chit chat rules

[alpine_64]

This is the title from the front page of the forum, so ... does anyone actually follow it?


General Chit Chat
Please keep off-topics relating to jokes, politics, and current affairs in this section. Thank you!

 

[P. Scofield]

Well, looking at the titles of this section....................

WWII
E-Bay
Beer
I-5
Battle of Jutland
Thank You's
Weather


I would say YES!

 

[husky drvr]

This is the title from the front page of the forum, so ... does anyone actually follow it?


General Chit Chat
Please keep off-topics relating to jokes, politics, and current affairs in this section. Thank you!

Michael,

The English language is such a lovely thing. So easy to interpret in different ways.

keep off-topics > Should this be interpreted as "keep off these topics" or as "keep topics not relating to the discussion of Sunbeams, etc."?


I prefer the latter choice.

 

[Nickodell]

Ah, the power of the hyphen. Keep-off topics would mean stay away from these topics. Keep off-topics means restrict non-sunbeam stuff to this area.

The placement, or absence of, a hyphen can totally alter the meaning of a phrase. Examples:

A man-eating fish. A man eating fish.

Sickness-causing poverty [malnutrition etc]. Sickness causing poverty [getting ill with no insurance].

Adding a hyphen break in a word can be fun, too. Take the hyphen away and see what you get:

Men-swear (It's our nature)
Diver-gent (Going down now, sir. Please keep the air coming)
Gene-rations (Feed those chromosomes)
Man-aging (It comes to us all)