What a lot of people on this forum need ...

**Daywalker** · 2 December 2005, 16:28

Originally posted by sasguru

...for Christmas.

"Eats, shoots and leaves" by Lynne Truss

hmmmmmmmmmm

From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to New Yorker editor Harold Ross’s epic arguments with James Thurber over commas

feck that:::,

**AtW** · 2 December 2005, 16:31

What we REALLY need is a GOOD set of emoticons from EZBOARD, ie:

One of the emoitons is present here, why not the rest?

BRING BACK OLD EMOTICONS!!!

**Rebecca Loos** · 2 December 2005, 16:42

AtW, have you got nothing more worthwhile to do in your life than asking for the return of some abstract objects that exist only for the uneducated to express emotions they are unable to convey with words?

**Dundeegeorge** · 2 December 2005, 16:45

Elementary really

Originally posted by Rebecca Loos

AtW, have you got nothing more worthwhile to do in your life than asking for the return of some abstract objects that exist only for the uneducated to express emotions they are unable to convey with words?

The answer is in the question. Atw - worthwhile life!

**cojak** · 2 December 2005, 16:50

*blushes remembering the fruitless ten minutes earlier this morning trying to find the winking emoticon..."

**wc2** · 3 December 2005, 15:00

Originally posted by sasguru

...for Christmas.

"Eats, shoots and leaves" by Lynne Truss

Why do we all need a Panda Bear ?

Seen below eating shoots & leaves

**malvolio** · 3 December 2005, 15:05

but not eating, shooting and leaving...

Let's face it, anyone under about 35 years old will not have been taught to construct and deconstruct English, so we can't really complain that they can't do it proper like what us old farts prefer.

But hey, it's a living language. What we use now is different to what I was taught, to what the Victorians used (go read Dickens) and what the elizabethans used (go read Shakespeare). I write properly because I can and because I get a degree of pleasure out of it. It doesn't make my generation right and modern English wrong.

**thunderlizard** · 3 December 2005, 15:39

different from

hth

tl

**malvolio** · 3 December 2005, 15:59

Point proven, perhaps, dear boy, but to quote OED:

There is little difference in sense between different from, different to, and different than. Different from is generally regarded as the correct use in British English, while different than is largely restricted to North America.

However I'm Welsh. Out in the wilds where I come from, we say "different to"

What a lot of people on this forum need ...