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Collector's Edition Serenity DVD! August 21! With new stuff never seen on the U.S. disc and a brand new commentary from half the cast! New artwork on the cover! Buy it!
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See, now there's a valid explanation for me to have waited so long to jump on the Firefly bandwagon.... Posts: 4515 | Registered: Jul 2004
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Is it really superfluous to use an apostrophe to pluralize an acronym. Aesthetically speaking 'DVD's' looks much better than 'DVDs'. I'm normally pretty pushy about grammar, (maybe not relative to Hatrack but compared to regular people) but come on. Complaining about something that may be technically wrong while being much more practical strikes me as counter productive. You don't hear anyone complaining about ending sentences with prepositions when they are attached to verbs.
edit: I'm not complaining about Porter's winky-comment in particular but rather the general sentiment behind the joke.
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I've never found special editions worthwhile really. The only exception I can think of was Lord of the Rings, where they put back in the 40+ minutes they cut into each of the three films. The downside: It takes 12-13 hours to watch all three in succession.
Is is more extra features? Is the the special case? What makes a special edition better when it doesn't actually add more to the main feature?
EDIT: I'm not trying to say that I don't understand why you would want a special edition, I just wonder what makes one better than the original, since that's mostly all I own, with the exception of LOTR, as previously stated. Posts: 4229 | Registered: Dec 2002
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I definitely agree with the sentiment behind the joke. I disagree that DVD's looks better than DVDS (I think it doesn't, but who cares) I definitely disagree that it's more practical. It's less practical because it's more confusing.
quote:You don't hear anyone complaining about ending sentences with prepositions when they are attached to verbs.
Because that's a stupid "rule" which should be forgotten. I don't think that punctuation conventions like this fall into the same category as fake rules like "no prepositions at the end of sentences".
Also, let me point out that there are punctuation conventions which I purposely break when I disagree with them. For instance, when quoting something, I will not include punctuation inside the quote unless that punctuation is part of what is being quoted.
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"Also, let me point out that there are punctuation conventions which I purposely break when I disagree with them. For instance, when quoting something, I will not include punctuation inside the quote unless that punctuation is part of what is being quoted."
Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one. This is only an American custom from what I understand. Something to do with the strain put on typewriters when a period follows a quotation mark.
We're also apparently the only ones who use double quotation marks for direct quotes.
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quote:Originally posted by dantesparadigm: You don't hear anyone complaining about ending sentences with prepositions when they are attached to verbs.
What do you mean "when they are attached to verbs"? You mean like "throw up" and that sort of phrase? If so, then that's not actually a preposition, but an adverb.
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quote:Originally posted by rollainm: Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one. This is only an American custom from what I understand. Something to do with the strain put on typewriters when a period follows a quotation mark.
I'm pretty much positive that this is just a myth. I've only ever heard it related anecdotally (usually in reference to printing presses, not typewriters) and have never seen the claim backed up with facts. And it just doesn't make much sense—if there was a problem with printing presses or whatever, why would it be confined to one country?
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