Showing posts with label punctuation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label punctuation. Show all posts

27 February 2011

Good advice, well punctuated!

From an ACS press release (clever, yes, but the details it still make me say OUCH),

Don’t be Semi-Interested in Your Colon

American Cancer Society Encourages Everyone 50 and Older to Get Tested for Colon Cancer...


The American Cancer Society recommends the following tests to find colon cancer early:


Tests That Detect Adenomatous Polyps and Cancer

• Flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 years, or

• Colonoscopy every 10 years, or

• Double contrast barium enema (DCBE) every 5 years, or

• CT colonography (CTC) every 5 years

Tests That Primarily Detect Cancer

• Annual guaiac-based fecal occult blood test (gFOBT) with high test sensitivity for cancer, or

• Annual fecal immunochemical test (FIT) with high test sensitivity for cancer, or

• Stool DNA test (sDNA), with high sensitivity for cancer, interval uncertain.

28 June 2009

I know my focus should not be so easily distracted during a religious ceremony, but..

...I can't help but chuckle when I see --in contemporary hymnals that try to squeeze in as many hymns as possible -- lyrics that 1) are not broken into stanzas but 2) retain all the original capitalizations that only make sense if the words begin lines.

Such inconsistency leads to lyrics like this in the second verse of the hymn "Lift High the Cross":

Each newborn servant of the Crucified Bears on the brow the seal of Him Who died.

The "Crucified Bears"?

Are they anything like the "Care Bears," the "Berenstain Bears," or the "Three Bears"?

Is it too much to ask publishers to spend just a little editing effort to make it a lower case "b" since they're not bothering to print the songs in the intended stanzaic form?