Posts by Skitt Muphry McKean

The e-mpire strikes back: Google appeals that $1.7bn EU fine for choking web ad rivals

Re: I appeal to your better judgement

Google can appeal against the fine, or to the court's better sense, or for a fair trial.

Indeed they can.

They can also just appeal -- with all information about the appeal left unsaid ("Bails fall and Google appeals").

And they can also appeal the fine, without describing whether they are appealing against the fine, or to the court's better sense, or for a fair trial or something else -- just that it is regarding the fine.

All perfectly acceptable to this, and to most, English speakers. Just because you wouldn't say it does not make it ungrammatical.

'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin

Re: pro-Buffy flame war.

Thanks. And it was fun researching the history of the Skitt Law, Muphry Law and McKean Law.

Re: pro-Buffy flame war.

"wuold have" not "would of". Oh, the standards of grammar teaching nowadays are awful!