Suitable / best new description ??

[stoo23]

Not sure if what I have written for the New description is ideal or not.

Thoughts ??

[NoCforMe]

Take out the Odd Capitalization and scare quotes and you're fine (well, a little copy editing):

General reference material (books and articles) for X86/X64 32- & 64-bit assembly language and various other languages.

[stoo23]

You know, I'll do a deal with you,... I'll edit it, (as you have suggested), as long as YOU Stop referring to "Scare Quotes",... something that ONLY exists in Your mind and world,.. OK ???

Do WE have a deal ??   

I've done my bit, it's up to you to now.

I won't mention, your penchant for Micro$oft and Akshooly etc,... we all have our little quirks 

[NoCforMe]

I won't mention, your penchant for Micro$oft and Akshooly etc,... we all have our little quirks 

Oh, mention them all you like, doesn't bother me.
But I would never use those in an official description on a site like this. They're for private use only.

[sinsi]

General reference material (books and articles) for X86/X64 32 & 64 bit assembly language and various other languages.

My thoughts, as a pedantic nitpicker:
    The usual convention is x86 and x64 (lower case x).
    The 32 & 64 bit part is redundant (x86 & x64 is the same)

I am curious to know, what was the original description with the scare quotes?

[stoo23]

Yeah, whatever, this is realistically a pretty Private almost backwoods locality, where realistically, stuff like that shouldn't really matter !!

Many members here can't spell properly or use English brilliantly and some post crap that's like a cryptic crossword to decipher, but no-one is constantly 'on their case' about it !!

WE are Not Perfect,.. least I am prepared to admit to it and happily live with that reality.

Why get annoyed, it's not good for your health,.. better things to do in life and far bigger/worse things to get upset about.

[stoo23]

I simply had 'Reference' written that way,... 

The usual convention is x86 and x64 (lower case x).
The 32 & 64 bit part is redundant (x86 & x64 is the same)

Thanks, ... Done 

[zedd151]

Arguably you might also remove "(books and articles)" since the phrase 'reference material' basically has that covered, imo.

I just picked a nit that sinsi missed. 
Simpler is better, in some cases.

[sinsi]

To be fair, if I had seen it as General "reference" material it would have been odd, because to me anything in quotes is usually sarcastic.
Preface it with "so-called" and see what a difference it makes.

Never heard of them being called scary quotes, though.

[sinsi]

I just picked a nit that sinsi missed. 

I like to share with my friends 

[stoo23]

because to me anything in quotes is usually sarcastic.

Odd that, as whilst that can be the case, it usually Only applies within written and invariably previous content leading to the item contained in the Quotation marks.

Names and Titles of things, like book titles, films and record tracks / songs etc are quite commonly enclosed within quotes, as well as actual Quotes and other Statements in Single quotes.

I had posted info' and references to this previously, for David's benefit, as it obviously bugs the F**k out of him, but is not always a sarcastic application, nor "Scary" ???, .. I have NO idea where that reference/description comes from, certainly NOT British or Australian.

Arguably you might also remove "(books and articles)" since the phrase 'reference material' basically has that covered

Good point,.. done 

[zedd151]

Good point,.. done 

Shorter but still descriptive.

[sinsi]

OK, one last thing that jarred me

and various other languages

Let's hope that the Python/Ruby horde don't take that as a challenge

[zedd151]

OK, one last thing that jarred me

and various other languages

Let's hope that the Python/Ruby horde don't take that as a challenge

It would have to be 'languages' in THAT case.   (with quotation marks)   
Sarcasm intended

I am pretty sure that C would be one of those languages, as a lot of documentation uses C. An easy conversion to assembler in most cases. (Nevermind the recent structure and macro {within a structure} issues)

[stoo23]

Hey, by the way, seeing as we are once again Moving stuff to more appropriate places,.. there is a whole Pile of stuff in the Tools & Toys section of the Microsoft 64 bit MASM Board, that to my mind has no place being there !!

Can you guys have a look and offer your thoughts / suggestions etc ??
cheers