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Old 11-22-2008, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Cassie325 View Post
......Boomer: I understand about the punctuation...I wish there was a grammar check along with spell check!!

Cassie,

Stopitstopitstopit.

Do not wish that grammar check thing on anybody. I broke up long ago with grammar check.

That thing does not know a good compound-complex sentence when it sees one.

And the beauty of the introductory adverbial clause is wasted on grammar check.

And that thing insisted upon calling my short, choppy, incomplete sentences, that I do so love to write, "fragments." Yep, it called them "fragments"! So I just told that grammar check to go frag itself and we broke up. How dare that thing expect both a subject and a predicate from me!

Now, you listen to Boomer. Hear me, now, please. Do not even THINK about trying to get that grammar check thing in here. You can't build nuance into a computer.

Boomer

Last edited by Boomer; 11-22-2008 at 11:38 AM.