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Originally Posted by Punch

It's one word.

It's one of those quirky parts of English Language by which we confuse ourselves in our use of our language. And of course we confuse those born to another language even more. I have never known it spelt with a hyphen in all my long years of using my mother-tongue.

But then we are told our language is constantly evolving and developing; perhaps in a few years the hyphen will be correct in this application. The apostrophe will probably be extinct.

My first teacher was emphatic that a proper sentence could not begin with a preposition!

A preposition is not for ending a sentence with. Apparently.

Mullerkin,

Your sentence:

"The semicolon is like the back-heel in soccer: often misused by show-offs, it indicates a change of direction without interrupting the flow."

Should read:

"The semicolon is like the back-heel in soccer; often misused by show-offs, it indicates a change of direction without interrupting the flow."

Originally Posted by filthyphil

She was busy so she sent her cousin, Hernia Truss.

Has a slightly hypnotic quality.

Should the last sentence of the second paragraph not read "The camps have excellent shower and heating facilities, full advantage of which we encourage students to take".

QUOTE=Excognito;4338057]'the' grammar Nazi? Do you seriously think there's just the one of us? I beg to differ and point you to the evidence of this thread.

Furthermore, it is factually incorrect. We don't use outrage buses. We have an outrage train to transport offenders to a re-education camp; indeed, the Bookenwalt camp motto (inscribed above the entrance) is "Semikolon macht frei". The camps have excellent shower and heating facilities, which we encourage students to take full advantage of.

I'm afraid threads like this show the failure of the concept of extending education to the masses; they only end up getting ideas above their workstation.[/QUOTE]

Originally Posted by Collapsar

Should the last sentence of the second paragraph not read "The camps have excellent shower and heating facilities, full advantage of which we encourage students to take".

QUOTE=Excognito;4338057]'the' grammar Nazi? Do you seriously think there's just the one of us? I beg to differ and point you to the evidence of this thread.

Furthermore, it is factually incorrect. We don't use outrage buses. We have an outrage train to transport offenders to a re-education camp; indeed, the Bookenwalt camp motto (inscribed above the entrance) is "Semikolon macht frei". The camps have excellent shower and heating facilities, which we encourage students to take full advantage of.

I'm afraid threads like this show the failure of the concept of extending education to the masses; they only end up getting ideas above their workstation.

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You should have included an erotome, rather than a full stop, at the end of your question. However, I like the cut of your jib and think you could be well suited to running one of our colonic interrogation teams.

You should have included an erotome, rather than a full stop, at the end of your question. However, I like the cut of your jib and think you could be well suited to running one of our colonic interrogation teams.[/QUOTE]
Wotsat? A dirty book?

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Originally Posted by the_wolf

I can already hear the grammar Nazi's starting up the outrage bus

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Does a more through job on offenders...you drive, they breathe(not for long)

Originally Posted by donmac

[/quote=excognito]You should have included an erotome, rather than a full stop, at the end of your question. However, I like the cut of your jib and think you could be well suited to running one of our colonic interrogation teams.

Wotsat? A dirty book?[/QUOTE]

"'Wotsat'? What's an erotome? You've only gone and used two of them and yet you claim not to know what they are? What is the country coming to when members of the so-called electorate can help choose the government that runs our lives and yet are ignorant of the fact that 'erotome' is another name for the punctuation mark that replaces the full stop at the end of an interrogative sentence? And all you can think of is smut! You dirty old man. You can sit in that bath all day, but it won't make you any cleaner inside, you .., you ... Pharisee!"

Originally Posted by Excognito

Wotsat? A dirty book?

"'Wotsat'? What's an erotome? You've only gone and used two of them and yet you claim not to know what they are? What is the country coming to when members of the so-called electorate can help choose the government that runs our lives and yet are ignorant of the fact that 'erotome' is another name for the punctuation mark that replaces the full stop at the end of an interrogative sentence? And all you can think of is smut! You dirty old man. You can sit in that bath all day, but it won't make you any cleaner inside, you .., you ... Pharisee!"


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Well I only asked. There's no need to be nasty. You brute. Sob. I'm going home to mother. Sob!

(I googled it and got lots of rabbit about "epitome". Erotome? Not a fucking dicky bird. Not in Con Ox Dictionary either. You made it up didn't you?)