Is this thread going to contain too much pedantry

[coffeejo]

Not if you order them... takes about a week to 10 days to be sent up from the Lending Library store at Thorp Arch near Wetherby.

Bit far from there to Spain...

 

[Archie_tect]

Ah, thst's true... has to be a downside to running away.

 

[marinyork]

You have to order titles and wait - bit like Amazon only cheaper and less morally ambiguous

Out of copyright books has very little to do with Amazon. There are plenty of titles that you can get on Gutenberg or other sites that are quite difficult to get hold of even by reservation. Reservation worked fine in the early days of libraries round here allowing you to reserve on-line, but stocks have declined so much in some cases they are down to a single copy or none whatsoever. There is also now a very large non-refundable charge for outside books which libraries previously made a very valiant effort to get hold of even though it cost them a fair bit of time and money. Hence the earlier comments.

 

[Hotblack Desiato]

It doesn't really. The first "someone" in Gary's post is the subject and the second is the object. It's fairly clear from the context of the sentence that the subject and the object aren't the same person.

Your version is grammatically correct, but what Gary has written is easy to understand.

Now you are just being captious about my pedantry.

 

[Archie_tect]

Wow Marin, you're right. Northumberland Libraries has free access to any book inside the County boundary but now they note there is a charge of £5 per loan from another library outside the county... but it isn't clear if that includes loans from the central store at Thorp Arch mind- I'll find out.

 

[marinyork]

Ooh, are we having an argument Marin? Sorry, Amazon was just a commercial example plucked from the air. You are absolutely right about libraries, sadly.

I don't know, do people get upset about other stuff being said on pendantry threads? Will they all give up and come and get us instead. E-books do spoil and lose some of the feeling about passing on books in their physical form to someone else.

The reservation one was interesting as it used to be a key metric for library stats.

I like how Archie_tect calls it Thorp Arch, it suggests to me he might have been dragged round the trading estate for some other business .

 

[Archie_tect]

I have mental scars... my mother learned to drive round that trading estate..... see the shakes have started again... I cried to get them to stop and let me out at the side of the road rather than experience the terror. I was 22.

 

[Archie_tect]

[I lied, I was 6]

 

[DiddlyDodds]

It is very rare that I will publicly try and humiliate a poster because of his grammar or spelling. We may not know the abilities of the poster. The real exception is when someone is making a point of unkindly correcting someone else and making errors himself.

+1

Peole hoo like to piont out othrs misstakes and then sit felling smug shud get a life .

 

[Arch]

Y

Thanks for the correction I'm an Engineer by trade but over the years, as I've progressed and been promoted, I increasingly find myself having to write more reports and tighten less bolts!

<sits on hands>
<wriggles>

...... FEWER!

<phew>

 

[Arch]

I have mental scars... my mother learned to drive round that trading estate..... see the shakes have started again... I cried to get them to stop and let me out at the side of the road rather than experience the terror. I was 22.

There's a cracking little cafe on the estate now, next to the garden centre, they do a great breakfast. Nice ride out from York.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

<sits on hands>
<wriggles>

...... FEWER!

<phew>

I sometimes wonder how necessary the distinction between fewer and less is. Particularly when more gets by as the opposite of both fewer and less without any confusion. It doesn't seem to have any communicative value apart from signalling how precise, how ''literate,'' the user is.

 

[Hover Fly]

Did they have to glue on the R? They accidentally do a D instead of an R?

Imagine the scene, a stonemasons' workshop in the mid 19th century, a mason sits alone in the corner, his head in his hands, gently sobbing to himself, other masons wander over, look at the block of limestone on his bench and start laughing.
Enter the foreman stonemason:
FS, Reet lad, I've had a crack wi't'bosses, they say t' U 'll have to stay out if there's no room for it. We'll mek up some radged story about it being a local tradition
Mason, Thank you sir.
FS, But Lady Barrow says she won't be doing with her husband being called Sid, you get busy mekking an R, apprentice Tom'll start chipping that D off.
And another thing, I've asked everyone I could find, none of them are sure if there is a difference between T'Baronets badge and t'Ulster red hand, so we'll just mek do with t'drawing we've gotten.


Actually it was damaged in a lightning storm.

 

[Gary E]

<sits on hands>
<wriggles>

...... FEWER!

<phew>

In future please just continue to sit on your hands

 

[rich p]

<sits on hands>
<wriggles>

...... FEWER!

<phew>

<phewer>