OpenWeb and their craziest e-mail to customers yet

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I for one ..or should that be.. ..I for-one....

I _think_ "I for one" is correct :] - perhaps better with commas, though - such as: "I, for one, <insert statement of personal opinion here>"
Edit: http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic21980.html

 

[Lycanthrope]

The irony pointed out was not lost to (by?) me.

On.

Thanks for the link. This is what I learned, re-discovered about hyphenated words:-

I must look out for the person caring an airplane as in:-
A passenger caring airplane vs. a passenger-caring airplane.

Carrying

That three hundred-year old trees are not the same as three-hundred-year old trees.
(3 trees each hundred years old) (lots of 300 year old trees)

And that a man eating shark is not as scary as a man-eating shark.

But it appears that in other instances that the usage of the hyphen is declining.

Hyphen abuse is easily spotted with a bit of comprehension behind your back.

Copied from Wikipedia
The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general, been steadily declining. Compounds that might once have been hyphenated are increasingly left with spaces or are combined into one word. In 2007, the sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary removed the hyphens from 16,000 entries, such as fig-leaf (now fig leaf), pot-belly (now pot belly) and pigeon-hole (now pigeonhole).[1] The advent of the Internet and the increasing prevalence of computer technology have given rise to a subset of common nouns that may in the past have been hyphenated (e.g. "toolbar", "hyperlink", "pastebin").

Yeah, I think I'll stick to using the hyphens.

Thus I think that a 13 year old writing a book will not use the hyphen to indicate that he is indeed a 13-year-old boy?

Er... Sure.

Loved reading “ Eat shoots and leaves” but that refers to commas as in
A Panda eat shoots and leaves, whilst a cowboy can eat, shoots and leaves, whilst a buck can eat shoots, and leaves. (the grazing arena)

Thanks for the lessons, I for one ..or should that be.. ..I for-one.... appreciated it

Happy to oblige. There are people who only speak one language in the world and they can't even get that right. I think "dyslexic" is the socially-acceptable excuse

Look, regarding the OP, I prefer MrBEEP's personal touch to the generic whitewash out there. What can I say? I've grown to like him: he's always been helpful, always been willing to go the extra mile and willing to listen.

I prefer being treated like someone who is aware of the technical difficulties associated with running an ISP to being given another generic half-hearted apology.

He's human, he makes mistakes and, as evidenced by the irony of our self-righteous antagonist's own mistakes, we all do.

OpenWeb is the best ISP I've ever been with purely based on the service offered by MrBEEP. I'll stick with him as long as he'll have me.

 

[Lycanthrope]

I _think_ "I for one" is correct :] - perhaps better with commas, though - such as: "I, for one, <insert statement of personal opinion here>"
Edit: http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic21980.html

I'd use the commas as well

 

[Leostar]

I _think_ "I for one" is correct :] - perhaps better with commas, though - such as: "I, for one, <insert statement of personal opinion here>"
Edit: http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic21980.html

How does the three Musketeers motto go?

One for all and all for one.
err no, that is :- one for all, and all for one.

No wait....

One-for-all, and all-for-one


I have been receiving emails from Standard bank that left much to be desired in the penmanship department. I am Afrikaans and recognise that the person writing is also Afrikaans. So grammatical errors are (sort of) expected/accepted. But the content itself was open to many different interpretations. The subject was why Standard bank did nothing about an estate claim for over 12-months now. Needles to say I am more exasperated by poor service than their grasp of proper grammer. Still, I tried to solve both at the same time.

Finalisation was promised for next week, so there is hope. (The light at the end of the tunnel might not be a train after all?) Their penmanship did improve as well.


Good night, I must get up at 5h00-hours

 

[Wasp_21]

@ Aquaturd

Follow this link. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broad...aints-and-compliments-The-best-and-worst.html

Notice there are NO, complaints for Openweb? Wonder why? Maybe the customers are happy? Maybe they aren't as pedantic as you to analyse grammar. There are better things in life to do than try find fault in others, as such, maybe the fact you could, at best, only drum up gramatical errors. (oh, i know i probably have made spelling error on are my part. Prease are don't flame me).