Eagle eyed readers might recall me post a song up by a new band HOUSE Of ALL recently, featuring ex-Fall members billing themselves the "Fall family continuum". Well the Smith family have got upset over this (the band not me posting a song up) and want them to stop using images of MES and the band name in their new project. But they haven't used MES' image or the band name anywhere, "the Fall Family" referring quite obviously to the ex-members not the Smith family themselves. It's all quite laughable, here's links to the Smith family complaint on the unused old official Fall Forum, plus a logical reply from Martin Bramah from HOF in the Guardian.
To the point of making themselves look a bit silly imo.
Their "missive" at the official site is laughable in it's creation. First there's one sentence split into two paragraphs, then apparently the word "exploiting" is not an adjective (Berry McPaper-cuts?), plus the accusations are nonsense anyway. It's all been sorted now I understand but ffs!
The splitting of sentences into paragraphs is a newspaper trick to keep the attention of the reader. Most people would give up reading if they saw a lengthy sentence. Sad but true.
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Feb 3, 2023 11:31:29 GMT
I was summoned for a comment on the grammar. The ending -ing indicates either a present participle or a gerund. Present participles are easy to grasp as in ‘I am running’ but the gerund is a noun and I discovered this on tinternet which I think explains what a gerund is in a helpful way, ‘ A gerund is the noun form of a verb that ends in -ing. For example, playing, dancing, eating. Right away this is confusing for students, as they are used to seeing that form as the continuous/progressive form of the verb (“she is eating”, “they were dancing”). However, a gerund is a noun, and is the subject or object of the sentence. Examples are “Cooking is my favorite hobby” (subject), or “I hate studying” (object).’ As this is an American explaining a gerund the spelling of favourite is the way they do in the US.
My brain is going into meltdown at the very thought. I've managed to get through life being incapable of understanding grammar, at least I can spell .... most of the time lol!