Need help with corned beef brine and sodium nitrate amount..

Recipes and techniques using brine.

Postby wheels » Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:21 am

Ianinfrance wrote:
onewheeler wrote:As "bacteria" is a plural noun form it's "bacteria's". Like "children's". If we were talking about sausage/s, the position of the apostrophe would indicate whether it's one or more of them: "sausage's" singular, "sausages'" a string of them.

Pedantically,

Martin/


Yup. Agree all along the line. I thought I was the only pedant here. :lol:


But only if its possessive - and you'll notice that there's not an apostrophe on its, even though it's possessive!

However, this is all too anal for me.

We are a forum with many members who don't speak English as a first language. I'm sure that we wouldn't want them to feel uncomfortable because their command of our archaic grammatical system is lacking!

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Postby grisell » Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:31 am

wheels wrote:[---] ...there's not an apostrophe on its, even though it's possessive!
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Just a parenthesis: As an outside observer, I've noticed that precisely this (it's/its) seems to be one of the commonest mistakes in posts by 'indigenous' ( :wink: ) sausagemaking.org members.
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Postby captain wassname » Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:13 am

Andre its not allways what is gramatically or even spelled correctly that is acceptable but what sounds right.
Todays spores are tomorrows moulds for sure reads better
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Postby grisell » Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:43 am

Thanks. :) I'll think about it. I want it to both sound and be spelled right! I will change my motto soon anyway but thanks.
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Postby wheels » Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:22 pm

Rules of Riting Good



Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
One should never generalize.
Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
Do not be redundant. Do not use more words than necessary. It's highly superfluous. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
Be more or less specific.
Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas.
One-word sentences? Eliminate. No sentence fragments.
Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
The passive voice is to be avoided.
Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
Who needs rhetorical questions?
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times. Resist hyperbole. Not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
Puns are for children, not groan readers.
Proofread carefully to see if you left any words out of your

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Postby saucisson » Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:42 pm

:lol: That's a god one.


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Postby Ianinfrance » Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:10 pm

wheels wrote:We are a forum with many members who don't speak English as a first language. I'm sure that we wouldn't want them to feel uncomfortable because their command of our archaic grammatical system is lacking!
Phil


Indeed. But there are times when meaning can be skewed by a grammatical slip - as in the case in point. Here the grammatical mistake, minor though it was, led me to completely misunderstand what Grisell meant.

Most often, we can do our best to interpret what someone whose first language isn't English is getting at. But occasionally we'll get it wrong.
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Postby grisell » Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:43 pm

Ianinfrance wrote:
wheels wrote:We are a forum with many members who don't speak English as a first language. I'm sure that we wouldn't want them to feel uncomfortable because their command of our archaic grammatical system is lacking!
Phil


Indeed. But there are times when meaning can be skewed by a grammatical slip - as in the case in point. Here the grammatical mistake, minor though it was, led me to completely misunderstand what Grisell meant.

Most often, we can do our best to interpret what someone whose first language isn't English is getting at. But occasionally we'll get it wrong.


I for one am very grateful for any remarks on my English.
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Postby BriCan » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:32 pm

saucisson wrote::lol: That's a god one.


;)


:lol: :lol:
well look who wrote it. :D
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