Reputation and Badges [2]

[DocBrown]

The 2010 Buffalo makes it's apperance

Gold price today is about $ 1255.00 per ounce

 

[mitchell65]

The 2010 Buffalo makes it's apperance

Gold price today is about $ 1255.00 per ounce

How much does that make each gold pip worth as my pension is going down by the hour

 

[noobvious]

The 2010 Buffalo makes it's apperance

Gold price today is about $ 1255.00 per ounce

How much does that make each gold pip worth as my pension is going down by the hour

I hope your pension isn't through BP , and if it is, sorry to hear it!

 

[mitchell65]

The 2010 Buffalo makes it's apperance

Gold price today is about $ 1255.00 per ounce

How much does that make each gold pip worth as my pension is going down by the hour

I hope your pension isn't through BP , and if it is, sorry to hear it!

No it isn't thank goodness!

 

[CarlTR6]

The 2010 Buffalo makes it's apperance

Gold price today is about $ 1255.00 per ounce

I like it!

 

[noobvious]

How much does that make each gold pip worth as my pension is going down by the hour

I hope your pension isn't through BP , and if it is, sorry to hear it!

No it isn't thank goodness!

That's a relief then!

 

[mitchell65]

I hope your pension isn't through BP , and if it is, sorry to hear it!

No it isn't thank goodness!

That's a relief then!

Still don't know what a gold pip is worth?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Just out of interest I see the Archie refers to "Sentence case". I don't know that phrase but I do know why the word case is used for small letters and capitals. Shall I explain or does eveyone who is interested know already? It would be showing my age though

I'm interested in you showing your age.

 

[Arc]

Just out of interest I see the Archie refers to "Sentence case". I don't know that phrase but I do know why the word case is used for small letters and capitals. Shall I explain or does eveyone who is interested know already? It would be showing my age though

Hi John ! Respect your age !
Dont know about anybody ... but may I get an explanation about it, here ? Just want to know what the respected aged men think , and how their thoughts are different from those of us.... men of our generation.

And about "Sentence case" it was a time when I also didn't know such a phrase, but it is MS Word that made me aware of that phrase

 

[Dave76]

Just out of interest I see the Archie refers to "Sentence case". I don't know that phrase but I do know why the word case is used for small letters and capitals. Shall I explain or does eveyone who is interested know already? It would be showing my age though

In that case, yes, please tell us

 

[Kari]

Just out of interest I see the Archie refers to "Sentence case". I don't know that phrase but I do know why the word case is used for small letters and capitals. Shall I explain or does eveyone who is interested know already? It would be showing my age though

In that case, yes, please tell us

Yes, please tell.

 

[NilsE]

Thanks to Nigel, Jonathan, Dave, ARCHIE, Derek, Doc and Dwarf.


Congrats to NilsE.

And thanks to all that got me to my first plateau

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Just out of interest I see the Archie refers to "Sentence case". I don't know that phrase but I do know why the word case is used for small letters and capitals. Shall I explain or does eveyone who is interested know already? It would be showing my age though

In that case, yes, please tell us

:roflmao:
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[A Guy]

Looks like the Buffalo has been busy today!! Well done Ted!

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Congrats Ted!

Have been away for a couple of weeks and on my return I see I have had a visitation from the Golden Buffalo,
Thanks to all

Conrats too mitchell65

I got a badge and don't know how

I also got a Badge. Thanks.

Congrats guys, you've done good

A Guy

 

[mitchell65]

Just out of interest I see the Archie refers to "Sentence case". I don't know that phrase but I do know why the word case is used for small letters and capitals. Shall I explain or does eveyone who is interested know already? It would be showing my age though

In that case, yes, please tell us

Yes, please tell.

Eons ago when I was a young lad, I was introduced to the art of printing. No keyboards and computers with masses of fonts in those days. Metal movable type was stored in flat trays called cases. Each tray was divided into compartments and these contained the individual letters of a particular typeface. There were two trays to each font. Bear in mind that you had a different set of type for each font, then for each point size then for normal, bold, italic and bold italic for each typeface that you needed. This meant that if you used Times Roman which most small jobbing printers did then you would have at least four sizes, in at least two weights (regular and bold) in normal, and italic so 16 cases in all. But full fonts would need a case for small letters and puntuation marks and a case for capital and symbols or more often small capitals. These cases were kept in cabinets and when you were "Setting" the type you would have a sloping top to the cabinet where the case with small letters was put at the front and the one with capitals was placed above the other. Hence one was the "upper case" and the other the "lower case".
The term "Sentence case" now to be found in MS Word is used as an instruction to capitalise a sentence but has no relevance to the old term of upper and lower case.
Here's two images of upper and lower cases

 

[Barman58]

In additions to the above explanation

The way that movable type was set is also responsible for another, (British?), saying...

"Mind your P's and Q's" -meaning to watch what you're saying ...

This comes from the fact that as type was set reversed and upside-down extra care had to be taken with the lowercase P and q

Someone else here who worked with fonts before computers

Oh and the word font is derived from the French word form "fondre" - melt, so also owes it's origin to the print with metal type

 

[mitchell65]

In additions to the above explanation

The way that movable type was set is also responsible for another, (British?), saying...

"Mind your P's and Q's" -meaning to watch what you're saying ...

This comes from the fact that as type was set reversed and upside-down extra care had to be taken with the lowercase P and q

Someone else here who worked with fonts before computers

Oh and the word font is derived from the French word form "fondre" - melt, so also owes it's origin to the print with metal type

It was with tongue in cheek that I said "No keyboards in those days". This was a bit wrong as the linotype machine had a keyboard and out putted lead type in strips from the hot metal but that's another story!
(I'm not so old that I pre date the linotype machine!)

 

[Kari]

Very interesting, Mitchell and Barman. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

 

[Joan Archer]

+1 You beat me to it Kari, nice explanation boys.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Very interesting, Mitchell and Barman. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

+1 You beat me to it Kari, nice explanation boys.

Yes, thank you both!