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[Wobby]

Abbreviations are always really hard to figure out - especially without a given context - luckily, people tend to just speak to me via voice as opposed to text - it's only me that's the cheap-skate that uses texts in order to save money. That's why I've still got so much credit on my phone.

Have you taken your English exam yet, or is it in the Summer? I'm presuming it's Language and Literature? Do you know your coursework and speaking mark yet? Try to maximise them if you can. When it comes to the exam, just come up with the silliest analyses possible and them begin expanding on and explaining them - you can do this especially well in the literature exam. You can't lose marks for this. Each point and explanation is worth a tick, regardless of how implausible they actually are.

Take my 'comparison of memories' between 'Homecoming' and 'Before You Were Mine' - I said 'the use of first person in 'Before You Were Mine' as compared to the use of third person in 'Homecoming' suggests that Duffy feels that memories are much more personal than Armitage, as further displayed by use of informal language such as the onomatopoeia 'Cha Cha Cha' and the colloquialism 'sweetheart'.'

Another one was: 'The structure of the poem, 'Homecoming', is a lot more spaced out than the structure of the poem 'Before You Were Mine', in the sense that there are more lines per stanza. This suggests that Armitage feels memories much more nubivagent and abstract than Duffy, who feels memories to be more organised and intertwined.'

Well, something like that, anyway. Of course, this is all a lot of rubbish -just 'play the game', as the expression the teachers here like to use goes, and you'll do fine - put it this way: no-one else would have though of those reasons, so you'll get ticks for creativity and originality - thinking outside the box! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I actually thought I'd do really badly in English actually, but the grades contradicted me, so I'm sure you'll do fine too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

~Wobby~

[Rosemary7391]

I've got all A's in my coursework, except one piece, which I'm re-doing, and speaking which I got A* on!
Your strategy sounds exactly like what my friend does (Who gets A*s without fail!) only you explan it better. Thanks! I will try that come the dreaded summer exams... I only just scraped an A on my mock, so there is some work to be done there!

[Wobby]

Your welcome! I actually got an A in my mock test, which was the highest mark for the year, but I think this was namely because teachers undermarked on purpose so that it looks better when you come out with your grade at the end - about 40% or so came out with an A* in English Language by the end - the same probably applies for you! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

~Wobby~

[Choddy]

Your welcome!

~Wobby~

What about my welcome?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[sarah-flute]

Yes, this one was intentional, and you've no idea the pain it caused me typing it

Oh Deborah, Deborah... some of us DO feel your pain, believe me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[SaxFan]

[font=Souvenir Lt BT][size=2]Your welcome!

Please explain this part of your post.
'Your welcome' is this as opposed to 'his welcome', 'my welcome' or indeed 'our welcome'?

'Your welcome!' doesn't seem to make a sentence.

Maybe we should also have a spelling correction thread; I have noticed one or two suspect words (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Dulciana]

[font=Souvenir Lt BT][size=2]Your welcome!

Please explain this part of your post.
'Your welcome' is this as opposed to 'his welcome', 'my welcome' or indeed 'our welcome'?

'Your welcome!' doesn't seem to make a sentence.

Maybe we should also have a spelling correction thread; I have noticed one or two suspect words (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

And what ever happened to semi-colons?
" 'Your welcome'; is this as opposed to..."
Otherwise it means 'this is your welcome, as opposed to his, mine or ours'!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Sad to be doing this on a Saturday night, really! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

[SaxFan]

And what ever happened to semi-colons?

There was a semicolon missing in a previous post, but I hesitated to mention it. It would probably be more accurate to say that I simply DIDN'T mention it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I wonder when 'never mind' became one word.

[Dulciana]

And what ever happened to semi-colons?

There was a semicolon missing in a previous post, but I hesitated to mention it. It would probably be more accurate to say that I simply DIDN'T mention it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I wonder when 'never mind' became one word.

Or when 'so not' became acceptable? It's so not on!

[Wobby]

What about my welcome?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I shall now donate a welcome to everybody here for their personal appeasement. Oh yes, as this is the thread for pedantics, you are not permitted two question marks in a row. I think an exclamation mark after a question mark can be permitted, however, due to the fact that it is so hard to 'type' an interrobang without taking the bother of opening up character map. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Please explain this part of your post.
'Your welcome' is this as opposed to 'his welcome', 'my welcome' or indeed 'our welcome'?

'Your welcome!' doesn't seem to make a sentence.

Maybe we should also have a spelling correction thread; I have noticed one or two suspect words (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

How would you know this was not intended as a poetic use of a 'fragmented' sentence? They are all the rage in Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings books. Besides, although you would like a spelling correction thread, you still failed to notice the absent full stop to end your last sentence before the smiley. And Dulciana pointed out the other mistake.* But theoretically, a colon could have been used. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

*This was another fragmented sentence. Additionally, 'And' can be used to begin sentences, and ambiguity and passive sentences are not errors.

And what ever happened to semi-colons?
" 'Your welcome'; is this as opposed to..."
Otherwise it means 'this is your welcome, as opposed to his, mine or ours'!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Sad to be doing this on a Saturday night, really! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Surely by your own standards, an agent is required to meet minimum standards for a sentence, unless it is an intentional fragmented sentence, which it is not. Therefore, the use of the two words 'It is' is required before the word 'Sad', which should by then be changed to 'sad'.

