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- From: dks@athena.mit.edu (dks)
- Subject: Re: International English/Englishes
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.000633.5314@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul29.232523.4517@Csli.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul30.042918.26235@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Jul30.162036.13799@convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:06:33 GMT
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- WILL YOU PEOPLE CUT IT OUT? IF YOU WISH TO HUMILIATE EACH OTHER, PLEASE
- TAKE IT OFF THE AIR. CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD.
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- Dhanesh
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- PS: And if you're going to correct mistakes in public, make sure your
- corrections need no editing, please.
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- In article <1992Jul30.162036.13799@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >From the keyboard of mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi):
- >: Thanks for pointing out my mistake.....however I tend to write
- >:English as I speak it.....I accept that "I have heard" is the correct
- >:alternative....I'll try to be more precise in my syntax, henceforth.
- > do you really pause? ^???
- >:Please do not hesitate to correct me.....I am not like one of these
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >You will live to regret that statement.
- >
- >You mean "try to commit", and you don't a comma there, since
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- ^^^ WORD MISSING!
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- >there's no independent clause.
- >
- >Your usage of punctuation is abominable. The first issue is that
- >you seem to have forgotted that sentences end with periods, or
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- ^^^^^^^^^ NOT A WORD!
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