From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
To: Gentoo-Users <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 21:06:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <402d0d3e-1c18-8807-34c0-cc2497cc8f4b@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180201185530.592dfe59@digimed.co.uk>
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On 02/01/2018 11:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> MUPHRY'S LAW: The principle that any criticism of the writing of others
> will itself contain at least one grammatical error.
>
> And don't get me started on people using "which" when they should be using
> "that".
>
> (In this case, which is correct but it should have a preceding comma).
Please defend / expound upon your statement. - Because I'd like to learn.
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Grant. . . .
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-02 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-01 17:03 [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers Peter Humphrey
2018-02-01 18:12 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-01 18:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-02-01 18:47 ` Philip Webb
2018-02-01 18:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 19:09 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-01 19:25 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-01 21:17 ` Philip Webb
2018-02-01 22:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 23:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 0:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 0:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 1:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 4:48 ` allan gottlieb
2018-02-02 5:31 ` Floyd Anderson
2018-02-01 23:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-01 18:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 22:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-01 23:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 22:52 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] " Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-01 23:05 ` Jack
2018-02-01 23:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-02-02 0:05 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 0:08 ` Jack
2018-02-03 0:19 ` Wol's lists
2018-02-03 8:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-03 17:24 ` Wols Lists
2018-02-03 18:32 ` Philip Webb
2018-02-01 23:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-01 23:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 7:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02 7:47 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-02 7:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02 8:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 10:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02 17:28 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-03 0:21 ` Wol's lists
2018-02-02 4:06 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2018-02-02 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 20:05 ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-02 20:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 23:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-03 8:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 20:37 ` allan gottlieb
2018-02-01 23:45 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 0:25 ` R0b0t1
2018-02-02 0:41 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 1:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 1:58 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-03 13:46 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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