Spot the error.

Rodney
Thanks for your explanation, of course I never found the error, because
my English is not so good as yours!
You are right, my knowledge is more by Indonesian revenues.
Sorry for my bad English!
Hans

rodney schreef:
Oh all right Bill, I'll spill the beans

The slogan on the cancel has a grammatical error in that it has "split infinitive"

A split infinitive or cleft infinitive is an English-language grammatical construction in
which a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, comes between the
marker to and the bare infinitive (uninflected) form of a verb. A famous split infinitive
occurs in the opening sequence of the Star Trek television series: to boldly go where
no man has gone before. Here, the adverb "boldly" splits the full infinitive "to go."

The slogan should read "Blood donors are needed urgently"
rodney

Center!?
I suppose language is forever evolving, It is only natural that you colonials
mucked up some words when you took it with you.


"Bill"
rodney wrote:
Anybody?
http://cjoint.com/data/bpkk4RVPRt.htm

Perhaps blood donors aren't urgently needed?
July 13, 1987 was a Sunday and the post offices were all closed?
"Center" is spelled wrong? It is, at least as far as I'm concerned.

And what, pray tell, is a banana slurp? That clue doesn't help this Californian a bit.

We have to wait a month for the correct solution? You can do better than that, Rodney. Although it's already tomorrow
in Australia.
Bill

Hans,
you have no reason whatsoever to apologise
We actually speak the very same language, it is just that through the ages
"English" per se, has percolated down into differing dialects to a point
recognition is blurred.

Oddly enough your country gave birth to English, the very first language
in Britain was brought from the low countries, Friesland, and has grown from there.
Curiously I am part way through the DVD "The adventure of English" by Melvyn Bragg
and he was just explaining the overpowering influence from the French.

In just one sport alone, Falconry, he explained 9 French words we took as our own.
Falcon
Codger
Leash
Block
Bait
Check
Lure
Quarry
and Mews

As far as split infinitives are concerned, I still have great difficulty in identifyng them myself

What is interesting is all this interest is generated by little pieces of perforted paper and their marks
rodney




"hvschaik"
Rodney
Thanks for your explanation, of course I never found the error, because my English is not so good as yours!
You are right, my knowledge is more by Indonesian revenues.
Sorry for my bad English!
Hans

rodney schreef:
Oh all right Bill, I'll spill the beans

The slogan on the cancel has a grammatical error in that it has "split infinitive"

A split infinitive or cleft infinitive is an English-language grammatical construction in
which a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, comes between the
marker to and the bare infinitive (uninflected) form of a verb. A famous split infinitive
occurs in the opening sequence of the Star Trek television series: to boldly go where
no man has gone before. Here, the adverb "boldly" splits the full infinitive "to go."

The slogan should read "Blood donors are needed urgently"
rodney

Center!?
I suppose language is forever evolving, It is only natural that you colonials
mucked up some words when you took it with you.


"Bill"
rodney wrote:
Anybody?
http://cjoint.com/data/bpkk4RVPRt.htm

Perhaps blood donors aren't urgently needed?
July 13, 1987 was a Sunday and the post offices were all closed?
"Center" is spelled wrong? It is, at least as far as I'm concerned.

And what, pray tell, is a banana slurp? That clue doesn't help this Californian a bit.

We have to wait a month for the correct solution? You can do better than that, Rodney. Although it's already
tomorrow in Australia.
Bill

On Jan 16, 7:58*pm, "rodney" pookiethai@NOSPAM iprimus.com.au wrote:
Hans,
you have no reason whatsoever to apologise
We actually speak the very same language, it is just that through the ages
"English" per se, has percolated down into differing dialects to a point
recognition is blurred.

Oddly enough your country gave birth to English, the very first language
in Britain was brought from the low countries, Friesland, and has grown from there.
Curiously I am part way through the DVD "The adventure of English" by Melvyn Bragg
and he was just explaining the overpowering influence from the French.

In just one sport alone, Falconry, he explained 9 French words we took as our own.
Falcon
Codger
Leash
Block
Bait
Check
Lure
Quarry
and Mews

As far as split infinitives are concerned, I still have great difficulty in identifyng them myself

What is interesting is all this interest is generated by little pieces of perforted paper and their marks
rodney

"hvschaik"



Rodney
Thanks for your explanation, of course I never found the error, because my English is not so good as yours!
You are right, my knowledge is more by Indonesian revenues.
Sorry for my bad English!
Hans

rodney schreef:
Oh all right Bill, I'll spill the beans

The slogan on the cancel has a grammatical error in that it has "split infinitive"

A split infinitive or cleft infinitive is an English-language grammatical construction in
which a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, comes between the
marker to and the bare infinitive (uninflected) form of a verb. A famous split infinitive
occurs in the opening sequence of the Star Trek television series: to boldly go where
no man has gone before. Here, the adverb "boldly" splits the full infinitive "to go."

The slogan should read "Blood donors are needed urgently"
rodney

Center!?
I suppose language is forever evolving, It is only natural that you colonials
mucked up some words when you took it with you.

"Bill"
rodney wrote:
Anybody?
http://cjoint.com/data/bpkk4RVPRt.htm

Perhaps blood donors aren't urgently needed?
July 13, 1987 was a Sunday and the post offices were all closed?
"Center" is spelled wrong? It is, at least as far as I'm concerned.

And what, pray tell, is a banana slurp? That clue doesn't help this Californian a bit.

