Oh dear - not quite right - again!

Commas can make sense of sentences that are just gibberish without them.

Make sense of this...

Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had had the examiner's approval.

Smith where Jones had had had, had had had had, had had had had the examiner's approval.

Quotation marks makes it even clearer.

Smith where Jones had had 'had', had had 'had had', 'had had' had had the examiner's approval.

Well Tim if you don’t like the articles there’s two solutions.

Stop reading it

write something which isn’t steam or locomotive based.

The editor can only publish the copy which is sent to him

No, Jason, I will not accept your premise that my output here needs to be 'professional' (ie as good as an editor should be) as I am not paid for what I write.

Pay me for my input and I will be sure to take more care, and if you don't pay me, then don't pick holes (lest your own holes and those, eg, of Nick, become the subject of disdain).

The use of commas is, in any event, a matter of fashion. I make no claim to be fashionable, I try to be clear.

Tim

Edited By Tim Stevens on 17/05/2023 14:29:46

Maybe an understanding of the Emoji I used will help, particularly the humorous bit

Not having a go in any way, because we all make mistakes, (as the Dalek said, climbing off the dustbin)........., but a published magazine would, we hope, have some basic fact checking and spelling checks of pieces submitted.

As I'm sure MEW does, and this was a rare glitch.

Delage as in the film "Genevieve", the car driven by John Gregson!

Sorry, I must have clicked into the wrong forum. I thought this was a Model Engineering Forum, but it seems to be an English language revision forum. If you want to question the literacy of people I suggest you go to Facebook. Almost every post there has spelling or grammatical errors. Some to the point of being almost unintelligible.

How does that oft quoted (mis-quoted?) line from the bible read? "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" (John chapter 8 v3-7)

So you despise the grammatical discussion and give us bible-thumping instead?

rotfl

At the risk of being pedantic, the car driven by John Gregson in the film "Genevieve" was a Darracq.

Thanks, Mike London

I was thinking of a response, but ...

Cheers - Tim

Delage, Delarge. What's an "r" between friends?

Unless you are a pirate.

Edited By Hopper on 19/05/2023 11:41:14

Pirates say Arr not Are

Yes but the wokemaniacs will have a problem with the incorrect spelling of a car name.

Regards Ian.

Especially if it's relating to size of said vehicle.

Edited By Circlip on 19/05/2023 11:51:17

One of the problems with computer based text, is the computer isupposedly magines that it knows best and uses predictive spelling to "clarify" matters. When in fact it errs, and causes confusion!

(Not unlike the unwanted emojis that it inserts, unless a human being inserts a space before the bracket, to thwart it. )

Howard

.....and my golf club has a sign near the practise putting green,....."PRACTICE PUTTING GREEN"

geoff

We never had this problem in days of yore.

George

But is that not correct? "Practise Putting Green" sounds to me like an instruction to employ ecologically-sound techniques when putting.

I wonder if you have missed the point of the cartoon?

Hi, although Tim has two errors in his opening post (I've not included any of the names he has mentioned in it, as they may be correct or not) the word "Its" is incorrect, in the place it is used, there should be an apostrophe between the t and the s. Whereas, "Its" means belonging to or associated with someone or something, It's on the other hand, means It is, which he could have used instead. Wikepedia, should be Wikipedia. There is nothing wrong with the number of commas.

Tim, I'm not having a go, just saying, as proper spelling and grammar doesn't really matter on here as long as what is written can be understood, and I did understand what you wrote.

Regards Nick.

A few casual observations.

I was always told good engineers can't spell, by my Tutors.

Plus, something my Grandson said, "When are they going to fix the English Language, it is broken". In his world each word should only have one meaning. I do have to agree with his comment about it being broken. English Grammar was certainly a foreign language to me in my school days.

The old "i" before "e", except after "c" rule, falls down with with the word "Foreign". They clearly forgot to include that dreaded "r" again.

Regards

Gray,