Re: PPB: Poem for Kathy / Will Dockery

[email protected] (Miguel Sucio) posted:
> Will Dockery wrote:
> > [email protected] (Miguel Sucio) posted:
>>> Will Dockery wrote:
> >>> Miguel Sucio wrote:
> 
> >> [snip]
> >> 
> >> If you're an American, the proper usage would be "when time permits."
> >> 
> >> How other countries around the world do it isn't really my problem.
> >> 
> >> Apparently it is your problem, given that you went out of your way to correct me and are still desperately clinging to the argument, even though my usage was perfectly valid.
> >
> > Valid where?
> > 
> > Definitely not in American English grammar.
> > 
> > "When time permits." is correct.
> > 
> > Glad to clear up your confusion, Miguel.
> 
> The only person who seems confused is you

You're the one who made the error, yet you try to call me "confused." 

Note the proper use of a comma with quotation marks there.

Just admit you made the mistake and try to do better next time, since there's no way to try to argue your way out of it.

You don't have to take my word for it, ask Michael Pendragon or George Dance, the two established "smart guys" of the newsgroup.

😏

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