OT-Your getting nuked

The correct word is "You're" at the start of the subject line. Sorry, but it's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.

How do you feel about "ect."?

Jon

Jeez, everyone is an editor these days. d8-)

And don't forget if a G20 or what ever summit is held in your city, the police will use sonic devices that can permanently damage your hearing. Left right whatever, freedom is about dead in this country.

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

I wouldn't sat that at all, Wes. After all, the Muslim community is about to build their community center aren't they?

What i find particularley disturbing is the fact that a corporation is able to rome the streets of america and irradiate whatever it sees fit. Consider these devices in the hands of private security companies operated by minimum wage employees, lets get a better look so they crank up the out put or at a stop light irradiating the family in the car next to them for several minutes. These devices ammount to portable, reusable, mobile dirty bomb. Its a well known fact that corporations can be trusted to self regulate and do the right thing for thier profits.

Best Regards Tom.

The device itself ....is hardly bullet proof to anyone with a decent caliber and scope.

And its on the roof of a vehicle, like a big big target.

Gunner

I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)

Did the National Rifle Assoc. ever get to build their restaurant in NYC?

The NRA never submitted a plan, so it's pretty clear it was all a PR ploy. The City Council voted against it in concept but there was no specific proposal to vote *against*. Schumer was reduced to "urging" developers not to rent to the NRA. But apparently none were asked.

Still, you're quite right, many people who are defending the Cordoba House on principle probably are the same ones who objected to the NRA's megastore idea. And the NRA got what they wanted -- a political score against certain politicians. As the head of the local business association said, "I think it was a great rallying stunt for the troops."

Howard Stern said it would lend new meaning to the phrase "buying a round for the house."

The correct word is "proofreader".

A little research would have revealed this as another effort to encourage members to send in money to the NRA's Grand Poohba's. I'd think that you would grow tired of this sort of uninformed thing eventually Wes. The next time you want to say something, say that thing. Asking a silly question is the sort of thing Gunner would do, not an adult.

Anyway, the NRA isn't a religious group and Browning hasn't a church. Never did. Lot's of respect for his actual work however.

What's this about a job change?

I feel your pain. I'm the son of an editor, and you're in good company.

Ed Huntress wrote:to me.

No, some of us just paid a bit of attention when we went to school even though it was over 60 years ago. :-) ...lew...

Lew, editing is what I've done for a living for most of the past 40 years. There is hardly a paragraph written here than can't be blue-penciled, sometimes in several different ways, depending on which stylebook one is using.

And I really don't care. Getting on someone for grammar or punctuation in the loose, informal writing that goes on here is the height of pedantry, IMO. But it's Ok to do it for fun. d8-)

For example, Garrett's original complaint:

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The correct word is "You're" at the start of the subject line. Sorry, but it's like fingernails on a blackboard to me.

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If one is a pedant, he will find a grammatical error in one of those two sentences, which is reflected as an error of punctuation. Can you find it?

When Tom Del Rosso corrected my response (he obviously was doing it in fun), he made an error of punctuation. (This assumes he's in the US, and not in the UK, Canada, or Australia.) Can you find it?

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The correct word is "proofreader".

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Tom would be incorrect in another way, if he was writing intentionally in a British style.

As for you, your sentence is punctuated incorrectly. d8-). Can you find your own error?

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No, some of us just paid a bit of attention when we went to school even though it was over 60 years ago.

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Correction: Your sentence is Ok according to current stylebooks. It's the difference between a coordinating and a subordinating conjunction.

Well you are being fair and balanced. I don't much care for the Muslim center in the former Burlington Coat factory but, my Libertarian bent and my respect for the Constitution tells me I can't stop them from doing so past saying I don't really like it.

Now if some Rabbi wants to build a temple next door, I'll excercise some freedom of speach via my wallet. Same for a gay bar, a bbq place, or a Church. I can't stop the cleric but I'll help him understand tolerance or get his or his followers asses handed to them for acting up.

Wes

The NRA is a lot like government and bureaucracy. It looks after itself first and then those it is charged with protecting.

The NRA isn't showing up at the Gun Rights Policy Conference and is taking credit for the efforts of the Second Amendment Foundation.

I have a lot of respect of for JMB. NRA since the days of Neil Knox, not as much. Wayne LaPierre stuck me as a greedy lawyer, not a shooter. That is an old opinion that has not ever changed.

You know something I don't know? I'm still expecting to retire where I work or break down and buy my first lottery ticket in decades and win big. ;)

Wes

Is the correct word 'proofreader'?

Why would I do that?

I didn't really know where you were physically located, but I assumed the US by the ATT.net. I allowed that you could be a Brit on holiday.

American standard style, according to all major stylebooks, requires that the final quotation mark be placed *outside* of periods and commas. Thus, the period should be after the word "proofreader."

The same style is largely followed in Canada. British style is complex, based upon the American style for some journalism (but not _The Economist_) and fiction, but the so-called "logical" style for formal works. In that, the period goes outside of any complete quotation, but the strict version reverses the use of single (') and double (") quotation marks.

I once edited two publications for an international publisher, both medical journals, and one was published in the US while the other was published in the UK. I nearly lost my mind. d8-)

The American style is also called "typesetter's style." In fact, most of our punctuation rules are arbitrary, having been decided by various typesetters and becoming standardized by widespread adoption, more or less by accident.

There is no logical reason, for example, not to allow comma splices. In fact, the latest edition of the most authoritative stylebook in the US (the Chicago manual of style) has dropped its objection.

Some day it may all be logical. Or maybe not.