On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 23:13 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:34 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > "That begs the question, why do they think it has a basis?" > > > Or, if you want a less wordy answer: > > The words "That begs the question" are not part of the question that's > being asked (why do they think it has a basis?). The question has to be > written all by its lonesome. Even more OT: since we're talking about English grammar and orthography, there are certain errors that tend to crop up on this list (and on others of course), to wit: 1) This looks like an error? 2) How do I do this. Sadly, they are often committed by those who would seem to be native English speakers. People, informality is fine and I have no problem with it, but a question in written English has to be grammatically structured as a question and not a statement (error 1) and *must* conclude with a '?' (error 2). Neither of these is optional, e.g. you can't convert a statement to a question merely by sticking a '?' on the end. So the correct forms of the above would be: 1) Does this look like an error? 2) How do I do this? Just thought I'd get that off my chest :-) poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
