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Re: ligature “fi†

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jdaw1 wrote:If you want to be accurate (which I doubt you do) Broadbent uses the ligature “fi† rather than the typographically clunky “fi† in “five†, as, I’m sure you noted, did I.

You first correction did not quite catch this.
Actually, as did you, I did, but I don't know where that key is on my computer so had to compromise in the hope that it would escape your scrutiny.
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Derek T.: “Lovely Debs Task†

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A lesson learned. Abrieviations and apostrophies combined are very confusing to me. Why? Who knows, and, quite frankly, who cares?

I like learning. And this is learning.

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Re: non-obvious characters

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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1742#1742]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Who can describe the roles of ' " ‘ ’ “ † ′ ″ â€Å¡ â€Å¾ ? (Other than me.)
Does the long silence mean that even AHB has conceded?
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Re: non-obvious characters

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jdaw1 wrote:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1742#1742]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Who can describe the roles of ' " ‘ ’ “ † ′ ″ â€Å¡ â€Å¾ ? (Other than me.)
Does the long silence mean that even AHB has conceded?
It may do, but what they all mean is that someone said something. That something being contained within the appropriate ' " ‘ ’ “ † ′ ″ â€Å¡ or â€Å¾

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Re: non-obvious characters

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Derek T. wrote:what they all mean is that someone said something
Wrong. Not ′, nor ″.
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Derek T.: “in everyones interest†

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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=3730#3730]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:I pride myself on my ability to cut to the chase and make decisions that are in everyones interest, whether they realise it or agree with them or not.
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Re: non-obvious characters

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jdaw1 wrote:
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1742#1742]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:Who can describe the roles of ' " ‘ ’ “ † ′ ″ â€Å¡ â€Å¾ ? (Other than me.)
Does the long silence mean that even AHB has conceded?
The long silence actually means that AHB has been away working his socks off and has had hardly any time to drop by the forum. However, I was disappointed not to get a reaction to my observation that ’ is simply an italicised version of '. I thought that would have been sufficiently provocative to have generated some sort of response.

More seriously, I can (I believe) identify the use of 5 of the 10 and have every intention of Wiki-ing the rest when time permits.

But if you take pity on us and decide to save me the effort of rummaging through the morass that is Wikipedia, I would be very pleased.

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Re: Derek T.: “Chinese Girls Beer†

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jdaw1 wrote:
A beer made from Chinese girls? Or maybe a Chinese beer made from girls of indeterminate nationality. Whichever, please share the recipe.
This is not an Apostrophe Crime, it is a comma or even a semi-colon crime. Derek is just describing the perfect night out.
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Re: non-obvious characters

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AHB wrote:But if you take pity on us and decide to save me the effort of rummaging through the morass that is Wikipedia, I would be very pleased.
' ": single and double ‘plain’ quotation marks, correctly used only in computer code.

‘ ’: open and close single quotation marks. The right single quotation mark is also used for the possessive.

“ †: open and close double quotation marks.

′ ″: prime characters, as in 6′2″. These render with imperfect spacing in Firefox on a Mac, as reported in bug 241543.

â€Å¡ â€Å¾: German opening quotation marks, also Italian closing quotation marks.
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Derek T.’s extra apostrophe

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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=4353#4353]Here[/url] Derek T. wrote:I am extremely surprised at how little is sold in Brazil given it's historic links to Portugal.
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=4292#4292]Here[/url] uncle tom wrote:wine's biggest asset is it's superb bouquet, and lingering finish.
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AHB’s missing apostrophe

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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=4377#4377]Here[/url] AHB wrote:However, its worth opening one of them to find out.
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You're back - fantastic - the punctuation on this website is decending into chaos :lol:

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the m-dash (“—†)

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Derek T. wrote:You're back - fantastic - the punctuation on this website is decending into chaos
Presumably your non-use of the m-dash (“—†) was merely to test me. As was the absence of a terminating full stop.
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Sideways: squashing wasp's in August

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What quite amusing about this, is that Jdaw1 has people on tenterhooks about apostrophe's. So instead of missing them out, folk are now throwing them in everywhere. So now this Thread is littered with Julian correcting 'extra' apostrophe's.

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Conky’s extra apostrophe

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OK, since Conky is chipping in to the apostrophe thread, let’s see if I can find anything in his posts. Oh look… :arrow:
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[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=3034#3034]Here[/url] Conky wrote:I was actually thinking it had been a bit quiet for the last week or so, but thats a difficult arguement to expand,
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