Board:   [DoveNet] Pro-Audio Discussion
Subject: Re: Linn LM-1 With A.M.S.
From:    Gamgee
Date:    Sun Sep 06, 2020 23:35

@VIA: PALANT
-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga>> I'd have to disagree in this particular example. The "Has anyone
 Ga>> ever used" part of the sentence makes the "before" redundant and
 Ga>> unnecessary.

 Ni>> I've heard people say this all the time though..

 Ga> Well yes, no doubt. That doesn't make it any more correct,
 Ga> though. It's very poor English - lazy and sloppy.

 Ga> I'm reminded of the saying that my parents would occasionally ask
 Ga> me: Just because everyone else is jumping off thatcliff doesn't
 Ga> mean that you should too.

 Ni> I think this is far from the worst grammatical mistakes people
 Ni> make..  It may be redundant, but I guess I hadn't really thought
 Ni> of it is very sloppy.  I think "PIN number" and "ATM machine" are
Ni> worse than this.  And there are other things that I think are
 Ni> even worse.  :)

No argument with any of that.  I guess it's just the way that "TM"
makes his posts.  Almost all of them are like that - redundant and
ridiculous.  Yes, there are plenty of things worse... don't even
get me started on the to/too, their/there/they're, your/you're,
etc...  :-)



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