acemuzzy wrote:Does the OP really say "neither X or Y"?
if neither + Y == neither + X: print 'Evil, alphabetical fuckpig!' else: grammar = True
Not to pick on your examples particularly - they were the most recent, but 'My father and me went to the pub' is incorrect; I agree. The construction I'm most likely to use for that sentence is: 'Me and my father went to the pub'.
GooberTheHat wrote:I'm nonplussed @escape
igorgetmeabrain wrote:A dash is usually about twice the length of a hyphen I think, so should be easy to tell them apart.
Yossarian wrote:The dash, however, is a bastardised punctuation mark which shouldn't exist anywhere outside of hyphenation.
Quite.Escape wrote:Em-dashes are (US), but the British en-dash isn't. Dashes contain asides that the writer intends the reader to digest alongside their surrounding context. Parentheses' powers are weak.igorgetmeabrain wrote:A dash is usually about twice the length of a hyphen I think, so should be easy to tell them apart.
Yossarian wrote:I think the title sums it up, First up: "Should have" and "would have". These are sometimes shortened in spoken English to "should've" and "would've". Whilst these may sound like "should/would of", they are not. Neither "should of" or "would of" make any sense and shouldn't be used ever. By anyone. Ever. What gets on your tits?
Strictly speaking I don't think Nazism is the correct word at all, since it designates a specific political movement. Fascism might be a better, since it's a looser term, and you could argue there's a certain nationalism about arguing for the 'correctness' of a language, but totalitarianism would probably be preferable.Escape wrote:The Pedants' Thread of Grammar Naziism You can spell Nazism thus. Looks wrong, though.
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