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Who are you gonna listen to?
Charlie Morgan wrote:
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:05:29 GMT, "Maxprop" wrote: "Dave" wrote in message . .. On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:21:23 -0500, Charlie Morgan said: Sorry, but it is you who is just plain wrong on this. I don't know where you pasted that from, but it's not very well done. "such as" is used when you want to refer to things that are similar to the object, without BEING the object. Refer to the AP stylebook, or maybe Strunk & White, if you still don't understand this important distinction. You are not quite at the level of those who do not know the difference between effect and affect, but you are getting close. :') I pulled that definition out of the first online dictionary I came to. You like the AP Stylebook better? Here's an excerpt from an online edition of it: "Use like as a preposition to compare nouns and pronouns. It requires an object: Jim blocks like a pro." Your problem, Charlie, is that while you may have some book learnin', you have no ear whatever for the language in context. You have a tin ear for usage. "Like" was perfectly correct as Katy used it, and was perfectly appropriate in the context in which she used it. "Such as" would have been awkward and stilted. It's the kind of phrase a literate writer might use in a brief, but not in a news group. . . . or in vis-a-vis conversation. Don't be too hard on BB--he wasted all his money on Whitworth tools when metric and SAE would have worked just fine. Max Max=hack. He may as well use vice-grips. CWM I saw him yank an eye out with a pair once.... |
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