Please help me conjugate "DIS" !!!

[lovetoscrap]

Okay, I am working on my LGMHPCs for my trip and need some help to make sure I am conjugating and spelling the forms of DIS that I am using ...

As in:

DISer -- I am a DISer.
DISes -- She DISes also.
DISed-- I DISed at work today.
DISing-- I should be in bed but am DISing instead.

Have I spelled these correctly? For some reason my spell check is NO help

Is it proper to use the capitol letter/lower case combo, or should it be all upper case?

And am I missing any forms?

 

[sunny_]

It looks good to me, but I'm no expert! You probably know more than I do!

 

[AJKMOM]

Hate to play the Devil's Advocate, but I say "I am a DIS'er". I put an apostrophe in there.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Hate to play the Devil's Advocate, but I say "I am a DIS'er". I put an apostrophe in there.

I wondered about that. I think I have been known to do it both ways. I guess technically the apostrophe is in there to show that DIS is a shortened term for "disboards.com" .Like it is used in contractions to take the place of the missing letters.

Hmmmm, wonder what is the correct way. Maybe I should post this on the CB where I will get more responses--not sure I will want all of them though!!!!

I guess I can don my flame proof suit and head over. . . .

 

[sunny_]

I wondered about that. I think I have been known to do it both ways. I guess technically the apostrophe is in there to show that DIS is a shortened term for "disboards.com" .Like it is used in contractions to take the place of the missing letters.

Hmmmm, wonder what is the correct way. Maybe I should post this on the CB where I will get more responses--not sure I will want all of them though!!!!

I guess I can don my flame proof suit and head over. . . .

LOL! Good luck!!

 

[Darian]

Hi lovetoscrap ! The guy you really need to ask is Pete Werner. The head mouse in this house. If Pete meant DISboards.com (as it appears on his home page) then one can infer that the capitol letters each stand for a word. Such as "Disney Information Service" or some other thing. If only the "D" were capitolized, then one may infer that it is simply the shortening of the word "Disney."

In the first instance, you would continue to use all caps when conjugating "DIS" and according to AACR2 rules you and the other poster are correct that an apostrophe would be inserted to replace the missing letters.

In the second instance you would use "Dis" but still use the apostrophe for the same reasons.

AACR2 stands for Anglo American Cataloguing Rules 2. This tedious publication covers all manner of cataloguing rules and especially how abbreviations, numbers and such are to be written and how they should be alphabetized. Having a uniform list of these spellings is critical to having a functioning cataloguing system. I was a bibliographic researcher at the University of California for three years. But now paper catalogues are things of the past. Instead they were displaced by the blunt stupidity of computer searches. Sorry to ramble.

 

[lovetoscrap]

Hi lovetoscrap ! The guy you really need to ask is Pete Werner. The head mouse in this house. If Pete meant DISboards.com (as it appears on his home page) then one can infer that the capitol letters each stand for a word. Such as "Disney Information Service" or some other thing. If only the "D" were capitolized, then one may infer that it is simply the shortening of the word "Disney."

In the first instance, you would continue to use all caps when conjugating "DIS" and according to AACR2 rules you and the other poster are correct that an apostrophe would be inserted to replace the missing letters.

In the second instance you would use "Dis" but still use the apostrophe for the same reasons.

AACR2 stands for Anglo American Cataloguing Rules 2. This tedious publication covers all manner of cataloguing rules and especially how abbreviations, numbers and such are to be written and how they should be alphabetized. Having a uniform list of these spellings is critical to having a functioning cataloguing system. I was a bibliographic researcher at the University of California for three years. But now paper catalogues are things of the past. Instead they were displaced by the blunt stupidity of computer searches. Sorry to ramble.

Yea, I was hoping that Webmater Pete would help out over here--since this is his baby and he can make the rules however he wants!!! But, I don't see him much around here unless someone is getting in trouble. Poor guy. I assume he started this because of a love of all things Disney, but he doesn't even get to enjoy it--unless he has a secret screen name we don't know about.

I know I could PM him but really, I don't think this a pressing issue that needs to bother him. I figure there enough DISers (or is that DIS'ers???) around to make the decisions for him. Just like they have determined the color lime green, the MHPC, and now getting Focked!!!

Sometimes I wonder what Pete thinks about all of this, and if he ever imagined when he started this, that it would expand to THIS!!! Almost more than the thought of meeting and speaking with Walt himself --I would love to talk to Webmaster Pete about how this little site has become a culture unto itself!!!

 

[lovetoscrap]

Okay, I was just informed on the CB that DIS is short for Disney Information Station, the original name of the site. So Darian you were very close on your guess!

So DIS is an abreviation (that is now more like it's own word to us, I guess like "scuba" and "radar") but I think from what you said it would still have an apostrophe?

From this information it would also seem that the correct pronounciation is /dis/ which I wasn't sure of.

 

[Simba22]

Hate to play the Devil's Advocate, but I say "I am a DIS'er". I put an apostrophe in there.

I alway write it DISer