[Redway]

Originally Posted by Stu

No, it does not take a hyphen. In addition you spelt 'vice' wrong, genius.

http://www.englishforums.com/English.../gqxx/post.htm

There ought to be a comma after the word "addition". And, thanks for sharing that link, I suppose.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Redway

Excuse me. The older a compound is in use, the more chances to it being written in one word, and vice versa. The hyphenated version tends to be a mid-way stage.

No, I'm pretty sure there's no hyphen.

[Kerry]

Redway - Hole - lay in it. You're deep enough now

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Livia

No, I'm pretty sure there's no hyphen.

Right. Very weird, that.

[CharlieO]

I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe that someone offered a place at Mensa would find TIBB sufficiently mentally stimulating.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Redway

There ought to be a comma after the word "addition".

I'm not claiming to be a member of Mensa.

You are. And you wrongly hyphenated vice versa and spelt 'vice' as 'vise'. In addition to your plethoa of other abortive traits.

As a trivial little footnote your argument has been directly copy and pasted from the following link : http://www.whitesmoke.com/using-hyphens.

And the part you copy and pasted bore no contextual relation and does not support an argument supporting the use of a hyphen in 'vice versa'.

In fact it directly rallies against it given that the term appears - unhyphenated - in that bit of copied text.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by CharlieO

I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe that someone offered a place at Mensa would find TIBB sufficiently mentally stimulating.

What an outrageous statement. Not all people at MENSA believe that intelligence is the way to everything. Of course it isn't: there's far more to life than education and intelligence. Stop stereotyping people.

Thank you.

[Kerry]

Originally Posted by Stu

I'm not claiming to be a member of Mensa.

You are. And you wrongly hyphenated vice versa and spelt 'vice' as 'vise'. In addition to your plethoa of other abortive traits.

As a trivial little footnote your argument has been directly copy and pasted from the following link : http://www.whitesmoke.com/using-hyphens.

And the part you copy and pasted bore no contextual relation and does not support an argument supporting the use of a hyphen in 'vice versa'.

In fact it directly rallies against it given that the term appears - unhyphenated - in that bit of copied text.

PMSL Busted

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Stu

I'm not claiming to be a member of Mensa.

You are. And you wrongly hyphenated vice versa and spelt 'vice' as 'vise'. In addition to your plethoa of other abortive traits.

As a trivial little footnote your argument has been directly copy and pasted from the following link : http://www.whitesmoke.com/using-hyphens.

And the part you copy and pasted bore no contextual relation and does not support an argument supporting the use of a hyphen in 'vice versa'.

In fact it directly rallies against it given that the term appears - unhyphenated - in that bit of copied text.

Oh, of course! I spelled the phrase incorrectly! Don't know why I did that. Thanks for spotting that for me. I'm sure I'm going to tell all my friends about the wonderful discovery I've made.

On a more serious note, cheers for that.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Redway

Don't you mean vise-versa (sic)?

No, I don't mean "vice versa" - I mean that you're in the wrong and I'm in the right .....

[CharlieO]

The Purpose of Mensa (quoted from their website):

'to provide a stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members'
'to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity'
'to encourage research into the nature, characteristics, and uses of intelligence'

I'm but that sounds like the complete opposite of TIBB and as if people applying need somewhere that stimulates them. Therefore why would you apply in the first place if you didn't agree with 'the purpose of Mensa'.

[Kerry]

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Redway

What an outrageous statement. Not all people at MENSA believe that intelligence is the way to everything. Of course it isn't: there's far more to life than education and intelligence. Stop stereotyping people.

Thank you.

Again... it's Mensa. Not MENSA. It is Latin for 'table'.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by CharlieO

The Purpose of Mensa (quoted from their website):

'to provide a stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members'
'to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity'
'to encourage research into the nature, characteristics, and uses of intelligence'

I'm but that sounds like the complete opposite of TIBB and as if people applying need somewhere that stimulates them. Therefore why would you apply in the first place if you didn't agree with 'the purpose of Mensa'.

Yes, because what people need is to be constantly crammed with information without ever receiving a bloody break.

Members of MENSA do not come here for "stimulation purposes; they come here for relief. You cannot expect people to be exposed to a world that knows only mathematics, English and reasoning: surely, those people deserve some sort of break, don't they?

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Livia

Again... it's Mensa. Not MENSA. It is Latin for 'table'.

I don't care.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Redway

I don't care.

Of course you don't.

[Kerry]

Originally Posted by Redway

I don't care.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

You know, I usually hate emoticons. But you, Kerry, have turned them into an artform.

[Redway]

Night, everyone.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

Especially not at twenty to three in the morning!

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Redway

No, I mean that I had an IQ of 140 from some crap website, but MENSA did indeed accept me. I cannot recall the actual score, but I was in the 99th percentile rank, which would be between 133 and 138.

Mensa didn't do much for your memory I see -selective it seems. A bit odd don't you think that you can't recall your actual score but can recall the variance levels and the percentile!!

ps. It is Mensa. Not MENSA. It's not an acroymn.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Mensa didn't do much for your memory I see -selective it seems. A bit odd don't you think that you can't recall your actual score but can recall the variance levels and the percentile!!

ps. It is Mensa. Not MENSA. It's not an acroymn.

Thank you, Pyramid.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Anyway its IQU as us clever folks know that a U follows a Q always

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Stu

No, it does not take a hyphen. In addition you spelt 'vice' wrong, genius.

http://www.englishforums.com/English.../gqxx/post.htm

I'll spell words how I want, thank you. Whether or not it's worthy of a hyphen is entirely at my discretion. OK, maybe it doesn't comply with the correct grammatical rules of English, but have you ever considered whether I, personally, feel like putting a hyphen in?

Anyway, I thought you didn't like me. Why talk to me, then? Not having a go, but your views are confusing.