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Topic: It seems you yourself have a sever grammatical issue as well.
dw !p9hU6ckyqw started this discussion 1 year ago#120,566
In your choice to use an ellipsis to shorten the article’s text, you have used only 3 periods. When placing an ellipsis at the end of a quotation to indicate the omission of material, use four points — a three-point ellipsis and a period. The ellipsis should follow a blank space.
I think everyone can agree you have shamed not only yourself, but also all readers of Minichan. Surely, in the future, you will be more careful with grammar – it is not a toy. It is a tool. It must be used properly.
Mark Twain joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 1 hour later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,319,839
... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
Mark Twain
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
Mark Twain
... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
Mark Twain
I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime.
- Mark Twain
“Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”
― Mark Twain
SPELLING
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow.