(sob)—could anyone who’s awake drop over to The Captain and Lime and tell her if you’re also seeing Greek?
Now someone is saying Jane’s headers are displaying in Greek…
by CJ | Sep 2, 2010 | Journal | 18 comments
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All seems normal to me when I checked a couple of minutes ago
Looks fine to me.
Everything looks fine to me.
Looks fine now. It looked fine at ~8:00 pm last night also.
Still OK.
It all looks fine to me. Maybe that person had special software plugins for their browser that change languages or auto-translate?
Looks good.
Happened yesterday, don’t recall what time I dropped by, looked very fancy but confusing. Today it’s all boring English again, but I can see that instead of being intriguing separations between sections they are actually informative headers. (I’m not the one who sent the notification, so there were at least 2 of us.)
Except for the blurriness of the 3 images for each letter, it looks like regular Roman letters to me. They even seem to be in a coherent order that forms them into regular English words. (The blurriness is in my eyesight, not the page.)
I think she’s got it. She found what she thought was a pretty and legible font for the new theme, but it seems to have had Undocumented Features. Y’know when you get so tired you can’t see straight, you think you’ve done it all, and then the letter comes through that tells you it’s displaying Greek—ya just sit there and shake your head.
But a theme shift has fixed the balky ‘comment’ button, a whack with the hammer has fixed the ‘displaying in Greek’ problem, and I think it’s now running. 😉 Thank all of you!
You’re sure she wasn’t hinting at a trip to the agora to pick up wine, cheese, olive oil, and flatbread?
An advertisement for those distracting and attractive statues?
A help wanted ad to crew the Argo on a cruise around the Med?
An attempt by Kadmus to reinvent the alphabet?
The chimera’s been in the keys again?
At least it didn’t display as Somhulva. (Old H. Beam Piper reference, IIRC.)
(Quick show of hands — how many other people can’t even see the name Argo without having They Might Be Giants’s “Birdhouse in Your Soul” going through their heads?)
(And how many other people can never decide whether to do the s’ or the s’s? Since we’re discussing grammar conventions on the other posts…)
I maintain no s’sessssss…th…th…thssssses.
@mrgawe, ‘we do not impersonate snakes’ is the rule I’d deduced (or: hissing is impolite), so if the word in front ends on an -s, you only add the apostrophe and not the second s.
Also, that ‘s denotes ownership of the following item (Thingummy’s item means the item belonging to Thingummy, even if Thingummy stands for a plural word like Giants), whereas Thingummys without the apostrophe denotes plural Ts.
But multiple of things ending in -s or -x gets lengthened to -ses or -xes (e.g. 3 foxes),
and now I’ve confused myself with my own example, as I’d probably write ‘the fox’s den’ instead of ‘the fox’ den’ and so rule 1 doesn’t seem to apply equally to all s-sounds, while the last rule does.
Then, through the other grammar-explaining post, I read about Shakespeare breaking the rule that ‘s is only used for people, and now I wonder if I’ve deduced things incorrectly, or if that rule has been totally abolished.
So yes please to more such clear explanations!
Also, Jane’s blog looks fine, very easy to read (contrast, colours, letters).
For years, I’ve left off that final s after the apostrophe, but it seems like lately I keep seeing the s’s. I was wondering if maybe it’s the latest thing, and everyone decided on it without telling me. After all, for years I left off that final comma in a list (from previous grammar discussions), and then about five years ago realized that it meant those final two items could be taken as a single unit. Now I put that final comma in. I second-guess myself a lot more these days.
“hissing is impolite” 🙂
No, it’s the stupid Chicago Manual of Style. And probably a spellchecker or two.
I have a rule about the s’s thing: if I say the extra s I put it in; if I don’t say it, I don’t. It’s all about me. 😉 Of course my editors say I’m inconsistent. I’m perfectly consistent. With me.
No, Shakespeare broke it for good and all: you can legally do it. But often it goes back to the old way. 😉
And Jane thanks you, Hanneke!
Singular noun not ending in S –> Add -‘s; Sherman’s Planet.
Plural noun ending in S –> Add -‘; Those pirates’ treasure. (All the pirates on that ship.) That pirate’s treasure. (Just the captain’s, the greedy sea dog.)
Singular noun ending in S, Z, or X –> Add -‘; That’s Isis’ collar.
Plural nouns not ending in S –> Add -‘s; men’s, women’s, children’s, oxen’s, brethren’s; these are rare.
If the noun ends in -ce or -se or -ge or -ch, and the E is silent or not, make the possessive singular by adding -‘s and make the possessive plural by adding -es’ –> one prince’s, two princes’, one rose’s, two roses’, one judge’s, two judges’, one branch’s, two branches’.
BUT pronouns except “one” never use apostrophes: my/mine, thy/thine, his, her/hers, its, our/ours, your/yours, their/theirs; “It’s” is always a contraction of it is. “Its” means of, from, or by it. But: Remember one’s manners.– Nonns use apostrophes for possessives. Pronouns do not. Contractions use apostrophes. Present tense singular verbs do not.
If people could only remember those rules, they’d get rid of a large number of the errors I see daily.