AndreasE wrote:OK, I correct myself: Everybody on this planet except computer freaks will understand "101".
Duh. It means basic introductory course.
UK formatting for >100 chapters
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Duh. It means basic introductory course.
.:.
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edjamesauthor wrote:My latest novel has >100 chapters (140)
Hi Ed,
Just curious, how many words does you novel have?
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Beware of realism when writing. Avoid the usual zoo inhabitants. Summon the unicorns and the tritons, and give them reality!
--Julio Cortázar
These 'and'-freakers are messing you up. In everyday American parlance, 'and' only gets in for the decimal point if you are declaring a unit. Otherwise, 'point' is the usual.
For 1,037.2, one says "one thousand thirty seven point two," but one could say "one thousand thirty seven and two tenths." And on the same its-and-with-a-unit principle, for $1,037.20, one says "one thousand thirty-seven dollars and twenty cents.
For 1,037.2, one says "one thousand thirty seven point two," but one could say "one thousand thirty seven and two tenths." And on the same its-and-with-a-unit principle, for $1,037.20, one says "one thousand thirty-seven dollars and twenty cents.
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AmberV wrote:AndreasE wrote:OK, I correct myself: Everybody on this planet except computer freaks will understand "101".
Duh. It means basic introductory course.
I thought it was dalmatians.
Complete and utter NOMsense.
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r6d2 wrote:edjamesauthor wrote:My latest novel has >100 chapters (140)
Just curious, how many words does you novel have?
Just over 105,000.
Sorry one hundred five thousand...
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Cheers - looks like it's Apple messing with my juju. In future, I'll use decimals, of course.
One of the biggest bugs is when I hear American news stations say "two-thousand five", something spreading to the UK... Two thousand AND five, please...
-- Ed
One of the biggest bugs is when I hear American news stations say "two-thousand five", something spreading to the UK... Two thousand AND five, please...
-- Ed
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nom wrote:AmberV wrote:AndreasE wrote:OK, I correct myself: Everybody on this planet except computer freaks will understand "101".
Duh. It means basic introductory course.
I thought it was dalmatians.
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edjamesauthor wrote:r6d2 wrote:edjamesauthor wrote:My latest novel has >100 chapters (140)
Just curious, how many words does you novel have?
Just over 105,000.
Just curious again
That's an average of 750 words per chapter. Are your chapters comprised of single scenes? Or several scenes?
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MimeticMouton wrote:No! No! "And" is for decimals! Aaaaauuuuggghh!
Interesting! Born and raised (or "and bred", if your prefer) in the U. S. of A (Charlottesville and Alexandria, Virginia, if that localization helps), and learned "One thousand five hundred and ten dot 35" was how to dictate the number 1510.35
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