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Manta · Boot Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 35

[PUZZLE] grammarwork.txt {SD 3/family/gammarwork.txt}

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 11:32 am

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When you have tasted flight,
you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward.
For there you have been, and there you long to return.
-Leonardo DaVinci on Flight of Birds

hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

I would say the answer to 5 is b.

I don't believe areas of studies are capitalized unless they describe languages or ethnicities (English or Asian), describe individual courses (Geography 200), or describe departments (Department of Anthropology).

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 12:23 pm

nivra · Veteran Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 103

In American High Schools, which this homework seems to be talking about(cf. Senior Prom), geometry is usually considered a course name. For example, a typical math sequence is: Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-Calculus

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 1:01 pm

madam o'brien · Boot Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 31

My answers are

1. a
2. a
3. a
4. a
5. a
6. a
7. b
8. a
9. b
10. b

So , I agree with the OP with everything but the last one. I'm not at all sure I'm right here but I think it should be "We parked our car on Thirty-Fourth Street."

Edit

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 2:32 pm

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A gun is not a weapon Marge, it's a tool. Like a butcher knife, or a harpoon, or... or an alligator.

nivra · Veteran Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 103

wow... everyone's answers are different. I get, "aaabaabbbb"

I consider Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior all capitalized.
It's been awhile since HS, so I may be wrong, but I thought they were class names, so therefore capitalized.

I consider north a direction, so "the north" is unspecific.

Thirty-Fourth, I'm not sure about, but I feel like the most common spelling is to capitalize both words.

Wow, who'd have thought there'd be such discrepancy in capitalization?

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 3:02 pm

hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

I was wondering about that post pre-edit...

I would side with the original poster's evaluation of Thirty-fourth street being correct.

The Chicago Manual of Style 7.124 reads:

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 3:17 pm

hamatoyoshi · Veteran Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 127

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 3:33 pm

nhansard · Decorated Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 159

**Posted:** Wed May 11, 2005 3:43 pm

clalonde · Boot Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 39

two thoughts

**Posted:** Fri May 13, 2005 1:12 pm

ShadowRuleZ · Boot Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 47

Re: two thoughts

**Posted:** Tue May 17, 2005 7:21 pm

nhansard · Decorated Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 159

Given that there has been some debate as to the correct answers to the questions, and the thought that the answer string might be the password to something. I took and made a list of all possible answer strings (10 bits, a or b). I've used this as the dictionary for a .zip password cracker and did not get a result for ppics2.zip or thingstocopy.zip. So either the ab-string is not the password to one of the outstanding files, or there is some sort of permutation on the string needed. I'll include my list of 10 digit (a|b) words for anyone who wants to mess with it.

-Nick

**Posted:** Mon May 23, 2005 7:11 pm

dashcat

It's late and I'm tired but could this be a Bacon cipher? If I remember correctly Bacon ciphers are 5 characters long? So the solution to this would be two letters. I don't have a source for the Bacon cipher on this computer but I know Enaxor has a good one. I'm probably wrong here but this has always reminded me of the Bacon or Baconian Cipher.

**Posted:** Tue May 24, 2005 6:19 am