I think the issue I'm about to present matters. I hope you will, too.A while back, I posted the following concerning some fine animation I saw in Chit Chat:
5/12/2009 4:03:43 AM
BREAKING NEWS: Minor semantic issues have been found to be arbitrary and inconsistent. Seething rage spreads across the Raleigh population. Obama dispatches emergency military strike team to NCSU campus to quell rebellion. Secretary of Defense officially quoted as saying, "We will show no mercy."More at 11. Stay tuned.[Edited on May 12, 2009 at 4:16 AM. Reason : hooksaw, this is not a jab at you in any way. I'm just being generally sarcastic.]
5/12/2009 4:13:13 AM
Would the 'b' always be capitalized?
5/12/2009 4:13:56 AM
^Important question.If we/they just capitalize the 'B' at all times, it becomes a proper noun and we/they can pretty much spell it however the fuck we/they want.On a side note, is this a matter of "we" the NCSU population or "they" the NCSU administration?
5/12/2009 4:15:48 AM
I would assume other colleges have bell towers. If we want to call ours the "Belltower", I guess thats ok. But if another college calls theirs the "Belltower" as well, that it shouldn't be capitalized. For example, "The UA's and NCSU's belltowers [sic] are cool." .
5/12/2009 4:18:45 AM
^^^ According to the manual, no. But "they" are wrong in this: If you go with a lowercase b, then you should spell it "bell tower," as in any bell tower. http://www.ncsu.edu/graphicID/manual98/manual4.pdf
5/12/2009 4:20:13 AM
^I concur. "belltower" if and only if the 'b' is capitalized.
5/12/2009 4:23:04 AM
Seems like they don't really know which way to go on this one...
5/12/2009 4:27:55 AM
North Carolina State University: Making things unnecessarily complicated since 1887.
5/12/2009 4:29:33 AM
On a somewhat related note, that manual mentions nothing at all about the term "NCST", which ESPN insists upon using as our official school abbreviation.It's probably more annoying than any other spelling consistency issue that we could mention.
5/12/2009 4:55:19 AM
5/12/2009 7:38:46 AM
This is why you should have stayed gone.
5/12/2009 9:43:28 AM
rabble rabble Caroline Kennedy rabble rabble
5/12/2009 9:51:49 AM
UNCSU-Raleigh[Edited on May 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM. Reason : (A&M)]
5/12/2009 9:51:56 AM
5/12/2009 10:04:23 AM
chit chat called...
5/12/2009 10:10:32 AM
Carolina State University Wolfheels
5/12/2009 10:57:01 AM
even I find this extremebut I will take the time to note that the fucking thing does not have a bell (and does not need one), so the issue of calling it a "bell tower" or "belltower" is ultimately unimportantI'd be happier if we all just called it the Memorial Tower
5/12/2009 12:35:28 PM
5/12/2009 12:36:51 PM
http://www.bangedup.com/bu_posts/ghshitopnastick35.wmv
5/12/2009 12:49:44 PM
rolly u. fictional bell towers[Edited on May 12, 2009 at 12:54 PM. Reason : ]
5/12/2009 12:52:59 PM
wait, didn't hooksaw quit?
5/12/2009 1:18:54 PM
5/12/2009 2:35:22 PM
5/12/2009 2:36:09 PM
"Bell tower" vs. "Belltower" is not a spelling issue, BTW.
5/12/2009 5:26:07 PM
StillFuchsia hath not spoken on this matter yet[Edited on May 12, 2009 at 5:41 PM. Reason : ]
5/12/2009 5:27:53 PM
except that she hath
5/12/2009 5:39:25 PM
what i want to know about is the class of ยด10 supposedly wanting to put bells for the class gift?
5/12/2009 5:41:46 PM
she hath...she hath, indeed
5/12/2009 5:41:47 PM
he never misses - i got a wonderfully delightful PM from him telling me how serious this thread was
5/12/2009 5:43:12 PM
Northern Colorado State University is "NCSU" on ESPN
5/12/2009 5:43:55 PM
hooksaw authored it...how is this thread not serious
5/12/2009 5:44:16 PM
I had a feeling this was going to be moved.
5/12/2009 8:50:46 PM
Who let hooksaw out of Soap Box?
5/12/2009 8:51:57 PM
^x5 Goddammit, OmarBadouche, that was private! ^^ He moves anything I post in The Lounge to Shit Shat. He gets off on it--I'm not sure why, though. Entertainment value, maybe? I've never fucked with him or done anything to him, for that matter.
5/13/2009 2:53:54 AM
One word vs. two words has nothing to do with spelling.
5/13/2009 3:16:54 AM