h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Writing Guidelines, eh?

And I quote: "Try and use good spelling and grammar".

Hmm. No one else spot this? The verb "try" takes the infinitive. As in, one tries to do something.

Darn it, we've been waiting for someone to spot that...

Um...

Fixed now

Busted

That should have been spotted earlier. We're not up to our usual standards...

Tango

Classic!

RhoMuNuQ

hence the subject line...
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Guru
CommunityArtist

RhoMuNuQ

that's one of the good things about h2g2...it accepts defeat gracefully
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Guru
CommunityArtist

>> ..that's one of the good things about h2g2...it accepts..<<

It accepts people like Ravenbait who remains as modestly silent as a Rudyard Kipling hero. Almost as if social intercourse were a cricket match and not a football riot.

Now, when I say "classless society", do I mean a society with no class whatsoever or one in which credit will paid when credit is due and the shy ones like Ravenbait can take an immodest bow every now and then, without fear of reprisal.

Let's hear it for Turkey!
Let's hear it for Ravenbait!

~jwf~

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Anna

I am not particularly modest, just horrendously, horrendously busy.

Full-time job, part time PhD, cycle campaigning.... the list is endless.

I do like grammatical error spotting, however, and that one was in a particularly fine context . I'm curious as to why h2g2 was waiting for someone to spot it, though, rather than just fixing it....

>> I'm curious as to why h2g2 was waiting for someone to spot it, though, rather than just fixing it.... <<

From my experience, let me assure you that there will either be:
1. Some attempt to explain that
2. No attempt to explain that

In either case you should consider the whole affair as one of Life's little mysteries and consider yourself well off that no one has yet accused you of pedantry.


~jwf~

Oh, I'm a well known pedant. I've been accused of pedantry many times, and am even a self-confessed pedant.

I even cheer when I hear an American on TV say "different from".

I seldom cheer when I see anything on TV, especially Americans, and I never listen to what they're saying.

Does this make me a pedant or just a snob?
Not that I really want to put that fine a point on it; I like to think that being a 'grumpy old fart' is sufficient for my purposes. Being a 'pedantic grumpy old fart' or a 'snobbish grumpy old fart' strikes me as lilting the giddy.


~jwf~