~Wobby~

[Car Expert]

Looks like the error has been corrected now.

See post 7 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Oh yes...(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Car Expert

[SaxFan]

amiguity

[/font][/size]~Wobby~

What is this word, please?

[Dulciana]

What about my welcome?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I shall now donate a welcome to everybody here for their personal appeasement. Oh yes, as this is the thread for pedantics, you are not permitted two question marks in a row. I think an exclamation mark after a question mark can be permitted, however, due to the fact that it is so hard to 'type' an interrobang without taking the bother of opening up character map. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Please explain this part of your post.
'Your welcome' is this as opposed to 'his welcome', 'my welcome' or indeed 'our welcome'?

'Your welcome!' doesn't seem to make a sentence.

Maybe we should also have a spelling correction thread; I have noticed one or two suspect words (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

How would you know this was not intended as a poetic use of a 'fragmented' sentence? They are all the rage in Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings books. Besides, although you would like a spelling correction thread, you still failed to notice the absent full stop to end your last sentence before the smiley. And Dulciana pointed out the other mistake.* But theoretically, a colon could have been used. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

*This was another fragmented sentence. Additionally, 'And' can be used to begin sentences, and amiguity and passive sentences are not errors.

And what ever happened to semi-colons?
" 'Your welcome'; is this as opposed to..."
Otherwise it means 'this is your welcome, as opposed to his, mine or ours'!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Sad to be doing this on a Saturday night, really! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Surely by your own standards, an agent is required to meet minimum standards for a sentence, unless it is an intentional fragmented sentence, which it is not. Therefore, the use of the two words 'It is' is required before the word 'Sad', which should by then be changed to 'sad'.

~Wobby~

I stand corrected; or rather I am sitting at my computer, my error having been pointed out. If you tell me now that ending a sentence with a preposition is an abomination up with which you will not put, I will be expecting an alternative!

P.S. What the **** is an interrobang? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[superpyroman]

What about my welcome?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I shall now donate a welcome to everybody here for their personal appeasement. Oh yes, as this is the thread for pedantics, you are not permitted two question marks in a row. I think an exclamation mark after a question mark can be permitted, however, due to the fact that it is so hard to 'type' an interrobang without taking the bother of opening up character map. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Please explain this part of your post.
'Your welcome' is this as opposed to 'his welcome', 'my welcome' or indeed 'our welcome'?

'Your welcome!' doesn't seem to make a sentence.

Maybe we should also have a spelling correction thread; I have noticed one or two suspect words (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

How would you know this was not intended as a poetic use of a 'fragmented' sentence? They are all the rage in Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings books. Besides, although you would like a spelling correction thread, you still failed to notice the absent full stop to end your last sentence before the smiley. And Dulciana pointed out the other mistake.* But theoretically, a colon could have been used. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

*This was another fragmented sentence. Additionally, 'And' can be used to begin sentences, and amiguity and passive sentences are not errors.

And what ever happened to semi-colons?
" 'Your welcome'; is this as opposed to..."
Otherwise it means 'this is your welcome, as opposed to his, mine or ours'!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) Sad to be doing this on a Saturday night, really! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Surely by your own standards, an agent is required to meet minimum standards for a sentence, unless it is an intentional fragmented sentence, which it is not. Therefore, the use of the two words 'It is' is required before the word 'Sad', which should by then be changed to 'sad'.

~Wobby~

I stand corrected; or rather I am sitting at my computer, my error having been pointed out. If you tell me now that ending a sentence with a preposition is an abomination up with which you will not put, I will be expecting an alternative!

P.S. What the **** is an interrobang? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

It's like a milk bottle but different

[Wobby]

amiguity

[/font][/size]~Wobby~

What is this word, please?

What was once that 'word' is no more... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

I stand corrected; or rather I am sitting at my computer, my error having been pointed out. If you tell me now that ending a sentence with a preposition is an abomination up with which you will not put, I will be expecting an alternative!

P.S. What the **** is an interrobang? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

I don't understand what you are trying to get at in the first part of your post, but I was basically saying that the sentence should be changed to 'It is sad to be doing this on a Saturday night, really.' If what you were getting at was I was telling you to correct the 'really' part, I wasn't, for this could be interpreted as correct providing you were insinuating that the reader believed that the sentence was not true.

But in answer to your P.S., an interrobang is a combination between a question mark and an exclamation mark that is used to express a question said in a manner of disbelief or that is shouted. It was created to replace the grammatically incorrect '?!' puntuation series, as having two punctuation marks next to each other is wrong, unless one of the series is a full stop used to show an acronym, or if one of the series is a quotation mark, in which case this is accepted. The creation of the interrobang merged both the exclamation and the question mark together, forming one punctuation mark, making it correct. So, to summarise, an interrobang is a piece of punctuation that looks like the letter 'P' with a full stop underneath. It can be found in fonts such as Palantino Linotype and Tahoma, near the bottom in applications such as Character Map, or near the bottom in 'Microsoft Word, Insert Symbol', providing these are both up to date, I believe. I shall try typing some:

`^_

If you look under Wikipedia, you can find lots of information about this oh-so-useful punctuation mark.

Click here to see the link. Here is another interrobang site!



P.S. Would superpyroman kindly put a full stop at the end of his 'sentence'?

~Wobby~