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William wrote:In practice, I always ask if there is not a facility to include all three initials to just use the first one, not the first two. Using just the first one looks fine, using just the first two always seems wrong to me, as if it is referring to somebody else, not referring to me.
That seems entirely reasonable. If their system can’t cope with “William J.G. Overington”, making do with “William Overington” has to be better than arbitrarily omitting either one of the two middle initials.
stuarthillier wrote:I have had a lot of help from members of the Community Plus forum over the years
so thank you Alfred for setting up this forum.
Welcome, Stuart. Thank you for joining us.
Mickey wrote:P.S.: Thank you Alfred for creating this Forum.
Welcome, Mickey. Thank you for joining us.
jackneve wrote:All together now!
Ba dum tss!!
jackneve wrote:There comes a point where trivia is trivia.
Trivia: The word ‘quoth’ always comes before the subject; e.g. ‘Quoth the raven’, not ‘The raven quoth’.
ericlnz wrote:Snow Leopards belong on the mountains in their natural environment not in a cage in UK.
I’ve just stumbled upon this lovely little clip.
ericlnz wrote:I don’t think I’d be too happy about a Snow Leopard jumping out at me!
There’s just one tiny problem, Eric: you omitted the all-important string of smilies when you quoted me.
William wrote:Rather poignant, the bit about the fenster.
Do you mean the following line? 
Jetzt sehen fremde Menschen aus den Fenstern
ericlnz wrote:Yes, but the Snow Leopard jumped out at me when I saw it.
I don’t think I’d be too happy about a Snow Leopard jumping out at me! 
No, you hadn’t built that up too much, Albert! When I saw that you had created a thread for sharing “Other people’s videos” I suspected that you might start with one of your friend Julie’s fine examples, and I wasn’t disappointed. Thanks for sharing.
Pioneer wrote:Forgot about the packs that go with the program and how to alter schemes.
It would perhaps be useful to have a ‘sticky’ thread here to address such questions so that the information remains readily available after CommunityPlus closes.
William wrote:What wording would you suggest such that the effect that you perceive is not present?
William
Something like this:
Round the corner in Cullum Street we find Bram Ellens’ Orphans. A ‘family’ made entirely of discarded paintings that the artist retrieved from thrift stores, bric a brac shops and undertakers so that he could give them a new life ‘containing the energy of the original artist and the attachment of the deceased owner’, paintings previously belonging to people now dead.
William wrote:But you have missed out the preposition "to" before the word "people" so you are treating the word "people" as in the nominative case, whereas the word "to" in the original text puts it in the dative case.
William
No, I’m not treating the word “people” as being in the nominative case, but even if I were the inclusion of the word “to” wouldn’t address the problem here. Saying “to people now dead that the artist retrieved …” doesn’t make it any better.
William wrote:So can we have an Art category please?
Not "the arts", just Art please.
As I asked a couple of weeks ago:
Alfred wrote:Is ‘Art & Literature’ too broad? I’m inclined to think so, but I’d like to hear what other members think.
Alfred wrote:Hmm … I don’t think “people now dead that the artist retrieved from thrift stores, bric a brac shops and undertakers” is quite what the writer meant to say! 
Her phrasing is particularly unfortunate, since she goes on to say “so that he could give them a new life”.
Walks on Hampstead Heath wrote:Round the corner in Cullum Street we find Bram Ellens’ Orphans. A ‘family’ made entirely of discarded paintings belonging to people now dead that the artist retrieved from thrift stores, bric a brac shops and undertakers so that he could give them a new life ‘containing the energy of the original artist and the attachment of the deceased owner.’
Hmm … I don’t think “people now dead that the artist retrieved from thrift stores, bric a brac shops and undertakers” is quite what the writer meant to say!
Albert Ross wrote:Talk about re-inventing the reel.
Steve wrote:My late mother's first cat Ruffit.
Now that’s what I call a cat with attitude!
Very surprising, and pretty impressive!!
jackneve wrote:BIG EDIT, sorry>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I've screwed it up again, senior moments and relying on useless short term memory (~1nSec)
I meant today's bizarro comic.
The Bizarro.com shows it as a "square", that is nearly square, perhaps, without going to it to measure it, ratio 4x5, wxh, and the kingdom site as a letterbox.
Ah, that would explain it! Thank you.
jackneve wrote:Have you compared the Sunday 6 Feb cartoon on the Bizarro site with that on the King Features site?
Portrait vs. letterbox.
But not Saturday - same aspect ratio.
Alfred wrote:No, I hadn’t compared them. An interesting observation, and I’m curious as to how/why that came about.
I’m officially confused now! I’ve found that cartoon in landscape format on both bizarro.com and comicskingdom.com. Where can I see it in portrait format?
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