Apostrophe grrrrrs
You know, I honestly admire people with a lassez-faire attitude to other people's spelling mistakes. I'd much rather be the type who thinks that every wrong-way-round "IE" or misplaced comma is some sort of right-on protest against totalitarian spelling regimes than one of those sad, bitchy pedants - but that apostrophe made me want to burn the world.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 15:56, 5 replies)

Chill Winston.

(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:09, closed)

You are the Fourth Horseman of the Apostrophe
And I salute you.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:13, closed)

Cheers Moon
Right back at you sir!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:16, closed)

you still gets won of these

(waxdart hello., Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:13, closed)

I like this
It never fails to make me simile.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:19, closed)

To be a grammar nazi effectively is very, very difficult, not to mention pompous, self-important, and very sad.
It means you can make no mistakes of your own, and splitting an infinitive in a phrase such as "I honestly admire" seem to display an awful lack of self-awareness.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:19, closed)

Splitting an infinitive is perfectly acceptable in English
The only reason people think it isn't is because of Grammar Nazis in the 18th century, who a) thought Latin was in some sense "better" than any other language, and b) who wanted to sell more grammar books, so made up a whole load of arbitrary rules.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:34, closed)

I agree.
It's part of my point.

lol
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:35, closed)

I thought split infinitives were all the rage these days
But you're right. So very right.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 16:34, closed)

Wouldn't that be
'To' honestly admire? After all, the infinitive is 'to admire'.
( Ghoti Fingers, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 18:24, closed)

Depends how far you want to take it - I were taught that it ain't not proper to split no verb, which is what the phrase "split infinitive" refers to:
So it should be "I admire ... honestly", or "Honestly I admire ... "

Mind, I'm from Somerset. It's different there.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 8:38, closed)

I wish I was one of those people that could let it go, but...
I believe it's spelt 'laissez-faire'.

I'll fuck off now for a bit.
(Tighthead, Tue 15 Feb 2011, 17:20, closed)