That's a fair point, and in the same vein maybe there are people on this thread who have spent many years in the UK car racing industry who could add far more when it comes to fleshing out a driver's personality portfolio (and hence feel they are in a position to comment without feeling they are seen to be 'jumping to a conclusion'). Btw - I could be wrong but I think Lewis may have won races in other months as well.
The insinuation was that he didn't have a clue, which clearly isn't the case, no matter how experienced the person commenting is. I had spotted the typo, but didn't think it worthy of editing. It's always the sign of having lost an argument when pointing out a typo imo.
as said before, that's the lovely thing about a Forum, I don't have to agree with you - not sure who made the insinuation you mentioned but it wasn't me. Sorry my attempt at light-hearted humour missed the mark, I think your biting on it contradicts your last comment though. I promise I won't reply to your next reply - am happy for you to 'win'
Pointing out typing errors is nothing to do with the actual argument - it's merely an attempt to educate those who cannot, or will not, use English correctly.
Then you won't mind me educating you and pointing out your incorrect use of that hyphen? The hyphen (‐) is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation.[1] The hyphen should not be confused with dashes (‒, –, —, ―), which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign (−), which is also longer.
Those of us eager to conform to proper standards and use the "dash" instead of the "hyphen" should read here and here. Or, we could all just calm the fuck down and use a hyphen
Hope @finm doesn't read this thread. You know what at stickler he is for "proper standards". He'll have sleepless nights ... And I have to say in an era when internet users routinely type such things as; i don't like u, ROFL and LMAO etc I'm pretty relaxed about them using -, – or — when they probably should be using commas, semi-colons or colons anyway. I reckon dashes were invented by print media to improve the flow of words in sentences and help less literate readers navigate them and aren't really necessary. Of far more importance are the genuine misunderstandings that regularly occur. We have been THEIR before, but YOUR and YOU'RE mean totally different things. if we could just eliminate those mistakes I would die a happy man!
Agree. Your instead of you're is my pet hate. You could blame the educators but I blame the internet. If people read print media and books they would almost never see such errors. As it is they're all over the web so people think they are correct or alternative forms. I saw custmers instead of customers on a BBC1 breaking news tickertape yesterday. But at least that was just a typing error and not a knowledge gap.
That's another one. Unique is an absolute and cannot be qualified. Nothing can be "more unique" or "less unique" since unique, by definition, means there is only one. It's like saying one person is more dead than another; it makes no sense. "Almost unique" is fair enough - if there are only two or three. Are there another one or two like finm? :Wideyed:
should of could of would of I would willingly see the return of the death penalty for each one of these.
