Aw...please don't tell me you'll outlaw double negatives!
I don't not not want that to not not happen! Well, that's actually a quintuple negative...
Actually, it's a triple negative (negating your desire) followed by a double negative (failing to negate the occurrence).
Stop posting trivial comments in MY forum! I'm trying to address a serious issue here!
Language is certainly dynamic. You used to say: "Live and let live!" (You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.) But in this ever-changing world in which we live in - makes you give in and cry; say: "Live and let die!"
What does it matter to ya
When you got a job to do
You gotta do it well
You gotta give the other fellow hell
Slap his wrists for those prepositions
Stop posting trivial comments in MY forum! I'm trying to address a serious issue here!
Your forum? The height of arrogance!
Stop posting trivial comments in MY forum! I'm trying to address a serious issue here!
Your forum? The height of arrogance!
Well whose is it then? I created it, and I could destroy it if I wanted.
Stop posting trivial comments in MY forum! I'm trying to address a serious issue here!
Your forum? The height of arrogance!
Well whose is it then? I created it, and I could destroy it if I wanted.
Crazy with power.
That's it. I'm done with this thread. No more posts from me.
Why has nobody yet brought up Winston Churchill?
I think you meant to ask why no-one has yet brought Winston Churchill up.
didn't his mother bring him up?
TheGrobe wrote: I think you meant to ask why no-one has yet brought Winston Churchill up.
RetGuvvie98 wrote: didn't his mother bring him up?
His nanny, more likely.
@ozzie c - In the Topic Titles debate could not all the grammatical indelicacies be obviated by use of the phraseology "Topics I have joined" ( or amended or {possibly black joke} illuminated)?
TheGrobe wrote: I think you meant to ask why no-one has yet brought Winston Churchill up.
RetGuvvie98 wrote: didn't his mother bring him up?
artfizz wrote: His nanny, more likely.
A woman goes into a bar with a little Chihuahua dog on a leash. She sits down at the bar next to a drunk. The drunk rolls around, leans over, and splat! He pukes all over the dog. The drunk looks down, sees the little dog struggling in the pool of
vomit, and slurs, "I don't remember eating that!"
Since ending a sentence with a preposition is not correct grammar, I propose the following change to the 'FORUMS' menu.
"Topics I Have Posted In" should become "Topics In Which I Have Posted"
I prefer the former
I have no preference but why should the: "Topics In Which I Have Posted" have a capital letter for the word "in"? I am not of English descendant, neither from England nor from the USA. Can someone explain grammar here to me, on the use of capital letters and in any language is fine with me?
I thought that use of capital letters was for; the first word in a sentence, the pronoun "I" in any sentence, for proper nouns such as the names of specific places, title of people or their names, cities, organizations, continents, countries etc..
Generally, in a title or a header, every "important" word is capitalized (as in "Grammar Improvement" in the title of this thread), so that is an additional case that's missing from your list which covers this particular scenario.
Arguably, though, the word "In" shouldn't really qualify as "Important" here, and probably shouldn't be capitalized as a result.
paul211 The usage of caps in titles is different. There, you capitalize everything which is "important".
Here is a link which explains in much greater detail than I could hope.
http://www.rasmusen.org/w/capitalization.htm
I try not to end sentences with prepositions, but sometimes the result has me wondering if it was worth the effort. No one talks that way.
Generally I strive for the same but there are times when it's just plain awkward not to.
paul211 The usage of caps in titles is different. There, you capitalize everything which is "important".
Here is a link which explains in much greater detail than I could hope.
Fascinating.
Microsoft Word offers simpler case options: UPPER, lower, Sentence case, Title Case and tOGGLE cASE.
Hmmm...."What posts have you posited in"also has potential.But on the whole I now think the problem is avoidable using the already mentioned phraseology " Topics I have amended "( Edited)
Indeed I did.