A Viscous Attack #4

[Whosthetabbynow]

Here we are on the fourth instalment of crazy misspellings, misuse of words and all the other topsy-turvy attempts at literacy from the illiterate.
Post your observations. Lady’s the flaw is youre’s…

I'm getting tired (on several levels) reading about our "boarders" which should be better patrolled by the "Boarder Force".

These boarding schools are really getting out of hand.

Re. your second to last sentence....That. Is. Terrifying.

I've seen it written as "for all intensive purposes." 🤣🤣🤣

Almost as terrifying as. One. Word. Sentences.
Please. Make. Them. Stop.

One word cannot be a sentence, despite opinions to the contrary.

@Whosthetabbynow , 'No.' is a complete sentence.

Surely "Hello" and "Goodbye" are also complete one word sentences?

Absolutely.

Edited. Too. Correct. A. Typo. Loosing. My. Touch. Can't. Bare. It.

Quite.

Absolutely!

Why?

Here.

https://grammarhow.com/one-word-sentences-examples/

Don't. Come. Here.
All correct but not when you mean 'Don't come here.'

That's either I have seen, or I saw. Seen drives me mad!

I have just come across a "mind field" in a thread on here. Is that a typo, or is that a misheard-never-seen-in-print thing?

Only on MN 🤣

A sentence is a group of words

Surely they’re just statements or ‘words’?

Quite.

@Londonnight my apologies! I won't do it again.

Since a sentence is defined as beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop and usually, but not always, having a verb in it, how would you describe those 70 words in the link I quoted, if not as "sentence words"?

Social media has been a mind field for decades.

I’m no professor of linguistics but ‘sentence words’ don’t make a sentence on their own. They’re simply words that can be used in a sentence 🤷‍♀️ A sentence is a group of words used together to form a sentence.

Dictionaries define ‘sentence’ in different ways. Some are e.g. ‘group of words that gives a complete thought and contains a subject and a verb’ whereas others are more flexible e.g. ‘ a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here?’.

I’m inclined to think that in practice it’s the ‘complete thought’ concept that matters most, and that can be one word. But in such cases a context is required (what am I saying “No!” to?) and so I suppose arguably it’s not a complete thought.