The confusion arises because plurals of letters and numbers do take apostrophes
Interesting point, but even then, it looks like most the most respected style guides prefer to avoid even this kind of usage.
The Gregg Reference Manual Capital letters and abbreviations ending with capital letters are pluralized by adding s alone.
The Chicago Manual of Style So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numerals) form the plural by adding s alone.
Pasted Japanese text comes out as a bunch of question marks, and clicking search actually searches for question marks (%3f).
Try setting your default Browser language to Japanese. If no luck, set your encoding to auto-select-> Auto-Japanese. Still not luck, download the Japanese version of the Google bar. http://google.co.jp
I am very impressed with PAA (Window only but..). It is a IM here in Japan that has a multitude of options including a variety of plugins that allow interoperability with other IMs and for mail notification with many major mail services. It lets you know who else is viewing the same site (ie. 4 users at slashdot.org) It supports double-byte and single-byte text. It has skins and on and on. I am very impressed with it so far.
There is an English version available as well.
For DL go to:
http://www.paa.ne.jp/download/
Direct DL of English version:
http://www.paa.ne.jp/messenger/download3.0/tryne t_ eng537a.exe
BTW, Jabber doesn't work on Japanese Win98. Well, it works, but when you try to communicate, it garbles your alphanumericals. (Other English IMs have no problem with this.)
Yeah, that is correct. The first field is for your name (and to the side it says your name will be made public). The next field is a pull down menu for prefectures in Japan (like States). It also will be made public (LOL). Choose the bottom one as it read "kaigai" which means "overseas (outside of Japan). The next field is for your city. Then, the next field is for your address. Then, a field for you email address. The comment field needs to be filled with a comment which will be made public as well. Something like, "If Linux for PS2 is made public I would like to use it to do..."
Then press the bottom left button. This is a confirmation button. (Bottom right button clears all the fields).
Then, when the confirmation page appears, press the bottom buttom (send) to send your addition to the petition.
T
Re:Should Be "Happy Last Odd Day in Your Lifetime"
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Oh, and since 1-1-3111 is really 01-01-3111, I guess the next real Odd day is 11-11-3111.
Should Be "Happy Last Odd Day in Your Lifetime"
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Okay, 19-11-1999 it is the last odd day in our lifetimes (assuming we all are going to die before 1-1-3111), but the title is misleading because today is hardly the only "Odd Day" this year.
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Yeah, it (/. Japan) is official. It started about a year and a half ago (May 28, 2001).
Perhaps you meant the interview on June 21 with Craig Silverstein, Google's director of technology, entitled, "What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie?"
"Welcome to Penguin Airlines. This is a non-stop swim to NY. In the event of an emergency, a snorkle will be released from above..."
The program that you want is available at http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/v ideo_tools/streambox_vcr.cfm
Interesting point, but even then, it looks like most the most respected style guides prefer to avoid even this kind of usage.
The Gregg Reference Manual
Capital letters and abbreviations ending with capital letters are pluralized by adding s alone.
The Chicago Manual of Style
So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numerals) form the plural by adding s alone.
also, for a good laugh check out http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
I would have to say that a good starting place for you would be The Greengrocer's Apostrophe
(CD's should be CDs)
Oh yeah, set Japanese as your language preference at Google.
Try setting your default Browser language to Japanese. If no luck, set your encoding to auto-select-> Auto-Japanese. Still not luck, download the Japanese version of the Google bar. http://google.co.jp
Oh, go to http://www.odigo.com/download/
I am very impressed with PAA (Window only but..). It is a IM here in Japan that has a multitude of options including a variety of plugins that allow interoperability with other IMs and for mail notification with many major mail services. It lets you know who else is viewing the same site (ie. 4 users at slashdot.org) It supports double-byte and single-byte text. It has skins and on and on. I am very impressed with it so far.
e t_ eng537a.exe
There is an English version available as well.
For DL go to:
http://www.paa.ne.jp/download/
Direct DL of English version:
http://www.paa.ne.jp/messenger/download3.0/tryn
BTW, Jabber doesn't work on Japanese Win98. Well, it works, but when you try to communicate, it garbles your alphanumericals. (Other English IMs have no problem with this.)
Yeah, that is correct. The first field is for your name (and to the side it says your name will be made public). The next field is a pull down menu for prefectures in Japan (like States). It also will be made public (LOL). Choose the bottom one as it read "kaigai" which means "overseas (outside of Japan). The next field is for your city. Then, the next field is for your address. Then, a field for you email address. The comment field needs to be filled with a comment which will be made public as well. Something like, "If Linux for PS2 is made public I would like to use it to do..."
Then press the bottom left button. This is a confirmation button. (Bottom right button clears all the fields).
Then, when the confirmation page appears, press the bottom buttom (send) to send your addition to the petition.
T
Oh, and since 1-1-3111 is really 01-01-3111, I guess the next real Odd day is 11-11-3111.
Okay, 19-11-1999 it is the last odd day in our lifetimes (assuming we all are going to die before 1-1-3111), but the title is misleading because today is hardly the only "Odd Day" this year.