Please

[Guest fisherking]

Elton please,please please can you incorporate a spellchecker as my head is reeling trying to decipher.

 

Oh and btw is it just me or does it annoy other people when they see capitals in sentences or even names.

 

Rant over.

 

John.

[Guest Keith]

Originally posted by fisherking:

Oh and btw is it just me or does it annoy other people when they see capitals in sentences or even names.

 

 

No, but postings with a single word title giving no clue as to the subject, do!

 

(No offence!)

 

 

 

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Yours,

 

Keith

Blyth,

Northumberland

 

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[Guest ALAN FAWCETT]

Sorry John but i was taught that you always start a sentence with a capital letter & the same with a name!

 

 

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TROGG (Alan)

[Guest fisherman]

I am affraid I have to agree with Alan. Perhaps we are just old school Alan.

Dave

[Guest Zaphod]

Quite right Alan, I fully agree.

 

Aslo I dont thonk that I nead a spill cheker anywhey.

My speling is parfeckt..!!

 

Del

 

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Zaphods just 'zis guy, you know..!

[Guest Bruno Broughton]

Ahaaa - gerrin' yer mucking werds fuddled?

 

Nobur

[Guest Keith]

Oh, and sentences that are supposed to be questions, but don't have a question mark at the end!

 

(Still no offence, honest!!)

 

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Yours,

 

Keith

Blyth,

Northumberland

 

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[Guest Chris Shaw]

I am not the worlds best at using English grammer correctly, but the one that pee's me off in the last couple of years is the use of (and) and (but) to start new sentences and paragraphs.

 

The reason for this is that people are typing stuff up on PC's and then using an American grammer checker or not checking at all.

 

People are relying to much on PC's etc and not using their brains anymore.

 

I am guilty of using capital I's in sentences, it is just a habit that I have, sorry.

 

 

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Chris Shaw

 

They played on while the reel handles spun in unison.

 

 

 

[This message has been edited by Chris Shaw (edited 22 June 2001).]

[Guest Zaphod]

Chris,

 

Is it not correct grammar to use a capital "I" when refering to ones self ?

 

If this is not the case one shall not use this.

 

Del (one does not think, therefore one is not !)

 

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Zaphods just 'zis guy, you know..!

[Guest Keith]

Originally posted by Chris Shaw:

I am not the worlds best at using English grammer correctly, but the one that pee's me off in the last couple of years is the use of (and) and (but) to start a new sentence or paragraph.

 

The reason for this is that people are typing stuff up on

 

But...

 

speaking personally, the reason I do it (and I do), is because I've never understood why you shouldn't! (I don't use a spell checker as a rule - makes you lazy - and I've NEVER let a machine lecture me on grammar!)

 

To me, if what's written reflects how I speak (and rough Geordie though I am, I'm surprisingly literate!), then it's OK - after all writing IS the documentation of thought and/or speech.

 

People DO start sentences with "and" or "but" in speech, so I feel justified in doing it in writing.

 

Not your usual fishing thread this one, is it?

 

 

 

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Yours,

 

Keith

Blyth,

Northumberland

 

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