$2.3 Trillion in New Debt Expected by 2014

[FrustratedPoet]

X-post.

English is a proper noun and should have a capital letter, Giancarlo. Sentences shouldn't being with a conjunction, either.

Can everybody start correcting the spelling and grammar of everyone else's posts, now? It'll be just like the SDMB!

[Q Classic]

well "I" is supposed to be capitalized, and so is every first letter of each sentence you make.

good god, don't you think i know that? go tell self biased that italics should only be used when someone wants emphasis.

And what the hell was this? A glaring example of poor english, run on sentences and ignorance.

actually, there aren't any run-on sentences in there. it's just a lot of grammatical phrases strung together.

where is the ignorance showcased there?

[Q Classic]

btw, I like how you're taking BustaMike's and my corrections with a grain of salt.

Nowhere ........ after you edited.

yeah, i saw it too.

[FrustratedPoet]

It's generally accepted as poor style and it's standard practice to put a comma before "but". Go tell that to people like Emily Dickinson, though.

[Q Classic]

It's generally accepted as poor style and it's standard practice to put a comma before "but". Go tell that to people like Emily Dickinson, though.

don't get me started about frustrated poets. i mean, look at e e cummings and his odd capitalization and spelling.

[Q Classic]

You're Right, and it's funny that someone on the right isn't in the right and resorts to equating someone who is moderate but in the right with someone who was far more Right than most people are today.

You're Right, and it's funny that [a conservative] [is wrong] and resorts to equating someone who is a moderate but [correct] with someone more [fascist] than most people are today.

the things in brackets were replaced by grammatical phrase constructions. i forget what they're technically called, but it hardly matters anyway, particularly since there aren't any run-on sentences in there.
poor english it is, though, and yet poor english has sometimes lead to lots of joviality and humor, and don't take that with a grain of salt.

[BustaMike]

Originally posted by Giancarlo
And what the hell was this? A glaring example of poor english, run on sentences and ignorance.

Rule - the comma comes after every subject except the last one. You should have said: A glaring example of poor english, run on sentences, and ignorance.

Also, the above is a sentence fragment, as it has no verb.

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
X-post.

English is a proper noun and should have a capital letter, Giancarlo. Sentences shouldn't being with a conjunction, either.

Can everybody start correcting the spelling and grammar of everyone else's posts, now? It'll be just like the SDMB!

Wrong again. You messed up again like qcubed!

[Az]

I don't take this thread with a grain of salt.


It was shaping up to be such a nice thread...

[Dauphin]

I was always taught that comma and and should not go together. Learning by rote is bad though.

[chequita guevara]

Best Fezzed thread yet.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Tripledoc
Can a state file for bankruptcy today? I know that the Danish state filed for bankruptcy sometime in the late 19th century.

What would be the effect if the state went to court and declared itself bankrupt?

How large is the US gold reserve?

A state, by definition, can simply forgive itself of all its debts.

That's not a very good idea, though.

[Kuciwalker]

Ming, isn't threadjacking this much against the rules?

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Giancarlo
Projections. Projections. I predict I will be a billionarie in two years. I will own a thousand cars.

Projections are not always right and the chances of them being wrong for the longer term is a lot greater. I don't take these with a grain of salt.

Giancarlo, you are letting a lot of people have way too much fun at your expense here.

Now, getting back to the context of all this, we saw an article that made projections that the US national debt will mushroom significantly under current spending and taxing laws and (apparently) assuming accurate demographic projections. You read the article and I quote your reply to it above. From the first part of your post it is amazingly clear that you find such projections speculative and unreliable. You then even more clearly state "Projections are not always right and the chances of them being wrong for the longer term is a lot greater.". nothing could be more clear.

but

"I don't take these with a grain of salt."

Means to any reader that you take these projections very seriously.

"I take these with a grain of salt."

Means to any reader that you do not take these projections very seriously. I still get idioms wrong and English is my first language so I really don't see why you're letting this correction get you upset. I'm always grateful when people correct my misunderstanding of an idiom even though I am a native speaker. If you don't want to admit that you made this perfectly understandable error in the use of a silly idiom then at least stop shouting that you didn't make an error. It's painful watching you unwittingly embarrass yourself in this way.

[DRoseDARs]

In other news, Delta announced it's cutting 7,000 jobs over the next 18 months. Yep, nothing like a 'jobless recovery'.