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Originally Posted by robhol
How is this egotism?
It should be pointed out, that's all. Can you really say that this guy is in any way qualified to teach English? I don't see how nagging at those pointing that out is going to help either.
And if you want to be pedantic about this, what's that comma doing there, pal? And it is "punctuation".  |
One person pointing it out is sufficient, hence the egotism! I may not want to get English lessons from the poster, but I don't see what good it does to repeat the same thing, especially when it's somewhat hurtful!
Yes, it is punctuation, not punctuationS! As for the comma, perhaps in American English it isn't used, but in British English, when you say someones name at the end of a sentence, you place the comma there (at least this is what I've learnt. English isn't my mother tongue, not even close, so I may be mistaken. However, my point still holds; I wasn't pointing out those mistakes to be pedantic, I was pointing them out to illustrate the fact that their comments were ironic)!