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Ronald Dumsfeld
Master Baiter
Joined: 22 Apr 2007
Posts: 209
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:11 am |
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in the top bit "FAQ's" shouldn't have an apostrophe. It should just be FAQs.
Glad to be a pedant. |
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Shiver Metimbers
419Eater Admin
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Posts: 7469
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:13 am |
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Actually, you're wrong; the FAQ belongs to Mr. Faq. It's Faq's FAQ
I'll have it fixed |
_________________ Roland Koffi: "Please my name is not Ahoy Matey. thakyou..."
Wilson Madu: "I will condom you to a painful death..."
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Dark Spirit
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
Posts: 660
Location: In the Darkness
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:24 am |
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@ ezablade
WOW the boss spoke to you he has never spoken to me,, I feel neglected |
_________________ DARKNESS IS A PLACE WHERE ONLY FEAR LIVES. Oh and me too
God himself wii judge you for trying to delay and make someones life a waste, Mother felicia, April 30th 2007
Thanks very much for fooling me ok and i dont have any other thing to say, Helimina Bright, May 1st 2007
Pleasantly, that we have understanding and continue intercourse, Elena USSR vlad, May 1st 2007
"read the stickies and the faqs." Newbie forum
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Tommo Shanter
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Posts: 5378
Location: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. - Euripides
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:26 am |
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@shiver
Welcome back. The place has been going to pot since you went away. |
_________________ £1,052,334.30 (=US$2,121,125.60) lads fake cheques out of circulation (at 11/6/2008)
x135 (at 26/9/2008) x138
"i see your not interested in the transaction but catching your fun, calling names and my muckery of me." - Usman Bello
"You need to visit a good psychiatrist very fast, because some nuts are missing from your brain." - PROF.SOLUDO
"...it is very important you forward the your cycling proficiency certificate which by right belongs to you." - Prof Charles Soludo.
"note i can still change my mind to blow you off and whenever" - T0ny 'The Killerman' Erik
YOUR GENERATION WILL ROAST IN ABSTRACT POVERTY,BASTARD IDIOT -Daniel Mensah
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Shiver Metimbers
419Eater Admin
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Posts: 7469
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:31 am |
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@ Dark Spirit: Hello! Sorry if I neglected you, it wasn't on purpose if I did
@ TS: Yes. I'm manning the sweeping brush as I write. Not an easy thing to do I can tell you. |
_________________ Roland Koffi: "Please my name is not Ahoy Matey. thakyou..."
Wilson Madu: "I will condom you to a painful death..."
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Dark Spirit
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
Posts: 660
Location: In the Darkness
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:36 am |
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@ shiver metimbers,
Well with this many members, somebody has to be neglected , it's a cross I will bear
Ok seriously it is great to be here and I just love it, everybody here is fantastic for all the things they do... |
_________________ DARKNESS IS A PLACE WHERE ONLY FEAR LIVES. Oh and me too
God himself wii judge you for trying to delay and make someones life a waste, Mother felicia, April 30th 2007
Thanks very much for fooling me ok and i dont have any other thing to say, Helimina Bright, May 1st 2007
Pleasantly, that we have understanding and continue intercourse, Elena USSR vlad, May 1st 2007
"read the stickies and the faqs." Newbie forum
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Breddan Butter
Retired Moderator
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
Posts: 4170
Location: Soligorsk, Belarus
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:14 am |
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Re the original point. (FAQ's or FAQs):
It should be neither of those examples.
It should be just plain old FAQ
The abbreviation stands for Frequently Asked Questions. (plural)
The apostrophe 's' is used for the possessive form of a singular noun.
It can also be used to denote a missing letter or letters.
Apostrophes are NEVER ever used to denote plurals.
So, the item in the page header is incorrect, as is the OP pedant. |
_________________ Можно заплатить кредитной карточкой ?
Пошёл на хуй, мудак !!!
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Rover
Site Admin
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
Posts: 16189
Location: North of the Limpopo
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:49 pm |
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mugu_cultist
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 02 Apr 2004
Posts: 857
Location: Deep 13
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:07 pm |
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Further, "Frequently Asked Questions" uses the passive tense, which we all remember from Strunk & White should be avoided at all costs. Frequently asked? Who by?
The correct acronym should be QTPFA ("Questions That People Frequently Ask").
(I count at least 5 mistakes and/or debatable usages in my message. Can you find more?) |
_________________ "I HOPE THEY WILL BE ENOUGH DOG FOR YOU TO EAT AS YOR WEDDING CAKE.."
"i really felt pity on the girl you marry. your pennis is like a cow." -- adams mensah
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Nanny Ogg
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Mar 2007
Posts: 2628
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Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:53 pm |
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when at the end of a long long day
which includes being sworn at by real people
and having no lads on line on whom I can vent my spleen.
I have got to say it.
faq off, who cares? |
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The Man
Baiting Guru
Joined: 11 Apr 2007
Posts: 2885
Location: La La Land
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:13 am |
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Breddan Butter wrote: |
Re the original point. (FAQ's or FAQs):
It should be neither of those examples.
It should be just plain old FAQ
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Actually, I am going to have to agree with the OP (at the risk of upsetting a MOD!!!), it should be FAQs, it appears to be a collection of Frequently Asked Questions. So there is more than ONE set of FAQ when you click that link. |
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YOU ARE A CHILD OF SATAN WITH YOUR HUNGRY DIRTY BODY ,TUNDER FIRE YOU BIG HEAD IDIOT !!! HA HA HA HA HA
IS THIS HOW YOU DECIDED TO TREAT US AFTER ALL WE WENT THROUGH?YOU MADE US TRAVELLED TO ABUJA AND INDEBTED US.
