get even more complicated and have the user identify an adverb or something
The vast majority of Internet noobs are barely able to cobble together a correct English sentence. How well do you expect that to work?
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That oughtn't rule out painless amputation, lobotomy, or castration.
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Same in Safari. Is this a Mac-only problem?
Argh. Please don't say "virii", even ironically. It encourages idiots.
While I agree that saying "virii" makes the OP look like a drooling stupid high-school nerd, mis-using "ironically" (when you probably mean "sarcastically") doesn't make you look so hot either.
Sorry, tend to "spell out" acronyms in my head, not "read them out", "FYI=F.Y.I., like F.B.I". Since F is phonetically starts with a vowel, it should have "an" before it, not "a". If I had written out "For Your Information" then you would certainly be correct.
Yes, if you had started your sentence with "For your information" (or even just "FYI"), it would have made sense. To say "as a for your information" is incoherent.
(My bone was not so much with the "'a' vs. 'an'" thing)
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As an FYI on
"As a for your information on"?
It was a fairly clever sketch, but the first gag for me was the perhaps unintentional joke that Americans don't know how to properly pronounce "Iraq".
That kind of parenting made information a heroine addicted stripper
It made Miss Information into a hero, and also an addicted stripper?
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Most of my friends who use macs (none of whom are technical, they're all in the design space) just gave up on trying to get their old software to work with the new version and bought all new software. Compare that with Microsoft where althought they're not officially supported, almost all DOS applications will still run. So if you bought some piece of software in 1988 for DOS 3.0 chances are pretty good that it will run on Vista.
That's great, but nobody in the design space is using 1988-era software on the Mac. In fact, nobody in any space, really.
That doesn't make things much better! If anyone got exploited there, it would be the kids exploited by an eager beaver prosecutor.
Great choice of words, under the circumstances.
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That's not ironic. It's a coincidence.
"Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser." -- Dave Thomas, "Strange Brew"
