PING Miss Ayelery

I have a new avatar for you

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i cant read that fast!!!

It does go quite fast. However, I did notice the complaint about “thru,” which is actually an acceptable way to spell through, at least according to Merriam-Webster. :wink:

Not in my neck o’ the woods it ain’t!

it doesn’t go that fast…you just need to read faster (:

i havent seen miss a in a while, where is she?

I’m right here, dear. I haven’t been feeling well lately, and the number of errors in the current fora posts has frankly overwhelmed me. I just can’t keep up. Using your sentence above as an example, you have three–arguably four or five–in a sentence just 11 words long. Error-to-word ratios above 25% are exhausting. If I stray from reality to grab an analogy, they affect me like kryponite affects Clark Kent.

James dear, thank you so much for thinking of me with that clever avatar.

MA

<<i havent seen miss a in a while, where is she?>>

I haven’t seen Miss A. in a while. Where is she?
Capital I
Apostrophe
Capital M
Capital A
Full stop after A
Full stop/capital letter to make two sentences. (Counts as one amendment.)

Arguably 6!

Now, Ma’am, about those double hyphens in your post…

(With apologies to Habbywall. I’m only gently teasing Miss A., not criticising Habbywall.)

That’s not exactly an error, seeing as it could be correct the way he had it, as a compound sentence. It would also be correct your way, of course, just by separating the one compound sentence into two simple sentences.

A legitimate challenge, although I disagree with it. It’s not really a compound sentence in that it addresses two points without firmly establishing a link between them. I would accept a semicolon in place of the full stop/capital letter as a reasonable compromise.

('m not being pedantic; I’m being pernickety. It is a subtle distinction but, I think, not unimportant.):wink:

Hands up who can guess how bored I am tonight!

That is awesome…

i can’t read that fast

never enter your pin number on an atm machine
you could get the HIV virus…
I don’t get it

ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine.
so ATM Machine means Automated Teller Machine Machine.

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
so HIV Virus means Human Immunodeficiency Virus Virus.

its REDUNDANT!

You missed one: PIN stands for Personal Identity Number, so “PIN number” means “Personal Identity Number number”.

Thus, three errors in one: PIN number, ATM machine, HIV virus.

oooh, you’re right. that could have said, don’t enter a PIN number on the ATM machine, you might get HIV virus.

Oh…well I feel dumb now
I was thinking along the lines of how the hec,k does an ATM relate to AIDS?

miss a should post in mr, it would relax her if she posted without her sentance being perfect
oops, no period,

Just don’t mix up your PIN number with your car’s VIN number.

i dont understand any of this pin and vin and hiv and atm stuff, please explain!!!