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On 02/02/2018 00:52, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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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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>>> 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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As a native English speaker I can never remember the precedence rules |
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about its and it's... |
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I vote we dump English in it's entirety and all switch to Python |
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Alan McKinnon |
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