Another proper England rant...

[mstriumph]

same as the rest of life, innit? learn the rules then 'tweak' as required in an attempt to go beyond wat was originally envisioned.

my delivery is an expression of me ... and there ARE reasons for most of my deviations [although some are just for fun ]
f'rinstance, i almost NEVER capitalize the perpendicular pronoun - and won't until 'you' is similarly capitalized irrespective of its positioning in a sentence.

"Rules are there for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools." ..... to judge people adversely for non-compliance COULD be to miss a lot of the point?

[Hitcher]

There is a considerable difference between quaint idiosynchrasies and bumbling incoherence, as Uncle Jack and his horse may no doubt testify...

[Swoop]

Not just spelling, you missed a small two-letter word out at the start of your sentence.
Tsk-tsk!

"Tsk" seems to add up to three letters in my book...

[James Deuce]

You clueless dolt Swoop. (j/k)

[Beemer]

Oh and Beemer, are you a Lupper, a loffer, a lower, or one of the others?

A Locker, actually! (As in the pronunciation of McLoughlin.)

[Wolf]

True, neither had I until I read a Spanish verb handbook.... There are some fascinating aspects to English - like the idea that we have beef from cattle and mutton from sheep because the French-speaking aristocracy ate the stuff and the Anglo-Saxon growers of the beasts

A theory propounded by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe in a conversation between Cerdic the swineherd and Wampa the Fool - concerning a missing pig and the Wampa's comment that wherever it is now, the good Saxon swine will "be Norman" by the morning (having undergone the transition from living "swine" to dead "porc"). Wampa then elaborates on the words used by Saxon workers vs those used by Norman consumers.

"meinherr Calf becomes m'sieu Veau"

[boomer]

Build up .. build up.. blah de blah...
eg: - Proper capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse...(thanks Disco Stu)
more blah de blah... de blah... THEY ARE NOT THE SAME MEANING.

"Glass houses and stones" comes to mind MSTRS!

capitalization is infact capitalisation. Red rep coming your way

[James Deuce]

In your case boomer it should have been; "Capitalization". Red rep coming your way.

[Wolf]

Quite believable seeing as the Aryan people (including the Indians) overran the Celtic cultures as they came in. To look at language anaylsis, the group of people known as Aryans includes Asian Indians, Germanic language speakers and Romance language speakers, but not Celts.

Sorry, not quite.

The Celtic languages also have Indo-European, aka "Aryan" roots - they seem to have diverged quite a way back, as the Teutonic and Romance languages must also have to be so different. There are still pattern similarities and the only truly non-Aryan people of Europe were the Saami who were in what is now Finland. The Finnish tongue, though corrupted over the years by Aryan incursions, still has a strong Saami base and is quite alien - listen to someone counting to ten in Finnish and compare it with one two three four five six seven eight nine ten / un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf dix / eins zwei drei vier funf sechs sieben acht neun zehn and the numbers found in these tables.

Finnish, influenced by Saami, by comparison:

yksi (one)
kaksi (two)
kolme (three)
neljä (four)
viisi (five)
kuusi (six)
seitsemän (seven)
kahdeksan (eight)
yhdeksän (nine)
kymmenen (ten)

[boomer]

In your case boomer it should have been; "Capitalization". Red rep coming your way.

hehehe, Incorrect use of the ";"

[James Deuce]

It's not unnecessary. There was a pause in the sentence and I didn't feel that a "," did it justice. From a reliable English Lit. source at VUW I've been told that the ";" can be substituted for a comma or a colon, to provide just the right emphasis for the following phrase, word, or explanation. Three cheers for the versatile semi-colon.

[boomer]

Jim...Jim...Jim...Jim,


A semicolon would be impossible in your example, since the sequence after the semicolon is not a complete sentence.

[James Deuce]

That's an archaic usage you're promoting boomer.

[Wolf]

Three cheers for the versatile semi-colon.

Yep, also takes up only half the disk space or bandwidth as that pesky colon...

[boomer]

Back to skool for me den; i fought

• To join the clauses in a compound sentence
• To separate the items in a list or series when there are other punctuation marks within the items themselves.