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Hugh Gibbons
One of the common attributes of being young is an (non-fact based)
That's the problem. Characters blur, too. Thus, words cannot stand out, especially if they're incorrect. Dammit. My fingers dropped nots yesterday. That should read " ...you...
Of courseBAH's buttessment just might possibly maybe have something to
Do you consider "young" to be a default negative descriptive ? Why ?
Welcome to AFC. The Mesopotamians may have had lower case on their chisels but most of the posters here didn't (or didn't use them), on terminals or card-tape punches.
typed furiously: They are getting worse as the standard of education slips. The "gift" comes from spending many long years reading anything I could get my hands on. When...
I'm sure we can...(and...?)
If you would like to send me an i-pod or whatever those things are so I can "keep up with the times", feel free; I haven't been able to justify the expense (yet). If your ideas of "keeping up" include things like html and stationery background images on Usenet, pbutt.
But of all the choices of media, why would you consider Usenet to be the "competent" one for Writing English ?
The word "writing" describes the physical act of producing script with a pen or pencil (or brush or crayon, etc.)
It also means the act of producing a publication work; you would properly say "I'm writing a book on Mesopotamian chisel metallurgy", but the book (media) itself would be a "printed book".
*However* (the clincher)... "writing" does *not* include conversational style communications, which Usenet (mostly) is.
Now of course, what *is* the proper verb... "talking"?, "chatting"?
rpl
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