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Re: Help with punctuation.
« Reply #30 on: 14 January 2018, 13:36:49 »

Thank goodness for that... I haven't remembered as much as I thought :D
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Re: Help with punctuation.
« Reply #31 on: 14 January 2018, 13:40:02 »

Just to be pedantic (again), the plural of curriculum vitae is curriculA vitae; the qualifier does not change.
Yes, I did Latin at school because it was then a requirement for university entry.



That's true when it's used as Latin. But modern thinking is that when you're using foreign terms as English, then English rules apply. So we have stadiums, singular data, blonde men, etc etc.
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Re: Help with punctuation.
« Reply #32 on: 14 January 2018, 13:40:53 »

And where does a grocer's apostrophe fit? .....  ::)


Anywhere you care to stick it, as long as it isn't written anywhere ::)
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Re: Help with punctuation.
« Reply #33 on: 14 January 2018, 14:48:13 »

I must be a dinosaur then, Nick, because I always use the correct terms, i.e. stadia, datum, blond to use your examples.
Maybe my Latin lessons weren't wasted?

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Re: Help with punctuation.
« Reply #34 on: 14 January 2018, 15:22:52 »

We will need a bloody degree to post on here soon.  ::)
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Re: Help with punctuation.
« Reply #35 on: 14 January 2018, 16:08:56 »

Nah, we are only showing off!
Not everything academic is worthwhile.
And I can't type!

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Re: Help with punctuation.
« Reply #36 on: 14 January 2018, 16:13:56 »

Yeah, had noticed Ron lad. ;D
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Re: Help with punctuation.
« Reply #37 on: 14 January 2018, 16:17:13 »

Hmph, I feel a flounce coming on.....
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