"There was two Mini Cooper parked in front of my house", or "there WERE two mini coopers"?

Where am I going wrong JT? Keep telling me I'm an idiot doesn't help.

I consider that to be drivel. Indeed it is drivel. Pullum by name and pull-um by nature. No wonder you have assertivitus' dance. A power kick lacking the force to give it a point.

Here's one, a real doozy, which you have desperately sought to avoid taking responsibility for, in a most dishonest fashion, despite your recent claim that you quickly owe up to your mistakes.

Actually, I think the whole position of attacking prescriptivism based on one or two examples of usages which have gone out of fashion is a solecism.

You seem to have caught Frank's disease, Spendi.

It is a perfectly respectable theory and it is obvious anyway.

What mistake have I made?

How the **** can I be avoiding taking responsibility for--

"Actually, I think the whole position of attacking prescriptivism based on one or two examples of usages which have gone out of fashion is a solecism."

when I ******* well wrote it and stand by it, And have said why. How else can I take responsibility for it? It's true. It takes responsibility for itself as well.

Got a problem with "honesty" have you JT?

I gave five references from language sources that showed that your "one or two examples" is fatuous in the extreme. Likely, you didn't even read them.

Okay five or six. A hundred or two doesn't even scratch the surface in this debate.

I used "one or two" figuratively". Don't you even understand poetic licence?

You seek to render us all as vulgar us you are so that your vulgarity is less obvious. You're a Leveller. It is a political argument.

Okay, you finally admitted you were wrong after how many bullshit postings?

A self admitted ignoramus on how language ought to be more careful.

That was not poetic license, Spendi.

That illustrated your abysmal ignorance on this issue. That was a plug dumb assertion.

How abysmal? You pull a quote from Strunk & White, not out of the book, which you admit you've never seen and you cough it up as some wisdom from the ages.

When I illustrate just how ignorant you have been with an article from the co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, you go into one of your famous Spendi whirls.

You don't have the mental wherewithal to address the issue long enough to ever find out.

You're all over the page, ranting on one disjointed subject after another.

You admit that you know nothing about how language works,

You keep trying to make this about me. Again, your ignorance leaps to the fore.

They boast of holding up a mirror to nature; but they take care to give preference always to ignoble nature. They never hold up their mirror to heroic nature. Have you observed how, as a man becomes a realist, he grows fond of being narrow, and with playing with small specialties? Have you thought out the secret force which controls the movement of his so-called realism, and always keeps its votaries sneering at heroic life, while they revel in another sort of life, which fitly to characterize here would be improper? I can tell you what that force is. It is unbelief in ideal standards of human aspiration, and it is impatient scorn of that higher mode of thought which has given the world all the greatest creations of imaginative genius.

I do feel a little bit like I'm talking to a wall with you JTT.

Maybe tutor some children?