Comments on: Dave Gray Gets A Letter From Apple Authorizing “podcast”

By: Skylark

Skylark — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:37:22 +0000

>>Thereâ€™s nothing wrong per say with split infinitives in English its just bad form in professional writing.

>>the dictionary of phrase and fable thinks its horse…

What is indeed â€œbad formâ€ is also writing â€œitsâ€ when you mean â€˜it’sâ€™!

By: Betty Remple

Betty Remple — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:34:52 +0000

What chutzpah.
You have to give the guy credit.

By: Miriam Parkinson

Miriam Parkinson — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:40:08 +0000

good to know obviously there was a misspelling at some point because the dictionary of phrase and fable thinks its horse… I always thought it was slightly odd.

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:54:34 +0000

@Miriam Parkinson: Even in French, horses are not split in multiple pieces. The expression is “couper les cheveux en quatre”. “cheveux” means “hair”. “chevaux” means “horses”. So the French split the hair in four pieces. No animal gets hurt.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:48:39 +0000

OMG! That’s so cool!
Podcasts rock my body! C’mon! Let’s make some PODCASTS!!!!! YEAH!
No need to pay Steve

By: LKM

LKM — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:47:14 +0000

Apple never tried to appropriate or “claim ownership” of podcasting-words. What they did was prevent others from registering these words as trademarks when the usage was outside of the podcasting area. Apple’s actually the good guy here.

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:25:39 +0000

Man I love Wikipedia. My English is Shizen Houzen and as such, had no idea what they were all taking about but thanks to Wikipedia, I know know what I don’t give a rats clacker about!

Thanks Wikipedia!
Molly

By: Wazza

Wazza — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:35:25 +0000

OK.
I had to efficiently refer to Wikipedia to find out what a split infinitive was.

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:18:35 +0000

Oh yeah. I said it on Dig and I will say it again here: I told you so!

In saying that, congrats on the buzz! How you going to top this though?

Molly
PS. Cam, there is a plugin that allows automatic Digg icons on each post, its a little buggy but for your audience might be a good idea!

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:15:43 +0000

See Cam, all this crap about spelling and writing of words is the exact reason you should install Podpress (http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress) and allow for Audio Comments (Thanks to your mate and mine Michael Bailey and Mobatalk).

Molly

By: Miriam Parkinson

Miriam Parkinson — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:35:50 +0000

Oh probably the curse of speaking such an incredibly confusing language.

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:55:43 +0000

Yeah I have been thinking about what the Slashdotters would be saying.

The other thing that has been popping up is that Leo Laporte has copped a ribbing for calling his shows “netcasts” – bloggers are sighting this story and saying that they hope it will now shut him up and that he wil stop using the term “netcast”. Which is quite lame IMHO.

Would that not be English with an “E” as opposed to an “e” the capitalization when using the word “english” has confused me no end.

By: Miriam Parkinson

Miriam Parkinson — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:40:24 +0000

I don’t think cognito is strictly speaking an english word. Onymous is.

By: urbaer

urbaer — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:07:32 +0000

Dave – if it were on Slashdot, you’d be told that “In Soviet Russia infinitives split you”… or something like that.

Miriam shouldn’t they do it cognito?

By: Miriam Parkinson

Miriam Parkinson — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:08:56 +0000

I don’t claim to have full grasp of correct punctuation; however, I’m pretty sure that if you are going to have a go at exclamation points you should ensure that your sentence is correctly punctuated.

You might want to consider the correct punctuation of conjunctive adverbs in the first sentence and have a little think about where the pause should be in the second sentence.

If you want to be pedantic at least have the balls to do it onymously (isn’t that just the BEST word).

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:51:39 +0000

Here they are discussing the use of split infinitives.

On Digg they are talking about the spelling of the word “cheque”.

I think that is amusing.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:43:38 +0000

Interesting that Apple is trying to claim ownership in every other use of the term “pod” as used alone or in conjunction with any other term. They have opposed every pod-related trademark application. Curious, that for Apple to even secure “iPod,” they had to argue that a pre-existing “Pod” mark was significantly different in sight and sound. I guess these other folks should have sent Jobs a letter and a check.

By: Pedant

Pedant — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:52:59 +0000

An exclamation mark is just a crutch to hold up a weak sentence. So your sentence “GOOD!” is so weak, it needs, like ten crutches.

OOOH! BURN!

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:17:15 +0000

Who gives a Rats Clacker whether it is spelt right or wrong or its grammatical incorrect! Its the content that matters and if you can understand the point being made, then thats the main thing.

Molly
PS. If there are any spelling or grammatical errors in this comment and it is annoying you, GOOD!!!!!!!!!! Be annoyed.

By: Miriam Parkinson

Miriam Parkinson — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:09:29 +0000

Dude, I have a learning disability leave off.

I don’t have the time or the inclination to double check that I have the correct spelling out of a whole bunch of phonetically identical versions of words in a comment. Rest assured that in a piece of professional writing I would confirm that I have the correct spelling. It is surely splitting hairs (or as the french would have it ‘quartering the horse’) to have a go at someone for incorrectly spelling a latin expression when, unlike much of the population, they do know what splitting infinitives is.

Ironically I can spell weird and generally useless words like etymology just fine… and my spelling in french is perfect… go figure

By: whatdoyaknow

whatdoyaknow — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:57:41 +0000

That’s pretty cool that they replyed back. And within a month and a half!

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:50:39 +0000

“Thereâ€™s nothing wrong per say with split infinitives in English”

Apparently there’s nothing wrong with misspellings in Latin, either.

By: McFadden

McFadden — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:40:09 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with splitting an infinitive. What is “bad form” however is writing “per say” when you mean ‘per se’!

By: Miriam Parkinson

Miriam Parkinson — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:21:17 +0000

There’s nothing wrong per say with split infinitives in English its just bad form in professional writing. Most people don’t even know the rule exists or what it means anymore.

It can be funny though, if you know what it means.

“And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before” DNA

By: Catus Petasatus

Catus Petasatus — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:04:56 +0000

There’s nothing at all wrong with split infinitives … in English.