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Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.

(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Your post is poorly constructed.

(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:03, 1 reply, 16 years ago)
In what way?

(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:13, Reply)
It's a series of short grammatical fragments which could be better expressed
as a single paragraph.
(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:17, Reply)
For example:
I find the grammar snobbery on this board a bit annoying, especially when the poster clearly doesn't have the same command of English as the people reading it e.g. they're writing as a foreigner. I would appreciate it if you wouldn't pull people up about spelling and semi-colons/lobons etc.

Kind Regards
(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:19, Reply)
I'm not being tricked into that!
You asked not to be pulled up.
Besides, Al did a fine job.
(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:20, Reply)
Why thank you

(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:21, Reply)
Because that's the polite thing to do...
oh, wait, there's no question mark on the end of it. Al was saying "Why, thank you," rather than "Why thank you?"

SEE THE MISTAKE I COULD HAVE MADE. OBSERVE THE SUBTLE DISTINCTION CAUSED BY A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN PUNCTUATION. CORRECT SPELLING, PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR WILL BE ENFORCED, EVEN IF WE HAVE TO BRING IN ANGRY JESUS IN HIS HOLY HONDA ACCORD AND HIS 12 DALEKS-BUILT-FROM-THE-SPARE-PARTS-OF-HONDA-ACCORDS TO POLICE THESE BOARDS.
(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:39, Reply)
You see, even I am not above making glaring errors like that.
Even TGB has got confused between your and you're.
(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:51, Reply)
I loved the rogue apostrophe on her profile - I used to look at it and laugh,
One day she noticed it and took it away.
:(
(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 11:03, Reply)
I'd pay good money to witness this.

(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 10:57, Reply)
Parsing...
## APOSTROPHE USED CORRECTLY TO INDICATE ABBREVIATION {I WOULD}
## FULL STOP USED TO END SENTENCE
## CONDITIONAL TENSE: USE OF {WOULD} FOLLOWED BY INFINITIVE
###THIS POST HAS BEEN APPROVED. ANGRY JESUS HAS NOT BEEN SUMMONED.###
(, Fri 11 Sep 2009, 11:04, Reply)

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