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Let me clear this up...
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... it is a good thing that you ARE spelling conscious, living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan ...
... otherwise you might not get your mail
LMAO! Those might be great words to include in a 4th grade spelling bee.
To the OP. Maybe you should spend more time reading for content rather than grammar. It's less distracting that way.
I swear you're on some kind of win streak with your recent posts, man
Thank you, thank you. You're too kind!
Alert, alert! There is an incomplete sentence and missing semi-colin above.
semicolon
...and to be picky enough: "a five strings" bass...
No. Five-string is a compound adjective, and is correct usage.
The comma is before the and, and it's acceptable usage. In many cases it is the preferred usage, especially when the sentence includes a list of clauses rather than single items. The semicolon is fine.
please clarify to me; since this is (evidently!) not my mother tongue, I always "thought" that if a bass has "five strings" it "should" (?) be a "five strings bass": ?? (Just... "five string bass" sounds wrong to my ears...)
P.S.: semicolon? Shouldn't it be semicolumn? (I am just asking because I don't actually know the term "semicolon"!!!)
Avezzano said:
Five string bass is correct.
Semicolon, one of these little guys ; ; ; ; is the correct term; a semi-column would be one half of a column.
I used four semicolons above to avoid the wink smiley syndrome. After the word term it is used in example. Hope that helps.
While we're here, then vs. than. This kills me because it's so simple and so many blow it. "Then" denotes something that has taken place in the past, or: "We'll leave today then, because it is important to you."
"Than" is used in comparison of two choices, etc. "Dogs are more dependant on care THAN cats." It's not: "...THEN cats."
If you all want to continue getting that one wrong, rather than being correct, that's just fine then. Just wanted to point it out. No biggie. Happy Festivus.
To the original poster.
I understand the meaning of your post and softly agree with you that it would be nice and it would be ideal to be able to read text in plain english and correct grammar.
However, with this being a Bass Player's forum of discussions, we have to take the rough with the smooth and allow for the fact that people here come from all kinds of social backgrounds, some would have better english than others. A person with better english than me is not a better person and viceversa. We are not here to judge their social status by their lexicon.
In my 35 years of professional business career, I have met company directors with very bad spelling and basic schooling background. This does not mean that they are less capable as chairmen or company directors.
As I've said I appreciate your general idea but here in this forum, I find your post pointless in this day and age.
Heck, have you seen what youngsters these days are sending each other as text messages with their cellphones? We are lucky that that kind of abbreviation and warping of the english language is not filtered through this forum and similar ones otherwise it would be a nightmare to comprehend what people are talking about.
So to you I say, you came here and boasted abut your shiny boots but with all respect, these will only shine to you and you alone, and it doesn't make you better as a person than the guy which mispells his words and cannot handle the correct punctuation.
I understand the meaning of your post and softly agree with you that it would be nice and it would be ideal to be able to read text in plain english and correct grammar.
However, with this being a Bass Player's forum of discussions, we have to take the rough with the smooth and allow for the fact that people here come from all kinds of social backgrounds, some would have better english than others. A person with better english than me is not a better person and viceversa. We are not here to judge their social status by their lexicon.
In my 35 years of professional business career, I have met company directors with very bad spelling and basic schooling background. This does not mean that they are less capable as chairmen or company directors.
As I've said I appreciate your general idea but here in this forum, I find your post pointless in this day and age.
Heck, have you seen what youngsters these days are sending each other as text messages with their cellphones? We are lucky that that kind of abbreviation and warping of the english language is not filtered through this forum and similar ones otherwise it would be a nightmare to comprehend what people are talking about.
So to you I say, you came here and boasted abut your shiny boots but with all respect, these will only shine to you and you alone, and it doesn't make you better as a person than the guy which mispells his words and cannot handle the correct punctuation.
His point bears a lot of weight on TB. If you write (type) like an idiot on here, you'll get called out. Of course, if you're going to post about improper grammar and word usage then it's usually a good idea to proof-read your post .
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Every man under my command, owes me, one hundred grammar-Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y’all will git me, one hundred grammar-Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred grammar-Nazi’s or you will die trying.
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