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arsenal
January 2nd, 2019, 19:44
"comment is free, but facts are sacred" C.P, Scot. Former editor of The Guardian.

Except facts about Native American Quotations and Thailand visa issues among many others. According to Freaky that is.
frequent
January 3rd, 2019, 02:43
C.P, Scot. Former editor of The Guardian.In English, arsenal, if you're punctuating someone's name it's generally thought rude to put "C.P," rather than "C.P." and very rude indeed to misspell a name altogether
I speak perfect English ...
"comment is free, but facts are sacred" ... Except facts about Native American Quotations and Thailand visa issues among many others. According to Freaky that is.Except facts about newspaper editors - C.P. Scott was editor of The Manchester Guardian, which did not change its name to The Guardian until 1959. C.P. Scott died in 1932. According to arsenal that is


Native American QuotationsIs that a companion volume to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (https://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Dictionary-Quotations-Elizabeth-Knowles/dp/0199237174)?
arsenal
January 3rd, 2019, 10:30
Following a succession of factual errors Arsenal suggests all members ask Mr Freaky for two sources including links whenever he posts something as 'fact'. No need to be brusque. A simple 'that's very interesting Mr Freaky, please tell me where did you get your information?'
frequent
January 3rd, 2019, 10:38
Following a succession of factual errors Arsenal suggests all members ask Mr Freaky for two sources including links whenever he posts something as 'fact'. No need to be brusque. A simple 'that's very interesting Mr Freaky, please tell me where did you get your information?'The sort of impertinence to be expected from SGT's very own Nigel Farage, and as such to be ignored in all its manifestations
bkkguy
January 6th, 2019, 18:16
Following a succession of factual errors Arsenal suggests all members ask Mr Freaky for two sources including links whenever he posts something as 'fact'. No need to be brusque. A simple 'that's very interesting Mr Freaky, please tell me where did you get your information?'

Citation needed is generally sufficient these days - citation needed!
bkkguy
January 6th, 2019, 18:31
and to avoid all such time-wasting discussions we could perhaps make Fowler and Aaron's The Little, Brown Handbook compulsory reading before posting here, or at least a handy summary on Distinguishing Fact, Opinion, Belief, and Prejudice (https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/co300man/pop12d.cfm) so we at least are all arguing from the same songbook
frequent
January 7th, 2019, 02:37
and to avoid all such time-wasting discussions we could perhaps make Fowler and Aaron's The Little, Brown Handbook compulsory reading before posting here
I speak perfect English ...For some clearly there is no need. Perhaps a further rubric could also be added - check that you're in the Forum you think you are before posting about topics being irrelevant. We could call it the "gerefan2 rule"
frequent
January 8th, 2019, 11:40
Once again I must confess myself appalled - appalled I tell you - that arsenal (aka. Tenille) has failed to pick up a deliberate mistake of mine. As any fule kno, there is no such thing as an Australian driver's licence" https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?20583-Passport-ID-card/page2. Each Australian state issues its own driver's licence, just as they do in the good ol' US of A