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Correcting people's grammar - acceptable?
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On BBC breakfast this morning both presenters said 'I am loving...'. McDonald's has much to answer for (for which to answer even
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Spidernick wrote: »On BBC breakfast this morning both presenters said 'I am loving...'.
That's the present continuous tense, which is as far as I know is still valid, though not commonly used with the gerund form of "to love" .
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Ah.I have tried and I continue to try to change the way I think but, having grown up with a brother who would pick me up on split infinitives and give me a look of utter disgust and disappointment if I got less/fewer wrong, it's something which is pretty deeply ingrained.
I didn't realise it was a traumatic childhood that made you that way....:D
As I've posted earlier, it screams out at me too.I don't pick people up on poor grammar or try to belittle them for the fact that they didn't grow up being told it was something important but I don't know that I'll ever reach a stage where it doesn't make me cringe slightly.
I've read at least 5 posts this morning that are grammatically incorrect.
Making you cringe is fine (imho), ignoring someone who doesn't understand the difference between 'there', 'their' and 'they're' is not (also imho).
I'd rather read a post that isn't perfect from an English perspective but does have paragraphs than one that is spelled correctly, has apostrophes in the right place etc. but is just a great wodge of text with zero paragraphs.
That's not because it offends my knowledge of English, it's because it's plain hard to read.
PS - the first part of my post is intended to be light-heartedly tongue-in-cheek and not meant as an insult.
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Making you cringe is fine (imho), ignoring someone who doesn't understand the difference between 'there', 'their' and 'they're' is not (also imho).
I totally agree with that. I think the problem we have is that I was referring to posts where it's so difficult to understand what people are saying that you have to read through it about 5 times to have a vague idea of what they're trying to say and you've taken that to mean that I'll ignore someone if they say "its to difficult".
Despite being grammatically correct, or at least not too poor, I obviously still need to express myself more clearly.I'd rather read a post that isn't perfect from an English perspective but does have paragraphs than one that is spelled correctly, has apostrophes in the right place etc. but is just a great wodge of text with zero paragraphs.
That's not because it offends my knowledge of English, it's because it's plain hard to read.
I kind of agree with that too, although I lump punctuation in with grammar so see a lack of paragraphs (which definitely makes things difficult to read) as poor English.0 -
So, I wonder if you can guess what is currently niggling me most?
Edit: LOL I've just noticed my signature. No, the answer was in the question.Exclamation and question marks - ONE exclamation mark or question mark is sufficient to exclaim or ask about something. More than one just makes you look/sound like a prat.
Should OF, would OF. Dear oh dear. You really should have, or should've listened at school when that nice English teacher was explaining how words get abbreviated.0 -
Ummm... A Warf is an artificial mound built in low lying areas as a refuge from floods. Most often found in the Netherlands.
Oops, I should have maybe explained that the "Wharf" in question is to do with a battleship
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Maybe the OP was busy with other things.Why do people post threads and then not come back to them? :huh:
Lighting the touchpaper and then running off and not coming back. It's so annoying!
And I know for a fact the OP has been back on since. (In fact, they're online now!)
If someone's going to post something quite controversial, at least have the decency to respond to the replies people have given.
Maybe the thread has had far more replies than the OP expected and he/she is busy reading them, formulating an answer.
But the OP only posted at 1:41 pm yeserday!I think if the OP of a thread doesn't return within say, 48 hours, the thread should be deleted! :mad:
That's less than 24 hours!
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Expect everyone to be perfect you cannot, you could even if, to be would you really want them, hmm? That might mean that doing a menial job rather than others you could be. Hmmmmmm.
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