Originally posted by goofy: One comma between the subject and predicate and the English language is dead? It's way more fragile than I thought.
There's more there than just that. It should have read "Our main website [drop comma] is back up. [period replaces comma] We [capital "W" begins new sentence] apologize for the hardware [misspelling corrected] issues."
In a post 12 words long, a total of 4 mistakes would seem excessive to me if this had been someone's personal blog but, again, it was a dictionary website, a place where one might expect posters to be a tad more erudite.
Really 3 mistakes, since the lack of a capital letter flows from the fact that it is one sentence.
It's not really a dictionary site, is it? I mean it's not run by a company that publishes their own dictionary. It seems to provide a copy of Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary, which as I understand it is freely available from other sites as well.
I don't know the site, but it has a donation part to it, and there are a lot of words defined (4686) in the letter as, for example. I have to agree with CJ on this one, goofy. On Wee Willy's "essay," however, I agree with your remarks, goofy.
