"CAR_IS_MI" (car-is-mi)
10/23/2013 at 15:29 • Filed to: None
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"CAR_IS_MI" (car-is-mi)
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"... says 25 per cent..."
% is spelled with out a space (see what I did there).
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/white-rep…
And yes I know I am nit-picking but I mean C'mon.
Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> CAR_IS_MI
10/23/2013 at 15:32 |
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that's nothing compared to an article I read about Leyland leaving the Tigers. It was on my local newspapers' blog. If this bothers you, then what I read would want to make you gouge your eyes out.
davedave1111
> CAR_IS_MI
10/23/2013 at 15:37 |
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Per cent is not incorrect. Isn't it AP's house style? If so, then whoever wrote the piece would have been wrong if they'd used percent; otherwise, either is perfectly acceptable. I understand that US English prefers percent, but everyone else uses per cent.
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CAR_IS_MI
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
10/23/2013 at 15:45 |
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I just see basic grammatical errors so often from major news outlets, and it makes me wonder if editors still exist in publishing realms.
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> CAR_IS_MI
10/23/2013 at 15:46 |
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It's rather sad. I run an automotive blog and know how important it is to get the story out quick, so that you get all the traffic you can from a trending topic.
But if I write something real quick and publish it, I then can rest easy and take my time to edit it to become a more well thought out and as error-free as possible article.
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CAR_IS_MI
> davedave1111
10/23/2013 at 15:50 |
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Maybe so, I am not too in touch with other dialects of the English language, but to me "per cent" = [qty] for $0.01 ; whereas "percent"= %
Nibbles
> CAR_IS_MI
10/23/2013 at 16:24 |
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The two are interchangeable. Its origins stem from Latin per centum meaning "by the hundred".
Per centum -> per cent -> percent. How it is utilized is preference only.
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davedave1111
> CAR_IS_MI
10/23/2013 at 16:30 |
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Typically where US English differs from English English, it's the one with the more old-fashioned form. Now I think about it, 'per cent' has that peculiar Victorian Latin-fetish flavour to it, doesn't it? Probably comes from the same camp as the solecism of splitting infinitives.