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kolm wrote:

pcwells wrote:I tend to see more apostrophes added to places they have no business being, then absent from their rightful homes.

Did i really writ that???

*rse!

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

e.e. cummings

I'm with mr cummings on the lower case i thang...

ooh and lazy elipses, i use these...too.

on a forum, thats how "i am"...if im writing a book, its all writtenz propa loike...but on here, where we "talk" i write how i breathe...

for me, lower case i looks better, its a visual thing - often lost with a font and capitalised.

Illustration.

If that was a sans serif font, it would look like three l's to me...i know its not, but as i say, its a visual element that i personally enjoy - if it annoys you, i can only say...meh...

up with this i will not put

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when I rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour
spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flair,
Their are no fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a ware.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays,
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting too pleas.

Shurly Is is it, not I's. bless mine eyes.

Lawrence wrote:

JakeThePerformer wrote:One of the most disturbing and obvious of these problems is the lack of apostrophes in sentences. I find this to be even more common amongst younger generations, such as mine, and I am not sure how this came about.

You ended that last sentence with a preposition.

and That is the sort of thing up with which I will not put!

She sells sea shells on the sea beach

Peter Piper picked a pack of noses

Red Lorry Yellow Lolly and some ice cream please

Word

kolm wrote:

pcwells wrote:I tend to see more apostrophes added to places they have no business being, then absent from their rightful homes.

Yes, I know what that was about. I don't need a wink.


I would like to see how you would write the plural of the letter I.

I couldn't have written "Is". I needed something. I considering using quotation marks, and writing an s out side of them, but that didn't work very well either.

As for whether a sentence may be ended with a preposition, many would argue that it is perfectly acceptable. It is more about style then grammar.
I hardly see how one could manage to be offended by it, or find it a great deal troublesome.

Anyhow, you can probably find something wrong in all of this.

If you think I have bad grammar, you should read my school newspaper. The editorial section is riddled with childish mistakes.

Enough of shifting the blame. However, I hardly see how an online post could gain this much criticism. I know this is about grammar, but more about basic grammar problems.



-Ben

On second look, perhaps you were noting then was in place of a than.

This is all ridiculous anyhow.

Indeed, I was just lightly poking fun of pcwells making a typo in a post where he was ranting about proof-reading

I'm on the "who cares?" side. If someone doesn't use perfect grammar I don't break out in a sweat and I don't hang around grocers with a sharpie correcting their signs... I have other things to worry about

For those complaining about grammar, I ask, do you use the verb 'google'? It's not proper grammar and it's frowned upon by the trademark owners

In a busy week I might write 5-7,000 words for money and despite that my fingers still keep writing form when I mean from and fro when I mean for. And my grammar's terrible. Always at the gin, hogging the running machine.

aporia wrote:

Lawrence wrote:

JakeThePerformer wrote:One of the most disturbing and obvious of these problems is the lack of apostrophes in sentences. I find this to be even more common amongst younger generations, such as mine, and I am not sure how this came about.

You ended that last sentence with a preposition.

and That is the sort of thing up with which I will not put!

Thats hilarious!
(come on... correct me...)

Tomo wrote:In a busy week I might write 5-7,000 words for money and despite that my fingers still keep writing form when I mean from and fro when I mean for. And my grammar's terrible. Always at the gin, hogging the running machine.

In a busy week you "might" write 5 words? I'm in the wrong job!

Lawrence wrote:

Tomo wrote:In a busy week I might write 5-7,000 words for money and despite that my fingers still keep writing form when I mean from and fro when I mean for. And my grammar's terrible. Always at the gin, hogging the running machine.

In a busy week you "might" write 5 words? I'm in the wrong job!

Yes, five very special words indeed. If I told you what they are I'd have to kill you all.

Tomo wrote:Yes, five very special words indeed. If I told you what they are I'd have to kill you all.

I know, though, don't I...

Ted wrote:

Tomo wrote:Yes, five very special words indeed. If I told you what they are I'd have to kill you all.

I know, though, don't I...

Special case, innit.