[MlMt] English grammar correction
Alain Israel
aisrael at pasteur.fr
Thu Oct 8 07:48:26 EDT 2020
I am french so I won’t argue, but it can be found in the Cambridge
dictionary, as a US informal version of anyway
(https://dictionary.cambridge.org/fr/dictionnaire/anglais/anyways).
Alain
On 8 Oct 2020, at 13:35, MailMate at ivdcs.co.uk wrote:
> On 2020-10-08 12:06, Ken Pope wrote:
>>>> You can turn that warning off in user preferences (composer tab). I
>>>> personally find it useful.
>>>
>>> The warning is useful, the complaint is about the "MTV" style of
>>> language: __anyways__ is not a generally recognised conjunction (I
>>> think that's the part of speech here).
>>
>> A minority view: I like the informality. The adverb “always” is
>> accepted as informal English. If formal English is required,
>> “Send anyways?” would need to be rephrased as a complete
>> sentence. Anyways, just my $.02. :)
>
> As an English person in England 'anyways' isn't a word of any sort.
> Never heard it used here. Vaguely remember hearing it in American TV
> shows. It may have been in use in England before America was so named.
>
> David
>
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