Grammatical Error In Forum

[jesusarenque]

Bobman wins this thread.

[ShakeZula06]

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Executive Summary: If you understand what someone is trying to say, its enough... and if you don't, grammer, proper or improper, isn't going to help you.

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QFT

If anyone cares, I'm the one OP ignored [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[evil twin]

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Executive Summary: If you understand what someone is trying to say, its enough... and if you don't, grammer, proper or improper, isn't going to help you.

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QFT

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Yeah, you know you're on real solid ground when you're quoting Sniper for truth.

Despite being picky grammar is clearly important. .Alex. put it nicely.

[.Alex.]

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Executive Summary: If you understand what someone is trying to say, its enough... and if you don't, grammer, proper or improper, isn't going to help you.

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This is so oversimplified and obviously wrong. You think it would be fine if 2+2 stopped using capitalization and changed all instances of "you" to "u" and "are" to "r" throughout the site? Everyone would still understand them, right?

Skipbidder,

I'm 20, and I agree with Bob. This has nothing to do with age. It doesn't seem like you understand the purpose of grammar.

[ShakeZula06]

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It doesn't seem like you understand the purpose of grammar.


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What is the purpose of grammar?

[Mike Haven]

I have been discussing this by e-mail with a British University Professor and published author.

You may be interested in reading his latest e-mail:

"'Their' is often used in practice, (because it is shorter than 'his or her', and 'his' alone is sexist), which they are saying makes it acceptable. Maybe, but common usage doesn't make it grammatically correct.

Another example is everyone now seems to say 'I'm bored of x' when it should be 'I'm bored with x' - I find it very annoying, but maybe we pedants can't hold up change. (Not 'us pedants', by the way, as many non-pedants would say!)"

Toffee-nosed git, I thought.

[tuq]

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You are now ignoring dano2769. Your loss tup, he seemed like a really fungi.

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[Golden_Rhino]

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You are now ignoring this user. You will no longer see the body of any of his or her posts.

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Instead of "their."</nit>

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You must be f***ing with us.

[RR]

I remember something from way back in freshman English. The prof was not happy with the text because in the most current (at that time) edition of the text it introduced using their in this manner.