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"You have left 1 in-line comments" . The plural is suitable for zero and two and three, and all the rest--except one.
Yeah, HTML doesn't make this easy. I don't recall enough now to see whether there's a slick little way with Javascript, or whether it becomes a SMOP (Small Matter of Programming) (synonym: BMJ--Big Messy Job). Maybe playing some particularly backhanded CSS games? (I feel dirty already.)
"You have left 1 in-line comments" . The plural is suitable for zero and two and three, and all the rest--except one.
Yeah, HTML doesn't make this easy. I don't recall enough now to see whether there's a slick little way with Javascript, or whether it becomes a SMOP (Small Matter of Programming) (synonym: BMJ--Big Messy Job). Maybe playing some particularly backhanded CSS games? (I feel dirty already.)
Don't forget that the site always uses 'he' for the general pronoun. That's annoying too.
Annoying, perhaps, but grammatical. Heck, males could be annoyed that they have to share their pronoun! And why are women always taking mens' names? 'Beverly' used to be a masculine name, not all that long ago.
Point is, these femto-grievances cut both ways.
At least the site uses a singular (he) rather than the plural (they) like Facebook does. He is actually correct grammar. Maybe just an inline comment(s) would work. But does it really matter so long as we're reviewing and being reviewed?
It's like one of those things you know you want to get around to fixing one of these days ...
Oh, please! "He" been used as the generic pronoun for ages. It's a kinda common place. He/she, (s)he, and other variations are annoying, as well as the "they" thing. Just keep it simple.
Kiss
Concerning the original subject of "1 in-line comments" I would say if one is looking to see how many comments have been left after only one, then proper grammar of such is really not worth addressing. Take care. Vern
Excellent point, vern
Okay, I'll jump into this one. Why is it okay for women to wear men's clothes, but not so much when men try to wear women's clothes?
Okay, I'll jump into this one. Why is it okay for women to wear men's clothes, but not so much when men try to wear women's clothes?
Don't know; ask someone from Scotland. Take care. Vern
Try this: women have a far greater need than men to control AND adjust AND manage their boundaries than men have. (That noise you hear in the background is the Feminist Outrage and Vendetta Engine firing up.)
Vern, you are hysterical!
Try this: women have a far greater need than men to control AND adjust AND manage their boundaries than men have.
I have to agree with this. History is filled with gentlemen shaking hands over border disputes and tipping their top hats.
"He" been used as the generic pronoun for ages. It's a kinda common place.
SO IS THE COMMON COLD?
I'm Doing A Bad Thing, replying to an author instead of to the comment--because I'm replying to two successive comments.
njc wrote:Try this: women have a far greater need than men to control AND adjust AND manage their boundaries than men have.
I have to agree with this. History is filled with gentlemen shaking hands over border disputes and tipping their top hats.
My posting was a serious and polemic comment, cutting (I think) to a deep masculine/feminine divide. Your response dismisses it with mild humor. The humor isn't the big point: the dismissal is.
I have no problem with that. If you don't think the point is worth discussion, I'm fine with that.
Mariana Reuter wrote:"He" been used as the generic pronoun for ages. It's a kinda common place.
SO IS THE COMMON COLD?
This response takes another author's evaluation, and masks a polemic response under what might be mild humor or might be sarcasm.
So now, with the discussion framed in your terms, it's as serious as an illness?
A refusal to meet and discuss at a common point is one of the essences of polarization.
I'm reminded of a Chesterton story--I think The Man with Two Beards--in which a character is convinced she can see spirit manifestations. Her family dismisses her beliefs, but she is drawn to Father Brown, who also disagrees with her, but (paraphrasing) disagrees as though her ideas do matter, instead of disagreeing as though they don't matter.
I hope that this has been polite. If you feel it is bitter, perhaps it is. I think it is a matter that will sooner or later elicit bitterness, and I prefer it to be sooner, and more respectful.
I close with a quote from Trudeau's Zonker Harris, at the opening of one of his Tanning Competitions: We who are about to fry salute you!
Ants in your pants over that conversation template of yours again, njc? You're such a hall monitor! 
