My east Dulwich endorsement

[bigbadwolf]

F_ck!!!

[HAL9000]

Phew! I do it all the time.

[annaj]

It's even possible that I deliberately started both sentences with and just to try and trip you up, isn't it?

But surely no-one would be that unkind. ;-)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

The practice may be common, but that doesn't make it right. My ol' English teacher would be turning in her grave.

[SimonM]

But there is nothing wrong with beginning a sentence with "And"...

"And did those feet...."

:))

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

It's them bleeding long-haired poets wot started the rot, I reckon.

[RosieH]

BBW, a phrase wouldn't require a full stop; only a sentence would.

[Mick Mac]

Funny that this thread started by BBW having wanted to say something nice about ED and it end up in a spelling and grammar lesson for him.

Bless him, he was only being nice.

[RosieH]

Er, Mick - on this thread:

However, doesn't is spelt with only one O.

Pinhead.

You have been defeated by your spelling by a superior and magnanimous opponent.

Your last post "...that didn't take long" should've at least finished with a full stop.

Pinhead.

Your previous post to that also lacked the appropriate punctuation.

Pinhead.

However,

Your eventual downfall mirrored that of the other pinhead scoffing from afar. You ignored the basic etiquette of a full stop.

Pinhead.

You made the school girl error of starting a sentence with and.

You have no idea how good that just felt.

Pinhead.

Funny though.

Edited again to say that wasn't meant to be mean to BBW, rather to point out the bleeding obvious to MM.

[Mick Mac]

Thanks for that Rosie - you are sure in the mood for quotes and rectangular box combos tonight.

Best get it all out.

[Mick Mac]

annaj Wrote:

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> Get ready to feel even more of a pinhead.

>

> From the Compact Oxford English Dictionary (I

> can't find it online, but I have my copy open in

> front of me):

>

> "Contrary to what many people think, it is not

> wrong to start a sentence with a conjunction such

> as and or but. The practice is common in

> literature and can be effective."

Can I say that really it should have read; "As", "And" or "But".

[SimonM]

>>It's them bleeding long-haired poets wot started the rot, I reckon.<<

Well what do you expect from a geezer from Peckham who not only covered house walls in graffiti but could not even spell "tiger"?!

Rupert Brooke had exquisitely-barbered short hair though...

"And I shall find some girl perhaps

and a better one than you..." B)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

He don't count - everyone knows jam is better than honey.

[SimonM]

On the one and only occasion I had afternoon tea in Grantchester the honey was served in a tiny plastic pot emblazened with the word "Kraft"....so I have to agree with you, even if "and is there jam still for tea?" would be less evocative as well as metrically compromised. But I still say it's ok to begin a sentence with a conjunction.B)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

But me no buts.

[RosieH]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Can I say that really it should have read; "As",

> "And" or "But".

You can. But you'd be wrong.

[SimonM]

But "But me no buts" does not begin with a conjunction, as "But" in that sense is a verb. And it was a favourite put-down of my Latin teacher, who for some reason thought he was being tremendously witty when he said it. So this is now wildly off-topic...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

'But "But me no buts"' does and it's still wrong!