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Wakephan's Modern English Usage: OFFICIAL Tunnels Guide to terms, words, and idioms

Kory said:
my understanding is that re is an abbreviation of "regards" or "regarding" so it would follow that you'd follow it with the typical full stop as in assoc.
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re is a loanword from latin, not an abbreviation
 
i refuse. i refuse to go along with re

re: means regarding. re is a fantasy word

/thread
 
Like I say several times in this thread: you do whatever you want.

But now you must do it with the knowledge that you're resisting
 
Kory said:
if you're going to try to claim cap-T Truth with etymology I feel like you're in for a rough ride idk
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I am not doing that, and this has nothing to do with etymology. It is simply a loanword in English like pizza, pretzel, and cafe
 
Kory said:
another normative function of the colon is to introduce something specific as in "The one thing Kory has never owned: a quarter zip." so it makes sense why it'd be positioned there
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Unfortunately, this example is incorrect.

For a colon to be used in this way (to introduce new information), the first half of the sentence must be an independent clause, not a dependent clause. It could read:

"There is one thing Kory has never owned: a quarter zip"
 
the relaxed prescriptivism is weird man
 
way more fun to be J. L. Austin than Strunk & White imo
 
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