Hahaha
Look up Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, widely regarded as one of the best novels ever written.You probably won't bother so I'll tell you about it.
The very first word in that fine piece of literature is "And..."
I believe the popular internet slang for this situation you have created for yourself is 'Fail'
(, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 1:23, Reply)
fail? erm.... no
I wasn't the one throwing around pedantic accusations of bad grammar... i was simply pointing out how rEdiculous that kinda thing is (maybe you didn't spot the smileys?). besides, as you pointed out... "the very first word", used to depict the continuation of something pre-dating the contents of the first page of a novel isn't exactly the best analogy now is it.
I'm sure I'd also be able to find literary works containing purposeful misspellings and/or a lack of capitalisation (e.e. cummings anyone?), that wouldn't make it grammatically correct in general use though would it?
If you could find a book on grammar and it's correct usage, which used and as the first word of a sentence, then i'd be impressed.
:)
(, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 1:57, Reply)
It doesn't matter how many times you misspell a word,
or if you decide to deploy capital letters midway through to emphasise your error, if you're wrong, you're wrong. Besides, it would be more impressive if you could make use of your apostrophes correctly.
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hubris, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 2:36,
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I can't honestly see what wrong with my apostrophes...
but then again, as shown by my poor spelling wot i dun, im shit at writing and shit.
(, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 4:06, Reply)