Re: When to use "affect" vs "effect" (lay vs lie, who vs whom, fewer vs less), etc.
From: Bonnie Stantini (bonniestantini_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/15/04
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Date: 14 Jul 2004 22:55:34 -0700
lindig@mindspring.com (Lin Digs Books) wrote in message news:<9042bbc1.0407140736.60a1c02c@posting.google.com>...
> Other punctuation marks follow the sense of the sentence, so colons
> and semi-colons go outside the quotes, but screamers (!) and question
> marks go inside if they belong to the quote and outside if they belong
> to the sentence the quote is in.
Screamers (!) I like that.
Nobody seems to call a note of exclamation an exclamation mark in my
field either.
Where I was educated, we rarely employed the (!) for punctuation
purposes; so, like you, we denominate the common (!) as a "bang". All
my colleagues would likely express the following series of standard
marks (_ - . !) as "dit dash dot bang."
I've also heard the bang called a "pling" as in "dit dash dot pling."
Inexplicably, these same co-workers often confuse the slash (/) with
the backslash (\). Why? I don't know. The carat (^) doesn't cause them
any stress; but the pound sign (#) goes by a different name every time
someone mentions it. I guess some professions have their markup
language all figured out while others don't. Mine is half-way there.
Luckily, the effect of the bang is not affected by the moniker we give
it.
Thank you for the education. I just love the learning we all gain from
each other on God's usenet!
Bonnie S.
My new favorite (since Carmin was so mean to me :)
What effect is affected?
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