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Braindead · 2007-03-22, 04:37 PM

Your critique of a few words of grammatical rubbish is I am bound to say, rubbish.
Your first criticism has missed the grammatical error: ‘As they all fight like cat and dog’. In a descriptive narrative, it would be correct to describe who is fighting whom.
You call into question: cat and dog, a descriptive phrase in common usage has no part or meaning in a strict grammatical narrative sense. Therefore, your supposed statement of correct usage of a common phrase is wrong; you may state a personal preference, which is not as you infer in your comment. On a personal note, in reply I would maintain I have heard, read and used the term: fight like cat and dog. If it were possible to use your preferred term of common usage: cats and dogs, it would be incorrect to use the plural and instead English grammar would insist on the collective noun. I have no idea what the collective noun of domestic cats might be and cannot be bothered looking it up. The bracketed ‘bitch and vixen?’ I am asking the reader, we assume the majority of whom to be gay, - “gay” another term in common usage that has no grammatical meaning or influence other than to be happy, (of good spirit?) – If the term would be more suitable than ‘cat and dog’, I am amazed by your lack of knowledge of “gay” parlance.
In descriptive narrative, the same principle applies to verse. Written in the third person singular there is an acronym. P.I.T.H. ‘Pictures in the head’. In the passage:
‘in among the sex action’. The inclusion or exclusion of the word ‘among’ forms the basis of a discussion on semantics. It is your opinion that the word should be excluded; in the context of a textbook or factual description I would whole-heartedly (another superfluous indicative) agree. In the context in which it is used the only grammatical debate I conducted with myself (another highly doubtful word) was over the use of “among” or “amongst”. On reflection I think I made a descriptive error and should have instead used “amongst”.
The passage of words you correct of grammatical and punctuation errors are in any linguistic discipline a total mess. I would argue the passage I wrote is uncorrectable; your inclusion of full stops – the word “period” has many meanings, but none that I am aware of in English punctuation – makes matters worse, in my view. In a true grammatical analysis, the entire piece would have to be scrapped as gibberish.
“The word ‘Bisex’ does not exist”. I have no idea so I accept you are correct. I have to say “O’rama” does not spring off the page in the O.E.D. It is a good word though.
How do you overcome your hostility towards poor spelling & grammar when you see “cum in here”? I could not begin to guess in how many free porn sites that little gem appears. “Goo covered Collage cum sluts”. How does that score on your self-invented scale of acceptable English spelling & grammar?
My understanding of English grammar is I admit appalling for someone born and bred in the 51st State. The words I write for my free sites rip apart the English language miserably, but for what they are, I think a fair comment would be they are in the lower half of not bad. Some sites I have seen are the work of true artists of the written word. Some are so bad as to be illegible.
The only reason for your intense dislike of me has to be purely personal. I have never been anything but polite; I refer you to my appeal. We have never met; I cannot amount to a grain of sand in the Sahara in any capacity with reference to you.
You seem to have your boot firmly on the throat of the business and able to do much as you wish. Remember the words of one of your enlightened Presidents. “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
You are not a professor of English or a man of letters: if it is your desire to learn a good place to start I suggest is the construction of the sonnet. If your brain is in one piece after that, you have a good chance with the rest.
Thank you to those that have supported me and I understand (no I don’t) if you no longer wish to do so
Yours blah, blah
Mr Spock, how right you are, the money has clearly been mis-directed.

2007-03-22, 04:37 PM	#5
Braindead A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 51	Your critique of a few words of grammatical rubbish is I am bound to say, rubbish. Your first criticism has missed the grammatical error: ‘As they all fight like cat and dog’. In a descriptive narrative, it would be correct to describe who is fighting whom. You call into question: cat and dog, a descriptive phrase in common usage has no part or meaning in a strict grammatical narrative sense. Therefore, your supposed statement of correct usage of a common phrase is wrong; you may state a personal preference, which is not as you infer in your comment. On a personal note, in reply I would maintain I have heard, read and used the term: fight like cat and dog. If it were possible to use your preferred term of common usage: cats and dogs, it would be incorrect to use the plural and instead English grammar would insist on the collective noun. I have no idea what the collective noun of domestic cats might be and cannot be bothered looking it up. The bracketed ‘bitch and vixen?’ I am asking the reader, we assume the majority of whom to be gay, - “gay” another term in common usage that has no grammatical meaning or influence other than to be happy, (of good spirit?) – If the term would be more suitable than ‘cat and dog’, I am amazed by your lack of knowledge of “gay” parlance. In descriptive narrative, the same principle applies to verse. Written in the third person singular there is an acronym. P.I.T.H. ‘Pictures in the head’. In the passage: ‘in among the sex action’. The inclusion or exclusion of the word ‘among’ forms the basis of a discussion on semantics. It is your opinion that the word should be excluded; in the context of a textbook or factual description I would whole-heartedly (another superfluous indicative) agree. In the context in which it is used the only grammatical debate I conducted with myself (another highly doubtful word) was over the use of “among” or “amongst”. On reflection I think I made a descriptive error and should have instead used “amongst”. The passage of words you correct of grammatical and punctuation errors are in any linguistic discipline a total mess. I would argue the passage I wrote is uncorrectable; your inclusion of full stops – the word “period” has many meanings, but none that I am aware of in English punctuation – makes matters worse, in my view. In a true grammatical analysis, the entire piece would have to be scrapped as gibberish. “The word ‘Bisex’ does not exist”. I have no idea so I accept you are correct. I have to say “O’rama” does not spring off the page in the O.E.D. It is a good word though. How do you overcome your hostility towards poor spelling & grammar when you see “cum in here”? I could not begin to guess in how many free porn sites that little gem appears. “Goo covered Collage cum sluts”. How does that score on your self-invented scale of acceptable English spelling & grammar? My understanding of English grammar is I admit appalling for someone born and bred in the 51st State. The words I write for my free sites rip apart the English language miserably, but for what they are, I think a fair comment would be they are in the lower half of not bad. Some sites I have seen are the work of true artists of the written word. Some are so bad as to be illegible. The only reason for your intense dislike of me has to be purely personal. I have never been anything but polite; I refer you to my appeal. We have never met; I cannot amount to a grain of sand in the Sahara in any capacity with reference to you. You seem to have your boot firmly on the throat of the business and able to do much as you wish. Remember the words of one of your enlightened Presidents. “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”. You are not a professor of English or a man of letters: if it is your desire to learn a good place to start I suggest is the construction of the sonnet. If your brain is in one piece after that, you have a good chance with the rest. Thank you to those that have supported me and I understand (no I don’t) if you no longer wish to do so Yours blah, blah Mr Spock, how right you are, the money has clearly been mis-directed.