May you post pictures, Josh?
Iâd be happy to post a picture, but only if you promise never to say âmay you postâ again. Iâm a grammarian and it sets my teeth on edge. (âwould/could you post picturesâ would be betterâŚand I swear Iâm not trying to be a jerk)
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Josh
As far as Iâm concernedâŚYou are definitely normal to me and thought the same thing when I saw his post but I donât think that he is the same as us and speaks/talks/types differently.
Ulises
No offense but you have some strange grammer/wording/typing compared to some of us that are older then you. Then again there are some here that are older then myself that get your lingo etc. and are fine with it.
Iâll leave everything at this/that and go no furtherâŚ
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No problem.
I promise.
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Most of the time that I log in into this site Iâm in a hurry, so I have to type fast, as a result I donât know what words to use, so I use the closest words that I was planning to use.
And yes, I find my grammar mistakes very embarrassing.
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Donât worry about a few grammer mistakes. This is a fruit growing forum, not Oxford LawâŚ
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True, but Iâm one of those grammar perfectionists, and sometimes I donât even notice my grammar mistakes until itâs too late.
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Looks like the plum parent is a myrobalan plum.
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I agree.
When I took written expression in college,the teacher wrote down on one of my papers,Donât Use You! and also circled every word that was used more than once.
That has influenced my writing,more than desired.Maybe thatâs a price to pay to go after higher learning. Brady
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Brady,
You used the word âmoreâ twice in your paragraph.
Youâre welcome. Warmest regards,
-Matt
(This is just a wisecrack joke).
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Ha,yes,Iâm still working on it and donât use you! Brady
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Whatâs wrong with âyouâ? I donât get it.
Especially in creative writing-donât people use âyouâ a lot in everyday speech?
ETA: I had a teacher that hated âsaidâ. My kidsâ school even has a rule they use in their writing called, âsaid is dead.â
But I just read an article by a writing prof who said that that was a load of horse excrement. The gist of the article was that the maligned âs/he saidâ was a placeholder that most people skipped over without reading. The âsaidâ just gave context on who was speaking, or that the statement was over. âSaidâ didnât strike people as repetitive, because their brains didnât really register it as they were reading. He advocated saving other words for when the author perceived they were needed, instead of using them just as replacements for âsaidâ. The prof claimed that authors who did not use âsaidâ made reading more tedious, because instead of being able to skip over those words, the mind was forced to read themâwhich was fine when the author wanted to draw extra attention to the fact that the speaker âwhisperedâ or âexclaimedâ but for regular speech just made the reader work too hard.
He included a dialogue-heavy passage in which âsaidâ was never used, and the prof was right-it was slightly irritating to read.
So now I take all writing ârulesâ as suggestions, or something to keep in mind. Yellow lights rather than red lights. 
And for the record, I donât even pay attention to othersâ grammar on message boards. If someone uses itâs as possessive, or the same adjective in two consecutive sentences, I wonât notice. I could write better posts myself, but if I started editing and refining all my writing, one post would take a half-hour to write instead of three. If Iâm doing that much work, I better be getting paid.
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It"s been awhile,but possibly I used the word,you, in a sentence,when referring to myself and that could have made it sound too assuming.
Years later,during another class not related to writing,the teacher told us that he was taught that way also.
Yes,choosing words can be taxing.Brady
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Thatâs great!
Folks around these parts are big on the term âyouâunsâ. Very Appalachian-y, never heard it before we moved here.
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What your professor said about âsaidâ is quite true! (Source: I write fiction for a semi-living, and taught college English for several years.) The words âsaid is deadâ are making me grind my teeth right now. Yes, most ârules for writingâ are, at best, suggestions. English teachers bang on and on about the passive voice, but there are many situations where passive voice is appropriate. Science writing, for example, which other English teachers often know nothing about IME.
To be at least mildly on topic, I got my Moniqui apricot from Arboreum several weeks ago. They didnât notify me, and neither did my apartment complex⌠it just sat in their 70F office for almost two weeks! (They said they just havenât implemented the new package notification system⌠but would it have killed them to stick a post-it to the door in the meantime? I guess theyâre relying on the seller notifying the buyer while Arboreum is the other way around!) Anyway, I was worried about the tree for a bit, and some of the buds lower on the branches did seem to dry up and die, but on the whole itâs recovered. I read Scottâs positive reviews of Moniqui and just couldnât resist buying one, even if it was $81 with shipping (sheesh).
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