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Hi Jim (or should it be Hi, Jim or Hi,, Jim)?
It is, I am sure, OK to be a punctuation freak and it does sometimes
make a real difference as in "A woman; without her, man is nothing" and "A
woman without her man is nothing."
One of my pet peeves is the misplacement of 'only'; before instead of
after the verb, "I only ate one egg this morning"; implying that you didn't
do something additional with the egg. When "I ate only one egg..." is likely
intended.
Dave W
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
To: "naturens" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 6:11 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] re early ice out implications? -- excellent discussion,
but....
> Forgive me, everyone on this list, but I have held off on this for far too
> long. Some of you recall that I’m a punctuation freak with what I call
> common-sense ‘rules’ about writing. Most or all of you once were taught
> basic grammar, and one rule that nobody follows any more, except yours
> truly, is that when you address someone, you always set that name off with
> one or two commas. It’s a matter for writing clearly. Sorry to use Paul’s
> writing as the example, in my mind the point needed to be made. Let’s try
> to set examples for others, and why has this very sensible rule now being
> totally ignored? Cheers?? from Jim in Wolfville.
>
> On Feb 29, 2016, at 3:16 PM, rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
>
>> Ice cover may not be gone yet Nancy!
>> Lots of time to make ice yet
>> Enjoy the nice weather while it lasts.
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> > On February 29, 2016 at 2:27 PM NancyDowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I have never seen the ice completely gone from L Torment this early:
>> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/25013635569/in/dateposted-public/
>> >
>> > Last year it was not until the first week of May (the latest I ever
>> > saw- quite a flip-flop). What effect, if any, might the early loss of
>> > ice cover have on water chemistry, plants and animals?
>> >
>> > Nancy D
>> > E Dalhousie, Kings Co.
>
>
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