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Message: 6679

Author: jetsetdanny

Date: 18/08/2010

Subject: Re: "JSW: The 2010 Megamix" room names - briefly

 

Thanks a lot for your comments, Andrew. They are very helpful.

Regarding "Cagelike Catwalk" - the beauty of the name spelled in this way is, to me - a non-native English speaker, that there is a symmetry of two two-syllable words each beginning with C, of which both are (or at least look like) compound nouns (cage-like, cat-walk). Therefore I am so reluctant to spell "Cagelike" as "Cage-like", because it breaks the symmetry.
Perhaps this is actually because I am non-native - perhaps to you, the native speakers, "catwalk" doesn't even look like a compound noun???

So the question at this stage would be: does it look VERY wrong to you when you see the spelling "cagelike"?

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

In fact, there are no spaces in the room name between the words and
the arrows, but I misspelled it when writing my message.

You need SPECSAISIE's RoomsJSW function!

I remember about it, but I decided that I will write the room names down one by one more quickly than if I had to devote time to installing SPECSAISIE and then used this function.

The problem is, so far I have *never* been able to install SPECAISIE or get it to run successfully (whichever is a more accurate description), and I tried it (a while ago) at least three times on different computers with different OS.

I will certainly try it again in the future, because I see many wonderfully useful features there. However, I think I will get down to it only some time after "JSW: The 2010 Megamix" has been gamma-released. Unless I am successful at the first attempt, expect questions about the installation of SPECSAISIE then.

Daniel

 

 

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