Re: Who will stun the world as next Einstein?

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:17:08 +0000 (UTC)

"Dirk Van de moortel" <dirkvandemoortel@ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com>
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> "Franz Heymann" <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> > "Dirk Van de moortel"
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> > wrote in message news:421f1b82$1@usenet01.boi.hp.com...
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> > > "Franz Heymann" <notfranz.heymann@btopenworld.com> wrote in
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> > news:cvke3t$79l$1@titan.btinternet.com...
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> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > Donkeys' years ago, when I had to do a series of programmes
for
> > > > the
> > > > BBC overseas servic, I was told by the producer that I was to
> > > > avoid
> > > > the use of commas entirely, and to place full-stops no further
> > > > that 10 words apart.
> > >
> > > Franz, this is only slightly related to your remark...
> > >
> > > I don't know about Afrikaans, but in Dutch we have some
> > > kind of rule that tells us where in a sentence we are not
> > > allowed to insert a comma. The rule is:
> > > "When you *can* replace the comma with a full-stop
> > > without making the sentence(s) grammatically incorrect,
> > > you *must* replace the comma with a full-stop in
> > > order to *make* the sentence(s) grammatically correct".
> > > Note that the rule does not tell when commas *must* be
> > > used.
> > >
> > > Examples:
> > >
> > > In this sentence, the commas are allowed, because
> > > if you replace them with full-stops, you end up with
> > > garbage like this:
> > > "In this sentence. The commas are allowed. Because
> > > if you replace them with full-stops. You end up with
> > > garbage like ..."
> > > So the commas were allowed.
> > >
> > > In this sentence, the second comma must be replaced
> > > with a full-stop, the reason is that we *can* replace it,
> > > and still have correct sentences like this:
> > > "In this sentence, the second comma must be replaced
> > > with a full-stop. The reason is that we *can* replace it,
> > > and still have correct sentences like..."
> > > So the second comma had to be replaced.
> > >
> > > It seems that the rule applies in English as well :-)
> > >
> > It does in Afrikaans too.
> > Have you ever heard the footballer David Beckman give an
> > interview for the telly?
> > He uses the novel punctuation style of replacing *every* full
> > stop either with an "and" or a "basically"
>
> Yes! LOL! :-))
>
> And remember this one?
>
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_q=basically&as_ugroup=sci.physics&&as_uauthors=spaceman
> 138 threads and stopped counting...

Yes. ROFLOL 

-- 
Franz
"The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
by an ugly fact."
T.H. Huxley