Re: Debian's Presence on Twitter (X)
Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> Justin B Rye wrote:
>> Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
>>> Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> wrote:
>>>> This isn't useful or amusing,
>>>
>>> s/or/nor/ - I think you was intending.
>>
>> No. "Nor" is usually required following "neither", and also occurs
>> between clauses, but otherwise (between constituents within a clause,
>> with no "neither" around) the word is almost always "or", with a few
>> idiomatic exceptions like "I couldn't make head nor tail of it".
>
> Thanks Justin. I will ask for your support when I would be in need of
> a grammar correction tool. Have you ever tried to approach in this way
> a girl in a pub? Correcting her grammar instead of catching the
> meaning?
You seem to have forgotten that the person who attempted to derail the
conversation with grammatical pedantry was you. This is strange, when
it's right there in the quoted context.
> It is something quite interesting to do. I suggest it to you because
> you have such a talent. But I have to warn about using that approach
> only as an exit strategy. Instead of saying "I do not like you and do
> not even care of understanding you", just a polite and intellectual
> act of arbitrary superiority in grammar correction.
So are you saying that's why you do it? Or was it intended as a
chat-up line? Either way, it's probably more likely to work if it
isn't obvious nonsense.
> Please, feel comfortable in sharing this - IN FULL - reply with your
> "friends" on IRC channels, and more is better. ;-)
You seem to have accidentally sent this only to me, rather than the
list where the conversation was happening, but if you're still
interested I'd suggest moving it to debian-l10n-english where issues
of negative agreement in conjunctions would have been on-topic.
--
JBR - and today's single word in West Greenlandic is:
Qiteqatigerusuppingaa? "Would you like to dance with me?"
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