variegated thread on a cone?

ooohhh....copyright is one that gets me...

And I certainly understand when it's someone who is not a native
speaker.....but when I know that it's someone who is, well, I think they
should know the difference between no and know. And I'm not saying that
people need to write perfectly all the time, I generally give the benefit of
the doubt for typos and spelling odd words (even spelling not so odd words
sometimes). There are people I see frequently posting (not here) that the
whole of their posts are filled with spelling and/or grammatical errors and
I have to read through the message 2 or 3 times to even understand what's
being said. I've put one person on ignore because her posts were
incomprehensible and it really hurt my brain to read them...also there's
someone on another board whose grammar is perfect, but she cannot spell at
all. she will misspell a word 3 different ways in the same message! It's
hard to read what she writes because when she misspells a word she's often
actually writing another word (example: she was trying to type conquer...to
overtake in war....and wrote concur...to agree...and that's one example of
many)

I certainly understand laziness...I admitted it in my original post on the
subject...and I don't assume everyone online is in the states or speaks
english as a first language.

so i guess with all that rambling I'm saying that the occasional mistake
doesn't bother me...it's the repeat offenders that really bug me!

Kristen


"Johanna Koski" wrote in message
...
I have to hop off my soapbox for this thread. I was taught this way in
English: if you write anything, no matter how clear and right text it
is, if you write "I" with small i, you automatically flunk the test.
That's the first thing you have to learn; I'm always big
One thing about grammar is that not everyone, even those who's native
language English is, can write correctly all the words. And as English
isn't my native language, I think I'm allwoed to some mistakes. I try
to write correct words, but sometimes I'm too lazy to check spelling
from dictionary for some odd word. Biggest mistake in words that I
see frequently made by native English speakers is "copyright". It's
usually "copywright" or "copywrite"....

Back to the soapbox,
Johanna

Reading poorly done posts doesnt bother me when I know there is a reason
for
it, such as a new mom nursing a baby while online, or a butterfly with a
bum
wing, but when there is no physical reason for not pressing that shift
key,
or tossing in a few well placed commas, I find myself turning to the
next
post.


--
Johanna Koski
Finland, Europe

I'm guilty...... :-) I'll watch it from now on!
"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
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Kate Dicey wrote:

Green grocer's apostrophe's syndrome! As in Tomatoe's and potatoe's...
And round here I've even seen cherrie's!

shudder I walk around with a pen in my pocket and quietly scratch out
the promiscuous apostrophes whenever I see them.


For those who don't know what we're talking about, the only correct
apostrophe in Kate's sentence is the first one in "grocer's." That
indicates posession. All the others are incorrectly placed in plurals.
It seems that people throw in an apostrophe when they don't know what
else to do.


The next one that drives me nuts is using ... whenever someone is afraid
to punctuate. Go ahead and put a comma in the wrong place; that's
forgiveable, but don't use ... instead of all punctuation. I believe
books in the 30 years will start looking like this:


the red death had long devastated the country ... no pestilence had ever
been so fatal ... or so hideous ... blood was it's avatar and it's seal
... the redness and the horror of blood ... there were sharp pain's ...
and sudden dizzines's ... and then profuse bleeding at the pore's ...
with dissolution ... the scarlet stain's upon the body ... and
especially upon the face ... of the victim were the pest ban which shut
him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellowmen's .. and the
whole seizure ... progress and termination of the disease were the
incident's of half an hour ...


Oh the horror!


--Lia

Kristen, I have never been so entertained. Did you know you were opening
up Pandora's Box?! I have loved every minute of reading all the different
opinions. I took a break of cleaning house UGH! and now I don't want to get
back to it. I love this site. Wanda
"Kristen L. Renneker" wrote in message
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"Mary in Rock Island IL" wrote in message
...
"Kristen L. Renneker" wrote:

ok...i know after i post this i'll google and find what i'm looking
for,
but
here it goes...

I need a large amount of rainbow variegated thread...i've only ever
seen
it
on relatively small spools, but i know i'll need a lot to finish this
project, so i'm hoping to get a cone, figuring it will be cheaper than
buing
many small spools.

have any of you seen such an animal?

************************************
Kristen L. Renneker

Yup. Try http://www.fabricartshop.com/newsite/
They had serger size cones of thread at NQA this past weekend.

Mary

wow! that was quick...and perfect!!! thanks a lot!!!!

kristen

I'm guilty, too, if indeed it is wrong. However, in my own defense, I will state
that the majority of the reason I use ellipses and such is that I'm typing in the
same manner in which I think and speak. When I only have about an hour each day to
read and respond, I guess I go into an autopilot mode and concern myself mainly with
content as opposed to construction. Some people don't use a capital I in their
typing, and it's just the way they type. I often don't if I'm in a hurry, or if I'm
in a chat room, and sometime I forget that this is usenet instead of an "expanded
chatroom". I suppose that the grammar issue isn't such a big deal to me. My
interest lies mainly with getting to know people and learning more about quilting and
such. People are imperfect and diverse. It's fine if someone skips my posts because
they don't like how I structured my sentences. I don't consider it all that great of
a loss. It also won't stop me or others from posting in the manner in which we
speak/prefer, either.

