"Eeyore" wrote in message
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liquidator wrote:

"Eeyore" wrote in message
Don Pearce wrote:

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:12:57 -0500, "liquidator"
wrote:

And the fact that he makes grammatic errors only reinforces he's an
engineer.

Pot/kettle?

"grammatic" should be "grammatical"

"only reinforces he's" should be "only reinforces the supposition
that
he's"

You're quite correct Don.

Graham


And you are quite wrong Graham.

Grammatical would certainly be preferred British English use. C.F. a
mathematical error and a mathematic error.

Graham


According to Webster's and Princeton University the words are pretty much
interchangeable.

While I agree grammatical sounds less clumsy, I spent time as a journalist,
where if two words are synonyms, the shorter is generally preferred. There
the concern is fitting information into less space, the economics being
space is sold for money.

Actually I was defending you. Complete mastery of the language is not
necessarily part of getting an engineering degree.



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