FAO MarkRae

[supersuezy24]

..Just gotta say..you are very witty and quick with the smart responses :)
Making me laugh here today :)

[cazzz1975]

he is okay until he gets all lucy thomas with us :/

[supersuezy24]

Who's Lucy Thomas?

[cazzz1975]

she is the AB dictionary/spellchecker she pops in from time to time to correct and/or criticise the posters grammar and spelling.

[lardhelmet]

Why does she do that? Is she a teacher cazzz?

[supersuezy24]

Oh Right..

[cazzz1975]

no, I think it makes her feel better..she posts along these lines

http://www.theanswerb...k/Question626667.html

[lardhelmet]

Oooh get 'er!

[cazzz1975]

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question621545.html

[lardhelmet]

Ditto my previous comment!

[supersuezy24]

Cazzz is it wrong I want to slap her for correcting people like that??

[cazzz1975]

no your not!, we all wanted to slap her at the time ;)

[lardhelmet]

Hi suezy. We've got a woman at work who tried to correct my grammar (once). She's never done it again!!!

[society]

If you think Lucy is bad, what would you all say for Mamjet...
I do miss reading their post. They usually made me laugh out loud.

[supersuezy24]

I just think it's rude Cazzz and Lardhelmet when people do this.. A guy in college used to do this and it drove me insane

[cazzz1975]

Mamjet was a believer in 'telling it like it is' brutally...

[lardhelmet]

I agree. Just trying to make themselves feel superior I guess

[supersuezy24]

What happened to her Cazzz?

[looobylooo]

gawd, i was on the receiving end of marks grammar correcting stick one night! lol ....

how very harsh he was, critisizing and pitying me for my lack of apostrophes and capital letters .... ive not been quite the same since .... :o/

[joggerjayne]

Hi, guys x

I've just followed that link.

Lucy Thomas sets out her "correct" version of the sentence as follows ...

"Ken, he sets the standard and has to hope that his resturants follow suit, but there has been some anger about the state of his outlets in America and the U.K. "

In what parallel universe was that correct?

Ignoring the word "Ken", the rest of the sentence is a comound sentence in itself.

So how does that proper noun "Ken" manage to attach itself to the beginning, separated only by a comma? The comma attaches the first clause of the sentence to the prefixing proper noun when, in fact, the meaning of the sentence clearly intends it to be connected to the second clause.

"Ken" must be separated from the compound sentence by a semi-colon, not by a comma.

I think Lucy-Thomas was having a bad day !

(or maybe English is not her first language).