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So if Miner refused to tell anyone who his agent was. Would that agent be a secret agent, 007?

 

Because?

 

Because that’s bad grammar?

 

So we know we're linked with the next Suarez and next Firmino.

Turns out the kid we signed this summer is the next Gazza, all ours, all ours.

 

@Roy Munson says hes the bollocks

 

FFS

 

Exactly

 

So was I - I'm just a rebel.

 

It isn't really though. "You can't start a sentence with a conjunction" is a myth that many of my generation were brought up with.
As long as the sentence contains a main clause (ie, one that could stand alone as a sentence), then it's ok to start with a conjunction.

 

It's really only considered a rule in very formal writing now. You'll find plenty of fiction writers and even editorials in newspapers breaking the rule.

 

To be fair, as long as the words written down make sense and get the message across it makes no real difference.

Language changes so much anyway, I don’t really get the fuss with ‘proper grammar’ to be honest and I’m sure in 10-20 years prob change even more and stuff said now would see old fashioned way of writing it down.

In similar way I don’t understand people moaning about swearing. It’s a word… it’s only ‘bad’ because people have decided it’s bad.

Why can you call someone ugly on Tv but can’t call them a dick? Both bad words to say about someone yet some reason one is a swear word we can’t say, the other is fine to say

 

For a grammar school person, maybe, but a layman who does not care about "Queen's English" it makes no difference.

 

Elizabeth can't ever die. The expression "King's English" would make me cringe.

 

Sew wee can Lett standerds slip az long az peepul Kan understand it .

 

Standards are a good idea (as long as they are flexible). Static standards end up like French, where the spoken language is almost like a completely different language to the written.

 

Lost in translation .

 

Alsong as the frist and lsat lteetr of the wrod is crorcet you can gnerllay wrok out waht the wrod is aynawy

 

Yes - but good communication is about clarity. You shouldn't make a reader work too hard to understand your message.

 

Well f*ck off, then

 

Persackely