OT - old stamps for new?

[Colin Bignell]

I leave my wealth to the children of my youngest sister does not use an apostrophe and is unambiguous.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Oh FFS

Neither does f*ck off use an apostrophe, and that's fairly unambiguous

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[S Viemeister]

Surely a lawyer would specify the sister by name, not just 'youngest'.

[The Natural Philosopher]

..if a lawyer was involved. I was merely making the point that sloppy punctuation and grammar causes problems

Some NG - not this one - once featured a post from what I took to be a young American, than had no paragraphs, no capitals, no punctuation and was so misspelt that no one could understand the thing at all.

The only respondent remarked that it might be easier to answer the question if it had been written in grammatically correct and punctuated English. The response was a tirade about the poster being intelligent - his techas has sed so - and anyone who couldn't understand him was a dick

Standards are important. Because without them anyone can claim a completely different meaning to a set of words.

[gareth evans]

Cymraeg aussi.

[Colin Bignell]

He would want the names and current addresses of all the beneficiaries. It makes probate much easier.

[Rod Speed]

I have never seen the point of gendered words for inanimate stuff and wonder why it was ever seen to be useful.

The we do see a little bit of that in english, particularly with say ships being female, presumably because they are such fickle and silly things and keep crashing into other ships etc.

[Chris J Dixon]

Quite. Whilst it is good to encourage all to develop their own particular talents, if they cannot effectively communicate their brilliance, the problem is theirs, not ours.

Chris

[chop]

Doesn't have to be crowded airspace to kill you that way.

We announce our presence, location and altitude when flying without a flight plan and not under traffic control.

But there is still no need for it to be grammatically correct, most obvioiusly with the common grammatic less/fewer error.

[Andrew]

My solicitor wanted their full names, including any middle names and dates of birth.

[Rod Speed]

Very easily if you have more than two sisters.

Would certainly avoid using the first sentence unless an incompetent fool.

[Rod Speed]

Yep.

[chop]

Not true of the common grammatical error with less/fewer.

[Rod Speed]

Where are you getting that from ?

Plenty do.

Or for cops, first responders etc.

[charles]

a great many years might pass between the time when the will was written and when it is used. Tracing legatees could be difficult.

[Colin Bignell]

My late partner kept an up-to date list of addresses with her copy of the will. Although, as they are all family known to me, it wouldn't have been difficult to trace them without.

[Andy Burns]

Having done zero languages at primary school, I enjoyed latin for the 1st year of grammar school and did well at it, then got bored of it in the 2nd year, and in the 3rd year I dropped latin for a subject called "non-latin biology" ... which basically meant you did extra biology theory instead of latin.

The headmaster was the teacher for this, it was the only teaching he did, there were only 3-4 of us in the class, so we got some damned good attention.

[Robin]

I had to start Latin in 2nd year of grammar school - and drop woodwork to free up time for it. I blame that for my incompetence with saws, planes other tree-related stuff. Non est mea cupla!

[Bev]

culpa I guess you failed Latin? :)

[Robin]

Indeed.

No. But everything from head to fingers worked better then :(