What happened to English grammar?

I don't comment on members' spelling or grammar. I simply find your style of writing impenetrable. Perhaps others don't.

Deserving says, "Thoughts that occur can sometimes be likened to first impressions. Often those first impressions we are warned about having, are correct." First Impressions was the working title of Pride and Prejudice, which came to the opposite conclusion to deserving's.

Against this background, Galen's comments are particularly shrewd!

You don't even recognise an apology when it stares you in the face?
How can the impenetrable be commented on. Although I do not accept the premise you have formulated.others will ,no doubt, take up the cudgel, in your name,and you will find new born friends, for a while.

True. If a comment is impenetrable, commenting on it is farting in the wind, not worth the effort.

Some comments, of course, are designed purely to draw forth other, predictable, responses. To reply or not then depends on whether one wishes to continue a fabricated confrontation or move elsewhere, where a more fruitful conversation may be going on.

elegran is it contagious?

Just fighting fire with fire. I know a few long words too.

sigh

chuckle

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as ithers see us

I wonder if deserving is a particular admirer of the Churchillian style of rhetoric? If you pause at each comma as the great man might have done, with just the slightest upward inflection - you get an echo of the "We shall fight them on the beaches, (pause), ....we shall never, (pause), surrender ...." effect!!
Anyway there are more fun ways to spend a Sunday afternoon - even the ironing is an attractive alternative.

Oh another thought - perhaps deserving's last post is some sort of mystical prediction ? Reading the tea leaves perhaps??
"You will find new born friends, for a while" - no tall dark handsome stranger though

I've been reading files in my courtyard. Come in to cool off.(and check on the soup and bolognese sauce!)

apropos of nothing

His prediction could be right - I am always finding new friends on Gransnet, but all except one have remained friends! (And I met her elsewhere anyway!)