[HPFGU-OTChatter] Info for FF moderators and writers. (sort of Humour)

[udder_pen_dragon]

>From UdderPD again.

First, thanks for the interest in this subject.

Second, I thought that this revision to the fourth line improves the quasi poem.

>From - Eye strike a key and type a word,

To    - Eye strike sum quays and type a word,

Now my comments on the responses. Some of the comments I agree with of course but others are a bit moot.

When reading a story if I see - The vicar said "I will wear no clothes to distinguish me from my fellow man." - the missing comma after 'said' does not matter. But if you were to put a comma between 'clothes & to' it is important, unless you want a nude vicar. 

I took up the subject of grammar and punctuation with my daughter. (She has recently obtained an Honours Degree in English from Oxford University.) 

Effectively her comment were that the first Lecture from her English Professor boiled down to. 

You should never use colons except in Scientific or Engineering documents. 

Only one semicolon is permitted for every three-thousand words. (He wouldn't like Microsoft's Grammar checker would he.) 

All other punctuation is optional provided the writing makes sense. All great writers and novelists have their own style and English punctuation is flexible. We are not the French to whom it is all rigid and inflexible. (This is strange seeing as the first two statements appear to be rigid and inflexible.) 

On the subject of words this is all I can remember at the moment. 

Sentences should rarely be started with the word 'they' and never be started with the word 'and' except in speech, oh and 'and' replaces the comma. 

'Me and Harry' is wrong, 'Harry and I' is correct. Again except in speech where characters like Harry, Hermione and all of the Professors (excluding Hagrid) would always use the latter, where as Ron and Hagrid might well use the former. 

The word 'got' (Americans read 'gotten') has no specific meaning and should never be used when another word could be used. 99 times out of 100 it simply denotes laziness and should be replaced with a word to convey the proper meaning. (Again the lazy speech rules applied.) 

However my daughter's final comment was, "All of the English Professors seem to have their own quirks but this was from the one who was going to mark my papers."

So to me it seems that 'you pays your money and you takes your choice'. 

TTFN   UdderPD



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