Posted on 02/13/2018 3:04:24 PM PST by Dr. Sivana
Read the solicitation below.
"Find a Apple Store workshop,"
"A Apple Store"??
Over 60 years ago, Ralph Kramden and Art Carney had them rolling in the aisles when their TV ad asked,
"Can it core a apple?"
This was no rushed off blog typed on a 4" touch screen. This is a formal short-form advertisement by a half-trillion dollar company.
Sheesh!
They got you to post it on a site seen by hundreds of thousands. Not so dumb after all.
No more funding problems!
That would be serious exploitation. Five cents each would be more than enough...
“I hope this makes it clear for you.“
It does. Thanks. Somehow it was in my mind to drop the description (Apple). Maybe I’m thinking about I/me. I know there was a gimmick. I remember almost nothing from those classes.
My pet peeve is when someone blames Auto-correct when, in reality, they were just too lazy to proofread their comment before posting.
(I stand with Trump)
All is forgiven
I am frustrated with all the links I click to read a story yet go to a video instead, because younger people don’t read or don’t want to read. I don’t want to watch a two minute video as opposed to reading an article in 35 seconds.
Don’t get me started on cursive writing!
“I am certainly no expert. I think “Find a Apple store” may be correct. You wouldn’t say “Find an store”. My grammar rules could be flawed here.”
Yeh, you missed Sister Anne’s 5th grade grammar class.
You look for AN apple store. You will not find “an store.” But you can find A store.
Happy to help.
Semper fi.
It’s a simple rule. Should take less than AN hour to get it.
You use “a” before words that begin with a consonant. Us “an” with words that begin with vowels. Easy peasy.
You loose interest? ;) (probably the most common)
“We have become a post-literate society”, is so true. I find errors even on the WSJ editorial page.
Last Sunday’s local paper had a headline on its editorial page describing a “Rouge Cop”. Thought he was using makeup at first.
I suspect you are referring to this one:
The pronoun “me” is used for the objective case, and the pronoun “I” is used for the subjective case. For some reason, people become confused when there is a compound object or compound object of a preposition, so you hear people say, “Sue told Tom and I” instead of using the correct construction “Sue told Tom and me”.
You are probably remembering that a teacher advised separating the compound objects to see if it “sounds” right — “Sue told Tom”/”Sue told I” —whereupon you would conclude that “me” is the correct usage.
“We have become a post-literate society and no one seems to care, except a few holdouts like myself.”
People are no longer embarrassed about their ignorance. And it’s not considered cool to use language correctly.
I dated a proof reader once.
Beautiful girl. Half Japanese, half Hawaiian.
We lived in same apartment building in North Hollywood Calif.
Taught me to NEVER date a woman in the apartment you live in.
The rule here is if the referential can be counted, use “fewer,” if it can not be counted use “less.” This holds even if the task of counting would be insurmountable. For example, “I can see fewer stars tonight than I could see last night.” Or “There are fewer grains of sand on this beach than on that beach.”
Contrary wise, when talking about an amount that is more amorphous that does not lend itself to counting, then use “less.” Foe example, “There is less water in this jug than there is in that jug.” Or “It will take less food to feed the Jones family than the Smith family because they don’t even at as much.”
However, if one is talking science about the amount of water in the jug and we are discussing UNITS that are measurable, we return to “fewer.” I.e. “There are fewer liters of water in that jug than in the other one,” because we can count the liters.
One word that I’ve been noticing all the time lately being misused or misspelled is “clothing.” They spell it “cloths.” I bet I’ve seen that word misused at least 50 times in the last year, just now, in fact, on another thread.
What’s up with that?
Dude, check the grammar in your own post! LOL
I care quite a bit about the ongoing degradation of the English language, as many of my fellow Freepers can attest.
I see the steady erosion and debasement of our language as just another leftist attack on Western civilization.
I do what I can, in my own small way, to fight back against the creeping rot.
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