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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Anyone heard of jaybee 51 or Joanne Black?
Just asking. Any information forwarded treated in confidence.
Well, Winston Peters had this to say about Joanne Black - Joanne Black should never have been allowed an asterisk key on her typewriter. Every week she goes crazy with her asterisk key in the Listener. She puts asterisk ellipses (* * *) all over the place. What's going on in her head? She's not even changing the subject, and she's typing asterisks. Now I appreciate that I may be over-reacting here. I can hear people saying: 'it's just an asterisk, it's not a death penalty offence.' Well, it's the slippery slope syndrome. If we let Joanne get away with asterisks, then the next thing will be apostrophes, and then exclamation marks, and so on. - So who knows whether she is related to the very nasty and vindictive poster jaybee from guilty.freeforums, but jmhb51 on trademe certainly posts lots of ............. everywhere!
I'm not that fond of asterisks myself, commas aren't my favourite either but Ian said don't use the word 'and,' put a comma instead. I have to admit I use 'ands' and 'up' sometimes which makes me feel like I am breaking a rule even when I don't mean to be. Another of my friends insisted that you walk along a path and not up it which I agree is correct. So I guess it pays to watch out for 'ands' asterisks and up.
Well, Winston Peters had this to say about Joanne Black -
ReplyDeleteJoanne Black should never have been allowed an asterisk key on her typewriter. Every week she goes crazy with her asterisk key in the Listener. She puts asterisk ellipses (* * *) all over the place. What's going on in her head? She's not even changing the subject, and she's typing asterisks. Now I appreciate that I may be over-reacting here. I can hear people saying: 'it's just an asterisk, it's not a death penalty offence.' Well, it's the slippery slope syndrome. If we let Joanne get away with asterisks, then the next thing will be apostrophes, and then exclamation marks, and so on.
- So who knows whether she is related to the very nasty and vindictive poster jaybee from guilty.freeforums, but jmhb51 on trademe certainly posts lots of ............. everywhere!
I'm not that fond of asterisks myself, commas aren't my favourite either but Ian said don't use the word 'and,' put a comma instead. I have to admit I use 'ands' and 'up' sometimes which makes me feel like I am breaking a rule even when I don't mean to be. Another of my friends insisted that you walk along a path and not up it which I agree is correct. So I guess it pays to watch out for 'ands' asterisks and up.
ReplyDeleteThere are at least four Joanne Black's on google in NZ.Kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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