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Dove, even I know enough now not to capitalize Joysof's name. :wink:

Until joysof returns, I will answer in his absence:
(Mutters something about pedantry)

A good bit of deserved applause for Waxwing!

It doesn't have anything to do with grammar, I think, it just sounds silly, because if you're in the position to punish somebody, you're not going to ask for him to be punished. You're going to...

Well, I knew from various novels that if someone is talking, then it looks like this:
"That's terrible," he said.

But I thought that if you're listing several things in quotation marks it would...

You know, it's a pity we never learned about this or the use of "whom" in English class!

Even in such a situation?

The men said "this," "something else," and "that."

It does indeed, cousin Lindsay, but what I meant is the comma at the end of the quoted matter, for example "Somebody said something here", "somebody said something else here." Should it be "Somebody...

Oh, I'm flattered! But be a love, dear cousin, and explain to me if the comma must really ALWAYS go inside the quotation marks! I would pull out some old English essays if I could, but I believe I...

Damn, my English has become quite sucky! And they say you know your language better after learning other ones...balderdash! Or, as I like to say, "Codswobble!"

DUDE! So you use it as a direct object too? So it's basically a non-nominative "who" then! Hah! I learned something new about English today!


Yeah, it's "wem" or "wen." At first I thought it was...

I also never say "whom" and I'm unsure when to use it. You use it like "wem" in German, don't you? So basically "with whom/to whom" but "who did he kill" and not "whom did he kill"?

I've never...

Dove, joysof is an awesome man.

The only thing I don't like about him is his new icon. I liked that funny guy he had before better.