I have often wished for an edit button on FR. I wrote a sentence the other day with imperfect subject/verb agreement that I wish I could take back. Sigh. All one can do is try to do better in the future.
Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation 
I have often wished for an edit button on FR. I wrote a sentence the other day with imperfect subject/verb agreement that I wish I could take back. Sigh. All one can do is try to do better in the future.
Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation
Please ... not another lecture on grammar ... I know decent grammar ... I just choose not to labor over it in the wee hours after I’ve been up all night! If you want to criticize my ideas, fine ... I’m sure a ‘brilliant pedant’ like you can glean my meaning regardless of my disdain of worrying about grammar. Please do me a huge favor and do not EVER respond to me again ... I don’t have time for trivial people ... if you see a post from me just move on.
Good grammar or bad grammar, people really don’t care. It’s just that people who use good grammar and read well written books are not used to doing all the work of imagining who you’re talking about, and they don’t appreciate your making fun of their being intelligent when they try to follow what you are saying.
Most audiences who do not do that are of the type who laugh at the appropriate moments and grab another beer just to change the subject.
If you say a name and then use a pronoun, that’s who you’re talking about.
But you can abuse those who follow rules all you want. They still won’t know what you’re talking about when you do it again.
I quite agree. An ‘edit’ button would be a great boon. Particularly when typing on a phone.
Could this be the original Dobbs?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/33158682@N06/3472333562/
I am not affiliated in anyway with Retrospace, but love the stuff he puts up.
That’s why I love the preview screen. I proofread, proofread, think about posting....and proofread a third time.
Once in a while I think, “Nah”, and backspace out entirely.
You have been called pedantic. This comes, as I’m sure you know, from the word pedant: a person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details. Also, obsolete: a male schoolteacher.
Think is, the errors were not small, nor the details minor.
Oh, well, try to help some people, and what do they do?
Bob for everything!