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Originally Posted by Jenna
~80's (there's no freaking apostrophe unless the 80s owns something or you're saying 80 is)
One is to represent FEET, as in distance. I need a 6' pole.
Another is placement as in DMS of latitude and longitude ex. 270D(no little circle available on keyboard) 136"97'
The other is to represent time, as in years. ex. I graduated in 02'
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Bad writing (not that I'm queen of the writing skills by any means)... look who talking
~You're/Your ----------This is actualy two totaly different words.....ie.....You're is abbriviated for: you are........which is kind of ironice since it is only one more letter and a space to achieve the same thing, and:your........well then if this is your excuse then so what
Jenna is feeling particularly snotty at 2am------and what makes the difference in the fact wether it has to be 2am or not, being snotty has never stoped just at 2am for you befor
So do not start with me I will out snot you
Bad writing (not that I'm queen of the writing skills by any means)... look who talking
~You're/Your ----------This is actualy two totaly different words.....ie.....You're is abbriviated for: you are........which is kind of ironice since it is only one more letter and a space to achieve the same thing, and:your........well then if this is your excuse then so what
Jenna is feeling particularly snotty at 2am------and what makes the difference in the fact wether it has to be 2am or not, being snotty has never stoped just at 2am for you befor
So do not start with me I will out snot you
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Originally Posted by Tomas
Where are your definitions, Victor? 
(And I don't see "bonkers" as in "the salesman was stark staring bonkers.")
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(And I don't see "bonkers" as in "the salesman was stark staring bonkers.")
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/index.htm
it is kinda a really cool site and a lot of fun
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tCizzler, the apostrophe in abbreviating a year goes in FRONT not behind the two digits to indicate that's where the rest of the characters were dropped: you graduated in '02 (2002), while I graduated in '64 (1964).
That same use of the apostrophe is commonly seen in words such as 'bout (about).
There is a fairly decent wiki entry on "Apostrophe" that can provide detail.
Of course having spent a quarter century as an engineer (and writer) in a telco, I still often spell 'phone (telephone) in that more formal manner, though common usage, especially in the US, has a great tendency to drop the leading apostrophy, and add extraneous apostrophe's in front of a plural "s" at the ends of words making CD's out of CDs, for example.
Then again, with the current use of 'puters (computers) for the majority of writing, a single quote is usually substituted for an apostrophe, anyway. (Most folks don't e'en know that they are two different symbols, just as dash, hyphen and minus sign are all three different.)
I just realized this is getting rather far astray from "Cool Words" and into grammar and usage, so I'll leave a cool word like some sort of animal dropping and wander off.
Furbelow -noun a flounce (no relation at all to a merkin) :D
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EDIT: Damned tpyos!
That same use of the apostrophe is commonly seen in words such as 'bout (about).
There is a fairly decent wiki entry on "Apostrophe" that can provide detail.
Of course having spent a quarter century as an engineer (and writer) in a telco, I still often spell 'phone (telephone) in that more formal manner, though common usage, especially in the US, has a great tendency to drop the leading apostrophy, and add extraneous apostrophe's in front of a plural "s" at the ends of words making CD's out of CDs, for example.
Then again, with the current use of 'puters (computers) for the majority of writing, a single quote is usually substituted for an apostrophe, anyway. (Most folks don't e'en know that they are two different symbols, just as dash, hyphen and minus sign are all three different.)
I just realized this is getting rather far astray from "Cool Words" and into grammar and usage, so I'll leave a cool word like some sort of animal dropping and wander off.
Furbelow -noun a flounce (no relation at all to a merkin) :D
Tom
EDIT: Damned tpyos!
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Originally Posted by tCizzler
Originally Posted by Jenna
~80's (there's no freaking apostrophe unless the 80s owns something or you're saying 80 is)
One is to represent FEET, as in distance. I need a 6' pole.
Another is placement as in DMS of latitude and longitude ex. 270D(no little circle available on keyboard) 136"97'
The other is to represent time, as in years. ex. I graduated in 02'
I know about feet and I know about years... but if you were doing years, it wouldn't be 02', it would be '02 because the apostrophe replaces the missing numbers, just as it would in a contraction. Like the word "Don't", the apostrophe replaced the letter "o", therefore you must put the apostrophe there and no where else. Hence the reason why '02... the apostrophe is replacing the "20" in 2002.
But that is neither here nor there. What was meant when I said "80's" is not length or to abbreviate the exact year, of course. I mean when people speak of the 1980s (or incorrectly the 1980's) or the 80s. It could even be the temperature outside. Right now, I would guess our temperature in Seattle is in the 50s, not the 50's.
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Originally Posted by TopDog
~You're/Your ----------This is actualy two totaly different words.....ie.....You're is abbriviated for: you are........which is kind of ironice since it is only one more letter and a space to achieve the same thing, and:your........well then if this is your excuse then so
Uh, cool word...
Sarcasm - What I just did to Victor.
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There are several 'cool words' that having been a researcher and technical writer at Bell Labs for a short time I have a special affinity for.
On the Touchtone™ pad the * and # are not "star" and "pound" but "asterisk" (at times the alternative "sextile" is used) and "octothorpe"...
That only leaves the virgule, I suppose, as yet another glyph of which few know the proper name.
virgule -noun /
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On the Touchtone™ pad the * and # are not "star" and "pound" but "asterisk" (at times the alternative "sextile" is used) and "octothorpe"...
That only leaves the virgule, I suppose, as yet another glyph of which few know the proper name.
virgule -noun /
Tom
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