"Trevor McDonald" wrote in message
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On 01/11/2014 23:31, Col wrote:

Picky?
Well you did ask for more, so don't complain when you get it.
I see you haven't commented upon the inexuseable 'they was'.


"They was" is not inexuseable it's been used by many respected authors
such as: Shakespeare, chaucer, dickens and shaw. And no I don;t intend
to correct all my grammaritical and spelling mistakes as this is a
informal means of communication.

Ah, the old 'Shakespeare did it so it must be OK' defence.

Back in Shakespeare's day the rules of grammar weren't as
well defined as they are today so of course he wrote things
differently to how we would do it.
'They was' is *wrong*. It just sounds *wrong*. It jars when
you say it. That's because it's *wrong*. End of.

This may be an informal means of communication but that
doesn't mean your English has to be so bad it's barely
intelligible and painful to read.

Oh and btw, you should be replying as 'Observer' not 'Trevor McDonald'.
If you must create all these identities in order to avoid killfiles at least
try and keep track of them. There's nothing worse than someone who
isn't in control of his own sock puppets!
You've got 3 running in this thread alone FFS.
That must be some kind of a record.
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Col

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