Comments on: Different from, Different to, Different than http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:24:11 -0500 hourly 1 By: George Craig http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/comment-page-1/#comment-238825 George Craig Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:01:49 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/#comment-238825 Am I the only one to cringe at using "them" or "their" as singular rather than plural? It seems to have come from TV announcers and others who should know better but are trying to be politically correct at the expense of being grammatically incorrect. Each child is entitled to their education (gee did we blow his or her education.) Am I the only one to cringe at using “them” or “their” as singular rather than plural? It seems to have come from TV announcers and others who should know better but are trying to be politically correct at the expense of being grammatically incorrect. Each child is entitled to their education (gee did we blow his or her education.)

]]> By: Ian B http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/comment-page-1/#comment-218737 Ian B Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:24:49 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/#comment-218737 # Tordek on October 31, 2007 2:44 am The one that turns my Murder Mode on is “Try and hit me”. (BTW, Brit punctuation is prettier to me, so that period goes OUTSIDE.) # Maeve on October 31, 2007 2:52 am Tordek, It has taken a great effort on my part to learn to place the period inside the quotation marks. When in Rome. On this occasion Maeve, the period is correctly plkaced outside the quotation marks. # Tordek on October 31, 2007 2:44 am

The one that turns my Murder Mode on is “Try and hit me”.

(BTW, Brit punctuation is prettier to me, so that period goes OUTSIDE.)
# Maeve on October 31, 2007 2:52 am

Tordek,
It has taken a great effort on my part to learn to place the period inside the quotation marks. When in Rome.

On this occasion Maeve, the period is correctly plkaced outside the quotation marks.

]]> By: Maeve http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/comment-page-1/#comment-3798 Maeve Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:26:30 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/#comment-3798 Thanks for your comment, Asha. Credit for the vocabulary test belongs to Daniel. Thanks for your comment, Asha.

Credit for the vocabulary test belongs to Daniel.

]]> By: Asha http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/comment-page-1/#comment-3774 Asha Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:08:15 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/#comment-3774 Let me thank you foremost for starting DWT Vocabulary Test. It is wonderful to have something like this. Took the test and felt that I had answered everything perfectly...but sadly on checking the answers realized that I had scored only 80%. Am sure I will do better next time. Thank you once again. Asha Let me thank you foremost for starting DWT Vocabulary Test. It is wonderful to have something like this. Took the test and felt that I had answered everything perfectly…but sadly on checking the answers realized that I had scored only 80%. Am sure I will do better next time. Thank you once again.
Asha

]]> By: Maeve http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/comment-page-1/#comment-3738 Maeve Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:31:34 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/different-from-different-to-different-than/#comment-3738 Hilary, It wasn't so long ago that American English teachers did the same kind of knuckle-rapping over correct usage -- even in Arkansas where I grew up. (You will notice that Bill Clinton, who had some of the same teachers I had, speaks better English than a certain graduate of Yale.) You're not alone in thinking that writers have an obligation to model correct usage. Browse the DWT site for posts on the peeves you've listed. Your first example is one of the things I come back to again and again. ( See <a href="http://www.dailywritingtips.com/tvs-war-on-me-and-i/" rel="nofollow">TV's War on "Me" and "I"</a>) In an effort to do my part in this war against standard English I've started my own site called the <a href="http://www.americanenglishdoctor.com" rel="nofollow">American English Doctor</a>. It's targeted to parents of children who attend public schools (American version). Its purpose is to provide parents with the information and encouragement they need to measure their children's literacy in a meaningful way. Teaching quality varies enormously from school to school and Eduspeak tends to obscure how much learning is actually taking place. Hilary,
It wasn’t so long ago that American English teachers did the same kind of knuckle-rapping over correct usage — even in Arkansas where I grew up. (You will notice that Bill Clinton, who had some of the same teachers I had, speaks better English than a certain graduate of Yale.)

You’re not alone in thinking that writers have an obligation to model correct usage. Browse the DWT site for posts on the peeves you’ve listed. Your first example is one of the things I come back to again and again. ( See TV’s War on “Me” and “I”)

In an effort to do my part in this war against standard English I’ve started my own site called the American English Doctor. It’s targeted to parents of children who attend public schools (American version). Its purpose is to provide parents with the information and encouragement they need to measure their children’s literacy in a meaningful way. Teaching quality varies enormously from school to school and Eduspeak tends to obscure how much learning is actually taking place.

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