'Bushwhacked'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I don't even want to know about the content of that spam.
So mail is slowly trickling in. Erratically. I get something from 45 minutes ago. Then something from 12 hours ago. Things sent seconds apart from the same person appear 4 hours apart. Not to mention my call software is getting nothing, while the mailing list it's on is still managing to distribute it to me. It's a little maddening.
Emergency grammar question!
In the phrase "dos and don'ts", can someone find me a cite for using or not using an apostrophe in the dos (do's)?
Thankee!
Um, it's not a contraction or posessive, so no apostrophe?
(Have no idea where to look for cites.)
eta: There seems to be a rule of thumb that says, "Put an apostrophe in if it looks weird without one." I think this rule is wrong.
ION, I get to go home early!
I am continuing to ignore the crazy bad news. So there.
In running all around town, I made some EXCELLENT trades: I left the house with two hardcover books, and came home with seven paperbacks. One hardcover went back to the library, where I got three paperbacks out, and the other went to the post office, where I had a box from Amazon waiting for me. Right on, mang.
Got it, thanks for trying! We got the answer we wanted, which is always nice.
Q. When using the plural of “ad,” i.e, “ad’s,” is it incorrect to use the apostrophe? The three-letter string “ads” just looks so wrong when typesetting it. Would appreciate your guidance.
A. “Ad” is just a regular word, and the plural “ads” is also regular, so there’s no need to mess with it. Plurals almost never take an apostrophe. Chicago style uses an apostrophe for the plural of lowercase single letters (x’s and o’s), but for little else (for instance, we write “dos and don’ts”). Of course, if you come across a plural that would be misunderstood without an apostrophe, you should use one: for instance, in A’s and B’s, the first term would be mistaken for “As” without an apostrophe, and the second term uses the apostrophe because it would look inconsistent to style them in different ways. Please see CMS 7.16 and 7.63–65 for more examples and exceptions.
Where did that cite come from, brenda? I think I want to bookmark it.
Should I apply for a job I think I'm probably underqualified for (both on paper and in real life), but which could be really cool, and pays a TON of money?
Should I apply for a job I think I'm probably underqualified for (both on paper and in real life), but which could be really cool, and pays a TON of money?
Yes! Right? Why not?
of course you should apply - what's the worst that can happen? nothing.
Should I apply for a job I think I'm probably underqualified for (both on paper and in real life), but which could be really cool, and pays a TON of money?
Pimp?
OK. OK. I think I'll wait until after my career advice brunch tomorrow.
Seriously, even thinking about applying for real jobs makes my hands sweat.