Some people are so dishonest

Soubrette

Enfieldian wrote: »

Then alas, by your apathy, you are also one of the people responsible for the degradation of the English language.

Well done for understanding the poster. Perhaps you have grown up using "text speak" as though it was a second language? (It is not by the way)

I dunno - the oiks today. :rolleyes:

Oh, you might want to put in the full stop at the end of the sentence or should I say, not quite at the end of the sentence.

I believe it is good practice to put a double space after a full stop and one space after a comma - for future reference. :cool:

(Sorry couldn't resist )

On topic - we have had a terrible time with ebay deliveries at the moment. In the last 5, 3 have gone astray, 1 turned up at the 15 working day timeframe and one turned up as expected. I don't know if it's anything to do with the postal strikes?

Sou

snagglepuss16

my dp regularly sells games on amazon and one buyer claimed it hadnt arrived. when he was told there was nothing we could do til royal mails allotted delivery time had passed and that we had proof of posting it mysteriously turned up as a result of some !!!! and bull story about their flatmate. tell them they need to wait however many days, i cant remember then take it from there.

GrammarGirl

Soubrette wrote: »

I believe it is good practice to put a double space after a full stop and one space after a comma - for future reference. :cool:

(Sorry couldn't resist )

Sou

No, that's incorrect. There is no need for a double space after a full stop, a proofreader will pick this up as an error when checking an official document.

It's one of my pet hates, as are people who correct others' grammar without fully understanding the rules themselves. :rolleyes:

poet123

GrammarGirl wrote: »

No, that's incorrect. There is no need for a double space after a full stop, a proofreader will pick this up as an error when checking an official document.

It's one of my pet hates, as are people who correct others' grammar without fully understanding the rules themselves. :rolleyes:

You are correct that a proofreader will pick this up as an error, but only in certain instances. Exam papers, Email, Word Processing (typewriting) documents all correctly use the double space. This link explains why the double space has fallen from use in some areas, and gives details of the exceptions. So, it is still accepted practice in the more common usages.

.http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typespacing/a/onetwospaces.htm

Soubrette

GrammarGirl wrote: »

No, that's incorrect. There is no need for a double space after a full stop, a proofreader will pick this up as an error when checking an official document.

It's one of my pet hates, as are people who correct others' grammar without fully understanding the rules themselves. :rolleyes:

It's only a pet hate for me if someone is correcting grammar for someone else who hasn't commented on it.

If someone is so fussy about it themselves then they deserve to have any 'mistakes' pointed out in their own work imo

I'll give you that it was not the full information rather than incorrect - is that good enough

Sou

GrammarGirl

poet123 wrote: »

You are correct that a proofreader will pick this up as an error, but only in certain instances. Exam papers, Email, Word Processing (typewriting) documents all correctly use the double space. This link explains why the double space has fallen from use in some areas, and gives details of the exceptions. So, it is still accepted practice in the more common usages.

.http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typespacing/a/onetwospaces.htm

Yes, that was why I mentioned the proofreader rather than just saying it was completely incorrect. I think it's more a habit that a best practice thing though - I never, ever use the double space after a full stop and write a huge range of published documents, including emails and Word documents. Not sure about exam papers, though.

When checking work, I will always mark the double space as an error as I feel it's old fashioned and redundant. Just my opinion, however!

GrammarGirl

Soubrette wrote: »

It's only a pet hate for me if someone is correcting grammar for someone else who hasn't commented on it.

If someone is so fussy about it themselves then they deserve to have any 'mistakes' pointed out in their own work imo

I'll give you that it was not the full information rather than incorrect - is that good enough

Sou

Go on then, I'll let you off!

Soubrette

GrammarGirl wrote: »

Go on then, I'll let you off!

lol

Just a tip though - if you end up working for an old fashion boss - use those double spaces on any letters etc or they'll come right back to you for correction (I speak from bitter experience )

Another 15 years and it'll be obsolete (I think my boss is an old old 45 and must be the last of his era)...or part of the degradation of the English Language depending on your point of view I suppose

Sou

poet123

GrammarGirl wrote: »

Yes, that was why I mentioned the proofreader rather than just saying it was completely incorrect. I think it's more a habit that a best practice thing though - I never, ever use the double space after a full stop and write a huge range of published documents, including emails and Word documents. Not sure about exam papers, though.

When checking work, I will always mark the double space as an error as I feel it's old fashioned and redundant. Just my opinion, however!

Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but being old fashioned does not actually make it incorrect. Therefore, why would you mark it as such?

cyberbob

GrammarGirl wrote: »

When checking work, I will always mark the double space as an error as I feel it's old fashioned and redundant. Just my opinion, however!

How can you mark something as an error when its only your opinion that its an error?