Ed: Did you mean to say that?

[naomi24]

//Welcome To Society & Culture.

Discuss your Hobbies and Interests here or find out about the Military.

To learn about what other people believe and why try the Religion and Spirituality section. //

Shouldn't that read, "To learn about what other people believe why not try the Religion and Spirituality section?"

Or perhaps not. ;o)

[ChuckFickens]

Mike, here's a website you should consider using.
http://tinyurl.com/8rvqfbj

[mike11111]

"Question Author
Mike11111, //as an officer and a gentleman, a scholar and all -round raconteur//

Your reputation precedes you - and you are very clearly none of those things."

Quod erat demonstrandum.

(Sits back and waits for the ignorami to fill this thread with complaints that it is rude to speak in a foreign language"

[MarkRae]

> apologise fulsomely

I'm sure Chuck will apologise sincerely, not fulsomely...

[mike11111]

Don't be stupid, Chuck; if I really wanted to talk like that I would vote Labour.

[mike11111]

Hiya Mark! Long time no see!

I have to disagree with your short-tempered, snappy put-down of my adverb.

Having consulted Chambers just to refresh my memory re fulsome, I would much rather have a "sickening, obsequious, nauseating, cringing apology" than a simple, "Sorry, mate!"

[naomi24]

Mike, stop. This is senseless. No one has attacked you and you're making a fool of yourself - again.

Night all.

[vivandorron]

Mike.....I always endeavour to be polite in the columns of AB and I am not a god fearing person......but am cautious of what I say, for fear of the Ed bestowing his wrath upon me.

Nevertheless, I am perturbed by a lot of your recent postings and, at the risk of you reporting me as being offensive, I am saying to you "Get Knotted"

Ron.

[AB Editor]

Morning all,

Thank you, naomi for pointing out the error.

Have now updated the sentence and added the missing "not".

[woofgang]

oh.....not my suggested edit then Ed?

[naomi24]

Ed, strange how Ron and I read it differently to some of the others. The missing comma after 'why' didn't occur to me until they pointed it out - but its absence threw a whole new meaning on the sentence. Funny old language. :o)

[Kiki-frog]

Yes, I also read it as having a missing comma between 'why' and 'try'.

[horseshoes]

'ave a butchers in R & S to see what uvver people fink.

[AB Editor]

It could have gone either way but the "not" was what I had meant to write originally, so I went with that.

Just to validate everyone else; the "comma" solution was a good idea too and I hadn't thought of it.

[jno]

"To learn about what other people believe and why try the Religion and Spirituality section"

I thought the "and" was superfluous.

To learn about what other people believe, why try the Religion and Spirituality section?

There now, that's much better.

[vivandorron]

Ambiguity abounds in AB.:-)

Ron.

[AB Editor]

You are right jno, have now fixed again. Obviously too much sun in the garden yesterday.

[Kiki-frog]

LOL, jno, why indeed?

[factor-fiction]

Why not get rid of the 'why not' altogether?
"To learn about what other people believe, try the Religion and Spirituality section."

[naomi24]

jno, that's precisely what I was hinting at in the question. That's how it read to me. ;o)

Seriously, now the missing comma has been pointed out, I think the original sentence with that added reads perfectly well.

//To learn about what other people believe and why, try the Religion and Spirituality section.//

[vivandorron]

Sorry naomi....I do not want to know only about what people believe, but also what many disbelieve.

If the R & S section is listed for believers it will suggest that religious unbelievers (such as myself) are not really welcomed. Hence the reason for my being pedantical in an earlier posting.

Ron.