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Re: The shortest sentence with all letters

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:49:53 GMT

delete all punctuation

use 'and' instead of '&' (still one word)

use 'television' instead of 'tv' (still one word)

abbreviations are not allowed.

hint: look at the standard keyboard; use only the keys with a single alphabet letter

Trivia: as far as I know, the common sentence(s) with all the alphabet began as a typing exercise.

If one types: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

fifty times without looking at the keyboard

with no mistakes

then, do it again

voila! a typist!

[The next step is to learn the numbers 1 through 0 without looking at the keyboard]

another hint: the trick to typing is in placement of the fingers on the keyboard on the 'at rest' position.

A Little Help with Capitals

angel_tristan0409 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:07:10 GMT

A Little Help with Capitals

This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn't fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there.

Use capital letters in the following ways:

The first words of a sentence

When he tells a joke, he sometimes forgets the punch line.

The pronoun "I"

The last time I visited Atlanta was several years ago.

Proper nouns (the names of specific people, places, organizations, and sometimes things)

Worrill Fabrication Company

Golden Gate Bridge

Supreme Court

Livingston, Missouri

Atlantic Ocean

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Family relationships (when used as proper names)

I sent a thank-you note to Aunt Abigail, but not to my other aunts.

Here is a present I bought for Mother.

Did you buy a present for your mother?

The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books

God the Father

the Virgin Mary

the Bible

the Greek gods

Moses

Shiva

Buddha

Zeus

Exception: Do not capitalize the non-specific use of the word "god."

The word "polytheistic" means the worship of more than one god.

Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names

She worked as the assistant to Mayor Hanolovi.

I was able to interview Miriam Moss, mayor of Littonville.

Directions that are names (North, South, East, and West when used as sections of the country, but not as compass directions)

The Patels have moved to the Southwest.

Jim's house is two miles north of Otterbein.

The days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays (but not the seasons used generally)

Halloween

October

Friday

winter

spring

fall

Exception: Seasons are capitalized when used in a title.

The Fall 1999 semester

The names of countries, nationalities, and specific languages

Costa Rica

Spanish

French

English

The first word in a sentence that is a direct quote

Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

The major words in the titles of books, articles, and songs (but not short prepositions or the articles "the," "a," or "an," if they are not the first word of the title)

One of Jerry's favorite books is The Catcher in the Rye.

Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups

Green Bay Packers

African-Americans

Anti-Semitic

Democrats

Friends of the Wilderness

Chinese

Periods and events (but not century numbers)

Victorian Era

Great Depression

Constitutional Convention

sixteenth century

Trademarks

Pepsi

Honda

IBM

Microsoft Word

Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)

Freudian

NBC

pasteurize

french fries

italics

Correct punctuation with technical numbers and abbreviations

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:47:45 GMT

I have noticed for years many variations of punctuation when you combine numbers and capacity abbreviations. I read a lot of technical stuff and I do not and I can not find (searching the web) a reference to the correct usage.
Which is correct?

4GB RAM, no space between 4 and G
4 GB RAM, space between 4 and G
4-GB RAM, hyphen between 4 and G

Is there a hard and fast rule?

Now with MHz it seems to be consistent, there is always a space between the number and the MHz. Why?

Re: Decision making

phamthephong100 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:27:17 GMT

Hello ngngmaiphuong, I can not find and correct all the mistakes in your essay (maybe some of my corrections are not correct), however I hope this can help

The notion of making decision alone is untenable and the one that I definitely ~~don't~~ do not rely on. A good decision needs a broad knowledge ~~to make~~ to be made, while one person's ability is limited. In my opinion, a momentous decision, the one that could affect your life, deserves rigorous scrutiny of not just an individual but of many people.

The first and blatant advantage of not making decision alone is the more possibility that decision to succeed. This could be exemplified by my own experience. In Vietnam, students who attend to secondary schools need to decide whether science or art they will pursue. At first, I thought that science is tedious; my parents, however, realize the superior importance of science in contemporary society so they ~~help~~ helped me to change my perception. I finally ~~to choose~~ chose science as my major, and after a long process of study, I now could say that I will never regret because of that decision. I am, in fact, proud of it. Without ~~others~~' my parents' help ~~to make~~ in making decision, I might choose the wrong way.

After a lot of decision making processes in life, no need to say, a lot of people could feel the burden while trying to decide something. Just the idea ~~that~~ of wrong decisions would ruin the one's future can make anyone of us hesitate to decide anything, and the veritable failure really comes, that fault will linger over one's mind forever. With others' help, everything will be different. The more people help us to decide, the fewer burdens we have.

Many important opportunities need expeditious decision. How long does it take for an individual to make a decision? Of course ~~it's~~ it is longer than the time of some people's work. (What do you mean?)
If ~~one~~ a person wants to be successful in this competitive world, he or she (may) need(s) others' help to make not only a fast decision but also a good one. More people would accelerate the decision making process. I ~~don't~~ do not mean that individual's work is ineffective, but it's less expeditious in a prodigious number of cases.

The fact that we have been building this world together is a striking evident for the effectiveness of many people's work. With others' help, the decision making process become not only effective but also faster (as well).

Is this an academic essay? If yes:
You should avoid personal pronoun as much as possible and NO abbreviation and NO opinion. And I can "smell" some kind of Vietnamese English here ( Am i right? -I wonder), it means you translate some word from Vietnamese into English, the result is some of your sentences are not very natural.
Did you use a dictionary? I can see a wide variety of vocabulary here,he he he.

Re: Abbreviation of "number"

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:07:52 GMT

I used abreviation "No" multiple times in a reference book I am working on. Something like this;

Bob Thompson said in Time Magazine No 218; "blah flippin blah!"

Should all of it be in italics?

Re: Abbreviation of "number"

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:17:27 GMT

In SMM7 (Standard method of measurement, for construction) the word 'number' is abbreviated by 'nr', I personall use 'nr', but I haven't seen it used anywhere else.

Re: Abbreviation of "number"

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:41:05 GMT

When you use Nr. or nr, you're probably living in The Netherlands or Belgium, because there they abreviate number (nummer) with nr ;)

Grtz. Bas from The Netherlands

Re: Abbreviation of "number"

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:08:18 GMT

You gave the best response.

Paul Darst

Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Re: Abbreviation of "number"

Clive — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:02:41 GMT

Hi,

My advice is that you should not abbreviate the word 'number' in any sentence that is not very informal writing. Just abbreviate it in relatively short phrases, eg report headings.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Abbreviation of "number"

Delmobile — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:03:28 GMT

I agree that "no" as an abbreviation, whether capitalized and full-stopped or not, is liable to be confusing in all but the very clearest contexts. I would use the endearingly-named "hash mark" if at all possible, especially before another word (# of messages).

I don't know what you're writing, but if it's a chart of some kind, sometimes it's possible to substitute another number word, like "total messages" or "monthly messages" for a phrase like "number of messages." When the column is filled by numbers, of course, it's plain to everyone what you mean.