Borobarmy
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They have made my morningI’ve been in stitches reading those!
They have made my morningI’ve been in stitches reading those!
I don't want to lose a local paper or see decent journalists lose their job, but if they are going to rip off discussions from Internet forums either credit where its come from or at least take a few minutes to put things in your own words.
Isn't that one of the first things you are taught at university so you can avoid getting into trouble for plagiarism? Basically ripping off quotes almost word for word just looks lazy and makes you look like you have very little credibility.
if you’re posting things on a public forum or social media then it’s in the public domain. BBC always use Twitter quotes for that. Think you need permission if it’s a photo or a video, but an opinion or story for example is generally fair game.
another classic lazy one gazette do is following up an article they’ve done with reactions to it and posting comments people made on Facebook and Twitter to the original story.
Merriam webster are American, many different rules, most not great..
OK, point me to an English based rule?
If it's good enough for Jane Austen & many other celebrated English authors, it's good enough for me.
Grammar-Monster.com, Grammerly.com, Grammarist.com, Grammar.com all say it's fine.
Searching google for starting a sentence with a conjunction just throws up dozens of sites talking about how its a longstanding myth that you cant, which has been ignored on both sides of the pond.
Not sure that there is, I was just pointing out that your first source was US base and some. Things are done. Differently over here.OK, point me to an English based rule?
If it's good enough for Jane Austen & many other celebrated English authors, it's good enough for me.
Grammar-Monster.com, Grammerly.com, Grammarist.com, Grammar.com all say it's fine.
Searching google for starting a sentence with a conjunction just throws up dozens of sites talking about how its a longstanding myth that you cant, which has been ignored on both sides of the pond.
Not sure that there is, I was just pointing out that your first source was US base and some. Things are done. Differently over here.
The Mirror group seem to be one of the main offenders. Am I right in thinking this is also one of their sites? Or do they just use the same shyte website setup?
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Fair , we are just having a chat, they changed spellings etc after Webster wanted to try and make American- English look different.According to who? For them to be wrong, there must be a right. Everything I’ve ever seen online looking at this in the past points to it being something archaically taught with no actual basis in fact, just like “I before e except after c”, although at least that is right some of the time.