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Harmony"s posts have confused me. Is this an in-joke?
Quote from: Claw75 on August 12, 2009, 20:19:29 PMHarmony"s posts have confused me. Is this an in-joke?Wasn"t just me then
I see your point, Duke, but it is not quite so simple as that..."Pedantry" is the act of obsessively insisting on the correct usage of something... you can BE pedentary about something.
Quote from: AMRN on August 12, 2009, 17:02:11 PMThis thread contains a question that is actually pretty important - hope the fanatical attenion to grammar doesn"t make the thread unreadable and therefore lose the original question.1. Is Multi Tabling allowed? and if so, will the two tourneys be run in the same vicinity (bit of a pain if people are running from one end of DTD to the other, and will upset all those playing in-between)2. If not allowed, will thought be given to pushing back the start of the HORSE tourney for an hour to allow the usual flurry of early exits from day 2 of the Main Event to sort themselves out?3. With respect to any sale, given that there are so many people hoping to pick up available HORSE tickets, will there be a structured sale with a waiting list, rather than a "best mates first" or "buy you a pint" appoach - both of which go against APAT ethos?I have no worry about point 3 as I have tickets for both tourneys.... however I do hope that points 1 and 2 will be relevant for me.1) Yes, multitabling will be allowed and we will encourage the tournaments to be played in the same area of the cardroom for live update purposes, but that is under the responsibility of Dusk Till Dawn and is not something the players will be able to influence.3) APAT has no control over how players may want to sell seats that they have purchased. As long as the seats are sold to a member at face value, we could not expect to influence who they are sold to. If a player cancels directly with APAT on Sunday morning, then we will of course ensure the seats are sold to the first player on the reserve list.
This thread contains a question that is actually pretty important - hope the fanatical attenion to grammar doesn"t make the thread unreadable and therefore lose the original question.1. Is Multi Tabling allowed? and if so, will the two tourneys be run in the same vicinity (bit of a pain if people are running from one end of DTD to the other, and will upset all those playing in-between)2. If not allowed, will thought be given to pushing back the start of the HORSE tourney for an hour to allow the usual flurry of early exits from day 2 of the Main Event to sort themselves out?3. With respect to any sale, given that there are so many people hoping to pick up available HORSE tickets, will there be a structured sale with a waiting list, rather than a "best mates first" or "buy you a pint" appoach - both of which go against APAT ethos?I have no worry about point 3 as I have tickets for both tourneys.... however I do hope that points 1 and 2 will be relevant for me.
Quote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 20:43:51 PMI see your point, Duke, but it is not quite so simple as that..."Pedantry" is the act of obsessively insisting on the correct usage of something... you can BE pedentary about something.Well I"ve never heard of its use in that manner, and I am quite a pedant. Even if you are right, which I doubt, the use of pedantic in the sentence you queried would still be correct.
Quote from: APAT on August 12, 2009, 19:07:11 PMQuote from: AMRN on August 12, 2009, 17:02:11 PMThis thread contains a question that is actually pretty important - hope the fanatical attenion to grammar doesn"t make the thread unreadable and therefore lose the original question.1. Is Multi Tabling allowed? and if so, will the two tourneys be run in the same vicinity (bit of a pain if people are running from one end of DTD to the other, and will upset all those playing in-between)2. If not allowed, will thought be given to pushing back the start of the HORSE tourney for an hour to allow the usual flurry of early exits from day 2 of the Main Event to sort themselves out?3. With respect to any sale, given that there are so many people hoping to pick up available HORSE tickets, will there be a structured sale with a waiting list, rather than a "best mates first" or "buy you a pint" appoach - both of which go against APAT ethos?I have no worry about point 3 as I have tickets for both tourneys.... however I do hope that points 1 and 2 will be relevant for me.1) Yes, multitabling will be allowed and we will encourage the tournaments to be played in the same area of the cardroom for live update purposes, but that is under the responsibility of Dusk Till Dawn and is not something the players will be able to influence.3) APAT has no control over how players may want to sell seats that they have purchased. As long as the seats are sold to a member at face value, we could not expect to influence who they are sold to. If a player cancels directly with APAT on Sunday morning, then we will of course ensure the seats are sold to the first player on the reserve list.We are trying to deal with some important matters of grammar here and you keep popping in with your poker-related items. Could you please find a more appropriate thread to discuss your issues?
