Thou shalt not

[identity profile] fyellin.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Why art thou so upset?

(By the way, thanks to this posting, I had fun reading Wikipedia's article about how "you" and "thou" have pretty much swapped meanings in English.)

Re: Thou shalt not

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Will" and "shall" is another good bit of history. :-)

[identity profile] ericainohio.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It always warms my heart when I discover that other people are irritated by grammar issues, too. :-)

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm glad I'm not alone!

The dude's selling his writing. He's trying to make a living as a wordsmith. You'd think he'd hire someone, or look it up himself, to get at least the easiest stuff right.

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
not on livejournal you aren't! (:

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
this should be very much more to your taste: http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I adore those. :)

[personal profile] apparentparadox 2006-01-05 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe that is a new thing for Despair.com, although this is somewhat similar.