Thanks! Grammar is how you think: Sloppy grammar indicates inferior ideas. Of course, we tend to be forgiving online. We grant that the other person really did know the difference but in haste, in the heat of passion, just let an error get through. That said, I truly do discount the opinions of people who cannot spell, and who ignore the rules of grammar.

English is very loose in its demands. Russian, which was Ayn Rand's native language, has singular, dual, and plural as grammatical forms, holdovers from old Indo-European. We have tendrils of remnants of that in English, as when we refer to a _brace_ of pheasants or dueling pistols, but a _pair_ of shoes or a married _couple_. Against that, we have a clowder of cats, a pride of lions, and a gaggle of geese, and a herd of cows, but a flock of sheep -- as well as "a giggle of girls," and "a bother of boys" offered as neologisms.

We have a newbie here who thinks that "whom" is more proper than "who" and so she misuses it often: The man whom stood there was old. Maybe she knows a lot about liberty and freedom and capitalism and epistemology, but I ain't impressed.

Thank you for the sidewise compliment. And, yes, you did. Contrary to Robbie's criticisms, there is a purpose. Each digression or deviation from what is true and established becomes one step toward revisionist practice. A continued devolution will eventually lead to ignorance as no one will know from whence the then current usage derived.

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Wouldn't it be funny if some of the hieroglyphics were misspelled. No wonder we can't figure out what half that stuff means.

That is genius! I also enjoyed reading the comment, which referenced ,'The Life Of Brian'.
+1 :-)