Search for: "notes-improvementsToEnglish"

View changes for these pages

BayleShanks
= Bayle Shanks's website = Welcome to my website. My email address is http://bayleshanks.com/gmail_email_small.jpg . . .
7K - last updated 2020-01-10 10:26 UTC by BayleShanks

notes
* [Self:notes-dontPanic dontPanic] * [Self:notes-henryMillersElevenCommandments henryMillersElevenCommandments] . . .
9K - last updated 2023-12-11 05:08 UTC by BayleShanks

notes--index
* [Self:notes-dontPanic dontPanic] * [Self:notes-henryMillersElevenCommandments henryMillersElevenCommandments] . . .
9K - last updated 2023-12-11 05:08 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish
* [Self:notes-improvementsToEnglish-spivak spivak] * [Self:notes-improvementsToEnglish-implicitQuoting . . .
2K - last updated 2020-05-21 11:50 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish--index
* [Self:notes-improvementsToEnglish-spivak spivak] * [Self:notes-improvementsToEnglish-implicitQuoting . . .
2K - last updated 2020-05-21 11:50 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-dontCapitalizeFirstLettersOfParagraph
i think that people should not have to capitalize the first letters of paragraphs. Capitalizing the first . . .
1K - last updated 2014-06-28 01:31 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-dontCapitalizeImpersonalProperNames
don't capitalize things like 'america', 'the english language' . . .
1K - last updated 2015-05-20 21:37 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-implicitQuoting
typically i believe one should be careful to give credit by explicitly quoting and attributing when a . . .
5K - last updated 2015-02-16 01:10 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-impreciseQuoting
for the most part i believe that one should quote exactly, however there are some exceptions, mostly . . .
3K - last updated 2015-02-16 01:10 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-lowerCaseI
i think that the rule that the pronoun I should always be capitalized should be removed. This rule requires . . .
1K - last updated 2014-06-28 01:31 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-nonstandard
there are a few minor changes that i think should, and can easily, be made to the English language. See . . .
1K - last updated 2014-06-28 01:31 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-omitCommasNextToQuotations
standard english requires commas next to the quotation marks surrounding quotations, for example: "Why . . .
1K - last updated 2015-05-20 21:37 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-omitTrailingPeriods
omit the period from the end of the last sentence in a paragraph. For example, there is no period at . . .
1K - last updated 2015-02-16 01:10 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-propositionsAtBeginningOfSentences
i think that propositions should be permitted to begin sentences. I can't think of a reason to exclude . . .
1K - last updated 2015-02-16 01:10 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-removeApostrophesWhenUnambiguous
for example, "thats nice", "dont go over there" in most cases, "it's" vs "its" is not ambiguous (if it . . .
1K - last updated 2015-02-16 01:10 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-removePeriodsFromCommonAbbreviations
Write common abbreviations such as 'e.g.' and 'i.e.' and as 'eg' and 'ie'. This is already standard in . . .
1K - last updated 2015-02-13 09:54 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-spivak
i like a modified version of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun Spivak pronouns] in English: . . .
1K - last updated 2015-12-11 12:50 UTC by BayleShanks

notes-improvementsToEnglish-txtAbbrevs
feel free to use some "SMS abbreviations" (even though these have fallen out of fashion in actual SMS . . .
1K - last updated 2015-02-16 01:10 UTC by BayleShanks

18 pages found.