TheMonster wrote:So you really do know better than to use "whom" in the nominative, and the nonexistent word "alot",
Nope. I will probably continue to struggle with whom. Sometimes its obvious to me. Others, no. I always rely on grammar checkers if I am writing for business.
Alot, I really do know better and in some posts I use the correct form. But, I like alot. I'll probably keep it. Habit.
TheMonster wrote:...but just can't be bothered to take a moment to proofread before you hit the Submit button. Your time in composing a post is more important than our collective time in reading it.
Got it.
I am fairly certain I am not going to submit my posts to a grammar checker.
And I make no assumptions on anybody's time.
I do make decisions on my own and if someone's thread are a waste of my time, I am a big enough boy that I can decide not to enter their threads.
You are free to make that same decision.
I promise not to cry. Honest.
Yet you come back, either because you are bored and like proofreading or because my threads are interesting, even with the typos, grammar errors, misspellings and the like.
I'll promise not to post my incorrect grammar to your threads.
Is that better?
TheMonster wrote:So you think that appearing young somehow empowers sexual predators. I don't know how a 15-year-old boy taking advantage of a 12-year-old girl is any better than a 23-year-old pretending to be a 15-year-old doing the same thing. Either she's competent to consent to sexual congress or she isn't. And if Prolong allows a 30- or 40-year-old to look as young as a 23-year-old today, I'm not sure that one of them pretending to be 15 is any worse than the 23-year-old doing it.
The only meaningful difference between the 15 year old boy and the 23-year-old is eight years of experience in manipulation tactics. If girls are taught to be on guard about such tactics only when used by boys who seem to be a lot older than they, they're being taught the wrong lessons. Prolong letting that "boy" continue to pass as 15 through his 30s just underscores how wrong it is.
Seriously.
WTF?!Is the only school bus to turn down your street the English bus?
STAY AWAY FROM MY NIECE!I have many foreign friends that I met at Uni.
They are also Honorverse fans and are hesitant to join the forum because of their English.
They read the forums because they know me, they like the Honorverse, and are trying to improve their English.
As soon as your thoughtful post went out I knew that the many emails I'd receive from it would be as expected. They were. You have probably cost this forum some very good members.
I told Andreaa, Cirstea, Natalija, Simone and others that the majority of the people in the forums are unlike you, and don't find it difficult to overlook the English of us mere mortals.
So you won't be visiting my threads again?
Perhaps one day someone will manufacture earplugs for the eyes.