Grammar Discussions

[Warks]

No. 217 was my favourite.

 

[Foreigner]

No. 217 was my favourite.

Mine too but it was too vulgar to be published.

 

[medhead]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Seen on instagram via facebook

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGvrxQ3kZHk/

"We support the 3R's" on an election poster. Which one of you corrected it?

 

[JessicaTam]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Seen on instagram via facebook

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGvrxQ3kZHk/

"We support the 3R's" on an election poster. Which one of you corrected it?

I was about to berate you for the use of an apostrophe, but then I opened the link and saw the subject of the post!

 

[whatmeworry]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

With the gun violence in the USA, some are pointing out the wording of the second amendment.

The amendment reads as follows: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

A grammar lesson for gun nuts: Second Amendment does not guarantee gun rights

 

[medhead]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

With the gun violence in the USA, some are pointing out the wording of the second amendment.



A grammar lesson for gun nuts: Second Amendment does not guarantee gun rights

Even a superficial reading of the amendment makes it clear that there is a causal relationship.

 

[Punky]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Even a superficial reading of the amendment makes it clear that there is a casual relationship.

Americans and their casual relationships..

 

[Hvr]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Even a superficial reading of the amendment makes it clear that there is a casual relationship.

I wonder is there is a causal relationship between replies to this thread and grammatical errors?

 

[medhead]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

I wonder is there is a causal relationship between replies to this thread and grammatical errors?

More likely between time of morning coffee and lack of proof reading.

 

[Happy Trails]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

... lack of proof reading.

Irony intended?

 

[medhead]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Irony intended?

I didn't proof read the post. I hadn't had my coffee. I made a mistake. Not sure there is anything unexpected.

 

[Happy Trails]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

I didn't proof read the post. I hadn't had my coffee. I made a mistake. Not sure there is anything unexpected.

Just that it's conventionally spelt as one word - proofread.

 

[medhead]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Just that it's conventionally spelt as one word - proofread.

It seems Mac autocorrect agrees with you. More coffee, I suppose.

 

[codash1099]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Can we please all agree that this is wrong:

they are towing the party line.

It's "toeing", as in putting your toe to the line at the start of a race.

 

[prozac]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Can we please all agree that this is wrong:

they are towing the party line.

It's "toeing", as in putting your toe to the line at the start of a race.

I can picture them all straining on the end of a heavy sisal rope...

 

[wandering_fred]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

I can picture them all straining on the end of a heavy sisal rope...

Actually it's two groups pulling the line in opposite directions. And for anyone who has been to the Rose Garden in Bangkok will understand if I ask which group has the baby elephant...

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[medhead]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Can we please all agree that this is wrong:

they are towing the party line.

It's "toeing", as in putting your toe to the line at the start of a race.

as I wrote that, no we can't agree. Would you be more happy with "DRAGGING the party line"?

BTW Have the courage to attack me in future - quote and all that...

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

With the gun violence in the USA, some are pointing out the wording of the second amendment.



A grammar lesson for gun nuts: Second Amendment does not guarantee gun rights

MArk Moe 'is a retired English teacher'. Not a justice of the supreme court. Slight problem there.

 

[codash1099]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

as I wrote that, no we can't agree. Would you be more happy with "DRAGGING the party line"?

BTW Have the courage to attack me in future - quote and all that...

Although the quote is indeed yours, I deliberately avoided naming the source because you are by no means the only offender. I object to the implication of cowardice.

 

[prozac]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Actually it's two groups pulling the line in opposite directions. And for anyone who has been to the Rose Garden in Bangkok will understand if I ask which group has the baby elephant...
Happy wandering
Fred

Oh, I see what you are thinking there. You are thinking of a tug-'o-war, but of-course that is not what I meant or indeed wrote. My mob on the end of the sisal rope are "towing" the party line...something done from only one end.