(September 12, 2012 at 2:20 am)greneknight Wrote: You must pardon Godschild, Stimbo.
I try but find I cannot; he is unpardonable.
(September 12, 2012 at 2:20 am)greneknight Wrote: He's obviously not at home with the English language. We can't expect everyone else to write like us Englishmen to whom the language really belongs. Those who speak and write a variant of the language will always exhibit some quirkiness and we must strive not to appear pedantic.
That's going to be frightfully tough for we pedants. I'm fairly tolerant with manglers of English on a general basis. Years of exposure to the internet have inured me to the occasional typo or the odd colourful transatlantic idiom. No, it's the ones who are simply and obviously unable to utilise the written word yet pretend they are communicating some deep, mystical message far beyond our ken that climb straight up my left nostril.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