We have to wait a month for the correct solution? You can do better than that, Rodney. Although it's already
tomorrow in Australia.
Bill- Hide quoted text -

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Don't worry about those split things, I have been murdering the
English language all my looong life,
It is what most American rednecks do.

Ralphael, the OLD one

rodney wrote:
Oh all right Bill, I'll spill the beans

The slogan on the cancel has a grammatical error in that it has "split infinitive"

A split infinitive or cleft infinitive is an English-language grammatical construction in
which a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, comes between the
marker to and the bare infinitive (uninflected) form of a verb. A famous split infinitive
occurs in the opening sequence of the Star Trek television series: to boldly go where
no man has gone before. Here, the adverb "boldly" splits the full infinitive "to go."

The slogan should read "Blood donors are needed urgently"
rodney

Center!?
I suppose language is forever evolving, It is only natural that you colonials
mucked up some words when you took it with you.


"Bill"
rodney wrote:
Anybody?
http://cjoint.com/data/bpkk4RVPRt.htm

Perhaps blood donors aren't urgently needed?
July 13, 1987 was a Sunday and the post offices were all closed?
"Center" is spelled wrong? It is, at least as far as I'm concerned.

And what, pray tell, is a banana slurp? That clue doesn't help this Californian a bit.

We have to wait a month for the correct solution? You can do better than that, Rodney. Although it's already tomorrow
in Australia.
Bill


But that's not really a split infinitive. See the discussion he
http://www.answers.com/topic/split-infinitive

And although some, especially in past years, considered splitting
infinitives to be poor style, it's not really a grammatical error to
ever split an infinitive (which of course is a good example of an actual
split infinitive).

How about not ending a sentence with a preposition? Which of these two
sentences is preferable:
This is a situation up with which I shall not put.
This is a situation which I shall not put up with.

In a college long ago I was once an English major...

And I still don't know what a banana slurp has to do with this...

Bill

"Bill"
But that's not really a split infinitive. See the discussion he
http://www.answers.com/topic/split-infinitive

And although some, especially in past years, considered splitting infinitives to be poor style, it's not really a
grammatical error to ever split an infinitive (which of course is a good example of an actual split infinitive).

Well I know that which I prefer to read.


How about not ending a sentence with a preposition? Which of these two sentences is preferable:
This is a situation up with which I shall not put. (Sir Winston Churchill?)
This is a situation which I shall not put up with.

In a college long ago I was once an English major...

Ergo, here endeth the lesson

rodney wrote:
"Bill"
But that's not really a split infinitive. See the discussion he
http://www.answers.com/topic/split-infinitive

And although some, especially in past years, considered splitting infinitives to be poor style, it's not really a
grammatical error to ever split an infinitive (which of course is a good example of an actual split infinitive).

Well I know that which I prefer to read.

How about not ending a sentence with a preposition? Which of these two sentences is preferable:
This is a situation up with which I shall not put. (Sir Winston Churchill?)
This is a situation which I shall not put up with.

In a college long ago I was once an English major...

Ergo, here endeth the lesson



Yes, it was Churchill.
However, the really preferable sentence is
I will not put up with this situation. (shorter, easier to understand)

If you want a really bad example of English usage, how about the
youngster describing the parade passing by:
Up the street the soldiers they are marching down.

"Bill"
Yes, it was Churchill.
However, the really preferable sentence is
I will not put up with this situation. (shorter, easier to understand)

If you want a really bad example of English usage, how about the youngster describing the parade passing by:
Up the street the soldiers they are marching down.

I have no need of bad examples Bill, I have a 15yo creature
that apports to be my son.
"Wot?" "Whatever!" and a myriad of other low count syllables
are the norm.
"Up the street...." would be a welcome aberration.
I wonder how Hamlet would have read, if Shakespeare had been
texting his mates on his mobile phone during school.

In a recent message Bill wrote:

rodney wrote:
"Bill"
But that's not really a split infinitive. See the discussion he
http://www.answers.com/topic/split-infinitive

And although some, especially in past years, considered splitting infinitives to be poor style, it's not really a
grammatical error to ever split an infinitive (which of course is a good example of an actual split infinitive).

Well I know that which I prefer to read.

How about not ending a sentence with a preposition? Which of these two sentences is preferable:
This is a situation up with which I shall not put. (Sir Winston Churchill?)

But clearly this was a phrase the recipient would never forget...

I had noticed that the phrase had the adverb first, but decided this was too minor
to constitute an 'error', knowing common English usage.

--
Tony Clayton
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On Jan 18, 7:32*pm, Sir F. A. Rien wrote:
Tony Clayton found these unused words:





In a recent message Bill wrote:

rodney wrote:
"Bill"
But that's not really a split infinitive. See the discussion he
http://www.answers.com/topic/split-infinitive

And although some, especially in past years, considered splitting infinitives to be poor style, it's not really a
grammatical error to ever split an infinitive (which of course is a good example of an actual split infinitive).

Well I know that which I prefer to read.

How about not ending a sentence with a preposition? Which of these two sentences is preferable:
This is a situation up with which I shall not put. (Sir Winston Churchill?)

But clearly this was a phrase the recipient would never forget...

I had noticed that the phrase had the adverb first, but decided this was too minor
to constitute an 'error', knowing common English usage.

Ah yes, Anglish as she is reet, rot, ritten!- Hide quoted text -

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Gud fer you, get 'er done.

Ralph

Tha knows, eeh by gum, 'appen !

Malcolm