Wonder what their Senator would have to say about it?
Posted on 07/28/2014 6:41:38 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Someone had earlier remarked to the effect of “Why didn’t his family control him?” My point was that he probably didn’t appear dangerous or even deranged until all of a sudden when he just went off. And some psychiatric cases can be like that. Little or no warning.
This is why the medical examiner will be examining his brain “with a fine toothed comb”. He could find a tumor, or unusual blood vessel growth, signs of schizophrenic degeneration, small strokes, who knows?
Yes, the families were in the right to defend themselves; but at the same time, their attacker may have been so out of it that he can’t be entirely blamed either.
There is a frustrating point with some mental illness where “the lights are on, but nobody is home”; where they seem rational and sane, but you might as well be talking to a wild animal. The humanity is no longer there, either temporarily or permanently.
Indefinite pronouns are the real troublemakers. These are singular and need singular pronouns: anyone, no one, everyone, someone, anybody, nobody, everybody, somebody, anything, everything, nothing, something, one, each, either, and neither.
A word like “everyone” is treating people as a group, so it is singular. When using “either” or “neither”, it is one or the other, so you are looking at one at a time, so those two words are singular.
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Above are the guidelines I like to observe.
But don't sweat it, Ticks. Someone like you can knock theirselves (or is it thereselve's?) out all he wants by ignoring any stupid old rules they pleases (please's?).
It's (is it its?) the way of the world now, right? Indeed it puts you in some pretty fine company, including the left-wing pedants at the Chronicle of Higher Ed:
I only made one post. It was to the person who made a grammatical error while criticizing someone else’s grammar. And I ended it with a wink.
Well, you can go on and on with your Bravo Sierra. but you know what I meant, I know what I meant, and everyone reading it knew exactly what I said too.
So knock yourself out with your sophistry if you must, I will continue to tell you and anyone else that if someone assaulted my elderly mom, they, meaning that someone, would pay the price.
Amen. But this guy knew what was meant...he’s just impressing himself with his own Bravo Sierra. No need for me to engage that any longer.
Bad beginning, but a good ending.
Wonder what their Senator would have to say about it?
But do it with non leftist English.
Like I said...not worth the argument.
You clearly believe you are the purveyor of all correctness and somehow want to push it on others. I’ll let the readers and lurkers decide which is behaving “leftists.”
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