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This has been my week of wheat. I thought it might be a good idea to try it out again just to make sure I haven’t been fooling myself. I’ve had foccacia, croissants, pasta, noodles, Weetbix, ficelle, hot chocolate roll, apple turnover, olive cheese & spinach roll, and (the crowning glory) a steak & cheese pie in the rain while waiting for a bus. But, I have one to two fewer hours of wakefulness every day, and I get up every morning with what feels like a hangover, so it’s back to No Wheat Land for me. Thanks for listening.
weat away to go ?
Respect to you. I couldn’t do it. My mouth is watering at the list of foodstuffs you have just written of.
off
actually, I would say that Daniel is right with ‘of’. eek.
I’m with Dad on this one.
Yip, sorry, it’s ‘of’. And I’m a England teacher so I would no.
Could be “off” or “of” depending whether he refers to a list of rejected foods or to writing about a list of food. Matt has a list of foods that he will not eat or has “written off”. Matt has not posted a list of foods about which he has written or “written of”. Matt and Dad are correct. Tim may be a teacher but I am old and hence outrank him.
Dear Grammar,
I love you a lot. Can I say this? “I love you a lot”? Or would you prefer me to phrase it in a more eloquent manner? I love you, like the roses of spring love the sunshine…
I think that would make a good Tui ad. Just put a ‘Yeah Right’ next to it and you’re away laughing.
ah, but Hans, Daniel is the one writing and he is refering to a list ‘of’ foods that matt has listed. Regardless if matt has written off those foods or not, he was refering to that list, hence the ‘of’ should stand as being correct. I may be young Hans, but I am also pedantic.
ps, Matt, sorry to keep this pointless conversation going.
Dad’s still right.
believe it
David, in order to be pedantic one has to be correct. You are not at all pedantic.
Sorry, it was me that posted that. I hate anon postings more than I hate multiplying trivia. Now guilty of an anon post and multiplication of the inessentials…………… Benedic, pater, me…….
Look, I am pedantic. I called the guy (DanMcC) and we spoke for some time. We discussed his literary intentions and his grammatical emphasis. He meant to say what he said. He did not mean to write ‘written off’ (in the sense that he himself was discarding or casting away the food items as worthless). No, he meant to write ‘written of’ (in the sense of ‘I am writing of things that Matt has listed’).
So, in conclusion, Dan was not writting off anything. All he was doing was writing about something Matt had listed.
It’s all very simple.
David, no one is disagreeing with you about what Daniel intended. Dad was making an amusing pun of sorts, extending Daniel’s comment.
It’s true that David called me. He, singlehandedly, has done more to extend my comment than anyone on this post. I even got glares from my lecturer because I was animatedly discussing the difference that one letter can make to a communities’ lives.*
*This post was brought to you by the letter ‘f’ and the number ’16.’
Dear Matt. Yourself, your dad, Hans and Tim were all disagreeing with me. Don’t make me provide the detail. I AM pedantic, I am right, and make no doubt about it, I will fight with my life for that truth.
regards,
David
Dearest David, you may be right, you may be pedantic but just not in english. Perhaps if your last post is read “met een heffy duutsh ux cent” it may make sense. Vrede!!
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