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Abacan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:48 pm
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I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
whether it's means she is afraid of butterflies or she regards snakes and
spiders as butterflies?
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the Omrud
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:25 pm
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Abacan typed thus:
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I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
whether it's means she is afraid of butterflies or she regards snakes and
spiders as butterflies?
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It means she's not afraid of snakes or spiders; she is only afraid
of butterflies.
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David
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replace the first component of address
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Bill Bonde ( ``And the La
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:59 pm
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Abacan wrote:
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I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective modifying |
butterflies? |
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Freddy
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:44 am
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"Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies down on Broadway'' )"
<stderr2@backpacker.com> wrote in message
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Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective modifying
butterflies?
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No; it just denotes a pause. |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:59 am
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Freddy rakstija:
| Quote: | "Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
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For that you need a dash.
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/ |
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Bill Bonde ( ``And the La
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:23 am
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Skitt wrote:
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Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
Of course I was complaining about using a connected hyphen as if it were |
a dash. I still think that a comma there would've been less punctuation
with a fist to the teeth, but your opinion may differ.
--
The Republicans are going for the Dem jugular in 2008 with Pataki or
Giuliani for president, putting New York state in play, and Condi or
Colin for vice president, putting the black American vote into play. The
Dem response is to run Hillary. Hilarious. |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:33 am
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Bill Bonde rakstija:
| Quote: | Skitt wrote:
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
Of course I was complaining about using a connected hyphen as if it
were a dash.
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I understood that.
| Quote: | I still think that a comma there would've been less
punctuation with a fist to the teeth, but your opinion may differ.
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A comma would be fine. A dash would also be acceptable, at least to me.
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/ |
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Skitt
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:02 pm
Post subject: Re: what's the mean of "just butterflies" in this sentence |
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Abacan wrote:
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Read the first reply that was given you right after you asked the question.
I'll reprint it:
It means she's not afraid of snakes or spiders; she is only afraid
of butterflies.
--
David
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replace the first component of address
with the definite article.
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Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/ |
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Donna Richoux
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:02 pm
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Abacan <abacan@s.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Who can tell me the mean of this sentence:)
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The Omrud already did:
| Quote: | It means she's not afraid of snakes or spiders; she is only afraid
of butterflies.
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You can safely ignore all the rest of the chatter.
(By the way, that's "meaning" not "mean".)
[snip rest of chatter except for original question:]
| Quote: | I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
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Best wishes - Donna Richoux |
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Abacan
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:02 pm
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Who can tell me the mean of this sentence:)
"Abacan" <abacan@s.com> 写入消息新闻:cmtco4$jka$2@news.yaako.com...
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anyone tell me what's means of this sentence
"Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net> ??????:2vcrcrF2j32f7U1@uni-berlin.de...
Bill Bonde rakstija:
Skitt wrote:
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
Of course I was complaining about using a connected hyphen as if it
were a dash.
I understood that.
I still think that a comma there would've been less
punctuation with a fist to the teeth, but your opinion may differ.
A comma would be fine. A dash would also be acceptable, at least to me.
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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Abacan
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:02 pm
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stop!
anyone tell me what's means of this sentence
"Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net> ??????:2vcrcrF2j32f7U1@uni-berlin.de...
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Bill Bonde rakstija:
Skitt wrote:
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
Of course I was complaining about using a connected hyphen as if it
were a dash.
I understood that.
I still think that a comma there would've been less
punctuation with a fist to the teeth, but your opinion may differ.
A comma would be fine. A dash would also be acceptable, at least to me.
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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Bill Bonde ( ``And the La
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:03 pm
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Charles Riggs wrote:
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:33:13 -0800, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net
wrote:
Bill Bonde rakstija:
Skitt wrote:
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
Of course I was complaining about using a connected hyphen as if it
were a dash.
I understood that.
I still think that a comma there would've been less
punctuation with a fist to the teeth, but your opinion may differ.
A comma would be fine. A dash would also be acceptable, at least to me.
Acceptable, but my rule is never use an ugly dash when a pretty comma
will do. Dashes jerk, commas flow.
That's what I was calling punctuating with a fist to the teeth. The dash |
just sticks out, makes itself the centre of attention. That's also
clearly true with the semicolon. As I suggested elsewhere, what we
really need is a semicomma.
--
So I was feeding the hummingbirds but not changing the feeder sugar
water quickly enough and it fermented into something like that stuff
that Hunter S Thompson was drinking in the Rum Diary, anyway, so I had
these drunk birds flying everywhere just like mosquitoes in Minnesota,
dashing up one side of me, darting down the other, crashing into the
windows, falling off their perches, didn't even know they perched,
flying backwards, flying backwards, it was like something out of the
Exorcist. After a while though, I got bored with it all. Next Summer I'm
going to Alaska to feed french bread soaked in Wild Turkey to polar
bears. Wish me luck! |
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:04 pm
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:33:13 -0800, "Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net>
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Bill Bonde rakstija:
Skitt wrote:
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
Of course I was complaining about using a connected hyphen as if it
were a dash.
I understood that.
I still think that a comma there would've been less
punctuation with a fist to the teeth, but your opinion may differ.
A comma would be fine. A dash would also be acceptable, at least to me.
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Acceptable, but my rule is never use an ugly dash when a pretty comma
will do. Dashes jerk, commas flow.
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Charles Riggs
They are no accented letters in my email address |
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Bill Bonde ( ``And the La
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:04 am
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Abacan wrote:
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STOP TOP POSTING! What the hell does it take to get you idiot top |
posters to stop screwing up the requote?
| Quote: | i think it's a dash here, not a hyphen
"Skitt" <skitt99@comcast.net> ??????:2vcpe0F2itt1qU1@uni-berlin.de...
Freddy rakstija:
"Bill Bonde wrote:
Abacan wrote:
I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just butterflies.
Doesn't just one hyphen make it look like some weird adjective
modifying butterflies?
No; it just denotes a pause.
For that you need a dash.
--
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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So I was feeding the hummingbirds but not changing the feeder sugar
water quickly enough and it fermented into something like that stuff
that Hunter S Thompson was drinking in the Rum Diary, anyway, so I had
these drunk birds flying everywhere just like mosquitoes in Minnesota,
dashing up one side of me, darting down the other, crashing into the
windows, falling off their perches, didn't even know they perched,
flying backwards, flying backwards, it was like something out of the
Exorcist. After a while though, I got bored with it all. Next Summer I'm
going to Alaska to feed french bread soaked in Wild Turkey to polar
bears. Wish me luck! |
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Raymond S. Wise
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:06 am
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"Abacan" <abacan@s.com> wrote in message news:cmug7k$is$1@news.yaako.com...
Discussing the sentence "I'm not afraid of snakes or spiders-just
butterflies." Abacan wrote:
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i think it's a dash here, not a hyphen
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There are conventions about how to represent the dash when only a hyphen is
available. They date back to the time when typewriters had a hyphen but no
dash. Among other things, it was necessary for a writer to indicate to a
printer what symbol was intended.
The two which I recognize are the American convention, "word--word" (which I
learned in typing class) and the British convention, "word - word." These
are well established conventions. At least one person in this newsgroup
insists that one should write "word -- word," which seems a clear enough way
to do it. But to use just a hyphen, as in "word-word," is problematic,
because it might cause the reader to momentarily think he is looking at a
hyphenated word.
--
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com |
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