Quote from: MPOE-PR on January 12, 2013, 10:41:43 AM

Quote from: Askit2 on January 12, 2013, 09:47:14 AM

#1. Should really read PLEAD. Pleaded is very bad grammar. And the wrong word according to the free dictionary "Verb 1. plead - appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop" ". Pronounciation is like bled but with a P.

My eyes are bleeding. "Very bad grammar" is actually listed as an example in your dictionary?

(Are you in any way related to the other person that was hashing away at 60 GH/s on some "repurposed old phone"?)

Nope but I am the person that will actually uses the subject before referencing it in a sentance. Besides being expected that a subject will come up before the pronoun that is supposed to reference it the subject should come up about every paragraph. Missing that YOU should refer to anyone reading the post not whomever MPOE-PR assumes she is talking about.

As far as pleaded it is used as a verb. It means that someone is begging or at least that is the connotation. On The Other Hand plead is related to Plea more directly in a legal sense. People Enter a PLEA. After the fact you need a past version and Legal wise that is Plead. The Defendant Plead guilty. The Defendant entered a plea of guilty. The whiny little girl pleaded with me to stop correcting her.

If you notice I have a subject "whiny little girl" that her refers to. MPOE-PR try rewriting your questionable statements missing the overused pronouns and possibly you would find a way to actually have a provable point. YOU can and usually refers to the reader missing a proper subject. As in "You take out the trash." or "You should watch how you say things.". Also in the case of YOU it can be Omitted (that's a fancy word for left out) and frequently is as the subject of you is Understood (the person being talked to or reading the statement).

Personally I dislike pronouns as anyone past a young age tends to use them when they believe that they know the subject. This is a common fallicy as the subject being known to you the writer is irrelivant. The reader (Anyone who reads it) should know who the sentance is about.

Possibly Inaba would use your questionable wording to prove that He didn't say those things as most happened long before he was hired. On the other hand if you say Inaba/Josh and BFL as seperate entitties (Legally BFL is subject as an LLC to being a person in the US where you failed to prove it wasn't incorporated). Inaba or Josh is a person and not BFL since they are two different entities. Being realistic here MPOE-PR refers to BFL and Josh/Inaba as You. So on a given statment or paragraph what you did MPOE-PR refer to? It is possible to guess but as the implication is Inaba (the one she replies to) and he isn't incoporated as far as I have seen, hasn't been properly proven to have stolen or borrowed web images for his site, did not say anything time wise about the BFL single, was not employed by BFL when that happened and as far as I am aware Inabas mysterious corporation that he started (still don't know what one but by all means show me his filing) was startd by a felon. Is MPOE-PR saying Inaba is a Felon? Doubtful but the way she says it to Inaba should refer to it precisely that way.

PRONOUNS suck. Even if you the writer has a good point and thinks they are smart a much less smart person only needs to prove that the writer has failed to state whom the writer refers to and the witer is wrong as the reader can quite easily state that You or he or they or whatever other pronoun you failed to provide a subject to and/or altered the subject during the writers many statements was either not the one the writer replied to or that it had to include the one the writer was replying to. Being specific is very important. State your subject clearly as a writer. Leave no questionable wording as that gives others a very simple way to discredit you.

Edit: Whoops the writer was the subject. Wow even when I use pronouns I sometimes confuse myself.