We got a laugh out of Omegaword's
call for omitting the apostrophe when a word is missing a letter.
The piece ends with a humorous mention of "infernal punctuation." Did you know that in
Hell, periods wear dresses? Here's the documentation:
Charles Dickens was persecuted by the demonic prongs of the "infernal dash":
Pray take care that they always strike out that infernal dash which I myself have taken out five hundred times.
—a letter to William Henry Wills, his sub-editor
We looked up infernal colons, semicolons,
commas, hyphens,
question marks, and exclamations, to no avail. Those marks must all be
heavenly.
By the way, don't miss this page about the
anatomy of cloud commas.
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Jeff responds:
Following that anatomy of cloud commas link shouldn't be attempted before breakfast. I did it anyway, eventually arriving at a page titled VERTICAL MOTION - OMEGA EQUATION, where I found an "equation [that] is a presentation of the omega equation where the connection between the contributions to vertical motion and the characteristic cloud configurations can be discriminated."
I deny all allegations that I had anything to do with this so-called Omega Equation, just in case anyone decides to allege it.
