My mom thought, until I actually got my Airport(tm) home and set up, that it was for using my laptop at the airport. (Yes, I did try to explain.) I'm not sure why she was going along with dropping $350 to kill a couple of hours to and from university every semester....
Yeah, but if NYU weren't an accredited university, I don't suppose you and I would be here, now would we?
Point is, anyone can eschew their national country code and register.com and its brethren, but.gov is only for the US gov't and.edu is only for US accredited post-secondary institutions. It doesn't sit too well with those of us who like to think of the internet as transcending the nation-state and all that.
What do you mean, there isn't a missing letter in that word?
Forming a regular past tense in -ed results in the word "demoed", as you said. "Demo'd" is, accordingly, missing a letter, which is replaced by an apostrophe.
Sure, there was no real reason to do this, since it is not a standard contraction and it does not affect pronunciation (/. ain't poetry, anyway), but it follows a rule, after its own bewildering manner.
And what exactly do you mean about a decent information source? Do you not believe that Sony presented a demo of a new AIBO because Taco threw in an apostrophe for no good reason?
No one ought to "believe Slashdot", per se. You can read the links, and decide if you think they're credible or not if there's room for doubt, and God only knows you should be wary of what you read in the comments, be they in the story or attached to it. The credibility of the staff really seems to matters very little.
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My mom thought, until I actually got my Airport(tm) home and set up, that it was for using my laptop at the airport. (Yes, I did try to explain.) I'm not sure why she was going along with dropping $350 to kill a couple of hours to and from university every semester....
Meghan
twee, adj.: overly precious or nice.
Chiefly British. Etymology-wise, a shortening of "tweet", itself a baby-talk pronunciation of "sweet."
So, originating in lisping, but nothing really to do with trees, which would, as you say, make no sense.
Meghan
"private universities (like mine, NYU) use .edu also"
.com and its brethren, but .gov is only for the US gov't and .edu is only for US accredited post-secondary institutions. It doesn't sit too well with those of us who like to think of the internet as transcending the nation-state and all that.
Yeah, but if NYU weren't an accredited university, I don't suppose you and I would be here, now would we?
Point is, anyone can eschew their national country code and register
Meghan
Forming a regular past tense in -ed results in the word "demoed", as you said. "Demo'd" is, accordingly, missing a letter, which is replaced by an apostrophe.
Sure, there was no real reason to do this, since it is not a standard contraction and it does not affect pronunciation (/. ain't poetry, anyway), but it follows a rule, after its own bewildering manner.
And what exactly do you mean about a decent information source? Do you not believe that Sony presented a demo of a new AIBO because Taco threw in an apostrophe for no good reason?
No one ought to "believe Slashdot", per se. You can read the links, and decide if you think they're credible or not if there's room for doubt, and God only knows you should be wary of what you read in the comments, be they in the story or attached to it. The credibility of the staff really seems to matters very little.
Best,
Meghan