One for the spelling police

[yellowjack]

Ah, yes. Thanks...

William Shakespeare said:

"Full fathom five thy father lies,

Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes,
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change,
into something rich and strange,
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell,
Ding-dong.

Hark! now I hear them, ding-dong, bell."

[marshalla]

liner33 said:

Scaletrix used to be worth a fair bit of money second hand but its pretty cheap now , good time to buy but as said most people have sets in the loft unused

[goldblum]

ATTAK Z said:

Pints said:

ATTAK Z said:

goldblum said:

No, that bit was a joke Hugo.

For a precis of my view you can read the posts between Walm and I.

not really spelling but prepositions take the accusative, dative or ablative case (I think)

Is it not nominative case being used instead of oblique?

There's certainly a missing comma.

You've lost me I'm afraid

The comma is a possibility, but I read the sentence without a break the way I'd have said it to the person if we were face to face, i.e., without a pause after 'view'. Like a number of grammar rules these things can boil down to personal opinion. English/English or American/English (well we know where we stand on that one). Modern English or old English, or somewhere 'twixt the two. There are, of course, a number of hard and fasts..such as starting sentences with a capital and ending with a full stop, but this is the internet and a certain informality applies otherwise we'd all be dating, signing, and Dear Sir-ing our posts!

As to the correct usage of prepositions I feel there's only one other way to rewrite the sentence in question and that's "..myself and Walm", but I felt that was slightly clumsy. Any other suggestions?

[ATTAK Z]

goldblum said:

ATTAK Z said:

Pints said:

ATTAK Z said:

goldblum said:

No, that bit was a joke Hugo.

For a precis of my view you can read the posts between Walm and I.

not really spelling but prepositions take the accusative, dative or ablative case (I think)

Is it not nominative case being used instead of oblique?

There's certainly a missing comma.

You've lost me I'm afraid

The comma is a possibility, but I read the sentence without a break the way I'd have said it to the person if we were face to face, i.e., without a pause after 'view'. Like a number of grammar rules these things can boil down to personal opinion. English/English or American/English (well we know where we stand on that one). Modern English or old English, or somewhere 'twixt the two. There are, of course, a number of hard and fasts..such as starting sentences with a capital and ending with a full stop, but this is the internet and a certain informality applies otherwise we'd all be dating, signing, and Dear Sir-ing our posts!

As to the correct usage of prepositions I feel there's only one other way to rewrite the sentence in question and that's "..myself and Walm", but I felt that was slightly clumsy. Any other suggestions?

'between Walm and me' is correct in my book and that's what I was referring to

[marshalla]

goldblum said:

As to the correct usage of prepositions I feel there's only one other way to rewrite the sentence in question and that's "..myself and Walm", but I felt that was slightly clumsy. Any other suggestions?

In the absence of a verb in which you could both participate, I'd recommend "Walm and me".

[goldblum]

OK thanks I'll bow before consensus on this.

[singlecoil]

Jon1967x said:

I'll accept your apology for bring a pilock earlier - and as a suggestion stop using words you don't understand.

[PoleDriver]

yellowjack said:

PoleDriver said:

smegmore said:

perhaps it's time for a sea change in attitude by the vast majority.

Now, I'm prepared to be 'outed' as a bit thick, but what exactly is the fault with this sentence? Apart from missing a capital letter at the beginning, I can't see it. Even then, the capital letter's absence could easily be explained by the quoting.

It's possible that I'm the one to be 'outed' here!
I believed that the phrase should have read "seed change" but after reading your comment above I did some googling only to find that no less a person than 'The Bard' actually used the phrase "sea change".
I will, therefore, withdraw my criticism and go back to sleep, perchance to dream!

[ATTAK Z]

PoleDriver said:

It's possible that I'm the one to be 'outed' here!
I believed that the phrase should have read "seed change" but after reading your comment above I did some googling only to find that no less a person than 'The Bard' actually used the phrase "sea change".
I will, therefore, withdraw my criticism and go back to sleep, perchance to dream!

you're not alone

[whoami]

5ohmustang said:

From my cold dead hands will someone take away my rights to bare arms.

[whoami]

KareemK said:

Muslims, like Protestants, Atheists, Neo-Cons and Jedi have that perogative.

[yellowjack]

whoami said:

5ohmustang said:

From my cold dead hands will someone take away my rights to bare arms.

Oi! Get a fking long sleeved shirt on! You're not coming in here dressed like that...

[marshalla]

McSam said:

I really think charities must cost themselves more money than they make by this sort of thing, purely due to pissing so many potential donators off.

[marshalla]

BlackST said:

Surprisingly an ambulance done exactky this today. A car turned left who was infront of the ambulance, a car on the opposite side of the road wanted to get out so the ambulance just stopped dead and let the car out.
I'll never understand why people do it if it makes the cars behind have to stop/ brake hard.

[whoami]

HTP99 said:

Obvious gold jewellery

Hugely fat woman with a child and a skinny runt of a boyfriend who wears an oversized tracksuit type ensamble

[marshalla]

Kinky said:

It's not a Lounge thread, as bourne out by the people already banned as a result of posting crap on it.

[yellowjack]

Hol said:

Your right, they do use the same 55w bulb .

Are you quite sure it's your right? I heard that it was your left. Depends which direction you're viewing it from, I suppose?

[tobinen]

DoubleSix said:

A wordsmith such as yourself should surely be aware that comma splices are exceptable where one is seeking to emulate spoken language.

[singlecoil]

oetzi said:

Why would anyone want to program drivers to live in fear and dawdle on empty roads, though? This is the bit that annoys people, the vast majority of whom drive safely already.

[uncinquesei]

ATTAK Z said:

goldblum said:

ATTAK Z said:

Pints said:

ATTAK Z said:

goldblum said:

No, that bit was a joke Hugo.

For a precis of my view you can read the posts between Walm and I.

not really spelling but prepositions take the accusative, dative or ablative case (I think)

Is it not nominative case being used instead of oblique?

There's certainly a missing comma.

You've lost me I'm afraid

The comma is a possibility, but I read the sentence without a break the way I'd have said it to the person if we were face to face, i.e., without a pause after 'view'. Like a number of grammar rules these things can boil down to personal opinion. English/English or American/English (well we know where we stand on that one). Modern English or old English, or somewhere 'twixt the two. There are, of course, a number of hard and fasts..such as starting sentences with a capital and ending with a full stop, but this is the internet and a certain informality applies otherwise we'd all be dating, signing, and Dear Sir-ing our posts!

As to the correct usage of prepositions I feel there's only one other way to rewrite the sentence in question and that's "..myself and Walm", but I felt that was slightly clumsy. Any other suggestions?

'between Walm and me' is correct in my book and that's what I was referring to

Ending a sentence with a preposition?