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Lady E
6th February 2004, 11:11
kid acne is an emcee / musician who does stuff with, amongst other people, Req...his last album 'council pop' was a collaboration between the two....he has he is also an artist having done the sleeve for the most recent plaid album, and did a graphic novel called 'zebraface' with his label colleague, supreme vagabond craftsman....he is a darned talented young man and well worth checking out live or on 'wax'.

one sentence!

check out

http://www.invisiblespies.com

bitconductor
6th February 2004, 11:22
ta. gonna investigate further

but emma you cheated with the '...'
which incidentally has become ubiquitous. if i was a twatty wordsologist i would do a thesis on it as a modern day phenomenon

Lady E
6th February 2004, 11:26
Originally posted by bitconductor
ta. gonna investigate further

but emma you cheated with the '...'
which incidentally has become ubiquitous. if i was a twatty wordsologist i would do a thesis on it as a modern day phenomenon

ha ha ha...no need, lynne truss has done it for you with 'eats, shoots and leaves'. its called an ellipsis, by the way, and i didnt realise until very recently that i am seriously addicted to it!

bitconductor
6th February 2004, 11:33
yeah me too... i wonder what they did in olden times
probably ued '~' or something
half these symbols i don't know what they mean

CV
8th February 2004, 21:05
the tilde


awesome - i finally wanted a reason to use that key~its havin' it~i use the hyphen a lot more than ...

emef
8th February 2004, 21:18
council pop is a cracking lp, i really like his cheeky rave samples

CV
8th February 2004, 22:04
emef - you use the comma to great effect in that post

V Knid esq
8th February 2004, 22:11
Originally posted by emma


ha ha ha...no need, lynne truss has done it for you with 'eats, shoots and leaves'. its called an ellipsis, by the way, and i didnt realise until very recently that i am seriously addicted to it!

Awwww.... my grandpa, who thinks that society began to decay around 1800, when the enlightenment project got fucked by romanticism, expressed more emotion than I've ever seen him express when I gave him that book. Big up the correct use of language massive is what I say.

emef
8th February 2004, 22:23
Originally posted by cristian
emef - you use the comma to great effect in that post

chee,r~ :D

Tomoki
9th February 2004, 07:47
whats the plural of comma in english?

V Knid esq
9th February 2004, 08:42
you just repeat the word, I think - thus: "comma comma comma comma comma chameleon"