by Simon 42 Replies latest forum announcements
Stevo Truly I tell you today you will be with me in Paradise."
This bugs the hell out of me since there was no punctuation in koine Greek, yes, BUT Jesus commonly said " Trully I tell you" but never "Trully I tell you TODAY"
Anyone who studied the NT is aware of that so I believe it very devious of the Watchtower to add the " today" before the comma.
grammatical errors and idiosyncrasies allow readers to discern a foreign accent. but one rule stuck: in quotations do not include date, time, author, just the pertinent line.
I’ve gotta say, out of all the forums I frequent this place has a pretty good standard of gramma, not sure if that’s a reflection of the forums I visit or the standard of the frothing, bitter apostates here. Some of the atrocities that I encounter else where, it’s a freaking poopie convention. (Shout out to poopie).
I’m no grammar nazi, actually rate myself very poorly but I’ll always make an effort. I smell terrible and have bad teeth, if I offend your grammatical senses your getting off lightly.
Cool thread Simon.
I am guilty of using the ... to excess, and I appreciate the reminder that it looks lame.
I do it to denote a pause in thinking... or a pause in thought.
Sorry... I wont do it again...for now...
(just stirring by the way)
I am also guilty of the .... But I always spell you, instead of U and are, instead of R ,,,,,,lol A lot stems from not being educated but I try.
I always liked spelling at school and find it interesting that so many people struggle when asked to spell out everyday words like ecstasy, woollen, sheriff, queue, paraffin, & manoeuvre. Two common errors are a) the wrong application of the words there, their, & they're, and b) using the word lead instead of led. Lead is a metal.
Coco/the professor -- ditto the thanks and was hoping you'd surface. I thought there was a rule re/punctuation before/after quotes, and Dio answered, but does that sum it up? Decades ago, (60s/70s), California schools taught the English way.
If I was directly quoting something someone said I would put the period the quotation marks
Crofty said " Its a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the noo."
Whereas if I'm just using quotation marks in my prose I put the period outside the quote marks.
Morpheus tends to be a bit of a "bleeding heart liberal" - interesting.
Here's how I would write those two sentences ...
Cofty said "it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the noo".
Morpheus tends to be a bit of a 'bleeding-heart liberal'.
I always put the full stop last.
When I'm writing down someone's actual words I use " ... ".
When I'm using a particular phrase I use ' ... '.
using the word lead instead of led. Lead is a metal.
to lead--( someone or something ) is a verb. led is the past tense of to lead.
The above three sentences show that sometimes you just have to have an Oxford comma.
