Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Tuesday 2005-08-23 at 22:17 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
Or irrespective, depending on what you want to say
My pet peeve is "would of" or "should of". It looks so ugly it just gets on my nerves
That's why, if people for whom English is their first (or native) language can't get it right, we non English-as-1st-language-speakers need a grammar checker ;-)
Well, actually, after the damn fools at UC Berkeley declared English grammar "irrelevant" in the '60's, our educational system collapsed until recently. Now, even though we've pretty much recovered (societally) from that catastrophe, we still have two generations of schoolteachers who neither know nor care about grammar and spelling, except that our society is dragging them forcibly back to sanity. You're likely in a better position than most of us to recognize and use good grammar and spelling. As Anders appears to be :-). John Perry