User talk:SirJective

Please add new sections at the bottom for new topics and inform me about new topics on my german talk page, since I am not logging into the english Wikipedia regularly. When you start a new topic on my talk page, I'll answer only here, unless you ask me to answer somewhere else.

When I start a new topic on your talk page, you needn't answer here (since then I'll have an eye on it for some days). Should you answer some days later, please leave a link to your talk page on my german talk page.

parenthesis/-ses

You wrote on my talk page: I see, you corrected the spelling in my new list. Thank you for that. Am I right that "parenthesis" is singular and "parentheses" is plural? So the title Parenthesis is acceptable, isn't it? --SirJective 13:49, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It's slightly more complicated than that. The singular word "parenthesis" can refer to a single round bracket of either orientation or to a phrase contained within parentheses (the latter word indeed being the plural of "parenthesis"). I'm afraid I might have got a little muddled up on your page: I probably should have changed all of them or none to stay consistent. I'll have a little think about it, and maybe try fixing it up; or maybe you might want to do it yourself? --Phil | Talk 14:04, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't know that. I only referred to the "round brackets", not to the text within them, but of course the topic of the list are the articles having a trailing parenthesis (there are lots of articles having a starting or middle parenthesis). So "parenthesis" seems to be a correct title for the list.

I think you have more intuition about the use of these variants, so I'd thank you for fixing it. Maybe a link to a WP page explaining the preferred use of a parenthesis in article titles (some naming convention) could be useful. --SirJective 14:27, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Howstuffworks

Thanks for performing my query. :) [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 21:15, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)