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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 30 Jan 2015 16:56

In principle, I agree. On the other hand, it would be a shame if people were afraid to post in case their language skills were ridiculed.

30 Jan @ 16:56

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RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 30 Jan 2015 22:04

" Eurozone deflation gathers pace " (BBC)

eRRol is right the language is lost.

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Dermot

Dermot Report 30 Jan 2015 22:20

'Everybody's dream is the only plausible solution for 21st Century economic problems.

The choice is simple: more people working less or less people working more. Yet no politician, economist or journalist/broadcaster will discuss it'.

(Irish Indo 15.03.14).

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 30 Jan 2015 23:25

See nobody notices the paradox (oxymoron).

http://rmadisonj.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/gerund-shut-out.html

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Guinevere

Guinevere Report 30 Jan 2015 23:29

Sounds like Dilbert-speak

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eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 31 Jan 2015 00:10

Eek - is there no future for us?

Then again, as I am often told, what do language, English and grammar matter?

I think I read that on faceache. Or probably not.

(I love the gerund link.)

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Dermot

Dermot Report 31 Jan 2015 00:15

Sir John Cheke (16 June 1514 – 13 September 1557) was an English classical scholar who wrote: ‘I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt‘.

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 31 Jan 2015 00:17

"Then again, as I am often told, what do language, English and grammar matter?"

I am not yet ready for the world as I know it to come to an end. Of course they matter. Sloppy English means people misunderstand. The rules of grammar exist so that we can make ourselves clear to others.

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eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 31 Jan 2015 00:56

I totally agree, Guinevere, but sadly there are many who say that sloppy English is fine and that grammar is pointless.

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