Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> i
> > So your explanation and summary about is incomplete for someone looking
> > to it for practical usage info although it does serve as an answer to my
> > original question seeking a citation.
>
> What, "Barry i18n," is your problem with me??????
>
> A question was asked (not by you), and I provided the answer.

No problem with you at all (beyond what I may have already specifically
stated elsewhere).

Actually, it was me that asked for the citation for the "newfangled" usage.

As I said above, I asked, you answered, I acknowledged, and then I
looked up a citation related to your answer, and found that your answer
while accurate, was also incomplete. For the archives or for anyone else
following along I provided the rest of the answer from the related
citation.

Do you think I asked the list for a citation because I *wouldn't* look
it up? What would be the point in that?

Don't take everything that is not 100% to your liking so personally!

>
> CMS has become almost uselessly non-prescriptive in the 14th and
> especially the 15th ed., and "either is correct" is not a useful
> response for someone who wants to know what the standard is.

Hey, you brought up CMS and said "at least since the 13th ed.". If you
meant the 14th and 15th were not to your liking, then I didn't infer
that from your original answer. If you meant "up until the 13th edition
inclusive", well that is something else entirely, and had you said that
it may not have actual question for a citation if more recent editions
have moved away from the point.

Anyway, I asked for a current reference - if the current edition of your
source does not answer the question to your liking, then why cite it at
all?

>
>
> Adjective. "Kid activities" doesn't seem possible.

To you perhaps - as I said originally, I hear this kind of stuff in
colloquial verbal usage all the time.

Google seems to show plenty of written uses of both:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22Kid+activities&btnG=Search

> Why are you dragging this off-topic thread on and on? Someone,
> recognizing that it was off-topic, asked the question, it was answered,
> move on.

It was not answered satisfactorily and so the question is still open.

It is OK when no one else responds - then the thread will die where it is.

But it is you that keeps responding as well, keep in mind - and as I
see, you have responded to RW's post *after* you critique me for
"dragging" a thread on and on.

It appears that some people besides you and I are interested, and that
your inability to resist posting belies your position that *I* shouldn't
post because the thread is off-topic.

Is this a matter of "do as I say, not as I do"?

I don't recall you being the moderator, and you are free to set up a
list and invite everyone here but me if you don't want to see me posting
on some list.

Until then, learn how to filter messages if not seeing any from me is an
important goal for you. I am sure someone nearby can help you with how
to do that.

Best,

Barry