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Thank you for showing me that I am not alone in wanting all those people who insist on peppering their text with apostrophes shot at dawn.
I love reading your vitriolic messages to the grammatically unsure. They really brighten up my day.
Incidentally, I fully punctuate my text messages.

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[nq:1]I love reading your vitriolic messages to the grammatically unsure. They really brighten up my day.[/nq]
The grammatically unsure usually get a warm and cordial welcome here, unless they try to insist to educated native English speakers that their idisyncrasy is standard and that everyone else is wrong.

Those who post using children's text message slang are seldom so well received.
Paul Burke

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[nq:1]The grammatically unsure usually get a warm and cordial welcome here, unless they try to insist to educated native English speakers that their idisyncrasy is standard and that everyone else is wrong.[/nq]
But it is fine for:
"Educated native English speakers" "to insist" "that their idisyncrasy is standard and that everyone else is wrong."
Hmm

Dave Fawthrop Google Groups is IME the worst* method of accessing usenet. GG subscribers would be well advised get a newsreader, say Agent, and a newsserver, say news.individual.net. These will allow them: to see only *new posts, a killfile, and other goodies.

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Dave Fawthrop schrieb:
[nq:2]The grammatically unsure usually get a warm and cordial welcome ... their idisyncrasy is standard and that everyone else is wrong.[/nq]
[nq:1]But it is fine for: "Educated native English speakers" "to insist" "that their idisyncrasy is standard and that everyone else is wrong."[/nq]
Some of us here are English-language teaching professionals who work with the lan guage and help non-native speakers to achieve a better grasp of our not uncomplicated native language. We have studied the way the language functions and are usually well aware of the important differences between the main varieties of the language and the different levels of formality. This means that the opinions we express about language and usage aren't simply personal idiosyncrasies, even if we may sometimes have differences of opinion on the appropriateness of a particular usage - this is often a generational thing or the result of the ongoing dispute about descriptive vs. prescriptive grammar.

Einde O'Callaghan

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Dear sir
Hello from Kutahya (Turkey)You are not alone. Believe me. I offer you a different world.
We are alive. I mean there are still good people who share ideas , advice or anything.
This is not a fairy tale or a white story. We deliver hope. I don't care Who you are. Even if male or female. Your religion , colour or political ideas. I respect you. Thats all.
Are you ready to share ideas? If my English is eneugh I am ready to help you , may be not help but to show you that you are someone and very important.
Rethink everything ! Go to the mirror and look ! there is noone like you in the world.
You are you. That's the most important thing.
Do you want to touch to the rainbow ? Colourful world is waiting for you.
When did you say someone " I love you " for the last time. Smile people whom you don't know and greet them. Feel that your eyes will start to shine again.
Happiness is waiting for you. And you?
In my country, A new morning is going to start after half hour. In this early August morning at 5 o'clock ; someone is thinking you. Without knowing you man or woman I insist on saying: You are special and happy tomorrows are waiting for you.
Help them to reach you. There is another chance for you in front of your 1 meter. Walk there and use this chance.
Ps. This message is sent you and the other people who want to have same ideas. The world and the life are still beautiful. Be apart of it. Lots of Love From=20
Turkey
Hakan G=FCr

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