The Millionaire wrote to All <=-
Has anyone ever used this drum machine before?
Before *what*?
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Has anyone ever used this drum machine before?
Before *what*?
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Re: Linn LM-1 With A.M.S.
By: Gamgee to The Millionaire on Fri Sep 04 2020 05:04 pm
Has anyone ever used this drum machine before?
Before *what*?
Seriously? It's fairly common to use "before" this way. As in,
at any time in the past.
Has anyone ever used this drum machine before?
Before *what*?
Seriously? It's fairly common to use "before" this way. As in,
at any time in the past.
I'd have to disagree in this particular example. The "Has anyone
ever used" part of the sentence makes the "before" redundant and unnecessary.
Has anyone ever used this drum machine before?
I'd have to disagree in this particular example. The "Has anyone
ever used" part of the sentence makes the "before" redundant and
unnecessary.
I've heard people say this all the time though..
Well yes, no doubt. That doesn't make it any more correct,
though. It's very poor English - lazy and sloppy.
I'm reminded of the saying that my parents would occasionally ask
me: Just because everyone else is jumping off that cliff doesn't
mean that you should too.
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
I'd have to disagree in this particular example. The "Has anyone
ever used" part of the sentence makes the "before" redundant and
unnecessary.
I've heard people say this all the time though..
Well yes, no doubt. That doesn't make it any more correct,
though. It's very poor English - lazy and sloppy.
I'm reminded of the saying that my parents would occasionally ask
me: Just because everyone else is jumping off that cliff doesn't
mean that you should too.
I think this is far from the worst grammatical mistakes people
make.. It may be redundant, but I guess I hadn't really thought
of it is very sloppy. I think "PIN number" and "ATM machine" are
worse than this. And there are other things that I think are
even worse. :)
No argument with any of that. I guess it's just the way that "TM"
makes his posts. Almost all of them are like that - redundant and ridiculous. Yes, there are plenty of things worse... don't even
get me started on the to/too, their/there/they're, your/you're,
etc... :-)
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No argument with any of that. I guess it's just the way that "TM"
makes his posts. Almost all of them are like that - redundant and
ridiculous. Yes, there are plenty of things worse... don't even
Funny because that's what ppl say about you too.
The Millionaire wrote to Gamgee <=-
No argument with any of that. I guess it's just the way that "TM"
makes his posts. Almost all of them are like that - redundant and ridiculous. Yes, there are plenty of things worse... don't even
get me started on the to/too, their/there/they're, your/you're,
etc... :-)
Funny because that's what ppl say about you too.
Really? What ppl say that about me? Be specific, please.
Are you 12 years old?
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I am 56 years old who is still
acting like a teenager.
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Re: Linn LM-1 With A.M.S.
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Sep 05 2020 09:37 pm
Has anyone ever used this drum machine before?
Before *what*?
Seriously? It's fairly common to use "before" this way. As in,
at any time in the past.
I'd have to disagree in this particular example. The "Has anyone
ever used" part of the sentence makes the "before" redundant and unnecessary.
I've heard people say this all the time though..
While, Ga is right in saying it's redundant, our utilization of the English language isn't perfect. As such, like Nightfox said, it's common parlance to use
the word 'before' in this context. You could probably remove the redundancy by removing the word 'ever.' If I were writing a paper to be graded in a college class or a memo for work, it would read like this:
Has anyone used this drum machine?
My college comp professor would always beat the drum about removing excess words
from sentences that don't carry extra meaning but are simply filler to meet a word-count requirement.
This is a BBS echo and hardly an environment to be intensely nitpicky with grammar. May as well criticize every thread if you're going to go there.
Nightfox wrote to calcmandan <=-
Re: Re: Linn LM-1 With A.M.S.
By: calcmandan to Nightfox on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:42 am
While, Ga is right in saying it's redundant, our utilization of the English language isn't perfect. As such, like Nightfox said, it's common parlance to use
the word 'before' in this context. You could probably remove the redundancy by removing the word 'ever.' If I were writing a paper to be graded in a college class or a memo for work, it would read like this:
Has anyone used this drum machine?
My college comp professor would always beat the drum about removing excess words
from sentences that don't carry extra meaning but are simply filler to meet a word-count requirement.
This is a BBS echo and hardly an environment to be intensely nitpicky with grammar. May as well criticize every thread if you're going to go there.
Yep. Also, in the above example, I don't think it really even sounds
bad to have "ever" or "before" in there. I think it's still
grammatically correct to have "ever" (as in "Has anyone ever used this drum machine?"). I'm not sure if having "before" at the end is grammatically correct, but I still think the meaning is fairly clear.
I don't think it's of much use to nitpick over that.
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