Could be. Siri loves playing tricks. Texting is particularly treacherous with words not even remotely close or associated with what was entered being substituted. It can make for some amusing and sometimes very dangerous texts.
OK, point taken, apologies.
MiningmanCan't let this pass.."i" must be capitalized otherwise a person comes across as being illiterate...
... or that he is using an iPhone with the current excuse for software running on it, which self-"corrects" itself into not capitalizing "I" automatically for a combination of crApple reasons that, really, defy intelligent analysis. Periodically I have to fix it in that time-tested Microsoft fashion by wiping out the preferences and rebooting, but who has the time, let alone the patience, to deal with this kind of incompetent imbecility?
You will note in some of my prior posts that I, perhaps the stickliest grammarian/rhetorician here, don't always 'capitalize I' at the beginning of body paragraphs. That is crApple, not me, and I have to note that it could well be a crApple artifact or the equivalent that is putting those i's in lowercase in his post. Yes, it's right to call them to his attention ... in a PM. Don't out him as though he doesn't know.
Miningman It is an easy error to make, but it is important.
Perhaps once, but three times?
Must have been a tough day.
1 of 4 - that batting average would keep him in the Majors!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Easy typo to make. Some nights I'm so beat I fumble-finger all over the posts I want to make and have to back up and correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, you name it, just like Sister Sherman Tank from my Catholic school days is looking over my shoulder.
And then I just say "It's not there tonight" and give up.
And speaking of standing in the ROW, how's THIS grab you?
www.nj.com/bergen/index.ssf/2018/05/pair_struck_and_killed_by_nj_transit_train_are_ide.html#incart_river_index
What do you think? Suicide pact?
(And don't think it was easy typing all that gobbledegook for the link, either!)
A lot of that going on up in New Jersey, that is, pedestrian strikes by NJ Transit trains. It's at the point now that when I see a story like this on the North Jersey paper websites I yell out "We've got another one!" and Lady Firestorm asks "Where THIS time?"
Sad.
Reminds me, just about a year ago Lady F and I were eating in a restaurant in Ashland VA called "The Trackside Grill" (Great place, by the way) which is right next to the CSX tracks that bisect the town. There was a mixed group of young men and women standing on the tracks for a group photo. Prom night. Lucky for those folks you can see the trains coming a long way off, but it was still foolish to be there.
Anyway, I don't want anyone who's grammar isn't quite up to snuff to be scared off from commenting here. If they have something to say or a question to ask I want to hear it, I'm sure I can figure it out.
Guess how many corrections I had to make on THIS long post!
Two things:
1) Wedding parties on RR tracks have had dire consequences in the past. 100% irresponsible...you would think one person would raise an objection.
2) Can't let this pass.."i" must be capitalized otherwise a person comes across as being illiterate, which I'm sure you are not. It is an easy error to make, but it is important.
I cant believe it , i was coming home & i was passing over the NS mainline i
look below the bridge & on the right of way was a wedding party snapping photos
come on people stay off the right of way !!!!!
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