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.. your first sentence? First, there is the disgusting preposition at the end of it, which reflects a sorry disregard for the decay of our mother tongue: the English language is being DESTROYED by people like yourself with absolutely no respect for its proud history. If you refuse to mend your ways, your children and grandchildren will speak some catterwall patois that nobody -- and I mean NOBODY -- will be able to understand. And REALLY! What's that 'really' doing in that sentence? It adds NOTHING to the thought. I really mean it: it really adds nothing whatsoever to the sentence; it just takes up space and makes my eyes tired from having to look at it. Have you no regard whatsoever for style? On top of that the sentence is rude. I don't just mean vulgar. I mean rude. Of course, it's also vulgar to put a word like 'anal' into a sentence on a family-oriented website like DU, but it's REAL:LY REALLY REALLY RUDE to accuse your readers of being 'anal.' Sure, I know you're probably going to make excuses for yourself: "I didn't accuse anybody of being anal, I only asked ..." Sure, like I'm going to buy that load of bullshit! I can tell when I'm being accused of being anal, and I say it's rude. Not only is it rude, it's not true. You don't know what you're talking about. In fact, I'm not anal about anything. Really! I'm not!
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