If you want to have a serious discussion about the masculine/feminine divide, as you call it, have one. Say what's on your mind! No one is stopping you? I'm still waiting around for you to say something intelligent on this topic, actually.
If I feel like contributing -- at length, in a one-liner, in mild humor, in dismissal -- I shall do it. If I feel like rolling my eyes and moving on and saying nothing, I shall do it. (Another violation of your conversation etiquette, as I recall!)
It's a lot safer to play the forum police than share a point of view, njc, but I encourage you to try to hold onto your perspective long enough to actually share it, rather than setting it aside to complain about the construction of someone else's remarks and how their forum etiquette makes it IMPOSSIBLE for you to share your own viewpoint, over and over. Other people's forum etiquette has no bearing on your own viewpoint. Try to stay on topic! Take a chance! Speak your mind! Eyes on your own paper! Be an author not an editor! And such. IMPRESS US WITH YOUR THOUGHTS.
A refusal to meet and discuss at a common point is one of the essences of polarization.
That noise you hear in the background is the Feminist Outrage and Vendetta Engine firing up.
You might want to TRY to be a little more consistent in your remarks going forward. The above is rather jarring. But there's time to work it out. Jump in!
- Sincerely, SHE. (The better pronoun.)
I did share a particular opinion: That part of the masculine/feminine divide is a difference in how men and women manage their personal boundaries. You dismissed it, without counter-argument, without exploration, without asking what in thunder I meant by it.
- Sincerely, SHE. (The better pronoun)
Which you selfishly keep to yourselves, while we males are forced to share 
I did share a particular opinion: That part of the masculine/feminine divide is a difference in how men and women manage their personal boundaries. You dismissed it, without counter-argument, without exploration, without asking what in thunder I meant by it.
You assume I dismissed it. I countered. Clearly.
- Sincerely, SHE. (The better pronoun)
Which you selfishly keep to yourselves, while we males are forced to share
Aw! You can use our pronoun!! It is grievously underused! Please, with my compliments!
njc wrote:I did share a particular opinion: That part of the masculine/feminine divide is a difference in how men and women manage their personal boundaries. You dismissed it, without counter-argument, without exploration, without asking what in thunder I meant by it.
You assume I dismissed it. I countered. Clearly.
I would say rather that you deflected it, by addressing the words taken in a different context, rather than by addressing the point intended.
Is deflecting a point dismissing that point? Since the deflection refuses to address the substance of the point, to the degree that it does not acknowledge that substance even far enough to simply deny it, I assert that deflecting the point is (one way of) dismissing it.
I rest my case.
... the Professor, finding that the learned and mysterious method left him rather at the mercy of an enemy slightly deficient in scruples, fell back upon a more popular form of wit. 'I see,' he sneered, 'you prevail like the false pig in Aesop.' 'And you fail,' I answered, smiling, 'like the hedgehog in Montaigne.' Need I say that there is no hedgehog in Montaigne? 'Your claptrap comes off,' he said; 'so would your beard.' I had no intelligent answer to this, which was quite true and rather witty. But I laughed heartily, answered, 'Like the Pantheist's boots,' at random, and turned on my heel with all the honours of victory. The real Professor was thrown out, but not with violence, though one man tried very patiently to pull off his nose.
... the Professor, finding that the learned and mysterious method left him rather at the mercy of an enemy slightly deficient in scruples...
Or her.
Does she wear the Pantheist's boots? If so, perhaps I should rest my case?
After a full day of writing - and doing laundry, dishes, cooking, the vacuuming, and having more than once drinks of rum and coke, I find this conversation still hilarious. I adore men and all that the title ensues. I believe in chivalry, and my heart flutters when a man holds a door for me. And yet I'm writing a trilogy where the main character, hero, and in fact the strength of society, is female. I am a woman, a redneck, and a horseman. (well, horsewoman) And I am following this thread with joy in my heart and a bowl of popcorn!
Write On my fellow scribes!
...I am following this thread with joy in my heart and a bowl of popcorn!
I feel the rapier of well-earned humiliation!
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