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Linus Gorp
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Posted - 2016.06.25 20:25:40 -
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Sustrai Aditua wrote:I BELIEVE! I BELIEVE!
Tempelman N wrote:
NO NOT BELIVEING!
When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
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Linus Gorp
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Posted - 2016.06.26 21:32:45 -
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Eli Stan wrote:Sustrai Aditua wrote:Eli Stan wrote:Sustrai Aditua wrote:Linus Gorp wrote:
When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
Mind if I ask, "Huh?" Oh, by the way, "the literate" is plural. The literate are.... "A literate" is singular. A literate is.... When you correct someone's English do it properly. I suspect it's shortened from "the literate person is..." as opposed to "the literate people are..." or "the literates are..." So singular instead of plural seems more correct to me. YMMV. LOL, if we got to do English the way it "seems" then we'd all have passed with A+ . Fortunately for civilization, such is not the case. Intention has nothing to do with it. What winds up in print is all there is. Take it from an editor. Can you reference a source to support your claim it should be plural? Sorry, argument via authority doesn't cut it. 
The grammar in my signature is correct as is. He's not the first to believe I got it wrong and certainly not the last to be proven wrong in his believe.
When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
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Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale
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Posted - 2016.06.26 22:12:17 -
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John Volan wrote:Linus Gorp wrote:...
The grammar in my signature is correct as is. He's not the first to believe I got it wrong and certainly not the last to be proven wrong in his believe. *belief Sorry, couldn't resist.
That's what I get for posting in the middle of the night :P
When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
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Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale
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Posted - 2016.06.26 23:30:07 -
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Eli Stan wrote:1 AM grammar best grammar.
It's the same with writing code, really. When I write it during the day, it works flawlessly. When I write it during the night, I might as well just trash it all and start anew the next day 
When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
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