Grammar Matters?

RonB

Edit...insert image probs, nothing to see here :oops:

AchillesLeftKnee

Bugger the grammar. Explain the capitalisation of the thread topic first, then we'll talk.

schweiz

Depends what style guide the OP is following!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case

GiantMike

RonB wrote:

Edit...insert image probs, nothing to see here :oops:

Au contraire. Everybody like's an empty thread to fill up for the OP.

Here's some plankton:



and a drawing of a Mammoth:



I wonder how many plankton you could fit in the space of a mammoth*?
* the images are not to scale

Hope that helps.

schweiz

The images are to scale, not the same scale, but nevertheless they are to scale!

big_p

what this thread need's is a picture of a rabbit with a pancake on it's head......

GiantMike

schweiz wrote:

The images are to scale, not the same scale, but nevertheless they are to scale!

How do you know? Either image could have been skewed on one axis or even have been 'unscaled' by the poster. And, as you haven't seen either a Mammoth or a plankton, you have no reference point to make such an outlandish claim.

I think your comment should have read:

The images are to a scale, everything is to a scale of some sort. It's impossible to determine what scaling has been applied without a copy of the original image or reference to the original subject. And as one of them is an artists impression, that's going to be quite hard.

Oh yeah, and I challenge you to a duel! Choose you weapon. I'm going for one of these*....


This image may not be to scale. It's impossible to determine what scaling has been applied without a copy of the original image or reference to the original subject.

GiantMike

OMG. I tried to find a better pet/pancake pic and I stumbled upon this website

NSFW if you work in an animal sanctuary.

big_p

shish kebab and baguette dog are my favored pictures in that link.

GiantMike

Sausage Dog!

nweststeyn

Imagine if every human used the willpower it requires to keep up a blog like that to do something good in the world!

schweiz

GiantMike wrote:

And, as you haven't seen either a Mammoth or a plankton, you have no reference point to make such an outlandish claim.

I'll have you know that I've seen a mammoth at the Natural History Museum and a Plankton on both a microscope slide and on telly

GiantMike wrote:

Oh yeah, and I challenge you to a duel! Choose you weapon. I'm going for one of these*....

well I'll put my faith in:



originally drawn at a scale of 1:5

RonB

Seems a shame to spoil this by getting back on thread but here goes...

veronese68

schweiz wrote:

The images are to scale, not the same scale, but nevertheless they are to scale!

Two scales?

Grammar does matter.

Jehannum

GiantMike wrote:

Au contraire. Everybody like's an empty thread to fill up for the OP.

If nothing else, grammar ought to teach us not to add apostrophe's to plural's.

;-)

bompington

Jehannum wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

Au contraire. Everybody like's an empty thread to fill up for the OP.

If nothing else, grammar ought to teach us not to add apostrophe's to plural's.

;-)

It should also teach u's that "like's" in this context i's the third person singular form of a verb, not a plural.

GiantMike

bompington wrote:

Jehannum wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

Au contraire. Everybody like's an empty thread to fill up for the OP.

If nothing else, grammar ought to teach us not to add apostrophe's to plural's.

;-)

It should also teach u's that "like's" in this context i's the third person singular form of a verb, not a plural.

At home I have a gun. I got it in case there was ever a revolution and the country degraded in anarchy and I needed to protect my bum from my dodgy neighbour. Having seen my unacceptable apostrophical error I have no option than to turn the gun on myself.

Goodbye cruel (but grammatically correct) world.

RonB

Great stuff, but I'm still working on "...how to make a difference".

The forum seemed like just the right place to start, though I probably got the quotation convention wrong!

LiamW

GiantMike wrote:

RonB wrote:

Edit...insert image probs, nothing to see here :oops:

Au contraire. Everybody like's an empty thread to fill up for the OP.

Here's some plankton:



and a drawing of a Mammoth:



I wonder how many plankton you could fit in the space of a mammoth*?
* the images are not to scale

Hope that helps.

I love the fact that you felt the need to explain that the images were not to scale.

Jehannum

bompington wrote:

Jehannum wrote:

GiantMike wrote:

Au contraire. Everybody like's an empty thread to fill up for the OP.

If nothing else, grammar ought to teach us not to add apostrophe's to plural's.

;-)

It should also teach u's that "like's" in this context i's the third person singular form of a verb, not a plural.

I like's what you done their.

:-)