I issue a call to punctuate. Forget the untrussed panda and her ilk, let's all revive the interpunct and the boustrophedon.

Repeat after me: No·more·spaces!

Wonderful, but what's an untrussed panda

I have a friend whose 5 year old nephew wrote her a birthday card in boustrophedon. It's nice to see they're learning young.

what's an untrussed panda

This.

have a friend whose 5 year old nephew wrote her a birthday card in boustrophedon.

For the young will lead the old. Oh, yeah, verily.

I see the panda is not tied up but--forgive me--being an ancient fart on the brink of senility, I don't comprehend the pun

I did write untrussed, so the panda wouldn't be tied up. No matter. There was a popular book on punctuation called Eats, Shoots & Leaves, (which has a panda on its cover in reference to a joke to which the title alludes), that was written by Lynne Truss.

Dale, there have been some posts here lately debating the prescriptivism and the humor in Lynn Truss's book, entitled, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, though I can't seem to find that thread right now. Anyway, that was what zmj was referring to.

Aha

Trying to figure out how turn my space bar into an interpunct bar.
(?jmz ,enod si ti woh em llet uoy dluoC)

It's.probably.under.symbols.but.i.can't.find.it.

Gentle readers, you can get an interpunct by doing one of the following: (1) use the interpunct XML entity: the term middot delimited on the left with an ampersand "&" and on the right with a semi-colon ";"), (2) under Windows, use the Alt-0183 sequence on the numberpad, (3) under Windows, open up the char map utility, choose Lucida San Unicode, group by Unicode Subrange, choose General Punctuation, and find the middle dot in the third row towards the center, and (4) simply cut out the interpuncts I used and reuse them pastingly. Good·luck.

In·the·Mac·OS·X·Character·Palette,·it's·under·Punctuation·and·it's·called·"middle·dot."

Ok, zmj, I give up. Why did you title this thread jy bingo?

I was wondering about that, as well...

Why did you title this thread jy bingo?

It's a repurposed spoonerism for by jingo, and by jingo I mean my Uncle Jingo who was a pompous old windbag until he passed away just short of his 80th birthday back in August. It also happens to be Hindi for carpe diem which is Latin for "fish fodder".

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Why did you title this thread jy bingo?

Ah, that clears things up. darpe ciem to you too.

quote:

Originally posted by zmjezhd:
Hindi for carpe diem

I'll have to disagree with you there, because I happen to know that carpe diem is दिन पकड़ो din pakṛo, or more logically, दिन·पकड़ो.

You're right about everything else, though.

methinks·the·interpunct·is·too·much·trouble!

quote:

I'll have to disagree with you there, because I happen to know that carpe diem is दिन पकड़ो din pakṛo, or more logically, दिन·पकड़ो.

This is one of those times where I have no idea if I am supposed to take Gooofy seriously or not. I will choose not to.

zmj, I think the title of this thread wins the award for best named thread in 2007 (that is, if Gooofy's post was a joke).

I'm pretty sure that दिन पकड़ो is Hindi and jy bingo is not - but other than that, I'm just being silly.

zmj will prove me wrong, now - bingo does end in the imperative o...

zmj will prove me wrong, now - bingo does end in the imperative o...

I don't know maybe jy bingo is Sanskrit: जै बिन्गो. But seriously, it is not in Hindi or any other Indo-Aryan tongue. While I was scrambling for an explanation, it just looked like it had endured sandhi and that ending in -o reminded me of familiar imperatives from my one semester of Hindi. Also the c with which carpe began reminded me of carbī चर्बी 'grease, fat'. For what it's worth, gooofy's din does mean 'day'.

And pakṛo does mean "seize".

I didn't mean to cause such confusion. I'll reboot my humour OS over Christmas...

quote:

Originally posted by gooofy:
I'll reboot my humour OS over Christmas...

"Humour Os?" You have a funny mouth?

A funny bone.

I can't find my Latin dictionary right now, but I think "os" is "mouth, whreas "ossa" is "bone." Is this a bone of contention?

os, ossis is bone and ōs, ōris is mouth.

So we're both right yay!

Good! Nice of you to look it up! Nice pun, BTW!

Oh Mighty Isis - this thread almost went over my head! You've got me laughing for real, though, so thanks. Umm - what was the question?

Umm - what was the question?

There wasn't a question. Just a call to interpunctuate.