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Thanks both. I saw it used (seemingly) interchangeably in a poem, and I was confused. I am the first to admit I know nothing of poetry so it's probably there on purpose for whatever reason! ~LFCfan Short stories, mainly in fantasy/SF settings. Come along and tell me what you think of the...

(Not quite modern grammar, but I have no doubt that someone on MAI will know the answer!) Does anyone know whether the two are interchangeable in Middle English, or whether there are rules deciding when you'd use one over the other? I'm struggling to google this, all that comes up is biblical...

Thank you. I learned English through speaking it and reading books, but never formally learned the grammar (I'm Greek and grew up in Athens, where I went to Greek school). My instincts usually serve me well enough but things like non-restrictive clauses throw me. Any recommendations on grammar...

Thank you both. Why is the comma needed between "what I want" and "when I want" though? I mean, you would write: I will write about football on Sunday rather than: I will write about football, on Sunday ...or wouldn't you? ~LFCfan Short stories, mainly in fantasy/SF settings. Come along and...

This is what I have I think the "when I want but feel" is a little confusing with no comma after "when I want". Also I don't think the comma is necessary after "what I want" The above looks better to me, but then the subject is the same in both parts... Without a comma the sentence might run...

There's a hairdresser salon in Leeds, UK (and probably a fair few other places) called Curl Up And Dye ~LFCfan Short stories, mainly in fantasy/SF settings. Come along and tell me what you think of the worlds I build!

Heard a new one today: Vision Enhancement = window cleaning! ~LFCfan Short stories, mainly in fantasy/SF settings. Come along and tell me what you think of the worlds I build!

I agree, CC Also it works better with the rest of the prose in the story, which is a consideration! ~LFCfan Short stories, mainly in fantasy/SF settings. Come along and tell me what you think of the worlds I build!

Geraint Thanks so much for taking the time to read and comment! Glad you enjoyed it. In the first comment to that blog post I include a link to another story set in that world (a couple of generations later, maybe). The story is work suitable, but there is one word that maybe work filters...

jebenson, Thanks. Indeed you could - personal taste comes into it here for me though, and I prefer how "He was still sitting..." rolls ~LFCfan Short stories, mainly in fantasy/SF settings. Come along and tell me what you think of the worlds I build!

Thank you CC. I carried on thinking about it earlier and realised that what I used was a colloquialism native to Yorkshire, where I have been living for some years now. It didn't sound wrong because I have been accustomed to hearing it. ~LFCfan Short stories, mainly in fantasy/SF settings...

Hello folks I wrote a little story the other day and included the sentence: One of my readers has very kindly sent me a message saying it sounds wrong to them. Should it be "He was still sitting there..." instead? I've been rolling both sentences around in my head too much and now...

(In homage to Santa's thread) I got an email from a recruiter today: I hope the poor client isn't a financial institution ~LFCfan

My friend when she was little, and her parents had said No, you can't have a chocolate bar: "I'm so DEPRAVED" *stomps off in a huff* ~LFCfan

Another plus point (coming from someone who works in a somewhat horrible office) is that sharing a dreadful office space builds camaraderie with those who share it with you. There's nothing like everyone jumping together to save a colleague's PC when the air conditioning unit starts leaking...

I'm not sure if this is quite what you're looking for, but: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extreme-Programming-Adventures-DV-Microsoft-Professional/dp/0735619492/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249289317&sr=1-2 ~LFCfan

Ah - unsurprisingly, SqlTransaction works exactly as one would expect, but while I was getting the right id back, I was then doing some other stuff in the business logic that was causing the problem [blush] ~LFCfan

Thanks Jason (I'm still prototyping, sort of, hence things like throw exp!) Yes, the right id is being returned. I am also sure that the foreign key causing the issue is the parentid one (I should have clarified this before) ~LFCfan

You need to nest the REPLACE statements: REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(str1, str2, str3), str4, str5), str6, str7) ~LFCfan

I have the following (in semi-pseudo code) using (SqlTransaction transaction = connection.BeginTransaction()) { try { int newid = InsertParent(transaction, ...)...