22-06-2013, 06:36 PM
Thought I'd add my 2 cents as I haven't said much recently.
First, I didn't see anything that anyone could consider excessively rude, but I guess that that's in the eye of the reader.
Second, my initial reaction to the rambling sentence is that perhaps English is not the writer's native language. Or that he's trying to imitate Victor Hugo and write an entire chapter in one long, long, long sentence. Or that this is what passes for "education" in U.S. schools these days. (Please don't get me started on to-too-two or there-they're-their, etc.)
Third, I almost never check the posting date of the message to which I am commenting, but I now recognize that it's a good habit to develop. Thanks for the tip.
Anyway, I'm donning my fireproof suit of armor just in case.
P.S. I sure hope you didn't manually count the words, but let something like Microsoft Word count them for you. As an aside, when I took typing class in middle school ages and ages ago, the "word per minute" typing rate was based on 5 keystrokes (space and punctuation counting as a keystroke), but these days the word count seems to be regular words that people use, i.e., the string of characters bracketed by spaces and/or punctuation.
P.P.S. I sure wish this still did spell checking, or has it simply moved someplace that eludes me?
Now that I've rambled for a while, I'm not sure I actually want to post this, but it would be a shame to waste all that typing effort, so here goes.
First, I didn't see anything that anyone could consider excessively rude, but I guess that that's in the eye of the reader.
Second, my initial reaction to the rambling sentence is that perhaps English is not the writer's native language. Or that he's trying to imitate Victor Hugo and write an entire chapter in one long, long, long sentence. Or that this is what passes for "education" in U.S. schools these days. (Please don't get me started on to-too-two or there-they're-their, etc.)
Third, I almost never check the posting date of the message to which I am commenting, but I now recognize that it's a good habit to develop. Thanks for the tip.
Anyway, I'm donning my fireproof suit of armor just in case.
P.S. I sure hope you didn't manually count the words, but let something like Microsoft Word count them for you. As an aside, when I took typing class in middle school ages and ages ago, the "word per minute" typing rate was based on 5 keystrokes (space and punctuation counting as a keystroke), but these days the word count seems to be regular words that people use, i.e., the string of characters bracketed by spaces and/or punctuation.
P.P.S. I sure wish this still did spell checking, or has it simply moved someplace that eludes me?
Now that I've rambled for a while, I'm not sure I actually want to post this, but it would be a shame to waste all that typing effort, so here goes.