Author Topic: Quotes from work (Read 180862 times)

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1025 on:** August 10, 2011, 02:35:31 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on August 10, 2011, 01:58:01 PM

Quote from: BlackBlade on August 10, 2011, 01:24:09 PM
Would have been better if he perhaps contrasted the difficulty (if any) in procuring food and water, whereas today in many cultures we take it for granted that those things are available?

I don't think so. It's totally irrelevant to the article.

Your mom is irrelevant to the article.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1026 on:** August 10, 2011, 03:06:30 PM »

And for that very reason, she is not mentioned in it even once.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1027 on:** August 10, 2011, 03:24:06 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on August 10, 2011, 03:06:30 PM

And for that very reason, she is not mentioned in it even once.

It's OK, go ahead and edit her into the acknowledgements section. Perhaps even the dedication page.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1028 on:** August 11, 2011, 09:20:44 AM »

My husband dedicated his dissertation to me.

Brinestone · « **Reply #1029 on:** August 11, 2011, 12:42:55 PM »

What was it on?

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1030 on:** August 11, 2011, 01:18:00 PM »

"Where the hell is my ord.....oh hey UPS just pulled in BAI!"

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BlackBlade · « **Reply #1031 on:** August 11, 2011, 04:36:07 PM »

"Approximately one week ago I received an order of X. I did not realize that it would also be Unflavored. Actually a more accurate description would be Distasteful."

My customers are so funny sometimes. Also I'm not sure why they capitalized 'unflavored' and 'unsweetened'.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1032 on:** August 12, 2011, 02:31:27 AM »

Quote from: Brinestone on August 11, 2011, 12:42:55 PM

What was it on?

Some combinatorics thing that I never could quite understand. He lost me by the second paragraph.

The Genuine · « **Reply #1033 on:** August 12, 2011, 07:57:31 AM »

How many paragraphs long was it?

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1034 on:** August 12, 2011, 08:54:10 AM »

Lots!

pooka · « **Reply #1035 on:** August 15, 2011, 05:37:24 AM »

Quote from: Brinestone on August 11, 2011, 12:42:55 PM

What was it on?

Paper. :runs and hides:

rivka · « **Reply #1036 on:** August 31, 2011, 10:28:37 PM »

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Just like the Jones’, [omitted] has to keep up.

ack!!!

Jonathon · « **Reply #1037 on:** August 31, 2011, 10:47:49 PM »

At least it wasn't "Jone's", which I have seen before.

rivka · « **Reply #1038 on:** August 31, 2011, 11:22:36 PM »

As have I.

This was in an attachment sent out by a government agency to about 20,000 financial aid folk regarding an upcoming conference.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1039 on:** August 31, 2011, 11:30:27 PM »

*facepalm*

rivka · « **Reply #1040 on:** September 01, 2011, 12:48:18 AM »

Exactly.

Now, if only there were some way to use the fact that I noticed that to help bolster the application I am in the process of completing for a job with said organization -- which does involve editing as part of the job description.

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #1041 on:** September 01, 2011, 10:43:34 AM »

I have a last name that ends in s. I have spent my life battling people who want to pluralize it with an apostrophe.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1042 on:** September 01, 2011, 11:02:40 AM »

Whereas I have spent my life battling people who want to pluralize my last name with ses.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1043 on:** September 01, 2011, 11:36:12 AM »

I've spent my life not trying to battle people who change my first name into the more common variation Tyler. I figure if God and even Jesus deal with having all those variations on their names, I shouldn't fight a fight they're not willing to wage.

dkw · « **Reply #1044 on:** September 05, 2011, 10:41:58 AM »

Switching out a "t" for an "s" in the word intertextuality is a particularly unfortunate typo.

rivka · « **Reply #1045 on:** September 05, 2011, 11:18:34 AM »

*snerk*

dkw · « **Reply #1046 on:** September 07, 2011, 09:23:13 AM »

It was not my typo, for the record.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1047 on:** September 30, 2011, 09:34:45 AM »

I'm editing a chapter on the Civil War that feels in places like it's a very rough draft. Some of it borders on incomprehensible.

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The nomination for president of former general George McClellan, who hoped to arrange a “negotiated peace” with the recalcitrant Southerners, would ended the bloodletting concept of putting “ole Abe” out to pasture.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1048 on:** September 30, 2011, 09:54:21 AM »

Brrr, I don't like George McClellan. But I hate that sentence even more!

pooka · « **Reply #1049 on:** September 30, 2011, 10:58:03 PM »

I got as far as "would ended" and then they totally lost me.