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Why do you expect any kind of rational behavior from any of that lot?
Hasn't been any, so far. Why mess with a formula for success?
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This belongs in the Soapbox - see rule 4[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The original plan (hence three rings) was to try and keep it non-partisan. The idea of it being called a circus was well established world-wide (per the world-wide news I watch). So - I just extrapolated.
However,
Judging by the early returns (alas, pun intended) - I really should have know better.
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Earlier this week, it was pointed out that 'Rule 4' is a 'guideline' and hence can be ignored at will.
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By someone who wanted to justify ignoring the rules.
I don't think we believed him. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In the UK, it's the IPCC. Why do you ask? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I mistakenly though others would think as I did - not the political nature but the insane comic nature.
If I can give any meager excuse, it's that we all sometimes focus a bit to narrowly on a line of thought while forgetting that it's only in our own head that the associations are made.
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They all dropped support for each other - Cruz actually being the first to do so. Though it universally reported that 'Trump drops support'
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This should be in the Soapbox, not the Lounge.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Build 2016 live streaming...
Keynote Presentation - Channel 9[^]
Prepare the pop-corn...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
modified 30-Mar-16 9:33am.
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Fixed the title for you. 
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal[^]
EDIT: For the people who need more ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
I changed the title of my reply from then to than.
I did NOT change the title of Peter's original message.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thanks! 
(Not that I will remember it for the next time)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Not that I will remember it for the next time
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And I still think you need more ! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: And I still think you need more
Yup. I struck out my comment with an appropriate response.
Sigh. I will now go back to the django/ubuntu/python crap I'm working on, tail between my legs.
Marc
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incorrect omission or inclusion of apostrophes (or spaces) does not constitute a spelling mistake. Nor is it a grammatical error. High time that so-called grammar pedants learned that a lot (quite possibly the majority) of what they complain about isn't grammar at all!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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The Wikipedia page for 'pedant' has been edited more than 500 times.
Bloody grammar-pedant-pedants, spoiling all our fun...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
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9082365 wrote: incorrect omission or inclusion of apostrophes (or spaces) does not constitute a spelling mistake. Nor is it a grammatical error.
Atcherley, it does/is. Spaces and apostrophes were deemed characters long before computers existed, and hold the same level of importance as alphanumeric characters.
If you make that kind of mistake when writing professionally, you need your @rse kicking, because it inhibits the understanding of the reader.
9082365 wrote: Nor is it a grammatical error. High time that so-called grammar pedants learned that a lot (quite possibly the majority) of what they complain about isn't grammar at all!
Absolutely.
But the big mouths who cause problems are the ones who barely know what they're talking about.
I couldn't count the number of times I've laughed in the face of people I've forced to explain how 12 is not "less" than 20, in their world, or how "each" suddenly means "two" and "one" suddenly means "many", if placed before "other".
A little learning, and all that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Atcherley, it doesn't. It's an orthographic error, which is neither spelling nor grammar. No doubt at all that it's a serious failing but then I never said it wasn't. It just doesn't come under the heading that people (including you, it now appears) give it.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Orthography has got bugger all to do with linguistics; it's just a "how to" in writing things down.
Us linguists point and laugh at orthographic specialists.
Punctuation is enveloped by semantics, syntax, and even morphology, to a degree.
Calling it orthography is like saying that how the brain works is psychology (which is not a science) rather than biology, chemistry, and Physics (which are sciences).
Morphology Ha! (spits). The sociology of language use.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You're absolutely right. Orthography has nothing to do with linguistics. The apostrophe has nothing to do with linguistics either because it is purely an orthographical device completely incidental to language and totally unrelated to grammar, which serves the purpose only of disambiguation of writing in the absence of tonal and stressing clues provided in speech.
Nobody speaks apostrophes or any other punctuation come to that. A properly formed written sentence does not become magically ungrammatical because you leave the punctuation out. Indeed all the primary classical languages such as Latin and Greek were written for centuries with no punctuation at all and, in the case of Hebrew, without vowels to boot. Sanskrit survived without punctuation until the 17thC, Chinese, Korean and Japanese, until the 20thC. The introduction of punctuation to any of these did not represent any change or in these languages merely a shift in formal orthography. One could very well argue that the bulk of punctuation, even in English, remains entirely superfluous. The extreme abbreviation and lack of punctuation in modern textspeak, certainly does nothing to make the case for it. 'CU l8tr' is grammatically identical to 'See you later!' and every bit as comprehensible. It simply fails to meet the arbitrary demands of formal orthography.
Omission of an apostrophe is an orthographic error, wholly and solely. And no amount of self-important blustering from linguistics 'experts' can alter that!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You are aware that formal grammar is about the written word, not the spoken, aren't you?
I'm afraid you've climbed your way up onto the "little learning" pile.
You really should look at the pedigree of the people you attack, before you dive in.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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(edit) nothing to see here, move along..
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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