Quickie Questions

When written, the cent sign (¢ or c) follows the amount (with no space between),

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I don't know how got that strange idea, but spaces serve the purpose of seperation. If things are written together thye're supposed to be multiplied. The only exception here would be the aesthetically thin space, which should actually also be used as number seperator (instead of the confusion between 50,001 and 50.001 it would be 50 001).

Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.

Haha I don't know why we write "$2 billion" either. Two dollar billion is weird.

I live in Ohio. What are these things,◊ and why do they keep showing up in droves during fall?

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

Box elder bugs and "they may form large aggregations while sunning themselves in areas near their host plant (e.g. on rocks, shrubs, trees, and man-made structures). ... This is especially a problem during the cooler months, when they sometimes invade houses and other man-made structures seeking warmth or a place to overwinter." Read more at the Other Wiki: Boxelder bug

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Alright, thanks. I'll make sure to tell my mom that; she asks that question every year.

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

there are five basic classifications of musical instrument correct?

Flute(ocarina), brass(trumpet), percussion(bongos), and string(guitar). what's the last company I can think of it?

edited 4th Oct '12 8:52:01 PM by HeroShepherd

Trumpet is an example of a Brass instrument. Woodwinds start the sound by vibrating a reed in the mouthpiece (clarinet). Brass instruments buzz the lips.

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I realissed the brass thing so, there are only four?

But I remember 5 cavemen in that old cartoon.

edited 4th Oct '12 8:54:45 PM by HeroShepherd

Flute (flute), woodwind (clarinet), brass (trumpet), percussion (bongo), string (harp). That's five.

Are you referring to "Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom"?

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No, it's woodwind (flute, reeds, ocarina), brass (trumpet, trombone, tuba), percussion (drums, xylophone, cymbals, windchimes), keyboards (piano, harpsichord), and strings (violin family, harp).

I'm in my school's band program. Flutes, as much as I would like them to, do not have their own separate classification. Trumpets are not woodwind instruments because they produce sound via the musician's lip vibrations, not just the musician's breath, and in my experience with marching band, they can handle rain whereas flutes and reeds cannot.

So... long story short, the last one you were thinking of was the keyboards, though some consider pianos to be stringed as well because playing a note causes a mechanism inside the piano to hit a string, which then produces the note. It's a matter of opinion.

EDIT: That's some ninjaing there.

edited 4th Oct '12 8:59:12 PM by CrystalGlacia

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

Yes but it's so strange i thought there where 5 of them.

Yes, flutes usually get lumped in with woodwinds, but they aren't reeded. And keyboards is a pretty broad term. Pianos are quasi-percussion (hammers on strings), but harpsichords are pure string (plucked strings), organs are flute-style wind, and I think a celesta strikes tubular bells or something. To not even get into electronic keyboards.

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"Keyboard" is more of an interface category than a medium category the way "winds" or "strings" are.

Yeah, it has to be. A keyboard is the most distinctive feature of such instruments, so they have to be grouped as such, but past the keyboard, they're very disparate.

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• pipe organ - wind
• piano, harpsichord, clavichord - string
• synthesizer, electronic organ - electronic (or maybe one could make a special category for those with saw-wheels)

Thanks for the information. I was just trying to think of the fifth category which I perceived but didn't exist. So I could have an instrument of that category for Link's new forum in a role play. Ocarina is a woodwind, Pipes is brass, Drums are percussion, and Guitar is a strings instrument. Thanks for the help anyway.

Go for a keyboard instrument; it's the traditional fifth category.

I don't know what to say about the keyboard designation; that's what my music teachers have been calling it since I was in kindergarten.

"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

I just gave up and gone back to my grist idea the fluit.

Speaking of Ohio, does anyone know how to fill out an absentee ballot? Should a pen or a pencil?

"Eratoeir is a Gangsta."

I'd imagine the ballot itself will say somewhere on it. If it doesn't, call the Board of Elections office (or voter registrar, or whatever it's called.)

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Is "gonna" a word?

It's a slang contraction of "going to", so yes, it's a word, but one you'd only really use in fiction (in writing) or in casual company (in speech).

I really should stop thinking you're me.