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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

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On Tue, 02 May 2017 22:07:40 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> On 5/2/17, 1:14 PM, in article op.yzmnuao9js98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 02 May 2017 20:19:38 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/2/17, 12:04 PM, in article op.yzmkk6wbjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
>>> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>>>>> It took me a while to accept it, but I still cringe when I hear people
>>>>>>> pronounce the "t" in "often". Used to be that was considered a no-no...
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>> it is done so often it is now accepted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Accepted by some people, but not by me. To me, it's another example of
>>>>>> "simply wrong."
>>>>>
>>>>> As I said I still cringe but I have learned to accept it as "correct" these
>>>>> days.
>>>>
>>>> It's as bad as "burrrrglarrrr alarrrrm": https://youtu.be/S5WFl4E8VCI
>>>
>>>     <https://youtu.be/y8lArz1_jO0>
>>
>> Surely Germans could be told the shape to make with their mouths.  I severely
>> doubt their facial muscles are any different.
>
> What would make you think this had anything to do with different muscles?
> Seems like a very odd jump to me... don't see how you got there.

How the hell do you think we make consonants?

>>> And then there is this... how English sounds to non-English speakers:
>>>
>>>     <https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8>
>>
>> Sounds like a whole load of English syllables shoved together.  Reminds me of
>> the spam software that makes random sentences that are quite readable but mean
>> nothing.  You can do it yourself if you turn off you brain:
>
> Or what the script-troller and stalker are doing with their flooding
> nonsense. Sigh.
>
>> Suddenly he invented henceforth that tomorrow should become normal to the
>> kinder pigs, as they became lower then the precipice of eternity.  But without
>> the whaling it was not known that we should refrain from giving up our
>> sandwiches for the daily rituals of hiking towards the momentous occasion that
>> will forever be shorter than what was expected.
>
> I posted some computer-generated gibberish like that a few years ago. Some
> of those who troll me, including the script-troller, insisted it was
> something other than gibberish. Absolutely hilarious.
>
>     <http://tmp.gallopinginsanity.com/coherent_gibberish.mov>

A video of some usenet posts?  Can't be bothered.

Are Apple really still using .mov format?

>>>> I was never taught it, but I saw some people doing it and realised it was
>>>> much neater and easier to read, so I do it too.
>>>>
>>> I home school my kids
>>>
>> Good for you.  I think ALL kids should be home schooled.  Why let the
>> government brainwash them?
>
> Depends on what is best for the family... I do not put down others for
> making different choices.

Why entrust your kids' education to anyone else?  Schools teach them al sorts of shit, like religious education....

>>> and look at lot of this stuff up.
>>
>> And what opinion have you formed on it?
>
> Well, one big one is most adults have horrid grammar. :)

I'm not fussy, as long as it's understandable.  Mind you the twat in here that uses no capital letters has pissed me off enough to killfile him.

> Also there is no one "right" way with a lot of things... we think of grammar
> as "the rules" but "the rules" change and different groups see them
> differently. Look up the "right" way to write cursive, for a related
> example. Oy!

Agreed.  I also don't believe in rules for driving :-)

>>>>> Also struggle with the period being inside the quotes. And different parts
>>>>> of the world do that one in what I see as a more reasonable way than the
>>>>> American standard. I go back and forth. :)
>>>>
>>>> I use both because I can never remember which is correct.  I can't see any
>>>> logical reason why one is wrong.
>>>
>>> To me if the punctuation is not a part of the quote it should not be in the
>>> quote.
>>
>> So you would write:
>> ³No need for that², said Zack.
>> As Zack would actually be speaking a fullstop and not a comma.
>> I think that looks untidy and would write:
>> ³No need for that,² said Zack.
>> In fact I think I always punctuate inside the quotes.
>
> Good point. I meant at the end of a sentence.
>
>     Jack said, "No need for that."
>
> That is fine because the period is part of the quote, but:
>
>     There is more than one way to spell "laundromat".
>
> To me is better than having the period in the quotes.

Agreed.  But I don't think I'd notice if it was done the other way round.

>> That brings me onto another annoyance.  I detest people using an apostrophe
>> instead of a quotation mark:
>> 'No need for that,' said Zack.
>
> Ok, if you have a quote within a quote do you use a single or double on the
> internal quote?

Single, to differentiate.  But quotes should normally use a ", a ' is an apostrophe for a missing letter.

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 20:04 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 12:19 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ron C <r.capik@verizon.net> - 2017-05-02 15:51 -0400
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 21:07 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 13:59 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-02 21:14 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 14:07 -0700
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 01:07 +0100
          Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-02 18:54 -0700
            Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 15:38 +0100
              Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 10:02 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-05-03 16:22 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 13:40 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-05-03 17:01 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 14:25 -0700
        Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2017-05-03 07:01 +0000
          Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 10:46 +0100
            Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 10:09 -0700
              Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2017-05-03 22:06 +0000
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-03 23:16 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 15:21 -0700
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-04 00:19 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 436 / 2017-05-04 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-03 16:46 -0700
              Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-05-08 00:04 +0100
                Re: Snit digest 435 / 2017-05-03 Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-05-07 16:08 -0700

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