECgrammer would be real handy... There probably isn't much of a market
for such a tool..
- dave
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| 14.2 | | GRAFIX::EPPES | | Thu Sep 27 1984 12:44 | 3 |
| DECgrammAr would be even more handy...! :-)
-- Nina
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| 14.3 | | SUMMIT::GRIFFIN | | Thu Sep 27 1984 18:22 | 4 |
| Why is it that my speeling erors are always in this file!?!
- dave (sic)
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| 14.4 | | DOSADI::BINDER | | Thu Oct 25 1984 18:02 | 11 |
| re .3 - Clearly, dave [sic], you are afflicted by some sort of spell.
re .1 - There is a basic grammatical analysis tool that runs under unix,
called 'style' - it analyses passives, compound constructions,
sentence length, and several other elements of readability. But,
as I've not used it myself, I can't tell what it does for out-and-
out grammatical fox pass.
Cheers,
Dick
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| 14.5 | | PARROT::GRILLO | | Fri Nov 16 1984 12:53 | 10 |
|
Fox pass is right next to Coyote Canyon. It's faux pas, which actually means
"social blunder".
This entry reminded me of an old Dick Van Dyke show, when Rob Petrie and
Jerry Helper went halvesies on a yacht. One wanted to name it the "Sea
Horse" and the other "Nautilus", so they compromised and took the first
3 letters from each, making it "Nausea".
beck
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| 14.6 | | SHRMAX::MARK | | Thu Dec 20 1984 15:45 | 3 |
| Close...but no cigar.
That was from "The Flintstones"...
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| 14.7 | | VIA::LASHER | | Thu Jan 31 1985 21:51 | 3 |
| Re 14.2
... and perhaps even handiER than you thought.
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| 14.8 | | GRAFIX::EPPES | | Fri Feb 01 1985 15:37 | 6 |
| RE .7 -- I see nothing wrong with "more handy." It's not as concise as
"handier," but I don't think it's wrong.
"more handier," on the other hand, would be another story...!
-- Nina
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| 14.9 | | Ghost::DEAN | | Mon Feb 04 1985 18:47 | 8 |
| Re: #8
The word is handy, the comparative is handier, the superlative is handiest.
More handy and most handy should not be used in lieu of the proper comparative
and superlative.
<-Emulp ed mon->
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| 14.10 | | GRAFIX::EPPES | | Tue Feb 05 1985 18:34 | 3 |
| RE .9 -- Well, exCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUse me!
-- Nina
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| 14.11 | | Ghost::DEAN | | Wed Feb 06 1985 17:41 | 17 |
| Re: # 10,
Sure, you're excused.
In looking at # 10, we all see the perfect example of how a language can be
tonal, and when we lose the actual vocal communication, we need to compensate.
Therefore Nina went into her tonal display with the repeated vowels and all
majuscule for the syllable she wanted to emphasize. Can you imagine speaking
a language that doesn't have that ability, id est, you can say it, but not like
that! It really gives away those who are foreign speakers, if their mother
tongue is tonal, because even in speaking an atonal language, that is one of
the hardest things a 'tonal' foreigner to overcome.
Do any of you speak a foreign language (I mean really speak it - you do not
have to be fluent, if you speak it well enough to get by in a situation where
only that language is spoken)? I would like to hear about this (and other
things relating to multi-lingual persons).
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| 14.12 | | TLE::WINALSKI | Paul S. Winalski | Sat Mar 01 1986 14:34 | 5 |
| RE: .3
Clearly it is a dread SIC-ness that nobody can cure.
--PSW
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