Zack
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The OP inferred this is a serious problem, and from this information the posters implied he was a grammar Nazi.
Does the Misuse of Infer and Imply Bug You?
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ParkCungHee
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>Implying I read definitions.
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'The report infers that the NHS is underfunded'
'I imply from the report that the NHS is underfunded'
My mind must work differently from most people. I can't learn these sorts of things by reading sentences that are correctly written but when it is reversed it seems clear. I doubt I've made these mistakes in writing a lot because they clearly sound wrong.
Speech of course is a horse of a different color. I have a friend who speaks pure redneck and writes like the Earl of Oxford.
For some the mangling of the language is somewhere between a skill set and an art form.
The thing I find offensive is when a non-native English speaker asks me if English is my second language.
'I imply from the report that the NHS is underfunded'
My mind must work differently from most people. I can't learn these sorts of things by reading sentences that are correctly written but when it is reversed it seems clear. I doubt I've made these mistakes in writing a lot because they clearly sound wrong.
Speech of course is a horse of a different color. I have a friend who speaks pure redneck and writes like the Earl of Oxford.
For some the mangling of the language is somewhere between a skill set and an art form.
The thing I find offensive is when a non-native English speaker asks me if English is my second language.
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MisterCooper's back!
Where have you been?
Banned and sick, neither serious.
LucyDuke
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No it shouldn't.
I see what you did there.
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