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G#Gill;1474092 wrote: I did say that I would not post on this thread again, but I must have lied !

I also have to say that what I said in my 'threatening email' post was not true. I apologise for any upset I may have brought to anybody.


Very strange Gill.

High Threshold;1474093 wrote: Never mind. My best friends are ALL liars. :wah:
Now, you know that's not true.

FourPart;1474095 wrote: Now, you know that's not true.


I am flattered. I had no idea at all!

I am confused..........it's happening a lot lately.

Bruv;1474112 wrote: I am confused..........it's happening a lot lately.


Aren't we all. Note that's a statement, not a question.

Bruv;1474112 wrote: I am confused..........it's happening a lot lately.


....................... I had no idea he considered me a friend.

High Threshold;1474147 wrote: ....................... I had no idea he considered me a friend.


Oh he does......

Bruv;1474163 wrote: Oh he does......
Or perhaps that should be fiend.

FourPart;1474200 wrote: Or perhaps that should be fiend.


:yh_brokeh

AnneBoleyn;1474125 wrote: Aren't we all. Note that's a statement, not a question.


There's a punctuation mark in English to denote a rhetorical question which does not want an answer. It's "Aren't we all⸮".

spot;1474761 wrote: There's a punctuation mark in English to denote a rhetorical question which does not want an answer. It's "Aren't we all⸮".


I've never seen that before. Good idea. This backwards question mark is on all keyboards in U.K.? When we write it is so easy to miscommunicate. This is a big help.

AnneBoleyn;1474762 wrote: This backwards question mark is on all keyboards in U.K.?
There is on my keyboard, but I suspect I put it there myself.

Is my leg being pulled? As long as it's not my finger.

I don't know about anyone else, but to me that looks nothing like a reversed question mark - more like some sort of grid - like 2 x "2E"s, with the '2' being the digital type, made of 5 straight lines (thus 4 characters). Is it meant to be like the Spanish style "¿"?

FourPart;1474773 wrote: I don't know about anyone else, but to me that looks nothing like a reversed question mark - more like some sort of grid - like 2 x "2E"s, with the '2' being the digital type, made of 5 straight lines (thus 4 characters). Is it meant to be like the Spanish style "¿?


I often use the Spanish query to delimit part of a sentence who's content I'm not certain is correct (as in "it was in ¿June? of 1985" when it could have been May or July) but I've never come across ⸮ - could be a useful convention.

Bryn Mawr;1474786 wrote: ⸮ - could be a useful convention.


Oh please, don't encourage him.

Reed Red and such like.....now this ?

Bruv;1474787 wrote: Oh please, don't encourage him.

Reed Red and such like.....now this ?


I think we should encourage spot in this endeavor. Might keep him out of trouble!

FourPart;1474773 wrote: I don't know about anyone else, but to me that looks nothing like a reversed question mark - more like some sort of grid - like 2 x "2E"s, with the '2' being the digital type, made of 5 straight lines (thus 4 characters). Is it meant to be like the Spanish style "¿"?


My Browser setting for View / Character Encoding is Unicode. The site's default encoding ought to be UTF8 which is Unicode. Perhaps you have your browser set to override webpage preference to something other than Unicode, so the two eight-bit components are being displayed to you as four hexadecimal digits in that grid.

Bruv;1474787 wrote: Oh please, don't encourage him.

Reed Red and such like.....now this ?


I've taken to leed/led as well recently.

spot;1474794 wrote: I've taken to leed/led as well recently.


You have "Taken to" ?

Perhaps you can give us the etymology on that phrase.

Is it as in 'Taken to the cleaners'?

spot;1474793 wrote: My Browser setting for View / Character Encoding is Unicode. The site's default encoding ought to be UTF8 which is Unicode. Perhaps you have your browser set to override webpage preference to something other than Unicode, so the two eight-bit components are being displayed to you as four hexadecimal digits in that grid.
Mine's Unicode as well (Firefox).

Bruv;1474796 wrote: You have "Taken to" ?

Perhaps you can give us the etymology on that phrase.

Is it as in 'Taken to the cleaners'?


I think that means he likes it

AnneBoleyn;1474799 wrote: I think that means he likes it


Ssshhhuush......I know what he thinks he means......but I can go with the flow......he is the one that pulls the almighty BBC up for their grammar and stuff....not me.

And.....I am flexing my word skills, how often does the chance come to throw etymology into a conversation...... not a lot where I come from anyway.

etymology

Yes, Bruv, when I saw that I was quite impressed!

Bryn Mawr;1474786 wrote: ..... I've never come across ⸮ - could be a useful convention.


Could it be the arabic form of "?" .... I mean, right to left and all of that. :yh_whistl

This is an enlarged screenshot of the character, as I see it.

FourPart;1474813 wrote: This is an enlarged screenshot of the character, as I see it.





That settles it! It's sublime, Nazi propaganda.

Or it could be Tramtarian, poetic literature: "Two E or not two E!"

Bruv;1474796 wrote: You have "Taken to" ?

Perhaps you can give us the etymology on that phrase.

Is it as in 'Taken to the cleaners'?
"Taken" comes into English through the Viking word for "touch": "The earliest known use of this verb in the Germanic languages was app. to express the physical action ‘to put the hand on’, ‘to touch’—the only known sense of Gothic têkan."

There were two competing words in medieval times which meant "take", the other was "nim". The OED quotes Walter de la Mare still using it in the thirties: "Twenty went to Botany Bay; ten of them on crutches, And the last of them nimmed the clouts that lay a-bleaching on the bushes!".

The OED entry for "taken to" is surprisingly extensive. However...5. To devote or apply oneself to; to adopt or take up as a practice, business, habit, or something habitual.

[...]

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pilgrims of Rhine vi, He has since taken to drinking.

1843 Fraser's Mag. 28 203 She..took to wearing caps.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. ii. 199 In Madrid..the men have taken to..Parisian paletos.

1887 H. R. Tedder in Dict. National Biogr. IX. 330/2 With advancing years Caulfield took to drink.

Susie Dent would be proud of you.