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Is the accepted convention that in online communication literal grammar corrections should start with an asterisk or at least be surrounded by quotes. I know h
by jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
Is the accepted convention that in online communication literal grammar corrections should start with an asterisk or at least be surrounded by quotes.
I know how silly this is, but now you see what happens when you get too focused in grammatical mistakes.
- vhf 14y agoSee Muphry's Law [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
- matthewowen 14y agoIllusion/allusion isn't a grammatical mistake. They're too words that mean different things, but which are very similar syntactically (you can swap between them in a sentence and get two valid sentences which mean entirely different things). This can be a pernicious source of errors of communication. It is good to point it out.
- Legion 14y ago"Two" words. Sorry.