The level of literacy on NSC...

[The Large One]

...is quite appalling.

Could we only have literate, coherent, articulate drivel, please? Threads and replies need to be written in full sentences containing a subject, object, an active verb, and featuring a well thought out intelligent term of abuse.

I am not one of those pedants who would argue the case for or against splitting infinitives; a rule made up by snobbish scholars who believed that an out-of-date, unused and largely irrelevant language should govern the rules of sentence construction, vocabulary and grammar.

However, the use of punctuation, especially the apostrophe, is quite scandalous. It should be used for contraction (e.g. "you're" for "you are", "it's" for "it is"), or for possession relating to the noun (e.g. Dave's) - but not the pronoun (e.g. its, his, hers).

Get it right, you illiterate wankers.

 

[REDLAND]

an active verb, containing a well thought out intelligent term of abuse.

ps you don't need a comma there,

marvellous

 

[Hiney]

 

[Titanic]

...is quite appalling.

Could we only have literate, coherent, articulate drivel, please? Threads and replies need to be written in full sentences containing a subject, object, an active verb, containing a well thought out intelligent term of abuse.

And these are good examples ?

Your use of the comma is woeful !

Clown

 

[BrightonBird]

I must admit I am terrible with spelling and punctuation.

I was never that bad at school, but since working, I have become very lazy. I have spell check and grammer correction automatically on my email and word documents.

I blame technology!

 

[The Large One]

Actually, Redland and Titanc, the use of the comma in those sentences is perfect. It is sloppy teaching in secondary schools that has mistakenly altered the use of the comma. When constructing a list within a sentence, you should always put a comma before the 'and'. It's true, I'm afraid.

Having said that, I did miss out the word 'and' between 'verb' and 'containing'.

Oops!

 

[CHAPPERS]

I agree with 'The Large One', most of the posters on here are illegitimate.

 

[The Large One]

I agree with 'The Large One', most of the posters on here are illegitimate.

Was that a deliberate malapropism? Or are most posters on here bastards?

 

[tinx]

I type like what I talk.....know what I mean

 

[CHAPPERS]

Was that a deliberate malapropism? Or are most posters on here bastards?

*struggles to find 'malapropism' in dictionary*


Yes, it was deliberate.

 

[Sam]

SHUT IT LARGE ONE


oh, and u've pressed the comma key way too many times for my liking!

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Pedantic elitism

Who cares as long as you can understand it

 

[The Large One]

SHUT IT LARGE ONE

Shan't (a contraction of "shall not").

The above statement was not a coherent sentence, more a brief, unrehearsed comment of dissent and non-conformity to an actively hostile suggestion of censure.

By the way, Voroshilov, that second statement was interrogative, and should therefore have a question mark at the end.

 

[tinx]

Pedantic elitism

Who cares as long as you can understand it

Here here.....

 

[Sam]

for fcuk's sake large one, no one is fcukin arsed about using stupid commas

that comma is there by habit only

 

[Titanic]

Serial or Oxford comma's are for bumptious academics!

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

I'm not happy with your use of the hyphen in your penultimate paragraph.

Shouldn't " However, the use of punctuation, especially the apostrophe, is quite scandalous. It should be used for contraction (e.g. "you're" for "you are", "it's" for "it is"), or for possession relating to the noun (e.g. Dave's) - but not the pronoun (e.g. its, his, hers). "

actually read :-

" However, the use of punctuation, especially the apostrophe, is quite scandalous. It should be used for contraction (e.g. "you're" for "you are", "it's" for "it is"), or for possession relating to the noun (e.g. Dave's), but not the pronoun (e.g. its, his, hers). "

You got it right with the first set of brackets, why not the second ?

BTW most of the problems ( excepting FG's who obviously attended East Brighton College of Media Arts ) arise from a lack of touch typing skills.

 

[The Large One]

Tinx: I believe you mean 'hear, hear'.

I could go on for hours...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Your quiet write about the missuse of apostrophe's.

 

[The Large One]

34064 Fighter Command: Dammit, you're probably right.