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I'm having a hard time picturing 5" of rain, never mind 50".
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by
static
8/27/17 9:10:58 PM
8/27/17 9:10:58 PM
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I'm having a hard time picturing 5" of rain, never mind 50".
Corpus Christi looks like it's getting hammered.
- (
mmoffitt
)
- (20)
- Aug. 25, 2017, 03:44:19 PM EDT
Fingers crossed that it's not as horrible as it might be...
- (
Another Scott
)
- (17)
- Aug. 25, 2017, 07:36:01 PM EDT
What's wrong with "They're talking about 3 feet of rain"?
-NT
- (
CRConrad
)
- (16)
- Aug. 27, 2017, 07:44:57 AM EDT
Phrasing...
- (
Another Scott
)
- (15)
- Aug. 27, 2017, 01:11:43 PM EDT
Hard to comprehend
- (
drook
)
- (1)
- Aug. 27, 2017, 05:04:27 PM EDT
I'm having a hard time picturing 5" of rain, never mind 50".
-NT
- (
static
)
- Aug. 27, 2017, 09:10:58 PM EDT
No, I meant: What's that freaking hyphen doing there?
-NT
- (
CRConrad
)
- (12)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 04:11:26 AM EDT
It's another illustration of my weird typing skills.
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Another Scott
)
- (11)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 08:59:17 AM EDT
"I have a 6-foot ladder"
-NT
- (
drook
)
- (8)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 09:47:14 AM EDT
Re: "I have a 6-foot ladder"
- (
Another Scott
)
- (7)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 10:28:06 AM EDT
My example was a compound modifier, yours was just wrong :-P
- (
drook
)
- (6)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 10:37:22 AM EDT
I used to subscribe to Car and Driver magazine...
- (
Another Scott
)
- (5)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 10:48:29 AM EDT
One of the authors I worked with called herself the Queen of Unnecessary Capitalization
-NT
- (
drook
)
- (4)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 10:49:54 AM EDT
I do that too. I blame it on taking German as a foreign language...
-NT
- (
Another Scott
)
- (3)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 10:51:25 AM EDT
Didn't take German, but . . .
- (
Andrew Grygus
)
- (2)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 11:02:26 AM EDT
I do it with quotes
- (
drook
)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 11:53:29 AM EDT
Dunno when it was that modrin-Muricans morphed into eschewing Capitalization..
- (
Ashton
)
- Aug. 28, 2017, 02:47:27 PM EDT
No it isn't. In "there's a 3-ft sinkhole" it is, but in "the water is 3 ft deep" it's separate words
- (
CRConrad
)
- (1)
- Aug. 29, 2017, 03:09:09 AM EDT
I blame Twitter and Autocorrect. They're always responsible. ;-)
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Another Scott
)
- Aug. 29, 2017, 11:12:03 AM EDT
Corpus Christi missed the very worst of it.
- (
a6l6e6x
)
- Aug. 25, 2017, 11:05:19 PM EDT
Current Baddest-datum seems: "highest August precipitable water levels" (evah??)
- (
Ashton
)
- Aug. 26, 2017, 07:25:43 PM EDT
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Barnaby Jones?
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