If I'm not mistaken, it's not wrong grammatically to end a sentence with a preposition, but it goes against established convention. Best I can tell, that convention is on its way out.
I blame that on kids with their damned cell phones and rap music.
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If I'm not mistaken, it's not wrong grammatically to end a sentence with a preposition, but it goes against established convention. Best I can tell, that convention is on its way out.
I blame that on kids with their damned cell phones and rap music.
I blame every ill of society since 1995 upon Indiana going to class basketball in high school.
Aside: I always look forward to Artfiz's posts and commentary on chess and lif in general. I am still depressed, but less so; in.
What about on the my home button, would you rather it say:
A shortcut to my Online Chess.
A shortcut to tourniments that I may or may not want to participate in.
...and so on...
It seems rather pointless to me, serving the need of one person is not a good idea.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
"Or the one."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/quotes
NM ozzie_c_cobblepot
You live in the United States man. You know that absolutely no one here cares about proper grammar, at least no one that I know OF.
What about on the my home button, would you rather it say:
A shortcut to my Online Chess.
A shortcut to tourniments that I may or may not want to participate in.
...and so on...
Back in the days when I was programming, I wrote an error message: "Unexpected alarm". When this occurred (unexpectedly), the customer found it alarming and I was advised to change it to something less worrying.
I changed it to: "No cause for alarm".
The next time it occurrred, the customer ignored it - and the building caught fire.
(True story)
What about on the my home button, would you rather it say:
A shortcut to my Online Chess.
A shortcut to tourniments that I may or may not want to participate in.
...and so on...
Back in the days when I was programming, I wrote an error message: "Unexpected alarm". When this occurred (unexpectedly), the customer found it alarming and I was advised to change it to something less worrying.
I changed it to: "No cause for alarm".
The next time it occurrred, the customer ignored it - and the building caught fire.
(True story)
Were you held responsible?
This is the best forum yet.
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Americans arguing about grammar. I've heard it all now. I could put forth my treatise on The diminishing impact of Superbowl in American society but I choose not to ejaculate on subjects about which I know very little.
but there are no sentences i have used prepositions as an ending in.
(ok, that was pretty lame, and you are right, really incorrect)
These are conditions up with which I shall not put! (attributed to Sir Winston Churchill)
Pardon me while I go back to worrying about world peace.
I think we need more directer straight talking on the forums, I think how it stands now is not that obvious that its my topics what the sites reffers to, how about:
"Topics what I did do"
or
"Topics what I done"
Topics I have posted in made me wonder what a post is, then I remembers that its what you tipe in these boxes, why are they even called posts?
So to be totally not wrong it needs to to go along these lines:
"Topics what I did type in" is infact much moor direct and ex planetary than what is wrote there now.
Any thoughts?
Also,... as a "lite" version it could be simply made simplified more for those who arent as learnt as us and particularly for children (wont someone PLEASE think of the children) it could even be simplerfied as "Stuff I writ" less words = less taxacion on the brain.
Americans arguing about grammar. I've heard it all now. I could put forth my treatise on The diminishing impact of Superbowl in American society but I choose not to ejaculate on subjects about which I know very little.
So, a Welshman and an American are at a bar having a drink and the Yank needs to go to the bathroom. He asks the Welshman "Where's the bathroom at?" The Welshman, being arrogantly unhelpful, says, "In Wales we don't end our sentences with prepositions." The Yank thinks for a second and says, "Oh, sorry... where's the bathroom at, a--hole?"
There is also the added confucious of seeing "topics I have posted in" but yet they arent actually their, it should say "If you press your mouse pointer on this bit it will lead you to what you wrote in the past" this illuminates any doubt as to what it will actually lead to and not make you think that what you writ is actually directly underneath the title.
If there was a Grandmaster title for grammar, they'd be after it with books and coaches in the hope of becoming legendary (bless 'em). As there isn't, it's all "chill dude, pretending you can hardly speak pulls. The smaller the vocabulary, the bigger the xxxx"
Americans arguing about grammar. I've heard it all now. I could put forth my treatise on The diminishing impact of Superbowl in American society but I choose not to ejaculate on subjects about which I know very little.
So, a Welshman and an American are at a bar having a drink and the Yank needs to go to the bathroom. He asks the Welshman "Where's the bathroom at?" The Welshman, being arrogantly unhelpful, says, "In Wales we don't end our sentences with prepositions." The Yank thinks for a second and says, "Oh, sorry... where's the bathroom at, a--hole?"
Did you used to do stand-up? Yes, very good that's much more the level of debate I would have expected from our cousins of the shared language from the land where George W was voted in twice. Priceless. Laugh I nearly did - the tears are running down my legs.
Hey, beast... don't want to play? Don't kick the ball. Otherwise, don't dish out what you can't take back, pal.
Oh... well, technically, (Ozzie), none of the menu items are actual sentences. They're fragments, or bullet points... so the preposition rule does not apply.
If the item was "Show me topics I have posted in[.]"... then we'd have a valid case for a grammer rule application. If it doesn't end in a period, it's not a sentence (sort of).
- Wil
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking. "Topics I've posted in" is not a sentence as there is no command in the fragment. "Topics" is the noun, "I've posted in" is describing the noun.
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