AAAAANYHOO.......I've been working on my Quilt for ME this week, in little pieces,
how about you? It's almost time for an update, too...hmmm, thinking about that one.
--
Jalynne - Keeper of the Quilt for ME club list
Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request)
see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne

"KJ" wrote in message news:zyVEc.7610$XM6.3579@attbi_s53...
I'm guilty...... :-) I'll watch it from now on!
"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
news:%sUEc.8157$%_6.7086@attbi_s01...
Kate Dicey wrote:

Green grocer's apostrophe's syndrome! As in Tomatoe's and potatoe's...
And round here I've even seen cherrie's!

shudder I walk around with a pen in my pocket and quietly scratch out
the promiscuous apostrophes whenever I see them.


For those who don't know what we're talking about, the only correct
apostrophe in Kate's sentence is the first one in "grocer's." That
indicates posession. All the others are incorrectly placed in plurals.
It seems that people throw in an apostrophe when they don't know what
else to do.


The next one that drives me nuts is using ... whenever someone is afraid
to punctuate. Go ahead and put a comma in the wrong place; that's
forgiveable, but don't use ... instead of all punctuation. I believe
books in the 30 years will start looking like this:


the red death had long devastated the country ... no pestilence had ever
been so fatal ... or so hideous ... blood was it's avatar and it's seal
... the redness and the horror of blood ... there were sharp pain's ...
and sudden dizzines's ... and then profuse bleeding at the pore's ...
with dissolution ... the scarlet stain's upon the body ... and
especially upon the face ... of the victim were the pest ban which shut
him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellowmen's .. and the
whole seizure ... progress and termination of the disease were the
incident's of half an hour ...


Oh the horror!


--Lia

justfortheheckofit, Why Not Change The SUBJECT Of This Thread?

rusty, runnin' and duckin'--and THAT's the way I *choose* to sign my name--
thankyewverymuch!

Unless, of course, your cat's name is It. :-)
Needles up!
Back to quilting!
Diana


You are right for the contraction of "It is", as in "It's a nice day
today". But when you are using the possessive form of "it", you should
not use the apostrophe; for example, you should write "The dog chased
its tail", not "The dog chased it's tail".

Julia in MN
--
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http://mail.chartermi.net/~jaccola/

In article ,
Patti wrote:

It's/its has a particular problem because the 'possessive' does *not*
use the apostrophe:
its placement (the placement of 'it')


Right you are, Pat. When I was in school I used to remember which
it's/its to use by remembering that "it's" = "it is" (as you pointed
out) and that "its" was possessive with the apostrophe, just as "yours",
"ours", "theirs", "his" and "hers" have no apostrophes and are
possessives. Hmmm...wonder why we don't have "mys"....
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

Well I'm guilty too, but honestly, Lia, I love my little dots...they seem to
be really useful...somewhere between a comma and a dash. Besides, they keep
us from cluttering up the sentence with too many commas.

Dee in LeRoy, NY

"KJ" wrote in message
news:zyVEc.7610$XM6.3579@attbi_s53...
I'm guilty...... :-) I'll watch it from now on!
"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
news:%sUEc.8157$%_6.7086@attbi_s01...
Kate Dicey wrote:

Green grocer's apostrophe's syndrome! As in Tomatoe's and
potatoe's...
And round here I've even seen cherrie's!

shudder I walk around with a pen in my pocket and quietly scratch out
the promiscuous apostrophes whenever I see them.


For those who don't know what we're talking about, the only correct
apostrophe in Kate's sentence is the first one in "grocer's." That
indicates posession. All the others are incorrectly placed in plurals.
It seems that people throw in an apostrophe when they don't know what
else to do.


The next one that drives me nuts is using ... whenever someone is afraid
to punctuate. Go ahead and put a comma in the wrong place; that's
forgiveable, but don't use ... instead of all punctuation. I believe
books in the 30 years will start looking like this:


the red death had long devastated the country ... no pestilence had ever
been so fatal ... or so hideous ... blood was it's avatar and it's seal
... the redness and the horror of blood ... there were sharp pain's ...
and sudden dizzines's ... and then profuse bleeding at the pore's ...
with dissolution ... the scarlet stain's upon the body ... and
especially upon the face ... of the victim were the pest ban which shut
him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellowmen's .. and the
whole seizure ... progress and termination of the disease were the
incident's of half an hour ...


Oh the horror!


--Lia

DDM wrote:

Well I'm guilty too, but honestly, Lia, I love my little dots...they seem to
be really useful...somewhere between a comma and a dash. Besides, they keep
us from cluttering up the sentence with too many commas.


If three dots were good enough for Herb Caen, they are good enough for me...

lisae

When I was in school I used to remember which it's/its to use by
remembering that "it's" = "it is" (as you pointed out) and that
"its" was possessive with the apostrophe, just as "yours", "ours",
"theirs", "his" and "hers" have no apostrophes and are possessives.
Hmmm...wonder why we don't have "mys"....

In Scots we have "mines" instead. The word dates to the 17th century
but it's still widely used, as in this recent song by Davie Robertson:

There's nuthin brands a man in life as plainly as his hanky,
A gentleman's is ayeways clean but mines is ayeways manky.

[ ...deleted 9 verses describing how he gets his hanky manky... ]

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