Lol quite old. + People who get annoyed because someone missed some dot, get over it and get a life please.
Heck, people who bother speaking at all, just get over yourselves and return to grunts like all other cool people! /sarcasm Not that I'd expect even on a relatively educated forum like this one that people would understand the importance of attempting to use the best English possible.
That's often referred to the "Harvard comma" and while generally used and recommended in formal writing isn't strictly necessary. It's a style issue, not one relating strictly to grammar. Both "Beers, Wines, and Spirits" and "Beers, Wines and Spirits" are acceptable.
Wikipedia I generally use it because I'm a pedant. I also use the semi-colon; it saves having to start a new sentence with a shifted letter.
there is a leaflet i've seen at uni that offers a service of proof reading essays that offers to correct your "spelling and grammer" from cpemmas wiki quote "It is closer to being standard use in American English than it is in British English." British English? I'm pretty sure we call that English
heh, I didn't even notice that one. I'm really just used to chatting with my friends online, during which I don't use proper grammar. Also, Mary Jo didn't realize that I didn't use the apostrophe. I Think. I do think that all advertisements should be double checked for proper grammar before being published. p.s. In my original post I meant to say apostrophe first, not "comma". p.p.s. I think bit-tech needs a smartness system like the Facepunch forums.
Makes me laugh. Everyday we get threads on here and witness ourselves, evidence, that this is NOT a perfect world. Have we decided to make English language, the last battleground for the fight for a perfekt world? Mind you, I've always been tickled by the fact that, most foreign posters can write better sentences, than some home grown "talent".
This is the internet, the most widespread communication system ever invented. Anybody can use it to tell the world whatever they want to. Don't we have an obligation to take a bit of care and communicate as clearly as we possibly can? Otherwise it's just scrawling your name on the car-park wall. Dick Head wuz ere.
that's so the worst thing to see! It shocks me and amazes me. Maybe the foreign schools are doing something correct in teaching English while we put effort in to teaching Shaekspeare and other illegible literature (I may get slated for that comment but I hate English Lit)
Ideally yes. But I fear, trying to win this battle, is as futile as trying to get people to "google" for answers, before posting for them. But hey lets have a bit of Churchill style bulldog spirit. "We will fight them on the speeches".
Ergh, indeed. Incorrect spelling or grammar annoys me online (although with English not being my first language, I do make mistakes as well), but in a professional environment it's even more bah. A few weeks ago I saw somebody had written the plural of "window" as window's (what the hell?!), and one of my English colleagues has put up several notices/memos filled with painful errors. And then to think a lot of these people think less of me, and have no problem expressing those sentiments, because I'm foreign. Heh. Another foreigner once told me a story about his then-girlfriend (a native English speaker), who asked him how to spell a fairly simple word. It turned out to be one of the little things causing the end of the relationship. To quote him "What the f..? I'm f..g foreign and I know this!"
I was amazed when I went on a holiday to Amsterdam (with my girlfriend), to find that the Dutch speak great English! I couldn't fault them. Surprisingly the accent I heard the most (while walking around) was Liverpudlian! It makes me angry when people can't use proper English, when they are British. There are a lot of people that find it hard to spell, but to not be able to speak it; is terrible. I have a friend that uses a lot of 'yeah yeahs' and 'is it cuz' when he speaks. He writes like he speaks when he writes a text message or puts a post on Facebook.