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« on: 18:16:17, 13-08-2007 » |
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The second-politest way is to start your very own pedantry thread and put all of your pedantry-related comments there. Then we can go look at them if we're interested. Or add our own. "Or add our own." isn't really a complete sentence! |
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« Reply #1 on: 18:19:20, 13-08-2007 » |
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"Or add our own." isn't really a complete sentence!
Shouldn't that be: '"Or add our own" isn't really a complete sentence!'? |
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« Reply #2 on: 18:22:29, 13-08-2007 » |
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No. It is a statement, not a question.
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« Reply #3 on: 18:35:16, 13-08-2007 » |
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"Or add our own." isn't really a complete sentence!
Shouldn't that be: '"Or add our own" isn't really a complete sentence!'? There is not, or should not be, any need for 'really' in either case. It is, or it is not, a complete sentence. |
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« Reply #4 on: 18:38:02, 13-08-2007 » |
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There is not, or should not be, any need for 'really' in either case. It is, or it is not, a complete sentence.
DING!!! Pleonasm from martle. There is no need for 'is not, or should not be': there either is a need or isn't. Simple as that. PS. Tommo, I invite you to reconsider your objection.  |
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« Reply #5 on: 18:38:19, 13-08-2007 » |
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If anyone wants to not think so highly of "Oxford" as a brand of quality when it comes to things English, check out this page: http://au.oup.com/content/SiteMap.asp(search for "Oxfords" ... ) |
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« Reply #6 on: 18:39:14, 13-08-2007 » |
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to not think so highly of "Oxford" SPLIT INFINITIVE ALERT!!! |
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« Reply #7 on: 18:40:52, 13-08-2007 » |
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to not think so highly of "Oxford" SPLIT INFINITIVE ALERT!!!Three dots and three lines? What am I to make of that? And all-caps? And red? Oh my. |
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« Reply #8 on: 18:44:44, 13-08-2007 » |
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Ooh, I can tell this is going to be the bestest thread ever!  |
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« Reply #9 on: 18:48:50, 13-08-2007 » |
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« Reply #10 on: 18:50:35, 13-08-2007 » |
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Oh my what ?
Ahem. It's only the French who put spaces before question marks. |
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« Reply #11 on: 18:53:29, 13-08-2007 » |
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Ooh, I can tell this is going to be the bestest thread ever! I personally would have put a semicolon at the start of that sentence instead of a comma. But I'm just A Bit Like That I guess Now, I prefer the above sentence without a period at the end owing to the smiley. But that's wrong, and I know it. But even then. Hmmm. Oh wait. No. No, I don't like it with the image inserted instead of the "
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« Reply #12 on: 18:54:05, 13-08-2007 » |
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This is not a thread. In a thread every post answers the immediately preceeding, whereas we have spawned multi-threaded branched conversations.
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« Reply #13 on: 18:55:44, 13-08-2007 » |
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This is not a thread. In a thread every post answers the immediately preceeding, whereas we have spawned multi-threaded branched conversations.
Have you been to the Waffle thread recently? |
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« Reply #14 on: 18:55:52, 13-08-2007 » |
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preceeding Do I even need to say anything? |
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