Real-World Example of the Importance of Grammar 1

[Gooser]

If your homework happens to be raising a jaguar, it might make a little more sense. (It's all about the context.)

 

[fumei]

I think semantics is the key word here.

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[AnotherHiggins]

What is that middle process that combines the two?

That's called writing!

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[Lunatic]

That's called writing!

And if you are speaking? Thinking? Contemplating? Its more than just writing.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

OK, then. Composition and rhetoric.

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[SantaMufasa]

"Operators shall impliment reasonable measures to ensure water quality"

Designing the scentance...what is the middle step that combines the 2 to form the sentance?

I'm still struggling with this...The words and their meanings are the foundation upon which the sentance is founded.

I, too, am struggling with these word choices since I cannot find their meanings at

http://www.m-w.com.

Help me out here.<grin>

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[Lunatic]

Yeah, I can't spell well. Heck, I've unintentionally misspelled words in screen-names before. A couple of times in high school I remember spending 5 minutes trying to figure out how to spell 'why', 'sure', and 'how'. They never looked correct.

Probably has something to do that until the end of 3rd grade I routinely mispronounced over half the alphabet. In the process I think I crossed too many wires to ever be able to cleanly read the English language (and consequently every other language because they are all taught in English first so I misunderstand them from the get-go).

Unfortunately I have yet to find a spell-checker outside of Google that can offer the correct alternative for my misspellings (and that is just time consuming). Microsoft's spell-checker gets so turned around with the way I spell that I usually have to end up putting the word into Google.

And sometimes (like the second quotation) I just split the difference because I don't know which one, if either, is correct. ;p

And part of why I'm drawn to this forum... something like opposites attract.

 

[sbudzynski]

And sometimes (like the second quotation) I just split the difference because I don't know which one, if either, is correct.

Reminds me of many (too many) final exams...

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Steve Budzynski


"So, pass another round around for the kids. Who have nothing left to lose and for those souls old and sold out by the soles of my shoes"

 

[Grenage]

Don't worry, Lunatic, you're not the only one - My spelling is atrocious. Taskbar dictionary lookups are slowly helping.

I believe that the problem you mentioned regarding how to spell simple words such as 'why' or 'sure' is quite common. I know I used to get this a lot when I was in school; the more you think about it, the more preposterous it looks.


Carlsberg don't run I.T departments, but if they did they'd probably be more fun.

 

[flapeyre]

I remember a blurb from Reader's Digest years ago. There was a college newspaper whose faculty advisor had called the proofreading "abominable".

And so, naturally, they ran a story on it. The headline was:

PROF. SAYS OUR PROOFREADING ABDOMINAL​

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[CajunCenturion]

==> PROF. SAYS OUR PROOFREADING ABDOMINAL
And no doubt, they had a large body of evidence to support that claim.

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[Dagon]

I saw a sign last year outside a building site that went:

"8, one and two bedroom apartments available for sale."

Perhaps I should have gone in and demanded that they sell me one of the 8 bedroom apartments.

 

[Stella740pl]

Designing the scentance...what is the middle step that combines the 2 to form the sentance?

And sometimes (like the second quotation) I just split the difference because I don't know which one, if either, is correct.

Well, you guessed this one right - none of the above is correct. It's &quot;sentence&quot;. The first one seems to mean something like a verdict of having to inhale fragrances for life. But if you typed it in Word first, it offers you the correct spelling for both of your variations.
Must admit, it is not always like that. Very often, it offers you correctly spelled wrong word. But then, you can use a dictionary to check the meaning. As Grenage noted, &quot;dictionary lookups are slowly helping&quot;.

Perhaps I should have gone in and demanded that they sell me one of the 8 bedroom apartments.

This one must be expensive. A nice house should be more economical. But they would probably tell you they all are sold out.

 

[SilentAiche]

==> PROF. SAYS OUR PROOFREADING ABDOMINAL

Ew, it took guts to print that one!

Tim

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[flapeyre]

I've always wondered if the professor proofread the appendix?

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[tsdragon]

==> PROF. SAYS OUR PROOFREADING ABDOMINAL

What he actually said what that he just couldn't stomach abominable proofreading. The newspaper just synthesized the two words into a single one.

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Tracy, I'm sure that the professor's reaction was simply visceral.

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[SilentAiche]

A gut reaction, I'm sure.

A flaky breakfast-time (vis-a-vis cereal) response at a strange hostel. An inn-test and all. [red]:[/red] er, the Colon is always nearby.

Timpster's Onion



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[Gooser]

As their dealine approaches, it must really be crunch time.

 

[tsdragon]

I've navel seen such an abs-olutely ab-horrent batch of puns. They're giving me indigestion.

Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.