[quote]decimation wrote:
Not at all . A comma after because is uterally incorrect. Even starting a sentence with a conjunction is pretty bad form You wrote a phrase not a sentence.
I didn’t attack anyone’s grammar until mine was criticised. If you criticse my grammar, please do not try to tell me that a comma after using because to start a phrase or sentence is correct in any form.
I don’t think our escapade into grammar is going to help either of us lift bigger weights , or close harder bullworkers, so let’s leave it shall we. Otherwise we may need to go to a high authority and both join a creative writing forum for grammar Nazis. I bet even then do not agree.
I criticised one person’s reading comprehension skills . Perhaps if you had read the rather short post , you may have noticed. He may read up on plyometrics not being the same as isometrics and actual learn something . Stranger things have happened. Otherwise what’s the point . Tell me what doesn’t make sense.
I don’t sit here and get angry , it is merely bodybuidling forum(to me that includes resistance exercise).
A few left out words aside what doesn’t it make sense , apart from just because.[/quote]
Plenty of sentences are begun with conjunctions - it’s commonly accepted nowadays, despite me having been told never to start a sentence with “and” when I was 6 years old. Commas are also an accepted form of parenthesis. I have no idea what the difference between a phrase and sentence is, and, you’re right, arguing over it isn’t conducive to helping this forum build more muscle. then again, neither is you typing up paragraph after paragraph of random crap about your training. You took this thread off topic (discussing the bullworker) long before I did.
You seem to forget that I attacked your grammar AFTER you attacked the American posters’ ability to use English. I found the fact that you were criticising them when your stuff was incomprehensible in places quite ironic. That’s all.
Insulting his reading comprehension was unfair, considering the fact that even though I now know what you were trying to say, it’s still hard to read your post in a way that conveys that.
Not trying to be an arsehole here - I don’t speak a second language, and I greatly respect anyone who does - but trying to correct people when you’re in the wrong yourself makes you come across as a bit of a dick.
For clarification, I’m not Dutch or South African, I’m English. The username’s a personal joke based off of the way one of my teachers used to pronounce my name (he was Polish).