Our dear apostrophe replaced!
Laury Walkey
from this newsletter that I received the other day:
(English version below)[2]
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EXPLANTIONNOTE:
[1] With a superscript 1 [ ı ] for those of you with newsreaders not
displaying the symbol properly.
[2] The trend seems to be prevalent in French as well as English.
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Laury
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Dr Robin Bignall
wrote:
Ah! But those are the ones one's been waiting for, as a collector of
fine apostrophes.
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L'Enfant Sauvage
Dr Robin Bignall <docr...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:rb1srt0eos09ru5gp...@4ax.com...[stuff...]
Been in any French chat rooms recently? I do, to try to improve my written
French, but it's not easy when the language gets mangled. (Pourquoi becomes
por coi etc.)
I blame the "Canadian's" myself. *g*
Danny
Philip Newton
wrote:
> It looks as though our dear apostrophe has been replaced[1], judging
> from this newsletter that I received the other day:
[snip]
> [1] With a superscript 1 [ น ] for those of you with newsreaders not
> displaying the symbol properly.
I've seen that before, too. Is it a Macintosh thing, maybe?
Cheers,
Philip
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
John Flynn
> Laury Walkey wrote:
>
>> It looks as though our dear apostrophe has been replaced[1], judging
>> from this newsletter that I received the other day:
> [snip]
>> [1] With a superscript 1 [ น ] for those of you with newsreaders not
>> displaying the symbol properly.
>
> I've seen that before, too. Is it a Macintosh thing, maybe?
I hope it doesn't become an overall thing.
--
johnF
John M Ward
Philip Newton <pne-news...@newton.digitalspace.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 18:03:09 GMT, Laury Walkey <ladyp...@telus.net>
> wrote:
> > It looks as though our dear apostrophe has been replaced[1], judging
> > from this newsletter that I received the other day:
> [snip]
> > [1] With a superscript 1 [ น ] for those of you with newsreaders not
> > displaying the symbol properly.
> I've seen that before, too. Is it a Macintosh thing, maybe?
Macintosh... Wasn't he the fellow who invented waterproof toffee?
--
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Laury Walkey
Okay, for sures on dat, the pipples of Ca-nada agrees wit you.[1]
INSIDEJOKENOTE:
[1] Only a fan of the show Royal Canadian Air Farce would really understand
that joke.[2]
[2] Of which I am one and yes, I do understand.[3]
[3] I really only posted so that I could try out how well my can o' computer
dusting air works on getting all the crud out of my keyboard -- looks like it's
worked because its crud quotient is much reduced. Now if only I could use it
prophylactically[4] by blasting all the hair off my cats *before* they decide
to walk across the keyboard.
[4] I always find it amusing how when people hear that word they automatically
think it has something to do with lucky.[5]
[5] Yes, by that I mean a winning lottery ticket.[6]
[6] Ah, well, my feetnote keys still work so I guess this stuff must be good!
Cheers!
Laury Walkey
You're right: a nice knitted twin set would be much more attractive.
Cheers,
John M Ward
Laury Walkey <ladyp...@telus.net> wrote:
> I really only posted so that I could try out how well my can o' computer
> dusting air works on getting all the crud out of my keyboard -- looks
> like it's worked because its crud quotient is much reduced.
Aha! The all-new CQ (destined to join the BQ in the faqqus maximus one day,
no doubt)
> Now if only I could use it prophylactically[4] by blasting all the hair
> off my cats *before* they decide to walk across the keyboard.
I've surrounded my main keyboard with so much paperwork that tends to slip
and slide if walked upon that Scooter only rarely attempts jumping up here.
Even then, he tends to walk past this keyboard rather than across it, though
the same is not true of the (much more vulnerable) fax computer's keybd.
That reminds me: I really must replace the ancient fax/spare computer (an
Acorn A540, for anyone interested) soon, as it has now been in service for
just over ten years and I promised it retirement after that full decade of
continuous work, more than half of which was spent as my main computer.
> [6] Ah, well, my feetnote keys still work so I guess this stuff must be
> good!
Oh, it's *much* better than merely good...
