English Like?

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Fri May 26 06:42:19 EDT 2017


I do not profess to be a professor of English, Mike.  I must say though, I
have never felt felt that felt as soft as the felt at Mr. Felt's felt
factory.

On May 25, 2017 9:41 PM, "Mike Kerner via use-livecode" <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!  NO!
> I understand that inside the Colonies, the punctuation goes inside the
> quotation marks, and outside the Colonies, the punctuation goes outside the
> quotation marks.  Just because this thread is being read and replied to
> from both inside and outside the Colonies does not give you the right to
> put the punctuation in both places.  You, Sir, are guilty of the worst
> foible of all.  You may not have it both ways.
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Roger Eller via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > Were would you use "box" as a synonym (if it were one)?  Is it the same
> as
> > "rectangle" or "ask/answer".  End users often tell me, "a box popped up
> on
> > my screen.", not a prompt, or a message.  Next, they proceed to tell me
> > what it said.
> >
> > ME: "You're telling me, there was a _talking box_ on your screen?".
> >
> > ~Roger
> >
> > On May 24, 2017 5:49 PM, "Mark Wieder via use-livecode" <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 05/24/2017 05:43 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
> >
> > > One of the other things that the xtalk languages have that makes them
> > more
> > > appealing is synonyms
> > >
> >
> > <cough>
> >
> > --
> >  Mark Wieder
> >  ahsoftware at gmail.com
> >
> >
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