Question...

[Learin]

I've always used "Towards".

"Toward" sounds odd, but maybe that's because I've never used it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I'm not surprised that you would think that "towards" is the plural of "toward." You're not one of the world's greatest thinkers.

I think it's quite clear who's being the asshole on this thread, Zeb (and it isn't me).

Your inner sphincter is showing...all the time.

Show me where I said towards was the plural of toward?

Again, your comprehension is lacking.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

ok, help me out here. Just what is the past tense of "when?"

Last week.

 

[sr71plt]

Wait a minute...you're all discussing British and American and Australian and Canadian (well, maybe not Canadian - we use both or either or whatever, eh?), and the poor girl is Danish!

That would be her choice certainly--depending on which style she was using overall. Of course this is an American-based site that uses American style in its own posting language and we periodically have a thread going complaining about American readers knocking British style used here (and I've never seen a thread complaining about the reverse), soooo . . . that might be an indication of which is safest to use here.

 

[sr71plt]

Your inner sphincter is showing...all the time.

Show me where I said towards was the plural of toward?

Again, your comprehension is lacking.

I quoted you on it. It's not my fault that English isn't your strength. And I'm not interested in your assholery on this thread.

 

[SandraMustard]

I can't say this thread went in an untoward direction given the participants.

 

[sr71plt]

You mean someone asking a wordage or style issue question and me giving an answer, based on the style authorities, and then the backbiters and "just pretending I'm a writer" posters descending in clouds of misinformation and juvenile jabs like vultures? Yeah, I suppose it's been that kind of thread.

 

[lovecraft68]

Its sad how important it is for pilot to be correct here in amateur city.

As for the actual question, reading toward/towards doesn't bother me as long as-like someone else mentioned-its consistent.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, yes, it's important to me that a poster here get the best-practice answer--based on writing authorities, not my or anyone else's uninformed personal views, unless the authorities allow for that (which they often do)--when the one asking the question seems interested enough in what to do to ask.

Only on the Internet where there are gamesters and hate campaigners like you is this this not considered to be common sense.

Of course there's the element that you just can't stand me knowing more than you about anything--and being able to show that I do. You and Zeb and JBJ certainly can't let that go by without trying to tear it down.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Troll Boy fails to consider the whole class of words that end in WARD: Onward, toward, forward et al. He has his beak stuck up Websters ass. Didn't Emanuel Lewis play Webster on tv?

 

[sr71plt]

Troll Boy fails to consider the whole class of words that end in WARD: Onward, toward, forward et al. He has his beak stuck up Websters ass. Didn't Emanuel Lewis play Webster on tv?

This whole class of words does what? According to what authority? Typically, you're just running at the fingers. There's no "there" there.

I cited and quoted a language use authority on "toward." And you did . . . what . . . exactly?

 

[Swilly]

Jesus effing Christ. It must really get tiring being Pilot all the time.

 

[lovecraft68]

Jesus effing Christ. It must really get tiring being Pilot all the time.

Not really, time is all he has these days.

You'd think he'd get out and play some shuffleboard or something, at least bingo.

I can see him now.

"You spelled that wrong, dammit I invented Bingo while I was flying plane one handed and writing a best selling novel in the other....."

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I quoted you on it. It's not my fault that English isn't your strength. And I'm not interested in your assholery on this thread.

Again, your comprehension of English is lacking...which you seem to accuse me of quite often. I NEVER stated that towards was the plural of toward, I asked a question, for those dumbasses out there in the ether, a question mark at the end of a sentence indicates that the person talking is making a query.

So who is lacking in their English skills? <--- Another questions, not a statement of fact.

 

[sr71plt]

Jesus effing Christ. It must really get tiring being Pilot all the time.

I can genuinely say that it's a whole lot more satisfying than being you or LC or Zeb or JBJ.

 

[JKendallDane]

Ya know, pilot...for someone that has made six consecutive posts since this summer in the 'Author's and their Books' sticky, and keeps using the wrong freakin' year in them, you really don't have any business waving the "know everything" and "professional editor" flag all the time.

Now why don't you put down your red pen for a few minutes and go sweep up your own messes.

 

[lovecraft68]

Ya know, pilot...for someone that has made six consecutive posts since this summer in the 'Author's and their Books' sticky, and keeps using the wrong freakin' year in them, you really don't have any business waving the "know everything" and "professional editor" flag all the time.

Now why don't you put down your red pen for a few minutes and go sweep up your own messes.

Oh, man! Now he's going to go fix them. I liked them being there like that, it made me laugh every time I saw him post.

Well, then again, maybe he won't fix them.

It probably really is 2015 and we're all wrong, after all he most likely created the calender.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I can genuinely say that it's a whole lot more satisfying than being you or LC or Zeb or JBJ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hNIX7V21pU
PILOT CAUGHT ON SECURITY CAM

 

[Handley_Page]

Handbags are being heard real clearly.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Ya know, pilot...for someone that has made six consecutive posts since this summer in the 'Author's and their Books' sticky, and keeps using the wrong freakin' year in them, you really don't have any business waving the "know everything" and "professional editor" flag all the time.

Now why don't you put down your red pen for a few minutes and go sweep up your own messes.

Haha, what a maroon.

 

[Aurelius_PG]

I confess, I haven't given this one much thought. I put in the same category as forward/s and backward/s, although unlike those, a sentence rarely seems to end with toward/s.

Going with what scans works for me. Reading it aloud within a sentence, it's invariably smoother without the s at the end, even though it can sound more American. Hardly in the color/colour league.

I checked the Guardian style guide, and no mention. So I assume it's not a very contentious issue in journalism.

 

[sr71plt]

Handbags are being heard real clearly.

It certainly is fascinating how petty the haters on the forum can be.

 

[Vanadorn]

And there you go, Sweetmaj! I hope the above 47 posts have answered your question.

Really guys? It's a small sandbox, let's not all piss in it at once. Up, on...and let blow over and behind.

-V

 

[sr71plt]

She got her answer (and a couple of options) at post 3. Most of the rest of it is just the petty hate that's festered in this forum.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

She got her answer (and a couple of options) at post 3. Most of the rest of it is just the petty hate that's festered in this forum.

And the rest is bullshit that blowhards like to inundate use with. Blowhard.