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TRiG
TRiG
12:08 AM
> Glossary: Bava Basra
Is there a double space after Talmud?
> Bigthan and Teresh
Make and be non-bold. Add glossary item Teresh - see Bigthan and Teresh.
> Elya Zuta
Missing dash.
(Actually, I'd be inclined to use colons instead of dashes in the glossary, but you seem to have settled on dashes and it's a bit late to change them at this stage.)
> Ezekiel
The dash here is bold; others aren't.
> Hagaos Maimonios
Has a full stop instead of a dash.
Also, there's a straight apostrophe in there.
> Eliyahu
Straight apostrophe in the definition.
> Hegau
Two apostrophes in the definition: one curled, one not.
> Jebusite
This is defined as a nation. Surely a Jebusite is a member of a nation?
> Joshua
> A book in the Jewish Bible, written by Joshua, the primary disciple of Moses, and his successor, who lead the Israelites in their conquest of the Promised Land of Canaan.
This had me wondering who Joshua's successor was.
I think that dropping the comma after Moses would be an improvement.
> Kavyachol
I think that the convention in American English is that commas always go inside quotation marks.
> King David
If he really needs to be in the glossary (does he?), wouldn't people look for him under D?
> Ksav Sofer
No dash.
> Mishlei
This dash looks longer than usual. Do you have an em-dash here instead of the usual en-dash?
> Mordechai
Straight apostrophe in definition.
> Purim
So a book on Purim needs a glossary entry on Purim, does it?
Anyway,
> Lit. "Lots."
With curled opening quotation marks and straight closing ones!
I would spell out the word Literally in full: you have the room to do so.
And I would make lots lower case.
> Literally, "lots."
^^ Full stop inside quotation marks, because you're Americans.
in The Upper Room, Sep 30 '13 at 22:20, by TRiG
Of course, you Americans would probably say it has too many holidays full stop. Well, no, you wouldn't. You'd say period. Weirdos.
> Rama
Should within be with?
Or alongside?
> Rashi
No dash.
> Shushan Purim
No dash.
> Tora T'mima
Long dash?
> Vashti
Straight apostrophe in description.
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And goodnight, my lovelies.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
12:36 AM
@TRiG works for me.
 
TRiG
TRiG
@MonicaCellio Cool.
Half past midnight, and I'm still in the office. (No home internet right now.)
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@TRiG (responding without checking the context) actually "in back", like "inside" (referring to something you've only seen a link to, the front page of, etc) isn't American; the only place I've heard that formation is here and in Yeshivish settings.
@TRiG ouch! I hope it's not a long trip home for you.
 
TRiG
TRiG
@MonicaCellio About a ten-minute walk.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@TRiG I would tend toward colons rather than dashes in the glossary too. If a search/replace can be bounded to a particular region/set of pages, maybe it can still be done?
 
TRiG
TRiG
@MonicaCellio Ah. Perhaps I was getting it mixed up with in back of. It works perfectly as a parallel to in front of, but is for some reason unknown on this side of the Atlantic. (We're perfectly happy with in front of, but would always say behind, never in back of.)
@MonicaCellio It wouldn't be that hard to edit them by hand, if you wanted to. The glossary isn't that long.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
12:42 AM
@TRiG for the record, despite my lineage I disapprove of punctuation inside quotes/parens unless it logically belongs there. This matters in technical writing when, say, referring to string literals.
@TRiG thanks for all your work on this! TZT!
 
TRiG
TRiG
@MonicaCellio On the other hand, by British rules, a full stop in the quoted material may be represented by a comma inside the quotation marks: it can mutate!
G'night. I'd best really go home now.
Work again tomorrow, and then Toastmasters tomorrow night.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@TRiG sleep well!
 
 
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Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
2:58 AM
in V'dibarta Bam, 34 mins ago, by Seth J
I cannot contribute (easily) to the book, but I have two very strong recommendations for Purim Torah submissions.
in V'dibarta Bam, 33 mins ago, by Seth J
The No Offense Loophole, and Ben Drusai's Yahrtzeit.
^^^ Unfortunate timing, but just making folks here aware.
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
3:36 AM
@MonicaCellio Thanks.
 
Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
@IsaacMoses I wish he'd mentioned this a week ago. I know he's been net- (or device-?) challenged lately, but yeah, it's kinda late for this year.
 
Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
@MonicaCellio yup (all of the above)
 
 
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Isaac Moses
Isaac Moses
3:05 PM
I didn't have time last night to complete the round of edits. I'm planning to finish it tonight, which should hopefully allow for going live then or tomorrow morning, if that's OK with everyone.
 
 
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TRiG
TRiG
6:08 PM
I have a vague memory of getting something about restrictive and non-restrictive commas horribly wrong.
@TRiG Ah, no. That's okay. I did get it right.
 
 
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Monica Cellio
Monica Cellio
7:25 PM
@IsaacMoses sounds good!
 

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