I know that to mark possession of an item you can use 's like in the following example:
The user's password shall not be blank.
However, is it correct to use the following:
The car's antenna is embedded in the windshield.
I seem to remember that possession must only be used for people...
@tchrist, how do you enter typography? I use Birman’s layout (using right Alt key), but the SE chat does not allow me to put in left curly (Alt + K). Other stuff works.
Basically, if your Unicode code point had a distinct MacRoman representation, it is easy to use the shortcut, and I usually do. But for others, well, use the mouse.
This question is related to When someone asks how are you, are you supposed to answer, "Good," or "Fine," and ask back?. There, the answer by z7sg Ѫ claims it is sometimes appropriate not to reciprocate when asked "How are you?". I guess the following situation would fall under the category of "b...
Yes, you do put a space in front of three of them, but not in front of four of them. The open questions are whether to use three or four, and whether to put spaces not just fore or aft, but between them. The short answers to those two questions are respectively
that you use four without a l...
> Well, I would like to see a style guide about that. Ussing ellipsis in conjunction with exclamation point is preposterous in principle, as ellipsis implies waffling, where is exclamation is definitive.
U+2004 -- THREE-PER-EM SPACE
U+2005 -- FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
U+2006 -- SIX-PER-EM SPACE
U+2007 -- FIGURE SPACE
U+2008 -- PUNCTUATION SPACE
U+2009 -- THIN SPACE
U+200A -- HAIR SPACE
macbook# unichars -gs '\p{horiz_space}'
U+0009 -- GC=Cc SC=Common CHARACTER TABULATION
U+0020 -- GC=Zs SC=Common SPACE
U+00A0 -- GC=Zs SC=Common NO-BREAK SPACE
U+1680 -- GC=Zs SC=Ogham OGHAM SPACE MARK
U+180E -- GC=Zs SC=Mongolian MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR
U+2000 -- GC=Zs SC=Common EN QUAD
U+2001 -- GC=Zs SC=Common EM QUAD
U+2002 -- GC=Zs SC=Common EN SPACE
U+2003 -- GC=Zs SC=Common EM SPACE
U+2004 -- GC=Zs SC=Common THREE-PER-EM SPACE
Note that \p{horiz_space} can be abbreviated as simply \h in Perl regexes as of v5.10; its complement is of course \H for any code point not having that property. There is also \v for \p{vert_space} and its complement, \V.
There is also the variable-width abbreviation \R, which stands for \r\n|\v.
So that it gets the Microsoft linebreak grapheme cluster.
The word "mynstrual" has apparently gained currency in some circles despite the fact that it derives from the ancient word "menses" (moon, month). We shall have to rename the moon.
Darn it, the RAE has no etymology for palabrotas. I wonder why. They just says it is some Dicho ofensivo, indecente o grosero. So some saying that is offensive, indecent, or gross.
> Дубровский молчал… Вдруг он поднял голову, глаза его засверкали, он топнул ногою, оттолкнул секретаря…
(А. С. Пушкин «Дубровский»).
And the leading ellipsis, translated Carrol:
> Мышь не удостоила его ответом и торопливо продолжала: «…Нашёл это благоразумным и решил вместе с Эдгаром Зтелингом отправиться к Вильгельму и предложить ему корону»
The ellipsis . . . at least as as we know it . . . has been forever spoiled by the children of a lesser god . . . unlettered . . . text. . .speaking barbarians . . . who have replaced all possible punctuation marks with ellipses. . . . It is enough to make you puke. . . doncha agree. . . .
Although in the written English language there is no standard way to denote irony or sarcasm, several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among the oldest and frequently attested are the percontation point invented by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s, and the irony mark, used by Marcellin Jobard in an article dated June 11th, 1841 and commented in a 1842 report. It was furthered by French poet Alcanter de Brahm in the 19th century. Both of these marks were represented visually by a backwards question mark, ⸮ (in Unicode: ). Using LaTeX, one can display it by including the ...
⸮ 2E2E REVERSED QUESTION MARK
= punctus percontativus
x (question mark - 003F)
x (inverted question mark - 00BF)
x (arabic question mark - 061F)
‽ 203D INTERROBANG
x (exclamation mark - 0021)
x (question mark - 003F)
x (inverted interrobang - 2E18)
⸘ 2E18 INVERTED INTERROBANG
= gnaborretni
x (interrobang - 203D)
⁇ 2047 DOUBLE QUESTION MARK
# 003F 003F
⁈ 2048 QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK
The bug is that it has a fucked up font-substitution policy; to wit, none whatsoever.
Whereas Safari knows to sub in any font it can find that has a glyph for that code point defined. It is not restricted to monofont stupidity.
Just because we are using Verdana does not mean that software should give up if Verdana lacks a certain code point. That is just super-stupid, because no font has all possible code points.
Devanagari: This ४५६७ is 4567. Hebrew/Bidirectional blend: The Hebrew alphabet is אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי and written right to left. Cherokee: ᎣᎤᎦᎧᎨᎩᎪᎫᎬᎭᎮᎯᎰᎱᎲᎴᎵᎶᎸᎹᎺᎼᎽᎾᎿᏀᏁᏂᏃᏄᏅᏆᏇᏈᏉᏊᏋᏌᏍᏎᏏᏐᏑᏓᏔᏕᏖᏗᏘᏙᏛᏜᏝᏠᏡᏣᏤᏥᏧᏨᏩᏪᏫᏬᏭᏮᏯᏰᏱᏲᏳ
A friend of mine, seeing that parade of putative sex signs, remarked that he hoped he never got educated in all those “alternates”. :)
Oh, but the list I showed him had ringers in it, where I mixed in some alchemy signs. I’d forgotten that.
That list up there was just:
Sexuality: \N{NEUTER} \N{FEMALE SIGN} \N{MALE SIGN} \N{DOUBLED FEMALE SIGN} \N{DOUBLED MALE SIGN} \N{INTERLOCKED FEMALE AND MALE SIGN} \N{MALE AND FEMALE SIGN} \N{MALE WITH STROKE SIGN} \N{MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN} \N{VERTICAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN} \N{HORIZONTAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN}
U+1F631 ‹😱› \N{FACE SCREAMING IN FEAR} \pS \p{So} All Any Assigned Block=InEmoticons Common Zyyy Emoticons So S Gr_Base Grapheme_Base Graph GrBase General_Category=Other_Symbol Print Symbol X_POSIX_Graph X_POSIX_Print Age=6.0