Well, maybe you should put aside the rules of grammar to better understand the post you're replying to?

After all, what good is educated speech if you're in a place where nobody uses it at?

Go ahead and be a "stick in the mud" and see if I care.
I did take the trouble to understand that particular post but most of them I just lose interest.

PS:
This reminds me of the Texan who said to the the eastern dude,

"Where you all from?"

The dude replied,
"You shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition."

So the Texan answered,
"Okay, where you all from Jackarse?"

The dude smiled and replied,
"No that's farther south."

TR

PPS:
I tend to write long seemingly in the opinion of some folks convoluted sentences in many instances just to avoid having to repeat the objects of them, but if the trouble is taken to identify the subject of my sentences, IMO basicly most of the time (no matter how convoluted), the structure of my sentences is proper;

but a simple compound sentence can be the cause of a person to stumble over it, to repeatedly re-read it and then to just pass over it without understanding it simply because the object of a preposition has been misplaced and so has caused the meaning of the sentence to become obscure.

It can cause an entire paragraph and sometimes even an entire page to be read without comprehension if a person doesn't take the trouble to properly place a preposition and if a person doesn't take the trouble to find the object of that preposition.

TR

Last Edited : Saturday, 30 July 2005 - 13:43

Sage great story, only had one thing that interupted the flow in my opinion. I am affrad I might sound a little like TR here.

Your grammar is off in the story. I did not post the entire paragraph but you can go and find it. You start the paragraph off as past tense, then switch to present and back to past. If you would have kept it all in the same tense, present or past, it would have been better.

"He screamed. His scythe dropped to the ground. He screams again"

Also if I remember correctly, "snuck" is not a viable word

TL

Ghengis, you're the first person who's noticed that. I noticed it myself...and every time I try to go back and try to fix it, it sounds...bad.

I'll fix it eventually, probably, but thanks for the criticism