Point That is quality haha, you couldnt have scripted that. You have to laugh Anth, you walked into that one lol Ironic humble pie. But its all fun and games. We `cone-head, webbed fingered/toed straw-chewing inbred farm folk get as much stick as the next. True Norfolk is a farming community, and the only reason we get the inbred stick is cos in the old days traffic by-passed anglia on its way up and down from London to Edinburgh. I find it all quite funny. And Archer mate be proud of being from Norfolk. its a lovely county, people are friendly, beautiful scenery, coasts all within a 30 min drive, great roads to ride, clean fresh air and a football club thats the Pride of East Anglia. Fair play to Big D for having the love and passion to get up and rally the fans. Wont see that with the likes of Man City/Utd etc. Norfolk is Nelsons county and hes a fooking ledgend
Right up till the point, when you realise that what Shadow refers to, is an age old rule on the use of conjunctions that is no longer valid in the modern English language. But I can accept the sentiment in which Shadow makes the point, as he is correct, in the fact that, that was what was taught in the olden days, when he went to school , but at your age, that would not have been taught to you when they were attempting to teach you punctuation, spelling or grammar. :biggrin: So unfortunately no humble pie for me and no point for you.
You're not allowed to start a sentence with "But" either.... I think it's a load of old toss. Many are the contemporary writers who flout all these rules, and if it's good enough for Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Graham Swift, it's good enough for me. I quite like split infinitives as well : "To boldly go where no man has gone before". I have also given up on the whole "like" and "as if/though" thing, now that you hear it on the BBC News: "Ride it like you stole it" should be "Ride it as if you've stolen it". Not quite so rock and roll, that, is it?
Ohhhhh Anth is biting cos he`s fallen for his own banter lol. As i said before Im not on here to sit am exam. Im pretty hot on punctuation, went I text I write proper English and non of this `tx talk`crap. But on here I may be writing more than I write on a phone. I dont have a desk job so im not taping all day at keys and so, I do make a few mistakes cos Im looking at where im putting my fingers rather than those that watch the screen and type. Also i dont really care if i miss a ( ` ) between the ( I ) and the ( M ) for I`m and thats also why I dont care if sometimes I use a lower case ( i ) for talking about myself. Because it don`t matter ( and I purposely wrote don`t instead of does not just to prove a point ) :wink: ding ding round 2
I'm not biting at all....more bating and you took the bait! I find your retorts funny really and you make my point far better than I ever could. :tongue:
I was wanting Anth to pick up on that! Nothing taken here except the piss which you are doing to lol which all started from `If Yorkshire were a country` Standards Anth is what its about, you are only slagging off my forum writing cos I poked fun at Northern`s in a stereotype fashion, the same way that you have been with me being from `Narforc`. I dont care cos il rip it back as iv said before, yet through your exploits of the aforementioned stereotype of a Norfolk bumpkin who cannot read nor write you failed to pick up on the title of the thread ( not bringing you into this El, sorry ) I think this has been bloody funny cos you cant admit you made a mistake with your grammar straight after slating mine. haha round and round we go
Sadly all it actually proves is that I'm old enough to remember the introduction of Decimal coinage, Peter Purves joining Blue Peter and the first Moon landing :frown:
Judging by the replies to how old you are thread, we all are. Ahhh. Them were the days! Not. The 70s were in fact particularly dire.
