Grammar Police - Rejoice!!!!
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mybrainhurts said:
Carrot said:
That is excellent. Hopefully, the spelling and grammar police from this forum will put their skills to use for a change - where it actually matters rather than on public forums.
It matters everywhere, unless you want to want to be perceived as illiterate.Carrot said:
That is excellent. Hopefully, the spelling and grammar police from this forum will put their skills to use for a change - where it actually matters rather than on public forums.
Perhaps you could list those areas where correct useage of Engliah matters and those areas where it doesn't.Eric Mc said:
Carrot said:
That is excellent. Hopefully, the spelling and grammar police from this forum will put their skills to use for a change - where it actually matters rather than on public forums.
Perhaps you could list those areas where correct useage of Engliah matters and those areas where it doesn't.jagracer said:
mybrainhurts said:
Carrot said:
That is excellent. Hopefully, the spelling and grammar police from this forum will put their skills to use for a change - where it actually matters rather than on public forums.
It matters everywhere, unless you want to want to be perceived as illiterate.
jagracer said:
mybrainhurts said:
Carrot said:
That is excellent. Hopefully, the spelling and grammar police from this forum will put their skills to use for a change - where it actually matters rather than on public forums.
It matters everywhere, unless you want to want to be perceived as illiterate.Eric Mc said:
Carrot said:
That is excellent. Hopefully, the spelling and grammar police from this forum will put their skills to use for a change - where it actually matters rather than on public forums.
Perhaps you could list those areas where correct useage of Engliah matters and those areas where it doesn't.The purpose of language is communication. The purpose on punctuation is to make the intended meaning of the written word clear.
To make my meaning clear, my first sentence would be written just as correctly as:
'Might I suggest that it matters where the printed or written word is used.'
The difference is subtle and subtle is what the English language is so good at. Without punctuation it becomes a cacophony.
I write for money and I habitually use just three dictionaries but I have four books for help in usage and abusage.
Language is a tool. If you do not use punctuation correctly it is, in many ways, the same as cutting paper with a blunt pair of scissors.
It is unfortunate that learning and using correct punctuation can take time and effort. I cannot think of anything really worthwhile that does not.
Derek Smith said:
Eric Mc said:
Carrot said:
That is excellent. Hopefully, the spelling and grammar police from this forum will put their skills to use for a change - where it actually matters rather than on public forums.
Perhaps you could list those areas where correct useage of Engliah matters and those areas where it doesn't.The purpose of language is communication. The purpose on punctuation is to make the intended meaning of the written word clear.
To make my meaning clear, my first sentence would be written just as correctly as:
'Might I suggest that it matters where the printed or written word is used.'
The difference is subtle and subtle is what the English language is so good at. Without punctuation it becomes a cacophony.
I write for money and I habitually use just three dictionaries but I have four books for help in usage and abusage.
Language is a tool. If you do not use punctuation correctly it is, in many ways, the same as cutting paper with a blunt pair of scissors.
It is unfortunate that learning and using correct punctuation can take time and effort. I cannot think of anything really worthwhile that does not.
Derek Smith said:
Eric Mc said:
Carrot said:
That is excellent. Hopefully, the spelling and grammar police from this forum will put their skills to use for a change - where it actually matters rather than on public forums.
Perhaps you could list those areas where correct useage of Engliah matters and those areas where it doesn't.The purpose of language is communication. The purpose on punctuation is to make the intended meaning of the written word clear.
To make my meaning clear, my first sentence would be written just as correctly as:
'Might I suggest that it matters where the printed or written word is used.'
The difference is subtle and subtle is what the English language is so good at. Without punctuation it becomes a cacophony.
I write for money and I habitually use just three dictionaries but I have four books for help in usage and abusage.
Language is a tool. If you do not use punctuation correctly it is, in many ways, the same as cutting paper with a blunt pair of scissors.
It is unfortunate that learning and using correct punctuation can take time and effort. I cannot think of anything really worthwhile that does not.
Diderot said:
Purpose 'OF'
Thank you for pointing that out. I assume you realise that it is a literal and not incorrect grammar.Going back to my earlier post, I have no fetish with regards language. The English teacher in my final year at school used to rail against split infinitives. When at art college and producing an advert I mentioned the split infinitive in the headline and I was stunned by our German lecturer. He told me, in his heavily accented English, that it was no worse than a split nominative, which meant it was not wrong, the clever chap.
BliarOut said:
I have an adjudication from 1767 hanging on my dining room wall, it's A0 in size, written in 200 year old legalese and contains not one piece of punctuation. You try reading that!
You try reading statments written by probationary PCs.A small point, but didn't A sizes of paper come in around the beginning of the 1960s?
Derek Smith said:
BliarOut said:
I have an adjudication from 1767 hanging on my dining room wall, it's A0 in size, written in 200 year old legalese and contains not one piece of punctuation. You try reading that!
You try reading statments written by probationary PCs.A small point, but didn't A sizes of paper come in around the beginning of the 1960s?
I merely used A0 as indicative sizing. WhoseGeneration said:
jagracer said:
mybrainhurts said:
It matters everywhere, unless you want to want to be perceived as illiterate.
Did you need the comma in that sentence?Ok m8?
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