"Cursed is your mother that gave birth to a family-disgrace like you. Cursed is your father he could not control his lust for anything under skate"
"hey u crakhead motherf*cking nitwit, from the way u express the cockamamy sh*t that ur dumb brain is made up of it's so obvious that u never really made it past elementary school but anywayz dogs don't have to go to school afterall."
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JoeTam
** REMEMBERED **
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
Posts: 2153
Location: Pulling foil arrows out of my head.
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:48 am |
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The place has been going to pot |
I was thinking about going there myself, Potsville. Either that, or Hydrocodoneburg, or Lorazepam Town. There's always, Hoochville and Brew City. |
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Your moms pu$$! smokes ciggarettes, she whistles in the stadium with your Papa's D!@K.
Nwokeke.
I went to bank. they call police, why you do this to me? I canntsend you anything now.
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Wright B Hindyou
Elite Baiter
Joined: 11 May 2004
Posts: 1795
Location: Bangkok
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:48 am |
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@mc,
If you really read Strunk & White instead of just looking at the pictures , you'll know how much they hate adverbs and general unnecessary padding-type useless irrelevant wordy verbiage.
So, 'Frequently' has to go.
Questions That People Often Ask (QTPOA).
I'm not even sure about the 'That'. |
_________________ "YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY" - Douglas Minning
"bastard like you, I will kill you with my hand, son of nobody. May your soul rust in help." - Titi Andrew
"I trusted you very much without knowing that you are a drug addit person" - Emma Bambara
"THIS YOUR BEHAVIOR IS IRELEVANT AND CROSPOLOS CARACTER" - Madam Clarrise Keita.
"you must speak beter because we dont train mad people in this company." - Incredible Self-Baiting Pastor Joe |
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mugu_cultist
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 02 Apr 2004
Posts: 857
Location: Deep 13
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:07 am |
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^^^ Well, if you take S&W to their full measure, it would just be "Questions", because otherwise it is redundant (questions don't just ask themselves!). Or, more literally, "Answers to Common Questions." Furthermore... ah, to hell with it. FAQ Strunk & White. |
_________________ "I HOPE THEY WILL BE ENOUGH DOG FOR YOU TO EAT AS YOR WEDDING CAKE.."
"i really felt pity on the girl you marry. your pennis is like a cow." -- adams mensah
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Wright B Hindyou
Elite Baiter
Joined: 11 May 2004
Posts: 1795
Location: Bangkok
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:24 am |
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The rules of The Elements of Style were as simple to state -- 'Omit needless words' -- as they were difficult to obey |
You win.
I only recently found out that he (White) wrote for The New Yorker for sixty years. BTW, is this thread far enough OT now? |
_________________ "YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY" - Douglas Minning
"bastard like you, I will kill you with my hand, son of nobody. May your soul rust in help." - Titi Andrew
"I trusted you very much without knowing that you are a drug addit person" - Emma Bambara
"THIS YOUR BEHAVIOR IS IRELEVANT AND CROSPOLOS CARACTER" - Madam Clarrise Keita.
"you must speak beter because we dont train mad people in this company." - Incredible Self-Baiting Pastor Joe |
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Doctor X
** ACCOUNT CLOSED **
Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 766
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:35 am |
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This thread should be titled "A Note of Pedantry."
I win.
--J.D. |
_________________ וגם־אני נתתי להם חקים לא טובים ומשפטים לא יחיו בהם
ואטמא אותם במתנותם בהעביר כל־פטר רחם למען אשםם למען אשר ידעו אשר אני יהוה |
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firehouse5
Palm Wino Aficionado
Joined: 09 Mar 2004
Posts: 4953
Location: swimming in Ogogoro
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:16 pm |
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Strunk & White were a couple of old grouches whose view of the English language was strongly biased by Victorian prescriptivist views often based on Latin grammar (splitting infinitives being a particular good example of this). Stringently following their doctrines is pointless. |
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mugu_cultist
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 02 Apr 2004
Posts: 857
Location: Deep 13
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:54 pm |
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^^^ Oh, I agree completely! I was just having a little fun with it, as I had a university prof who absolutely adored Strunk & White and made editing papers a living hell. |
_________________ "I HOPE THEY WILL BE ENOUGH DOG FOR YOU TO EAT AS YOR WEDDING CAKE.."
"i really felt pity on the girl you marry. your pennis is like a cow." -- adams mensah
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music man
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Posts: 14807
Location: East Harlemshire , yo!
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:38 pm |
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Enough of this- just stick to English! |
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You will rot in jail.watch your back- any shadow could be mine ! YOU ARE VERY EASY TO TRACK IN YOU NEIGHBOURHOOD ! DRUNKARD AND A SCUMBAG LIKE YOU!
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Go fuck your dead parents asshole!!!How can a deaf fool make clean money..The money that you have will never be spent on anything reasonable.
So fuck off..dont reply me again until the cops get your stinking ass...
Lyord Melson- cheque scammer
$4.002million and £214K in fake cheques taken out of circulation. (updated May 2009)
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it wasn't me
Elite Baiter
Joined: 18 Feb 2007
Posts: 1043
Location: sitting in the corner drinking wine, eating cheese
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Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:13 pm |
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Where I come from, it's quite simply said as "Wassup?" |
_________________ Do not be sceptical be pessimistic - Lotto scam.
I just don't know how to express the gravy of my happiness. - Barrister M Abd0lla
you nose i have been away in the middly east. -Ali Al1
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