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Humble or not, that is a very good joke about the importance of grammar.
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The peerless French Muslim colonial mountain troops saved US general Mark Clark's ass in Italy and led the Allied armies to Rome.
Clark "deliberately sabotaged" Allied strategy because he saw "the Italian campaign as being fought as much against the British as against the Germans."
Quotes from the distinguished US military historian Douglas Porch in The Path To Victory, page 560.
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Stan made a good point about grammar and comma. I try to get it right but make a point of not correcting others except for children in the family. My mother was an inshore fisherman's daughter who made a slip now and then. I noticed early-on my father did not correct her because he loved her dearly. I feel the same way about everyone; it just isn't on with me. It doesn't matter, not here certainly.
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Well Stan, as a former language teacher (even though that language wasn't English) and as a writer, I do recognize that small things, like commas, can be quite significant. Mr. Brown, you are wasting valuable energy in any attempt to provide language guidance to most speakers of English. Exactly why that is I would hesitate to say but a general abhorrence of anything that could be characterized as "intellectual" seems to prevail. besta luck
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Fack! Me dead? This sertainly went of (sic) the rales: didnt it; Eye sorta:kinda like it.,but then im weerd? __________________________ Any Doug Sahm fans? https://youtu.be/srUmaQ0XK0M
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Fack! Me dead? This sertainly went of (sic) the rales: didnt it; Eye sorta:kinda like it.,but then im weerd? __________________________ Any Doug Sahm fans? https://youtu.be/srUmaQ0XK0M Man, does that suck. Better: https://youtu.be/u_VsvZmIWxYBest, Ted __________________________ War is the answer.
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Did you ever refuse to vote to approve the minutes of a board or committee meeting because a comma was in the wrong place? Just curious.
SRH Well Stan, as a former language teacher (even though that language wasn't English) and as a writer, I do recognize that small things, like commas, can be quite significant. For example, the difference between "helping my Uncle Jack off a horse" and "helping my uncle jack off a horse" is more than just a difference in a couple capital letters. Once again you miss the main point entirely...............or conveniently ignore it. Anyway, thanks for making my case for me. SRH
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I'd like to note that Larry Clown's comment would draw all kind of criticism from his older brother King and the other Thread Police if it came from a Conservative. None of us are interested in what Larry and his uncle do to horses. Hard to imagine getting any further off-topic. To get this thread back on topic, I'd still like to see Dr Wanker's gun mount technique in which a left side lever would catch on the shooters hat. I can just see Walsingham, Ripon, et al, and their loaders demanding side levers so as to facilitate the shooting. NOT!
I'd be guessing about the first time that left side side lever caught on Ripon's hat as he passed the gun would be the last.
Shooting when prone to spastic fits doesn't sound very responsible to me.
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Did you ever refuse to vote to approve the minutes of a board or committee meeting because a comma was in the wrong place? Just curious.
SRH Well Stan, as a former language teacher (even though that language wasn't English) and as a writer, I do recognize that small things, like commas, can be quite significant. For example, the difference between "helping my Uncle Jack off a horse" and "helping my uncle jack off a horse" is more than just a difference in a couple capital letters. Once again you miss the main point entirely...............or conveniently ignore it. Anyway, thanks for making my case for me. SRH Just doing my best to answer your question, Stan. Unless you want bad things to happen, it's a really good idea--especially in the case of written documents--to make sure that everything is correct. That's why it's a good idea to have either an English teacher or a lawyer (or maybe both) available to double check.
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That wasn't the point, Larry. And you know it. You saw an opportunity to shift the discussion from Miller's comment: Count how many Crescent Arms or Stevens Doubles were made in comparison to Purdeys. What have you proved?? Sometimes its Lonely at the Top" .......and your reply:
When it comes to Crescents and Stevens vs Purdeys, somehow I think price is probably the 500 pound gorilla in the room. After all, there are also a lot more Fords on the road than Rolls. It's likely the best selling make and model Brit gun ever was the Webley 700. They're good guns, but no one is going to argue that they're the best guns. You see, you assumed that Miller was talking about quality of workmanship when he said "Top", but you assumed wrong. When offered the opportunity to duck and run from admitting that, you did the sidestep by using the opportunity I provided. So, without realizing it, you "made my case". You're too predictable, Larry. Thanks, man. Have at it some more...............I'm moving on to greater challenges. SRH
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