How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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Grammar humour nazis and gay punctuationI recently changed my MSN display name to the following:
Tilde (`) - the apostrophes gay cousin
This would probably be geeky enough, were it not that someone pointed out that a tilde actually looks like the following:
~
Hence my final MSN display name was as follows:
Tilde (~) - the hyphens gay cousin
...I'm no longer sure if it was worth the effort, to be honest.
(Note the personification on the words apostrophe and hyphen do not contain the 'apostrophe-s' mistake that plagues so much writing with nouns concerning non-living beings oh god I am so alone)
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Iki I think my camel is dead., Sat 8 Mar 2008, 20:38,
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I don't know...which stylebook you're using, but it's absurd. A mistake is in the eye of the (pedantic) beholder. The ``apostrophe-s'' is quite acceptable in the gay cousin example (by most stylebooks). I consider myself quite careful when it comes to punctuation (as what you Brits would call a sub-editor, that's what I'm paid to do), but that ``non-living beings'' exception is really beyond the pale. Might I ask which styleguide you got that ``rule'' from, so I may head to the nearest bookshop to demand they take all copies off the shelves?
--Tuqueboy
(, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 21:35, closed)
.^this
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I think it should have a possessive apostropheI'd never heard of a rule about non-living beings and think it is stupid. In any case, in your sentences you treat the apostrophe and hyphen as if they are living beings by stating that they have a gay cousin.
So,
Tilde (~) - the hyphen's gay cousin
looks better to me.
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in vino veritas, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 23:38,
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Hm"The car stopped. Its engine had died."
That would be correct in having no apostrophe, but on the other hand...
"The car's engine had died."
Is also correct. I'm pretty sure 'its' is the only word that follows that rule.
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ivv is correctAnd I should know: I write for a living.
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drunkenoaf, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 18:47,
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Also...Shouldn't that be "the apostrophe's gay cousin"?
I'm a writer. Things like this bug me.
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Look up a few posts.That's been discussed over the past few days, as well as the fact I'll never be Editor of anything except Metal Hammer.
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Iki I think my camel is dead., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 15:43,
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