LOL! Old melodies come to mind:
" Boulevard of Screams" = "From Gags to
Riches" -

Their, they're my deer ... is it not up to mm to offer complaint if offense is perceived?

is that some kind of html internet joke?

A kilt on a porpoise?! wtf?

... From the movie, "Thumb Like It Hot"?

Not to mention a congress of idiots ...

we are defined by our weakest links? hmmm

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.

No, he isn't. Wonder about you though ?

Very good, johnrobert, perversion of language
would make people, eventually, unable to
communicate intelligently or concisely.
Robbie below, I do believe johnrobert is far from the type who would 'attempt to demean'. How did you get such an ugly idea in your head ...?

hey, I posted this in part to diffuse this row. First of all, the correction that started the whole thing was a concept correction, not misspelling per se, regarding improper use of hyphenation I believe. I forget what the word is or the post. Second, I have been on the receiving end of johnrobert's grammatical and spelling corrections and, again, I would say they are most often conceptual corrections: ex: there vs. their, tenant vs tenet- which can change the meaning of a sentence. Do I find it annoying? Hell yes. Is it bullying? c'mon! The most annoying thing is we can't edit the post once it goes up to correct misspellings or other errors without admin help. Sometimes it is difficult to see you've made an error until the post goes live. For those people, like me, who make alot of spelling errors due to flying fingers (mostly) I recommend setting up your post in a word document and spell checking it before cutting and pasting into a new post submission. You can easily see it by making the font a comfortable size and it posts in the adjusted-for-the-gulch font anyway. and don't get me started on permadinking....

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Good point!

Robbie, I do not intend to demean anyone. Mayhap my quiet chidings will encourage mm to greater efforts. Your defense is laudable but, in the end, sounds like the 'victim' argument so often proffered for others in other circumstances.

Nothing said here is EVER forgotten.

Ah, my dear, you know me too well. (Oops, did I say something wrong?)

Silly boy.

How could I stumble across that cartoon and not think of you? ;)

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

Damn. I just saw this kilt comment. Thought we were done with that.