• Members 207 posts
    Oct. 19, 2024, 2:55 p.m.

    In the BB code, we write e.g. [quote="Bill Bloggs"] which comes out as Bill Bloggs has written:

    Most of the time that works but yesterday I tried to quote myself simply as [quote="I"] which came out as an ungrammatical I has written:.

    And then there are plurals ... [quote="Artists"] ---> Artists has written: which should be Artists have written:

    Instead of "has written", if it said "wrote" both the above would be grammatically i.e. I wrote: or Hurter and Driffield wrote:.

    Additionally, the simple "wrote" is correct for Company names like "Hurter and Driffield" because Companies are normally referred to as single entities

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    Thread title has been changed from Quote Attributes Grammar.

  • Members 207 posts
    Oct. 20, 2024, 7:04 p.m.

    Another whine:

    To avoid the stupid-looking "I has written:", I changed the BB code to just [quote] ... it came out with "Quoted Message:" even though I was not quoting a whole message, only part of one.

    It should just say "Quote:"

  • Oct. 20, 2024, 7:15 p.m.

    I can't help with forum current behavior, but to conserve space and avoid grammar :) you can use shorter quoting form - start paragraph with >:

    This is just an anonymous quote.

    Referencing yourself you can use un-grammatical Me - this makes the quote kinda grammatical, me thinks :)

  • Members 207 posts
    Oct. 21, 2024, 7:28 p.m.

    Thanks, I didn't know that one! So, for example:

     > [b]I said above:[/b]
    I didn't know that one!

    i.e.

    I said above:
    I didn't know that one!

    Now you know I couldn't do that, Arvo ...😉

  • Oct. 21, 2024, 8:57 p.m.

    Changing stuff like that in the source code of the forum s/w is not going to be our highest priority. If you can cope with what we have today, we may be able to look at it once we have new versions up and running.

    Alan

  • Members 207 posts
    Oct. 21, 2024, 9:05 p.m.

    I see.

    Following Arvo's suggestion, I can cope by using his work-around, so my request is hereby withdrawn ...

  • Members 1041 posts
    Oct. 21, 2024, 10:45 p.m.

    Any sneak peaks?