[Small Farmer]

Q: What goes, "Pieces of seven, pieces of seven." ?
A: A Greek parrot after they leave the Euro



(Simple Simon will get it)

[Moleskins]

My favourite German word is 'luftkissenfahrtzeug' which is of course a hovercraft 

Some time ago there was a lot of made up German words for various things which had me with tears rolling down my face here a few I recall.


Die makenshiften - car horn
Das flippenfloppenstick - windscreen wiper
Der upperdeckerflopperstopper - a bra
Das lowerdeckerknackerchecker - underpants


Sorry it's mostly the rude ones that stuck in my mind.

[robert waddell]

maybe just maybe  all the grammar police on here  need the grammar and punctuation for the info to filter through  take it all away and sense and reason goes with it      where as i read the words and take them in  not everybody has an honours degree in written English  then again not a lot of people have been to the university of life    but i have mastered the spell check button if not for that app a lot more would be screwed on here

[Small Farmer]

But mastery of the full stop would be a considerable improvement.

[Dan]

But mastery of the full stop would be a considerable improvement.

Not even mastery, just finding the key would be a start. 

[in the hills]

Mr. Waddell, I like your posts just the way they are.     
 
How boring if we all posted in the same style. An English Degree doesn't make what you have to say interesting, does it? 

[plumseverywhere]

I wouldn't want Robert or his posts to change at all - its the content that matters     
I could use spell check but anyone who's known me for any length of time will appreciate that the spelling only worsens after Wine O Clock, at which point a spell check would just be ignored anyway  [size=78%] [/size]

[Small Farmer]

Roberts content is fine or would be if the occasional piece of punctuation were introduced not necessarily the full set of full stops colons and commas but the chance from time to time to draw breath and read wtf hes trying to say might help attract a wider audience to the wisdom which might or might not be contained within the text under consideration or is that too much to task I wonder but generally theres quite a lot of common sense and experience concealed within the syntax which reminds me of Peter Sellars rendition of a politicians speech broadcast in the sixties

[robert waddell]

ah but   if you read it once    it has no impact      read it several times to get the flow of it        and it may just linger a little longer  in the memory cells

[plumseverywhere]

Roberts content is fine or would be if the occasional piece of punctuation were introduced not necessarily the full set of full stops colons and commas but the chance from time to time to draw breath and read wtf hes trying to say might help attract a wider audience to the wisdom which might or might not be contained within the text under consideration or is that too much to task I wonder but generally theres quite a lot of common sense and experience concealed within the syntax which reminds me of Peter Sellars rendition of a politicians speech broadcast in the sixties

    I bet you really struggled typing all of that with no punctuation too!

[jaykay]

It's the content that matters and it's not the business of other folk to be criticising people for how they write. Or anything else for that matter in my opinion.

If someone posts and asks for advice or opinions on something that's fair enough, though even then it should be kind. But unless they do, who is anyone to set themselves up as judge?

Good job Robert's not easily offended! If this was my ex having these sort of criticisms about his writing (he is badly dyslexic and can't spell or punctuate), despite his bull and bluster, he would have been deeply hurt.

[suziequeue]

Roberts content is fine or would be if the occasional piece of punctuation were introduced not necessarily the full set of full stops colons and commas but the chance from time to time to draw breath and read wtf hes trying to say might help attract a wider audience to the wisdom which might or might not be contained within the text under consideration or is that too much to task I wonder but generally theres quite a lot of common sense and experience concealed within the syntax which reminds me of Peter Sellars rendition of a politicians speech broadcast in the sixties

    I bet you really struggled typing all of that with no punctuation too!

I couldn't breath reading that 

[in the hills]

Well said, Jaykay.
 
Beginning to feel a little paranoid myself. Took this as a bit of a light hearted thread but feel it could be taken in other ways if not careful. 

[robert waddell]

once the wedding cake  is shoved  down the toilet       then there will be bother
there was somebody on the forum already  that got shirty with the complaints about spelling etc and left
don't give a flying fart about criticism     just rip there head of and crap down there neck

[deepinthewoods]