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Glenn E. wrote: 20:48 Mon 05 Jun 2017 On Android using the Google Keyboard, switch to number input (hit the ?123 button) then hold down the hyphen to see other options.

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Any tips for iOS? :D

Edit: Ah. Same thing works on iOS! Many thanks!
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flash_uk wrote: 23:01 Mon 05 Jun 2017
Glenn E. wrote: 20:48 Mon 05 Jun 2017 On Android using the Google Keyboard, switch to number input (hit the ?123 button) then hold down the hyphen to see other options.

:)
Any tips for iOS? :D
Get a new phone?
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Andy Velebil wrote: 21:11 Wed 14 Jun 2017 The "hills" by my house are over 4,000' (~ 13,000 meters).
Math is hard. ;-)
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Glenn E. wrote:
Andy Velebil wrote: 21:11 Wed 14 Jun 2017 The "hills" by my house are over 4,000' (~ 13,000 meters).
Math is hard. ;-)
Hahha. One too many zeros on that. Damn phone. 1,300 meters. That better?

And the peaks behind that are higher. Though I think Eric in Colorado has us all beat at over 10,000 foot peaks there. Though I have skied at about 13,000 feet in Telluride Colorado and breathing during exertion gets a bit tougher at that elevation


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Mt. Rainier is 14,411. :-P

I've skied at 12,000' in Colorado (Crested Butte). Yeah, the last couple thousand feet make a big difference. Most of the resort is between 9000' and 10,500', but if you go up top and take a couple of those black runs you'll be gasping for breath in no time.
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Glenn E. wrote: 05:05 Thu 15 Jun 2017 Mt. Rainier is 14,411. :-P

I've skied at 12,000' in Colorado (Crested Butte). Yeah, the last couple thousand feet make a big difference. Most of the resort is between 9000' and 10,500', but if you go up top and take a couple of those black runs you'll be gasping for breath in no time.
That's nothing; when I was a lad our parents would make my brother and I go t'top of Mount Everest before breakfast, with no Oxygen, or ice axes - or shoes; have a boxing match on the summit and t'loser had to carry t'winner back down while singing God save the Queen, and if we didn't do it quick enough they made us dig our own graves, bury ourselves, and then they would dance on our graves singing Hallelujah. TPF members of today think they have it tough, pah!
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PhilW wrote: 08:34 Thu 15 Jun 2017
Glenn E. wrote: 05:05 Thu 15 Jun 2017 Mt. Rainier is 14,411. :-P

I've skied at 12,000' in Colorado (Crested Butte). Yeah, the last couple thousand feet make a big difference. Most of the resort is between 9000' and 10,500', but if you go up top and take a couple of those black runs you'll be gasping for breath in no time.
That's nothing; when I was a lad our parents would make my brother and I go t'top of Mount Everest before breakfast, with no Oxygen, or ice axes - or shoes; have a boxing match on the summit and t'loser had to carry t'winner back down while singing God save the Queen, and if we didn't do it quick enough they made us dig our own graves, bury ourselves, and then they would dance on our graves singing Hallelujah. TPF members of today think they have it tough, pah!
Brilliant!!
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Hahahah!


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Glenn E. wrote: 05:05 Thu 15 Jun 2017skied at 12,000' in Colorado
Phil’s reprimand was good, and, generously, he even left an error for others to spot. In a thread entitled ‘Apostrophe crimes’ everybody will have noticed Glenn’s incorrect use of a straight single quote (“'”, U+0027) rather than the prime symbol (“”, U+2032). Tut tut.
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jdaw1 wrote: 20:31 Thu 31 Aug 2017Thank you
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I suspect many others are thinking exactly what I'm thinking after seeing this.
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Remarkable attention to detail: I have a Casio digital watch exactly like that one.
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idj123 wrote: 18:12 Sun 18 Feb 2018 Yes please! Does OBV count as an 'awful shipper's?
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flash_uk wrote: 20:12 Sun 18 Feb 2018
idj123 wrote: 18:12 Sun 18 Feb 2018Yes please! Does OBV count as an 'awful shipper's?
Flash is being hard. In the first post of that thread the theme had included the requirement “no awful shippers”. It could be that Ian was trying to quote, to copy the pluralisation of the original, whilst recognising that the new grammatical context required a singular. It was done clumsily, but I would not have rebuked this — indeed, didn’t.

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This was typographical rather than grammatical with the second quotation mark inadvertently being inserted before the 's' rather than after and thus becoming an unintentional apostrophe.
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I think it would be better to claim that autocorrect inserted the s at the end, as the presence of “an” means shipper must be singular.
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flash_uk wrote: 17:25 Sun 11 Mar 2018I think it would be better to claim that autocorrect inserted the s at the end, as the presence of “an” means shipper must be singular.
jdaw1 wrote: 15:56 Sat 10 Mar 2018In the first post of that thread the theme had included the requirement “no awful shippers”. It could be that Ian was trying to quote, to copy the pluralisation of the original
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jdaw1 wrote: 23:06 Sun 11 Mar 2018
flash_uk wrote: 17:25 Sun 11 Mar 2018I think it would be better to claim that autocorrect inserted the s at the end, as the presence of “an” means shipper must be singular.
jdaw1 wrote: 15:56 Sat 10 Mar 2018In the first post of that thread the theme had included the requirement “no awful shippers”. It could be that Ian was trying to quote, to copy the pluralisation of the original
Yes "no awful shippers" in the first post, but if one then discusses a single bottle, the question would be is it "an awful shipper". Can't have "an awful shippers".
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He wanted to quote my original.

Yes, I agree, the sentence could have tortured a bit (“would OBV breach “no awful shippers”?”), but I sufficiently sympathetic to the mixed pluralisation from the quotation.
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It is very unlikely that this is correct:

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I think this is debateable. I would have said " readers' " but each of the many true stories would have come from a single individual reader. If that was the case, would the use have been acceptable?
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AHB wrote: 12:59 Tue 03 Apr 2018I think this is debateable. I would have said " readers' " but each of the many true stories would have come from a single individual reader. If that was the case, would the use have been acceptable?
Unless a single reader supplied all the stories, it’s wrong. Compare: the boys’ oranges: each boy allocated on orange, still, multiple boys.

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jdaw1 wrote: 22:50 Sat 31 Mar 2018It is very unlikely that this is correct
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