Harmony, suggest Thesauri at dawn to "MinTrav" to settle this matter of honour.
Quote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 20:57:17 PMQuote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 20:43:51 PMI see your point, Duke, but it is not quite so simple as that..."Pedantry" is the act of obsessively insisting on the correct usage of something... you can BE pedentary about something.Well I"ve never heard of its use in that manner, and I am quite a pedant. Even if you are right, which I doubt, the use of pedantic in the sentence you queried would still be correct.Fair enough. Your view and I respect that. But I am not wrong - so do not doubt me. You can also use the word "pedantry" in that same sentence.
Quote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 18:53:56 PMQuote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 17:38:08 PMQuote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 16:35:39 PMQuote from: Bainn on August 12, 2009, 16:19:23 PMSigh.An "Apostrophe", not a "Comma".You see, standards ARE slipping.It is an apostrophe, not a comma, but both are incorrect. PA"s is possessive, as in my PA"s typing error.PAs is simply a plural. If you wish to be pedantic (and who doesn"t?), you could argue for abbreviation points after the P and the A, but the more informal PA is in common usage and reads better.Quote from: Claw75 on August 12, 2009, 16:18:08 PMworst grammar-correcting post ever (is my hyphen ok there?)YesIsn"t the correct word to use here "pedantry"?Em..........no!Do you really mean "Em" -"An em is a unit of measurement in the field of typography, equal to the point size of the current font."Or did you mean "Erm" ? ?
Quote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 17:38:08 PMQuote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 16:35:39 PMQuote from: Bainn on August 12, 2009, 16:19:23 PMSigh.An "Apostrophe", not a "Comma".You see, standards ARE slipping.It is an apostrophe, not a comma, but both are incorrect. PA"s is possessive, as in my PA"s typing error.PAs is simply a plural. If you wish to be pedantic (and who doesn"t?), you could argue for abbreviation points after the P and the A, but the more informal PA is in common usage and reads better.Quote from: Claw75 on August 12, 2009, 16:18:08 PMworst grammar-correcting post ever (is my hyphen ok there?)YesIsn"t the correct word to use here "pedantry"?Em..........no!
Quote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 16:35:39 PMQuote from: Bainn on August 12, 2009, 16:19:23 PMSigh.An "Apostrophe", not a "Comma".You see, standards ARE slipping.It is an apostrophe, not a comma, but both are incorrect. PA"s is possessive, as in my PA"s typing error.PAs is simply a plural. If you wish to be pedantic (and who doesn"t?), you could argue for abbreviation points after the P and the A, but the more informal PA is in common usage and reads better.Quote from: Claw75 on August 12, 2009, 16:18:08 PMworst grammar-correcting post ever (is my hyphen ok there?)YesIsn"t the correct word to use here "pedantry"?
Quote from: Bainn on August 12, 2009, 16:19:23 PMSigh.An "Apostrophe", not a "Comma".You see, standards ARE slipping.It is an apostrophe, not a comma, but both are incorrect. PA"s is possessive, as in my PA"s typing error.PAs is simply a plural. If you wish to be pedantic (and who doesn"t?), you could argue for abbreviation points after the P and the A, but the more informal PA is in common usage and reads better.Quote from: Claw75 on August 12, 2009, 16:18:08 PMworst grammar-correcting post ever (is my hyphen ok there?)Yes
Sigh.An "Apostrophe", not a "Comma".You see, standards ARE slipping.
worst grammar-correcting post ever (is my hyphen ok there?)
Quote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 21:00:58 PMQuote from: MintTrav on August 12, 2009, 20:57:17 PMQuote from: Harmony26 on August 12, 2009, 20:43:51 PMI see your point, Duke, but it is not quite so simple as that..."Pedantry" is the act of obsessively insisting on the correct usage of something... you can BE pedentary about something.Well I"ve never heard of its use in that manner, and I am quite a pedant. Even if you are right, which I doubt, the use of pedantic in the sentence you queried would still be correct.Fair enough. Your view and I respect that. But I am not wrong - so do not doubt me. You can also use the word "pedantry" in that same sentence.Not with the words "to be" in front of it though, and you didn"t highlight those. Damn I feel like a pedant now!
