Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.
stephyd:
This thread is nothing but an exhibition of verbiose pomposity . I think, in all my life, I have never read such an outpouring of needless animosity to other people, regarding almost irrelevant triviality. As an Englishwoman, I can assure you that English is a language constantly changing in form, structure and content. So much so that our dictionaries and grammar books are updated regularly. In other words, we don't actually give a damn how you write something, as long as it is clearly understandable. We even have a Society for Plain English (who would consider this thread as an offence to the English language) who are held with great regard. We do have basic rules of grammar, but beyond that, it is our greatest joy to toy and play with our language and find new ways of expressing ourselves. In other words, UK English is constantly growing, and long may it continue to do so. Britannia rules, OK!
Your inane chitchat regarding the minutiae of our wonderful and adaptable English language is no more than v.d. pontificated by anal retentives, pompous self-deluded asses with nothing better to do with their time
In plain English - what a load of tripe!
ZeKat:
Quote from: stephyd on 2009 July 25, 12:29:02
This thread is nothing but an exhibition of verbiose pomposity . I think, in all my life, I have never read such an outpouring of needless animosity to other people, regarding almost irrelevant triviality. As an Englishwoman, I can assure you that English is a language constantly changing in form, structure and content. So much so that our dictionaries and grammar books are updated regularly. In other words, we don't actually give a damn how you write something, as long as it is clearly understandable. We even have a Society for Plain English (who would consider this thread as an offence to the English language) who are held with great regard. We do have basic rules of grammar, but beyond that, it is our greatest joy to toy and play with our language and find new ways of expressing ourselves. In other words, UK English is constantly growing, and long may it continue to do so. Britannia rules, OK!
Your inane chitchat regarding the minutiae of our wonderful and adaptable English language is no more than v.d. pontificated by anal retentives, pompous self-deluded asses with nothing better to do with their time
In plain English - what a load of tripe!
Still, you need to stop using double spaces, and especially spaces before a full stop, no matter how you decide to spell. Also, it's spelled "verbose". I think you should stick to plain English, really.
Kyna:
Quote from: stephyd on 2009 July 25, 12:29:02
as long as it is clearly understandable.
That's the critical part of your post. Personally, I find posts where people have taken the trouble to use appropriate punctuation and correct spelling to be much clearer and much more understandable than posts that lack those attributes.
snabul:
For me, english is a foreign language. I learn english inter alia by reading your postings.
Most of the time it is very hard to translate the gobbledygook (?) that befalls me at other sites.
So, for me it is very comfortable to have the GRAMMAR POLICE around, here.
rufio:
Quote from: rohina on 2009 July 25, 06:00:51
It can't be a subordinate clause if it is the ONLY clause.
Since it was the object of a preposition, it's hard to see how it could be anything else.
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When exactly? Oh, say when you don't confuse nouns with their homonyms?
Confusing homophones is a lexical issue, though, not a syntactical one. In any case, there were no confused homophones in that fragment.
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