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  EDline Vol. 8, no. 23   (27 February 2003)

  Editorial mailing list (digest version)
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  Contents:

         Q & A
  [2xo]  'Mark-up' vs 'markup'
  [2xp]  Grammatically correct
            [Offshoot of [2xm] Apostrophe crisis]

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** [2xo] 'Mark-up' vs 'markup'

         Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003
         From: Ian Kingston, i.kingston@ntlworld.com

Steve Rickaby wrote:

> ...lots of interesting tuff, with which I agree, although if
> your theory is true in its entirety there must be a lot of
> ex-software developers working as sign-writers ;-)

Or more likely lots of marketing staff in software houses who
decided that their output would look more 'computery' (and hence
more appealing to the target market) if they started copying what
the programmers did. Of course, the programmers had no choice:
the syntax of programming languages demands that there are no
spaces in keywords and variable names.


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** [2xp] Grammatically correct
            [Offshoot of [2xm] Apostrophe crisis]

         Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003
         From: Tracey Dooley, Tracey.Dooley@lycos.co.uk

Iain Brown wrote:

> "Less hardness. Less chlorine. Fewer impurities."

'Fewer' applies to things that can be counted, and 'less' to
quantities and abstractions: less opportunity; less beer and
fewer chocolates.


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         Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003
         From: Sarah Barrett, westowe@dircon.co.uk

I've just been to an admissions day at an English university,
where I noted the following:

in the welcome speech to the aspiring scholars,

1) 'how this impacts on your course depends on circumstances' -
well, I held my peace on that one. I don't like this use of
'impact' (wht's wrong with 'affects'?), but I've read it in the
broadsheets and heard it on Radio 4, so I reckon it's here to
stay. Also, I'm rather taken with the maxim 'Ain't no noun can't
be verbed'.

2) notice in one of the university buildings: 'Stationary store'.
Still I held my peace, because I'm not even at the university
yet. But when I am ...

Other examples, please!


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         Date: Thurs, 27 Feb 2003
         From: Esther Shchory, eshchory@nonstop.net.il

> 'Stationary store'

As opposed to a mobile one, I assume :0)


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