MacRumors Giveaway: Win a Leather iPhone Case From Woolnut

[prycop]

And apart from all the comments above.
Why quote a price in Euros € and then make it open to US and Canada only? 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[CausticSoda]

I just have to pick this apart.

What a fascinating response, largely because it is so bizarre and draws upon such curious references. Are you really unaware that hi-tec is an accepted abbreviation for high technology, or unaware of the concept of a rhetorical question? Your points are unconvincing at best, and at worst, absurd non sequiturs. That is what tends to happen when you set out in the belief you can "pick apart" every line of a perfectly coherent piece of writing, and so have to grasp increasingly clumsily at any straw to continue your narrative. The most revealing point, in terms of providing illumination of your own powers of analysis and deduction, is probably the one that suggests a citation is needed to prove that somebody who is replying to an online forum is not living off grid. Pointing out a typo as you proceed to make them yourself provides additional amusement. Anyway, it was a nice try, and it has certainly provided me with some light entertainment; I am glad I came back to read it. Thank you for making the effort, and have a good afternoon.

 

[4jasontv]

hi-tec is an accepted abbreviation for high technology

Not in English. I googled it, just to be sure, and after 10 pages it was not used once to describe technology. It's a shoe. Sometime a pen. Never an iPhone.

perfectly coherent

I still have no idea what point you were trying to make.

The most revealing point, in terms of providing illumination of your own powers of analysis and deduction, is probably the one that suggests a citation is needed to prove that somebody who is replying to an online forum is not living off grid. Pointing out a typo as you proceed to make them yourself provides additional amusement.

Ah I see. You didn't make a point nor did you get mine. (Also, I don't see where I accidentally misspelled anything.)

 

[MrGuder]

I don’t like cases that cover buttons. They end up either being too sensitive to click or you have to press too hard to work or they wear out, especially the volume buttons.

 

[CausticSoda]

Not in English. I googled it, just to be sure.

Not in English, eh? The Chambers Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary are very widely regarded as the final authority on the English language (as opposed to Google). I use Chambers, and attach a picture of a screenshot from the Chambers Dictionary app.

As for your typo: "At no point in this post am I more proud of you that with these four words."

If you really have no idea what I was saying, so be it. I am really not worried, but continue to be grateful for your interest and amusing, if somewhat flawed commentary.

 

[4jasontv]

I honestly had to google the Chambers Dictionary because I didn't think it was still in print. It's good to know that it's still recognized for its inclusion of archaic, dialect specific, and unconventional spellings. Meanwhile, the OED makes a single passing reference that other dictionaries (a dig, I suppose) include hi-tec as an alternate form.

I am no authority on English, but it's such an uncommon way to spell it I wonder if it is even consistent within Britain. We don't want another potatoe fiasco.

As for your typo: "At no point in this post am I more proud of you that with these four words."

I am so proud. That was quite subtle and I wasn't sure anyone would catch that joke. I am glad you got it.