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I'd argue that if using a capital letter at the start of a sentence and a full stop at the end of it is praiseworthy, standards must be on their knees.
They are. I'm not the most skilled user of punctuation but I notice declining standards. The number of real mistakes in the local newspaper (as opposed to my ignorance - the Piste Office incident) is growing. I'd expect journalists to be professional writers with various editors to correct mistakes. But no, the whole process seems to be slapdash. (It was always so. Hence the Grauniad!)standards must be on their knees.
So the little dears are "being artistic"?... unless not done as an artistic use of language ...
...only if there's been a full stop to end the previous sentence!* Which is my point.messaging apps these days auto-capitalise the first words of sentences
Yes, you're right, but personally I dislike the concatenation of the two words into one, and would prefer a hyphenation at the very least. English is not German!"Likewise readers will find many quotes from The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
I know this is not the grammar Nazi thread but Shirley that should be Hitchhiker's" ?
Yes, you're right, but personally I dislike the concatenation of the two words into one, and would prefer a hyphenation at the very least. English is not German!
Debatable. There is a website incase.com which appears to sell cases for tech. Couldn't be a***d to find whether it's also a brand name for their products. In any case ( ) not relevant in the context of the article. I'd expect, obviously wrongly, autocorrect to catch that one. (It doesn't on this phone)."Incase"? Is that a thing???
Maybe they are concerned it might be Covid and not laryngitis.
Obviously not proof read!Is there be a progress indicator, and my flakey networking wasn't displaying it (I'm also testing out a different nano-router)?