Author Topic: Shameless Self Promotion (Read 33400 times)

tan510jomast · « **Reply #100 on:** April 21, 2009, 16:45 »

Quote from: le_cyclope on April 21, 2009, 16:34

Quote from: tan510jomast on April 21, 2009, 15:44

psst bat, flemishdreams should be capitalized - proper noun

and it should be Flemish's dreams, am I right?

Claude

no, not realy Claude... it's an adjective as in English, Spanish, Canadian, FLEMISH...
it's not a possessive, so no apostrophe required.
(OK.... end of English class)

tan510jomast · « **Reply #101 on:** April 21, 2009, 16:49 »

Quote from: gaja on April 21, 2009, 16:45

What is correct: FlemishDreams', FlemishDreams's or some other spelling? In Norwegian we only use ' when in genitiv when the name ends in -s. Otherwise we only add the asses without tails.

And according to the forum codes I've been thaught, one should adress other participants of the internet forum in the exact way that person spells his/her nick. I'm sorry for writing FlemishDreams' nick with small letters, but would request that you all spell mine without large letters. Unless you're angry with me. Not that anyone has used my nick here, just mentioning it since we already are far out in the forest picking berries.

well, if you consider that you would say Jess's dreams; Ness's boat; Chris's house, Bess's beast, etc.. All proper nouns and possessive cases...
then it should be Flemishdreams's dreams

However, it's not uncommon to see Master Peters' cottage, rather than Master Peters's cottage. Either way is acceptable, but if you love s's (ahem, cheeky cheeky... asses, rofl)... you may choose to say s's xxx

However, for common nouns, you never use s's...
as in ladies's room; you say ladies' room.

ok, this time for sure, English class is over

gostwyck · « **Reply #102 on:** April 21, 2009, 18:43 »

Quote from: gaja on April 21, 2009, 16:45

And according to the forum codes I've been thaught, one should adress other participants of the internet forum in the exact way that person spells his/her nick. I'm sorry for writing FlemishDreams' nick with small letters, but would request that you all spell mine without large letters. Unless you're angry with me. Not that anyone has used my nick here, just mentioning it since we already are far out in the forest picking berries.

To be honest I hate this modern 'texting' trend of ignoring the basic rules of grammer (like not using a capital letter to indicate a proper noun for example).

It's not big or clever and it doesn't make you look cool or trendy either __ just uneducated, lazy or stupid or all of the above. It is simply decending to the lowest level of ignorance/sloppiness of the participants and it is utterly laughable to call it a 'forum code'. A 'code' indicates some sort of standard but of course if it ever actually genuinely attained 'standardisation' __ then the ignorant, lazy and stupid would ignore those rules too.

rene · « **Reply #103 on:** April 21, 2009, 23:00 »

Quote from: alias on April 20, 2009, 12:18

Quote from: lisafx on April 20, 2009, 11:51
If the top seller in microstock is moving toward other revenue streams, it probably means that the rumored point of dimishing returns is a reality we will all have to deal with.

Can you usefully extrapolate anything from what one photographer does? Surely you have to look at trends, cost:earnings ratios etc. Personally I always wondered whether his costs were running rather high.

Only he knows what his business model is. Then again building his brand may be more important than just selling pictures at a profit. Perhaps he wants to try to use that brand for something else. Who can tell?

Sure, "something else" is comming.
Soon, there will be more contributors than buyers in microstock business.
Some people will try to get money from photographers. Services like teaching photography and postprocessing, keywording, uploading etc. will appear. Maybe even sites will try to make us pay storage fees.