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Orthography has got bugger all to do with linguistics; it's just a "how to" in writing things down.
Us linguists point and laugh at orthographic specialists.
Punctuation is enveloped by semantics, syntax, and even morphology, to a degree.
Calling it orthography is like saying that how the brain works is psychology (which is not a science) rather than biology, chemistry, and Physics (which are sciences).
Morphology Ha! (spits). The sociology of language use.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You're absolutely right. Orthography has nothing to do with linguistics. The apostrophe has nothing to do with linguistics either because it is purely an orthographical device completely incidental to language and totally unrelated to grammar, which serves the purpose only of disambiguation of writing in the absence of tonal and stressing clues provided in speech.
Nobody speaks apostrophes or any other punctuation come to that. A properly formed written sentence does not become magically ungrammatical because you leave the punctuation out. Indeed all the primary classical languages such as Latin and Greek were written for centuries with no punctuation at all and, in the case of Hebrew, without vowels to boot. Sanskrit survived without punctuation until the 17thC, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, until the 20thC. The introduction of punctuation to any of these did not represent any change or in these languages merely a shift in formal orthography. One could very well argue that the bulk of punctuation, even in English, remains entirely superfluous. The extreme abbreviation and lack of punctuation in modern textspeak, certainly does nothing to make the case for it. 'CU l8tr' is grammatically identical to 'See you later!' and every bit as comprehensible. It simply fails to meet the arbitrary demands of formal orthography.
Omission of an apostrophe is an orthographic error, wholly and solely. And no amount of self-important blustering from linguistics 'experts' can alter that!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You are aware that formal grammar is about the written word, not the spoken, aren't you?
I'm afraid you've climbed your way up onto the "little learning" pile.
You really should look at the pedigree of the people you attack, before you dive in.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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(edit) nothing to see here, move along..
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
modified 30-Mar-16 9:56am.
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Which was the whole point of my post.
Peter wrote, "In less then 3 hours..."
I changed the title of my reply to, "In less than 3 hours...".
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Uhh.. somehow I thought you changed the the title of his original message to what it now is.
Nevermind, time for more
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: Nevermind
<Gramma Natzi>That's not a word!</Gramma Natzi>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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shush!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: shush! Remarkably, that is a word!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I do know some
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Looks like you need more coffee too: see my reply to Sascha[^], above.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Looks like you need more coffee too:
I thought you changed the title of his post.
Marc
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At about the same time I will be at the dentist getting new teef.
veni bibi saltavi
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Which is probably less painful...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What happened? Did you run against a fist when you turned around a corner? Was it deserved or not?
We need more details!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: What happened?
I didn't look after the ones I had and they were so rotten I needed 3 out, 14 fillings and two implants. Today is the start of the implants.
BRUSH YOUR TEEF DUDES!
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: and two implants
Dont't let them give you anything bigger than C cups.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Ah. That'll be why so many mouthwashes are alcohol based then!
It's not the alcohol but acidic flavourings thereof!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Be quiet! I didn't read the article, but posted a link to piss-off Nagy
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: posted a link to piss-off Nagy
... a more effective tactic when said is not off on his travels and might actually read it Shirley!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Glad someone had the sense to mention this.
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Dafs a lie, ihf neffa fewwt beffa wiff owl fhe alfohowl. My teef awe fuper clean.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Close but no cigar. Cigars however had a far greater effect, along with cigarettes on my teef.
veni bibi saltavi
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