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Lovely logic, rkdlnd, but it doesn't work in practice: think the Black Sea (isn't black) and the Yellow River (not yellow, at least not literally). As I said seven pages ago, there are no rules here.

Dove, you put me in mind of James Mason as Humbert Humbert.

@waxwing: hate the novels, like the essays.

Hmm now why did I quote that above? Because it's rather interesting .. I hope you don't mind me accusing you of a little bit of sophistry, or perhaps disingenuousness (damn nice word even if it's not...

The only mistake I made was to assume that you were capable of participation in a civilised dialogue.

Not proof enough. All the flag does is identify you as a proud (why?) scion of an island race which has distinguished itself historically solely by displays of exactly the sort of mindless...

The last two sound odd. In speech, almost everyone would just say "addresses" - no Lindzi, joysof, I don't want an explanation of why that's wrong; I know fine well, but it sounds better. In the last...

Neglect the subjunctive? Heaven forbid!

All of your examples, ugly though you may find them, are entirely acceptable as far as I am concerned. There is, however, another divergence here between...

The comma always goes inside, yep.[/quote]
Actually this topic is controversial. I even seem to recall that BrE and AmE have it differently. Either way, commas rarely make sense inside quotes,...

Splendid. Finally we agree on something.

That I invented it as an example of horrible usage, and that you were nonetheless happy with it as written English. makes it, for me at least, even more relevant than if I had dredged it up from...

Gah. I promised myself I'd stay away from these pointlessnesses, but - hey - I'm still unemployed, you're still making no sense whatsoever, and the weather's gone off again, so I'll make one little...

Sigh. It has a well-defined purpose, which I went to some lengths to illustrate to you. Your failure to respond to any of these lengths suggests to me that you have nothing more of interest to say. ...

Henry Kelly is not funny. He's deadly serious.

Dove, I find you distinctly creepy.

Whatever gives you the idea that such slovenliness is no longer 'severely frowned upon'? Even at http://www.usatoday.com (and this, correct me if I’m wrong, is not an organ renowned for its...

Nope. I stil have no idea what you meant.[/quote]

Well, I can't help that now, can I?



Young friend, you're confusing two entirely different things. Your rather simplistic 'Latin turned into...

Just to cut you down to size:

'...identified by bad manners and me...'. :wink:

1)What? Why did you say that? Are you in some way suggesting that it is "incorrect" to say the United Kingdom? If you are then i have to point out that there is officially no "the."[/quote]

Please...

Or rather: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.



I would counsel against 'learning' either of these variants: they are both incorrect. To return to Lara's question, there...