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Am I allowed to comment on that?You won't get away with that in GD mate
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Am I allowed to comment on that?You won't get away with that in GD mate
So long as it's not fun
D'oh.
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durhamplumber
Efl....im sure i went to school with you..you were annoying then. And you are still an aggravating clever little **** now.Please feel free to correct my grammar.
No, you couldn't have. Mine was a Grammar School.
You didn't know me then.
No. I'm 6'1".
Thanks for the "clever", though.
Thank you.
Two lower case 'I's , no apostrophe, too many full stops, lower case 'Y' and you can't begin a sentence with 'and'.
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Shutpa
You can, you know! I have altered your quote to illustrate that the use of conjunctions such as and, but and so, often add emphasis to the written word. But their use is not limited to modern times, as the following quote illustrates.
‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.’
Genesis, Chapter 1, The Bible, King James version
To be fair, when God wrote that bit his primary school teacher hadn't got round to telling him not to write repetitive lists. "On my holidays I went to Judea and then I made some friends and then we went fishing and then we had supper and then I was crucified. If that's a good Friday I wouldn't want a bad one."
And of course English grammar, somewhat like spelling, is another academic ideal which we all had hammered into us if we were at school in the 1960s or earlier. I thought that modern grammar was supposed to be less pedantic. I was told by someone who was taking a fairly recent university course in computer science, that as long as reports and so on actually made sense to the reader, they were not penalised for "bad" grammar or spelling.
Before somebody comes and hits me over the knuckles with a ruler, the "And" at the start of the first sentence was deliberate. I couldn't honestly give a toss about any other errors I may have made, no matter how heinous.
This is after all's said and done a forum about DIY. As long as people make sense of some sort, does it really matter?
Before somebody comes and hits me over the knuckles with a ruler, the "And" at the start of the first sentence was deliberate. I couldn't honestly give a toss about any other errors I may have made, no matter how heinous.
This is after all's said and done a forum about DIY. As long as people make sense of some sort, does it really matter?
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blightymam
I think this is apt right now...
Grins.
Grins.
I am not sure the Bible should be held up as an authority on English grammar - or anything else.
Anyway:
Do you think that the right attitude for a university?
What about the OED redefining the meaning of a word because so many use it wrongly.
I commented on a post purportedly written in an accent pointing out that everyone would read it and say it in whatever accent they have thus defeating the aim of the exercise.
A subsequent post said I was an aggravating clever little **** and invited me to correct its badly written form.
Anyway:
Why did it have to be hammered in?
Pedantic is not the correct word when correcting errors.
It might have made sense but not conveyed the intended meaning.
Do you think that the right attitude for a university?
What about the OED redefining the meaning of a word because so many use it wrongly.
Deliberate for what reason? You could have used the latest fad and started every sentence with 'so'.
Do you have the same attitude at work? If not, why not.
No one was complaining about anyone's grammar or spelling.
I commented on a post purportedly written in an accent pointing out that everyone would read it and say it in whatever accent they have thus defeating the aim of the exercise.
A subsequent post said I was an aggravating clever little **** and invited me to correct its badly written form.
I'm pretty sure it was a bunch of old men
I rest my case.
As I said, as far as the correctness of English used on a forum, or how someone reads a bit of nonsense I wrote as a joke. I really don't care.
Really.
So I see!
