29 Nov 2007, 1:28 pm
Macallan wrote:
Is it very difficult to keep a dictionary and thesaurus next to the pc and use it? For most people, apparently so 
Dictionary.COM
No excuses! *slap*
29 Nov 2007, 1:30 pm
29 Nov 2007, 1:33 pm
Makes me wonder how some kids ever managed to make it out of grade-school Language Arts, being completely unable to spell, or string together a simple sentence! (Let alone high school, where you should be doing some fairly advanced writing, appreciating Shakespeare and the like.) 
29 Nov 2007, 1:40 pm
ChelseaOcean wrote:
And, since you asked for it by starting this thread, you're incorrect to say that not dangling prepositions is "certainly neither last nor least." In fact, as it was the final thing in your list, it is indeed last, but not least.
I'm almost embarrassed to say that I knew it was wrong, etc... but not what the writer meant. I guess I'm just TOO bored.
At first blush they might APPEAR to be similar, but "last, but not least" has a distinct meaning it means that, although it is the last thing SAID, it should NOT be given the least WEIGHT(importance/significance). To say "neither last nor least" says it wasn't last (though it WAS), and it isn't least (The meaning of which is vague).
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29 Nov 2007, 1:49 pm
BlueMax wrote:
Macallan wrote:
Is it very difficult to keep a dictionary and thesaurus next to the pc and use it? For most people, apparently so
Dictionary.COM
No excuses! *slap*
Ooh, you'd better not be slapping me, young man! My dictionary is very well-thumbed, thank you
Of course, if you're slapping grammatical numpties then please, do carry on
29 Nov 2007, 2:00 pm
Macallan wrote:
BlueMax wrote:
Macallan wrote:
Is it very difficult to keep a dictionary and thesaurus next to the pc and use it? For most people, apparently so
Dictionary.COM
No excuses! *slap*
Ooh, you'd better not be slapping me, young man! My dictionary is very well-thumbed, thank you
Of course, if you're slapping grammatical numpties then please, do carry on
I'll break out the Salmon of Correction!
**wet slapping sound of a salmon across the face of the next person to write "alot"**
29 Nov 2007, 2:26 pm
BlueMax wrote:
Macallan wrote:
BlueMax wrote:
Macallan wrote:
Is it very difficult to keep a dictionary and thesaurus next to the pc and use it? For most people, apparently so
Dictionary.COM
No excuses! *slap*
Ooh, you'd better not be slapping me, young man! My dictionary is very well-thumbed, thank you
Of course, if you're slapping grammatical numpties then please, do carry on
I'll break out the Salmon of Correction!
**wet slapping sound of a salmon across the face of the next person to write "alot"**
Huzzah for the large and slimy Salmon of Correction!
*stands behind Blue Max wearing a supercilious smile*
29 Nov 2007, 2:45 pm
Macallan wrote:
the large and slimy Salmon of Correction!
That needs to be a button that appears in posts, like "Report to Moderator."
29 Nov 2007, 2:53 pm
MrMark wrote:
Macallan wrote:
the large and slimy Salmon of Correction!
That needs to be a button that appears in posts, like "Report to Moderator."
Well, technically it's Blue Max's fish but I'm sure he'll let you wield it occasionally if you ask him nicely
29 Nov 2007, 3:59 pm
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29 Nov 2007, 5:11 pm
MrMark wrote:
Wolfgang wrote:
dongiovanni wrote:
I know that there is no English Language Council regulating grammar, but there are some thing up with which I will not put. (Guess what the first one is.)
Perhaps I'm slow, but shouldn't the first post have used thing(s) plural? Is there sarcasm which I am not getting? A point I am not getting?
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Throw the cow over the fence... some hay.
Throw your mother down the stairs... some clothespins.
Run your father over... to the drugstore.
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
No! You are quite right! There should have been some things up with which were not put!
Perhaps I may be permitted to draw your attention to my earlier post which resolved the missing plural and also the clunky use of prepositions....
Macallan wrote:
Sorry, but I just have to do this......
Instead of
How about
Ahhh, that's better
Instead of
Quote:
I know that there is no English Language Council regulating grammar, but there are some thing up with which I will not put.
How about
Quote:
I know that there is no English Language Council regulating grammar, but there are some things I simply cannot tolerate.
Ahhh, that's better
29 Nov 2007, 6:42 pm
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29 Nov 2007, 7:56 pm
I dislike when someone writes, No one as noone. Why not say nobody? 
dongiovanni
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29 Nov 2007, 8:06 pm
Macallan wrote:
Sorry, but I just have to do this......
Instead of
How about
Ahhh, that's better
Instead of
Quote:
I know that there is no English Language Council regulating grammar, but there are some thing up with which I will not put.
How about
Quote:
I know that there is no English Language Council regulating grammar, but there are some things I simply cannot tolerate.
Ahhh, that's better
It's a Winston Churchill quote. "Ending a sentence in a preposition is something up with which I will not put." He was trying to demonstrate how syntactically awkward sentences become when prepositions are forced to precede their objects.
