Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Point system or Points system?

Both forms seem to be in use for describing a penalty or bonus system 
based on scores. Which is correct? Is there a possible difference in 
meaning?

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My personal preference would be the singular, which seems more common 
to me, but I don’t see much difference between the two. The “s” on 
“points” seems superfluous, and it probably arose in writing just from 
the sound being there already, from the “s” in “system.”
 
“A system based on the number of points…”
“A point system…”
“A points system…"
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

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Thanks for your reply!
Prosit 2014! :)

 Prosit 2014! :)
 
Best wishes to everyone for 2014.
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

 Best wishes to everyone for 2014.
 
 
Best wishes to all those Joes from NY!
(or whatever nickname they use)
 
 
-- 
Put all your eggs in one basket and -- WATCH THAT BASKET.
    -- Mark Twain
 

 (or whatever nickname they use)
 
Oh, yeah, sorry. I should have explained. I upgraded to Mavericks on my 
Mac and the newsreader I was using went belly-up. The programmer has no 
interest in upgrading it, so I had to find another one. I tried a few, 
with the result being a new nick each time.
 
Finally settled on Unison. I think this one will last, so I hope to 
remain, Yours Truly, JoeWolfDee. (at least for a while)
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

 while)
 
 
What is Wolf for?
 
 
BTW how is going with the new Mayor?
 
 
-- 
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world
owes you nothing. It was here first.
    -- Mark Twain
 

 BTW how is going with the new Mayor?
 
My middle intial is "W." I've become enamored of wolves. I just felt 
like throwing something in there, after the "W." If I were Native 
American my name would be "Wolf Who Sleeps Late in Cold, Dark Weather."
 
Like today: 12 degrees (-11 C) and windy, with a wind-chill factor of 
-4 (=20 C).
 
The new mayor is doing okay so far. (It is a little soon to tell...) He 
was out early this morning shoveling snow from his front walk. Later he 
had is famous, Afro'd son Dante finish the job. There were paparazzi 
all over the place. Slow news day.
 
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

 wind-chill factor of -4 (=20 C).
 
Should be "wind-chill factor of -4 *(-20 C)*.
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

 had is famous, Afro'd
 
"Afro'd" stands for Afroed, as in have own hairdo Afro style?
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 "Afro'd" stands for Afroed, as in have own hairdo Afro style?
 
Correct. Somehow "Afroed" didn't look right, so I went with the apostrophe.
 
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/08/ode-to-dante-de-blasios-afro.html
 
 
BY THE WAY: I saw that in my original post I had written
"Later he had is [sic] famous Afro'd son..."
instead of
"...his famous..."
 
That was a typo that reflected the way the sentence would have been 
pronounced in normal speech.
 
Still, no excuse for not proofreading more carefully.
 
Maybe I should lay off the Martinis altogether.
 
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

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With a  wind-chill factor of -4 *(-20 C) I couldn't type my own name, 
let alone longer sentences! I even doubt I could survive for a long 
time! Maybe ADPUF would thrive, as he is from the northern lands  of 
Westeros! :D
 
 


 
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

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Well, I'm a former New Englander who used to laugh at New York City 
winters because they're usually relatively milder. In the 23 years that 
I've lived here, apparently I've gone soft because this is no fun.
 
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 


 
 
:-)
 
How could you sleep with that?
 
 
-- 
In a hotel in Athens:
"Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the
hours of 9 and 11 a.m. daily."
 

 Westeros! :D 
 
 
As for now, only rain here, rain, rain and rain again...
 
They have a colder winter climate in Milan or Turin, though.
 
 
-- 
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by
the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
    -- G.B. Shaw
 

 They have a colder winter climate in Milan or Turin, though.
 
Yes, of course that's outside temperature. Some areas have been without 
power for a couple of days. Not here, thank heaven.
 
I missed edevils's reference to Westeros, but since I've never seen 
Game of Thrones, so it didn't register.
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

 How could you sleep with that?
 
Easy: like having a built-in cushion. It just sprang back when I got 
up. Mind you, that was a long time ago. Nothing like that adorns my 
head now.
 
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

 of Thrones, so it didn't register.
 
The North is a region in GoT's world. A very cold and tough place. :)
 
"..All were clad in mail hauberks or shirts of sewn rings, with heavy 
boots and thick cloaks, some of wool and some of fur. The north is hard 
and cold, and has no mercy, Ned had told her when she first came to 
Winterfell a thousand years ago."
 

 Nothing like that adorns my head now.
 
Perhaps the famous Dante will bring that hairstyle back? :)
 

 first came to Winterfell a thousand years ago.
 
I thought *I* was old. :)
-- 
JoeWolfDee
 

 that adorns my head now.
 
 
I suppose it needed a lot of care and dressing to keep the
perfect spherical form.
 
And moustaches too... figo!
 
There was a time when male hair fashion dictated long whiskers.
 
 
-- 
"La politica � la sottile arte di prendere voti dai poveri e
finanziamenti dai ricchi, promettendo di proteggere gli uni
dagli altri."
                -- Arthur Bloch
 

 There was a time when male hair fashion dictated long whiskers.
 
This photo was taken in the early '80s for the hospital's employee 
newsletter where I worked.
 
-- 
JoeWolfDee