Freudian slip on deathbed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not, OP. My grandmother, who was my mother for all intensive purposes...didn't recognize me when she was in this stage of passing away. Not recognizing people, confusing people, etc. is very, very common. I'm sorry your father is passing and wish peace for you and your family.

Completely off topic, and I admit I'm a nut, but the phrase is "for all intents and purposes".
You may now go back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Quotation marks go outside the period. Nobody's perfect.

Only if the entire sentence is a quote, in this case the quotation marks are used to highlight a phrase and the period of this sentence goes outside the quotation marks.

Like you said, no one is perfect.

You're incorrect. Two master's degrees. One in education, one in education. Also a published author.

How about you move along and stop being an a*hole?

It technically depends on if you're in Europe or the US. Maybe the poster is from across the pond.

Given the nature of this thread, you people REALLY need to examine why you are fighting about who is grammar queen. Really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not, OP. My grandmother, who was my mother for all intensive purposes...didn't recognize me when she was in this stage of passing away. Not recognizing people, confusing people, etc. is very, very common. I'm sorry your father is passing and wish peace for you and your family.

Completely off topic, and I admit I'm a nut, but the phrase is "for all intents and purposes".
You may now go back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Quotation marks go outside the period. Nobody's perfect.

Only if the entire sentence is a quote, in this case the quotation marks are used to highlight a phrase and the period of this sentence goes outside the quotation marks.

Like you said, no one is perfect.

You're incorrect. Two master's degrees. One in education, one in education. Also a published author.

How about you move along and stop being an a*hole?

The other degree in writing and education. No one needs to be perfect...but correcting a person's speech, grammar, etc. on a casual message thread is major league douchbaggery.

Not always. Spelling mistakes are one thing. But if I was going around saying "for all intensive purposes", I'd want someone to correct me. A friend of mine used to say it and I pointed it out. He paused for a moment and said "I have no idea what I thought an "intensive purpose" was, but damn that makes no sense!"