14-08-2017 12:13 AM
Hello,
I am a lover of Mother Nature and all her Bounty. I try to harm no-one, no Animal, no Plant or tree. I will not use any type of Insecticide, Hernicide or Weedkiller. I allow my garden to be a haven for Snails, Slugs, Hedgehogs and all of the Biological Circle of life.
My small garden is beautiful and rewards me with peaceful hours. My answers come from Evolution and watching the seasons. I see the Sky and Clouds, the Sun, the Trees, feel the beautiful English Rain, the Wind and the magnificent Ocean.
I have inner peace and my senses are mindful of all the colour and beauty that surrounds me. I am lucky. I need no supernatural 'gods' to ensnare me, I am free as a bird. A Naturalists world is full of wonder and beauty.
14-08-2017 10:08 AM
14-08-2017 10:12 AM
How lovely
14-08-2017 6:08 PM - edited 14-08-2017 6:10 PM
Marvellous, but what does that have to do with selling on Ebay?
Also, if you're targeting this at Americans, you've floated across The Pond. These are the UK boards.
14-08-2017 7:07 PM
i can't help but wonder what else you have in your garden.
15-08-2017 7:18 AM
You should HAVE used a verb!
15-08-2017 8:12 AM
Perhaps the OP has achieved a moment of enlightenment and is revealing to us THE secret of selling of ebay and having peace of mind?
As they mention English rain and Hedgehogs (are there hedgehogs in America?) I assume they are here in the UK. and find our weather and gardens particularly pleasant.
Messages to-and-fro between myself and a lady in one of the southern states where she has to contend with scorpions, snakes and some species of vole that tunnels its way all over her garden. Also frequent thunder-storms that cause her creek to flood and wash away her plants plus hurricanes. The tameness of the UK might seem heavenly to her.
15-08-2017 9:04 AM
@astrologica wrote:You should HAVE used a verb!
Thank you for the correction. That's very helpful.
The bit below the dotted line is a posting signature, commonly referred to as a "sig". It's usally information about the author or sometimes just a remark, maybe a witty one.
My current "sig" is a little self-referential joke. "I should of used a verb". The use of "of" is clearly incorrect and it should of have been "have". The joke comes from the statement acknowledging the correct form of the sentence and yet persisting with the common error of using a preposition instead.
Now that I've explained, I hope you find yourself greatly entertained by the joke. Unfortunately, although I found it funny when I first saw it in a magazine, it now doesn't seem funny at all.
I might change it back to my other favourite which is "There, their, they're - never mind." Don't explain the mistakes, just tell me if you think it's funny or not.
15-08-2017 9:10 AM
Actually, I might come up with a couple of new ones based on the lost distinction between "your" and "you're" which always bothers me.
My other favourite is the confusion between "bought" and "brought".
The one I like most is the transposition of "buyer" and "seller"; for example "It's been a week since my item sold and my seller hasn't paid me yet.,"
15-08-2017 11:07 AM
Yes.....I understood it was a sig. But is it wise to perpetuate bad grammar...however tongue in cheek. Correct grammar is gone out of the window in this country, and I have more or less given up on it, but that particular example...'should of', and the other very similar and often used example, 'off of', are my pet hates. When I see them on a page, they jump out and hurt my brain!
Back to the original subject of the OP.
15-08-2017 1:47 PM
Always nice to meet someone who is so at peace with himself and the world.......
except when it comes to spelling then.
16-08-2017 10:33 AM
@astrologica wrote:Yes
....., I understood it was a sig. But is it wise to perpetuate bad grammar...- however tongue in cheek.? Correct grammarishas gone out of the window in this country, and I have more or less given up on it,.butTthat particular example...,'should of', and the other very similar and often used example, 'off of', are my pet hates. When I see them on a page, they jump out and hurt my brain!Back to the original subject of the OP.
5/10
Overuse of ellipses.
Missing question mark.
Incorrect past participle.
Awkward sentence construction.
See me.
Apologies. I couldn't resist.
16-08-2017 12:11 PM
Snigger!!!
16-08-2017 3:27 PM
Point taken! I have a lot of typos these days....my cataracts are bad......it's like trying to type in thick fog.
16-08-2017 5:11 PM
Sorry to hear that Astro xx I should think it most frustrating xxxx
16-08-2017 6:08 PM
Lol
Since the spelling/grammar pulpit has been in use for years, despite the same personal mistakes, the NHS must have a waiting list measured in geological time.
17-08-2017 7:50 AM
Let's all just hope that you never get cataracts.
17-08-2017 3:22 PM
17-08-2017 5:45 PM
Must be that special form of cataracts which allows one to view others alleged mistakes, but obscures one's own, such that they become 'typos' induced by this rare form
17-08-2017 6:22 PM
Yes, that's quite correct!