Mark Wallace
"Laury Walkey" <ladyp...@telus.net> wrote in message
news:3BC0EDDB...@telus.net...
[3][1]
> [3] I really only posted so that I could try out how well my can
o' computer
> dusting air works on getting all the crud out of my keyboard --
looks like it's
> worked because its crud quotient is much reduced. Now if only I
could use it
> prophylactically[4] by blasting all the hair off my cats *before*
they decide
> to walk across the keyboard.
My solution to having a crud-infested keyboard was to go out and buy
a new one. Unfortunately, I bought a German one, by mistake, so now
I can't find anything[4]. Does anyone need an ümläüt?
[1] I had to include the referent, unsnipped, or this posting would
have made no sense whatever, and I would have been compelled to
immolate myself[2].
[2] Or someone else.
[4] So, if anyone can lend me a pair of clean socks...?
--
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Laury Walkey
> "Laury Walkey" <ladyp...@telus.net> wrote in message
> news:3BC0EDDB...@telus.net...
>
> [3][1]
>
> > [3] I really only posted so that I could try out how well my can
> o' computer
> > dusting air works on getting all the crud out of my keyboard --
> looks like it's
> > worked because its crud quotient is much reduced. Now if only I
> could use it
> > prophylactically[4] by blasting all the hair off my cats *before*
> they decide
> > to walk across the keyboard.
>
> My solution to having a crud-infested keyboard was to go out and buy
> a new one. Unfortunately, I bought a German one, by mistake, so now
> I can't find anything[4]. Does anyone need an ümläüt?
No thanks; I just had my breakfast and I've already brushed my teeth so
I couldn't possibly have anything else right now.
> [1] I had to include the referent, unsnipped, or this posting would
> have made no sense whatever, and I would have been compelled to
> immolate myself[2].
> [2] Or someone else.
> [4] So, if anyone can lend me a pair of clean socks...?
Cheers,
Maggie Newman
>
>>
>> I've seen that before, too. Is it a Macintosh thing, maybe?
>
>I hope it doesn't become an overall thing.
>
You'll need a crop duster and a set of jumper cables to
extricate yourself from this mess, I fear.
Maggie
Jens Ayton
Philip Newton:
> Laury Walkey:
>>
>> It looks as though our dear apostrophe has been replaced[1], judging
>> from this newsletter that I received the other day:
> [snip]
>> [1] With a superscript 1 [ ą ] for those of you with newsreaders not
>> displaying the symbol properly.
>
> I've seen that before, too. Is it a Macintosh thing, maybe?
Quite possibly. On my Mac it turns up as a "typographic closing single
quotation mark or apostrophe", while ' is a "foot mark."
Mac verion:
Quite possibly. On my Mac it turns up as a łtypographic closing single
quotation mark or apostrophe˛, while ' is a łfoot mark.˛
--
Jens Ayton
Mark Wallace
"Jens Ayton" <jAyton_...@nettaxi.com> wrote in message
news:jAyton_spambox-6EA...@news.fu-berlin.de...
Awww!
I've gone and changed my keyboard page back to 850, so it now has
the key positions I'm used to (although the characters painted on
some of the keys doesn't match what comes up when they're hit).
That means I can't join in by filling this posting with silly German
characters[1].
[1] I can say 'Helmut Kohl', though. There's a silly enough German
character, for you.
Matt Drury
are what work everywhere for that.
John M Ward
Laury Walkey <ladyp...@telus.net> wrote, in particular:
> EXPLANTIONNOTE:
Well, I've been waiting for this NOTE to expland, but it's still the same
size after more than a month. Does it need watering or feeding, perhaps?
David
John M Ward <jo...@acornusers.org> wrote:
> In article <3BBDF592...@telus.net>,
> Laury Walkey <ladyp...@telus.net> wrote, in particular:
> > EXPLANTIONNOTE:
> Well, I've been waiting for this NOTE to expland, but it's still the
> same size after more than a month. Does it need watering or feeding,
> perhaps?
You misunderstand, John. It's an exPLANTionnote and so organic. You
need to caress it gently.
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