Anti-Piracy issues

[PA Bear]

tiger wrote:

As an English teacher I...

The piracy rep who I spoke with ...

*My* English teachers would've raised holy h*** if I'd written that, Tiger,
and I prolly would've felt a ruler whacking my knuckles!

A longtime colleague of mine, an English professor, with whom I spoke agrees
with me. <eg>

 

[JAX]

What would your teachers have had to say about a word such as "prolly"?
"and I prolly would've felt a ruler whacking my knuckles!"

JAX
tiger wrote:

As an English teacher I...

The piracy rep who I spoke with ...

*My* English teachers would've raised holy h*** if I'd written that, Tiger, and I prolly would've felt a ruler whacking my knuckles!

A longtime colleague of mine, an English professor, with whom I spoke agrees with me. <eg>

 

[Kelly]

I hijacked that word/term from Chris Quirke via my Win98 days. )

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What would your teachers have had to say about a word such as "prolly"?
"and I prolly would've felt a ruler whacking my knuckles!"

JAX
tiger wrote:

As an English teacher I...

The piracy rep who I spoke with ...

*My* English teachers would've raised holy h*** if I'd written that,
Tiger, and I prolly would've felt a ruler whacking my knuckles!

A longtime colleague of mine, an English professor, with whom I spoke
agrees with me. <eg>

 

[JAX]

Hi Kelly,

It's a really neat word. If I had some idea what it meant, I would take to
using it. Unfortunately, it's not in my Funk & Wagnall's....Webster's
either.<grin>

I'll be there for dinner!, JAX

 

[Alex Nichol]

Your system builder could be right, as I just setup a Compaq notebook for a
friend and it came with a non-hologram XP CD. This would be essentially the
same as the CD your computer guy supplied to you.

That though would have been supplied as a supplementary matter:
HP/Compaq notebooks (unless it was a decidedly old one) come now with no
CD at all and the restore material on a hidden HD partition. And before
that it was an 'image restore' rather than a OEM 'regular' type CD. So
I think the vendor has provided a copy CD as a matter of good will - and
it seems to me a good practice

 

[Kelly]

Hi Jax,

Prolly=Probably

Great news - menu for Monday is fried soft shell crabs and white beans.
Note: Can only serve beans on non-baseball nights for the boys. )

 

[JAX]

Ok, I found "prolly" as an acronym for probably. I thought it was a
miss-spelling. I found no etymology for it and it isn't used in the bars I
frequent.

I suppose I owe PA Bear an "Oop's, I goofed."

JAX

 

[JAX]

Darn, I goofed again. I meant to say synonym, not acronym. Oh well, we
aren't here for an English or spelling lesson.

Sheepishly, JAX

 

[Kelly]

<LOL> Either that, or visit a multi-cultural bar? )

 

[Kelly]

Depends on which bar you are a patron in? )

1.The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by
determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and
meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying
its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where
possible.

2.The branch of linguistics that deals with etymologies.

 

[JAX]

Crabs and beans sound great, just tell the boys to not tuck their pants in
their socks on those nights.<grin>

JAX

 

[JAX]

I seldom recognize any culture at all in the bars I go to, except possibly
something growing in the corner.

Yuk, JAX

 

[Al]

That though would have been supplied as a supplementary matter:
HP/Compaq notebooks (unless it was a decidedly old one) come now with no
CD at all and the restore material on a hidden HD partition. And before
that it was an 'image restore' rather than a OEM 'regular' type CD. So
I think the vendor has provided a copy CD as a matter of good will - and
it seems to me a good practice

According to (purportedly self-stated) D. Currie, what the builder did is not legal, and he is not under the qualification to provide such media as a builder. Though he says he is a registered builder with MS, he will not provide any such criteria, or business name.

Agreed with the good practice though!

 

[tiger]

Just curious as this has nothing to do with all of my
posts, but what exactly are you referencing in your post?
Why would your English teachers have raised holy h***?

Please explain, Tiger

 

[PA Bear]

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."

 

[PA Bear]

Topic: Placement of the Preposition in a Prepositional Clause

"...who I spoke with"

vs

"...with whom I spoke"

Discuss.
~~~~~~~~~
Bonus: Discuss the public's current affection for the superlative "at" in,
e.g.,

"Where are you at?"

"Where's it at?"

 

[Ken Blake]

In

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."

;-) Dorothy Parker, and one of my all-time favorite lines.

 

[Tom]

"at" is not a superlative, it is a preposition. A superlative in grammar is a word expressing the highest degree of something, e.g. big, bigger, biggest (the latter being the superlative).

 

[Ken Blake]

In

"at" is not a superlative, it is a preposition. A superlative in
grammar is a word expressing the highest degree of something, e.g.
big, bigger, biggest (the latter being the superlative).

PA Bear clearly meant "superfluous," not "superlative." A typo,
brain fart, or perhaps even an erroneous spell checking
correction.

 

[tiger]

Thanks - I really don't need a grammar lesson, as I made
this mistake based on the fact that I had a 1 year old
baby crawling up my lap, and I had no time to re-read my
post. No excuse, I just made a careless mistake. You seem
to have some issues with grammar - I'm not sure why since
you used the word "prolly" and I don't even want to get
into a discussion about that! The only reason I mentioned
that I am an English teacher is due to the fact that I
have extensive reading and writing experience, and I've
had trouble making sense of Microsoft's website as it
contains inconsistencies, which means that most common
users who visit the site are going to be just as
overwhelmed, if not more so than I.

If I had criticized other replies for grammar (which
wouldn't be my place to do since this is a Windows XP
forum), I could see why you would feel it necessary to
criticize mine. Message boards demand quick responses for
the most part, and sometimes this means that one might
make a grammatical error or two - even us English teachers.

Tiger