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Talk:Most Common Writing Errors (view source)
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:::::Yeah, although I was purposely being a bit more blunt about it. I have found being direct works better here. What do you think of the first rule? I must admit I prefer the "wrong" sentence to the "correct" one. --[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 01:42, 26 January 2013 (EST)
:::::Yeah, although I was purposely being a bit more blunt about it. I have found being direct works better here. What do you think of the first rule? I must admit I prefer the "wrong" sentence to the "correct" one. --[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 01:42, 26 January 2013 (EST)
It's the last one that gets me. I am a liberal. I am considered by those who know me to be dependable and honest. (Unless my friends, both liberal and conservative, are being deceitful.)Therefore the writer of the three examples must be considered guilty of gross generalisation which can be thought of as a form of deceit. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 01:54, 26 January 2013 (EST)
It's the last one that gets me. I am a liberal. I am considered by those who know me to be dependable and honest. (Unless my friends, both liberal and conservative, are being deceitful.)Therefore the writer of the three examples must be considered guilty of gross generalisation which can be thought of as a form of deceit. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 01:54, 26 January 2013 (EST)
:Re first rule. Example No.1 is correct in this modern "genderless" age. I don't necessarily like it but I think it needs to be. (The language is to blame here - in Latin there would be a gender attached to the "someone" so the problem would not arise.[[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 02:05, 26 January 2013 (EST)