sandy. Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 We seem to have forgotten that there are a lot of PN members writing in from Europe, Asia and other parts of the world. As long as they got their messages across to us, I think their grammatical mistakes should be forgiven. Sometimes, it is only a typo mistake here and there, written in haste. We should be more tolerant because we make mistakes, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_dvorak Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 "The period is always placed inside the ending quote." Only in American English. In British English (and who was first, after all?), the convention is reversed, with the punctuation usually outside of the quote (note that this is also true in American English when a semicolon or a colon is involved). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografz Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Jim, capital C is incorrect, errors and sentence are misspelled. Another violation is the use of real, when it should be really. For example, "My wife was real mad at me last night". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy. Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 <i>end italic</I> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max_wall Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Jim:"Can you find the three errers in this sentance?" I can only find two errors, in the form of misspelled words (errers, sentance)?If I am correct, then there are not three errors in terms of grammar, only two. However, there is an error in math. So, technically, Jim, you are correct. There are three errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Grant and Grunt. So Sorry, but i have just got to laugh. Funniest thing you have ever said, Jeff, or should i say Jiffras. Well i'm always in trouble with the Grammar Police. Always in trouble. Wish i could spell and stuff. Unfortunately, at reform school they never bothered. Do i care...No. Just for you Jeff�Vinderloo sayings Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. And The true photographer finds the light if, like the candle, he is his own fuel, consuming himself. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Yup, all worth getting terribly upset about. Plus the Brits save tons of paper an ink by not puttin' periods after title abreviations like Mr and Dr (Hey I need one at the end of the sentance!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted March 10, 2003 Author Share Posted March 10, 2003 I knew this would turn to chaos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Rowlett Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 "i" before "e" except after "c" except for eight exceptions: weird, height, and foreign leisure. Neither seize nor forfeit either. Backups? We don’t need no stinking ba #.’ _ , J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 My pet peeves:- Aluminum instead of Aluminium. I hear it pronounced as... "Aloominum" in the USA! Correctly pronounced it sounds like... "Al-you-min-ium". Sulfur instead of Sulphur. Labratory instead of Laboratory. You always make it sound like a lavatory! Checkbook instead of Chequebook. Color instead of Colour. And many, many more. And why can no American ever pronounce the name Leicestershire without help? It is pronounced... "Lestershire". Obvious surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_n_f Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Please use pronouns. There are too many examples like: (I) Had a thought the other day... (We) Went for a drive this weekend... And please, for the love of God, stop the insane fabricated buzz terms: shore up, slam dunk (not related to b-ball), ramp up...(Sorry American friends!) I suppose we should all be glad that this isn't a German forum. Ä Ö Ü § ß à µ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 For anyone in any doubt as to the American leadership's awesome mastery of the English language.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/bh/rumsfeld.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 </i></i></i> I think html Police would be more useful than Gramma Police. Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Check out this site on regional uses of language and pronunciation in the United States. http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_kastner Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Man!!! <p>Best posting here in the last few years!!!!! <p>I take it you already know <br>Of tough and bough, enough and dough. <br>Others may stumble but not you <br>On hiccough, thorough, tough and through. <br>Well done! And now you wish perhaps <br>To learn of less familiar traps? <br>Beware of heard, a dreadful word <br>That looks like beard and sounds like bird. <br>And dead: it's said like bed not bead -- <br>For Goodness' sake don't call it deed! <br>Watch out for meat and great and threat <br>They rhyme with sweet and straight and debt. <br>A moth is not a moth in mother, <br>Nor both in bother, broth in brother. <br>Nor dear and fear for bear and pear. <br>And then there's dose and rose and lose <br>Just look them up -- and goose and choose <br>And cork and work, and card and ward, <br>And font and front, and word and sword, <br>And do and go and thwart and cart -- <br>Come, come I've hardly made a start! <br>A dreadful language? Man alive! <br>I'd mastered it when I was five. <p>(I love this... I'm truly sorry, I forget who it was, who wrote it... Ogden Nash??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland_schmid Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 German instead of English:o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_fromm1 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 the tough ploughed through the dough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will_woodford1 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 People: Deal with it! E-writing does not demand the same standard that "real" writing does because it's more like speech than it is like textbook writing. As such, we shouldn't trip on it so much (if you get my drift) when people make little errors. Do you worry about how a word is spelled--or spelt, for that matter--when you're talking? Eye dew knot think sew, so don't worry about it here, or should I say hear? Next: Don't sweat the regionalisms and mistakes that are clearly the result of somebody expressing himself in a foreign language . (Too bad English has no neuter singular pronoun, my pet peeve is the use of "themself" as a singular pronoun.) PS The true word freaks should check out Anguish Languish http://www.justanyone.com/allanguish.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 "E-writing does not demand the same standard that "real" writing does because it's more like speech than it is like textbook writing." If you say so. Funny how facial expressions, body language and all sorts of other non-verbal cues never come across on my monitor, though. Emoticons are a poor substitute. Face it, when you are writing, your words represent you. Like it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly_flanigan1 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Aint this a funny thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee_shively Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Duh, this is all over my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markci Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 <i> If I am correct, then there are not three errors in terms of grammar, only two. However, there is an error in math. So, technically, Jim, you are correct. There are three errors. </i> <p> Yes, but if there are three errors, then there are only two errors! Which means there are three errors. Which means there are only two errors... <p> This is the sort of sentence Godel would love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_b1 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 In terms of useage, we have unusual cliche's: "You water the horse, but do you milk the cat?" Oh, my personal gripe is "principal" in lieu of "principle." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_kennedy2 Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Irregardless. Enormity used as synonym for big rather than evil. Glad you picked up on "loose". To be as picky as Nero Wolfe: using contact as a verb. Using data (plural) as datum (singular). Using Nikon rather than Canon. Please tell me: what is the preferred plural for lens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert knapp md Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 In all fairness, the Brits do spell lens as lense and checkbook as chequebook. Nice and quaint, n'est-ce pas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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