variegated thread on a cone?

thatwasfunbuticanthelpbutwonderifiwastheonlyonequi ltingtoday? Polly

"Rustqlts2" wrote in message
...
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!

No.
..
In article . net, Polly
Esther writes
thatwasfunbuticanthelpbutwonderifiwastheonlyonequ iltingtoday? Polly

--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

Thanks to all who helped refresh my knowledge on this point of punctuation,
but Julia, please leave poor Poe alone! You are right; the example is a true
horror story.

--
Wendy P in Stansted, UK

Employ a teenager - while they still know everything!


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

Wendy Playle wrote:
Thanks to all who helped refresh my knowledge on this point of punctuation,
but Julia, please leave poor Poe alone! You are right; the example is a true
horror story.


What a delight that someone understands the sorts of frights that keep
me up at night!

--Lia

No Wendy, that's what I was taught as well.

Wendy Playle wrote:
Forgive the pedantic response, but I was always taught that any word formed
by the contraction of two words should include the apostrophe. Since 'it's'
is composed of the words 'it' and 'is' it therefore should contain the
apostrophe! Am I missing something?
Genuinely interested to know...

thatwasfunbuticanthelpbutwonderifiwastheonlyonequ iltingtoday?

Probably!(g)

rusty

Pshaw, perchance, I was perfectly preparing a plethora of pretty posie
appliques, perfectly, and punctuated perfunctorily.
Diana

"Rustqlts2" wrote in message
...

thatwasfunbuticanthelpbutwonderifiwastheonlyonequ iltingtoday?

Probably!(g)

rusty

How about complimentary/complementary??? (my pet peeve?) Though 'walla'
instead of 'voila' makes me wince too, and 'its' instead of 'it's' is
pretty bad too. What I do often, I believe, is use this instead of
these, and I am not sure about me and I sometimes. Those little bits of
english grammar never really got into my brain.

Shirley.Caylor wrote:
Kristen, I agree so much with you on the people who don't know the
difference between words. My biggest bug-a-boo are those that use your
instead of you're or no instead of know.

No whut i meen? :~)))

SYC


"Kristen L. Renneker" wrote in message
news:CuyEc.3907$7t3.2632@attbi_s51...

Sorry...

It's me being lazy. Half the time I go back and fix them, often I don't
think of it. I never took any typing courses and so there was never

anything

drilled into me in that regards. so, when I'm typing, the shift key is not
natural. If i'm posting on a message board that has a preview screen I'm
more likely to go back and fix them, because I do see how bad it
looks...here I usually just type a message out quickly and hit send.

Though

I've read that in handwriting the use of a lowercase "i" is a sign of low
self esteem...wonder if it works the same way in typing? g

I know what you mean about not being to pay attention to the content of a
post because of some grammatical/style issue of the writer. My issue is

with

people who can't spell...I mean truly can't spell and don't use
spellcheck...or they don't know the difference between sight/site...
there/their/they're... weather/whether...where/wear/we're. I've seen some
convoluted sentences, no punctuation, etc. and it drives me nuts.

I try to keep my posts coherent (though last night I had already had a
couple of cocktails but that capital "I" is one that usually slips

right

by me.

So, there's my confession...I can admit when I'm wrong I promise I'll
make more of an effort G

Kristen


"Polly Esther" wrote in message
hlink.net...

Kristen, there's a deeply imbedded proof-reader strain in me. It was

scared

into me by a terrifying 9th grade typing teacher and got worse over the
years. If it is not terribly rude of me to ask, why do your posts ignore

the

capital " I "? If this is something young people do and I'm just not

"with

it", I really will try to adjust. It is so hard for me to pay attention

to

what you're saying when some of my brain is wanting to hit the backup

key.

Please bring me (gently) up to date. If I can learn to send email and
operate the coffee pot, maybe I can understand. I truly mean to ask

this

sweetly, I just am without a clue. Polly

"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?


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

kristen









--
Dr. Quilter
Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens
http://community.webshots.com/user/mvignali
(take the dog out before replying)

Certainly!

On a partly connected thread (groan) there are considerable differences in
the spelling, use and syntax between us UK English and our US and AU
friends, which can complicate issues enormously. I would not be likely to
mention differences in spelling on such an international group for fear of
simply being ignorant of the spelling being correct for a different country.

--
Wendy P in Stansted, UK

Employ a teenager - while they still know everything!


"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
news:PncFc.13517$IQ4.12239@attbi_s02...


What a delight that someone understands the sorts of frights that keep
me up at night!

--Lia

Johanna:
Perhaps some differences in spelling can be attributed to one's
country. British English and American English have some
differences, as do other variations of the English language.
Perhaps this is the case with the words copyright, copywrite, and
copywright, per your post.

I checked in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English
Language, and found a very long entry for copyright, which I will
abbreviate here. Copyright is the right granted by law to an
author (etc.) to exclusive publication (etc.) of a literary (etc.)
The Dictionary does not list copywrite, but does have a
definition for copywriter, one who writes advertising copy. The
Dictionary also has no listing for copywright.

Here is how I remember the difference: the first one gives the
author the legal rights to copy the work. The second one is a
person who actually writes some trade copy.

HTH. PAT in VA/USA, who likes to copyright her original
instructions, but has never worked as a copywriter!

Johanna Koski wrote:
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