To: BibChr
You quote someone. When you do, what you say is a quotation.
I am a HUGE stickler for things like that. What hangs in my window are curtains; they may drape, but they are not drapes.
299 posted on
03/24/2005 8:06:34 AM PST by
Xenalyte
(I am at Dr. Venture's lab to right that which is wrong and to repair the torn curtain of time itself)
To: Xenalyte
Yeah, but here's a real test: do you use "impact" as a verb?
Dan
339 posted on
03/24/2005 8:12:24 AM PST by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: Xenalyte
My dictionary says drape can be used as a noun, too.
383 posted on
03/24/2005 8:17:30 AM PST by
floridarolf
(Whom we love we allow to do us harm (Turkish saying translated from German))
To: Xenalyte; BibChr
What hangs in my window are curtains; they may drape, but they are not drapes. But are they draperies?
Ohh, and the word quote is a verb AND a noun. Look it up if you don't believe me ;-)
To: Xenalyte
I'm sure I'm guilty of calling quotations "quotes." And probably will do so again.
I'm blaming it on growing up with Reader's Digest [Quotable Quotes].
(You should seen the ellipses fines I've incurred over the years....)
1,013 posted on
03/24/2005 12:30:57 PM PST by
green pastures
(Queen of the Run-on Sentence, Duchess of Ellipses)
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