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On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 06:55:30PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:12:07 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > Well, as long as we're explaining grammar, I'll elaborate a tiny bit |
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> > more since a lot of people (including native English speakers) get |
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> > these wrong. |
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> [snip] |
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> > I figured that would make |
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> > the example more confusion which would defeat the purpose. |
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> MUPHRY'S LAW: The principle that any criticism of the writing of others |
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> will itself contain at least one grammatical error. |
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> And don't get me started on people using "which" when they should be using |
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> "that". |
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> (In this case, which is correct but it should have a preceding comma). |
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When your reading this sentance, you fill find their are definately some |
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errors in it’s spelling. That is a art less and less people can make proper |
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use of. |
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*SCNR* |
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PS.: As a non-native, I always found e.g. and i.e. easy to keep apart |
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because when you say "e.g." as a word without the dots, it becomes "eg", |
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which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example". |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. |
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The higher the qualification, the higher-grade the mistakes. |