Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.
Midwing:
You weren't ignored - I acknowledged your response. What further concession would you have liked? I then simply corrected the misconception that I believed you to be incorrect in what you had said. I agreed whole-heartedly.
As for why I was giving you my life story, no, there was no point to that. I thought somebody in a parallel dimension cared. I was talking at whoever would listen.
As for Math, DrNerd, don't even get me started. We were left to teach ourselves the remaining two chapters of the book as we were seen as "capable". The teacher focused her efforts on teaching algebra, simple x+y=z formulae, for the third or fourth time that year.
witch:
It's because the morons are all breeding like rabbits.
Roflganger:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 July 23, 23:51:49
Oh, and I can easily believe you weren't taught how to write effectively.
Quote from: Midwing on 2009 July 24, 00:18:16
This being the reason for asking in the first place. It's never too late to learn.
Indeed. "Funny you may think it" parses to me as "Funny, you might think so but..." more than the apparently intended "You might think it's funny, but..." I'm not saying that was the source of Rohina's confusion, but it certainly caused some for me.
rohina:
People who start sentences with "This being" tend to be lost causes anyway, because even if you can teach them to express themselves grammatically, the whole "this being" construction tends to be a marker for "causality, it is not for me".
jolrei:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 July 24, 07:41:20
People who start sentences with "This being" tend to be lost causes anyway...
HEY! I do that sometimes. This being the case, perhaps I should repent me of my wrongdoing, although I really think I use the construct correctly. I am open to comments and criticism, of course.
As a lost cause, perhaps I should sing "Dixie" (or was that a Glorious Cause?).
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