Thread: 8th grade education

Originally Posted by Manuka Jock

And we did , and kicked the buggas out , all over the world

And did they show any gratitude for this magnaminous treatment? None at all

Originally Posted by jimbur

And did they show any gratitude for this magnaminous treatment? None at all

No , nor did they reimburse the areas that they asset stripped .

But you have to balance all that with the weeds, rabbits and foxes

Foxes ? is that a nickname for the possums that they infested my homeland with ?

Originally Posted by Manuka Jock

Foxes ? is that a nickname for the possums that they infested my homeland with ?

Don't you have them in NZ? Or are they all hiding in the Boxthorn?

A very popular animal at one time - they used to be followed by lots of dogs accompanied by groupies in red coats on horseback.

Originally Posted by jimbur

Don't you have them in NZ? Or are they all hiding in the Boxthorn?

If we had them , would I be asking ?

Originally Posted by jimbur

A very popular animal at one time - they used to be followed by lots of dogs accompanied by groupies in red coats on horseback.

I know what foxes are .
My enquiry was about your post regarding foxes in New Zealand .

Where is all this boxthorn that you are talking about ?

Originally Posted by Manuka Jock

I know what foxes are .
My enquiry was about your post regarding foxes in New Zealand .

Where is all this boxthorn that you are talking about ?

Talking from absolute ignorance on NZ wildlife - native or imported - Jock. Definitely would have failed 8th grade there.
Saw a programme on how NZ had had a terrible problem with African Boxthorn. Apparently it had been popular with farmers as it grew quickly into hedges and was impenetrable without heavy machinery.
Cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by jimbur

Talking from absolute ignorance on NZ wildlife - native or imported - Jock. Definitely would have failed 8th grade there.
Saw a programme on how NZ had had a terrible problem with African Boxthorn. Apparently it had been popular with farmers as it grew quickly into hedges and was impenetrable without heavy machinery.
Cheers,
Jim

We are two very large islands here , and many smaller ones .
What area was the program talking about ?

And out of curiosity , who made the program ?

Originally Posted by Manuka Jock

We are two very large islands here , and many smaller ones .
What area was the program talking about ?

And out of curiosity , who made the program ?

Pretty insular here - most of us forget Tasmania.
I think the programme was a BBC2 production called Round the World in Eighty Gardens narrated by Monty Don. I can 't be certain that that is where the boxthorn came up though. The following might help you place Monty Don anyway:

While travelling around New Zealand Monty followed the Forgotten World Highway. This highly memorable driving journey wriggles it way over four mountain saddles, through an eerie one-way tunnel and along a sinuour river gorge.

Originally built on colonial bridle paths it was formed in the late 19th century. History is one of the reasons to choose this route, but scenery is another big highlight.

By the way, African Boxthorn is a noxious weed here but when turned looks very similar to European box.
Cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by jimbur

Pretty insular here - most of us forget Tasmania.
I think the programme was a BBC2 production called Round the World in Eighty Gardens narrated by Monty Don. I can 't be certain that that is where the boxthorn came up though. The following might help you place Monty Don anyway:

While travelling around New Zealand Monty followed the Forgotten World Highway. This highly memorable driving journey wriggles it way over four mountain saddles, through an eerie one-way tunnel and along a sinuour river gorge.

Originally built on colonial bridle paths it was formed in the late 19th century. History is one of the reasons to choose this route, but scenery is another big highlight.

By the way, African Boxthorn is a noxious weed here but when turned looks very similar to European box.
Cheers,
Jim

So that BBC2 character based his program of New Zealand on a back country road that runs for a few miles through a very small hill region of one small province on one island off the coast of the mainland of this country ?
He is not too bright eh



I know that African boxthorn is a noxious weed in Australia . I have known that for many years .
I have eradicated a fair amount of it , in Taranaki (NZ)

Originally Posted by Carry Pine

The quote was:

Rule 1: the comma rule If you are joining independent clauses to write compound sentences, use a comma BEFORE 'and', 'but', 'for', 'nor', 'so', 'yet'. Example
 Petrol prices are rising daily, and many people are struggling to meet costs in their daily lives. Price increases may stimulate a search for a cheaper alternative, but this does not always happen.

This is very interesting as students in NSW would be marked down for doing this.

Thanks for the link .

CP

Interesting indeed. I vividly remember having a polite but pointed row about this with the person pretending to teach me English when I arrived here in 1978. I would accept "so" and "yet" as one word parenthetic clauses, that is with a comma before and one after, never a comma before any of the words mentioned if it is not the beginning or the end of a parenthetic clause. To the best of my knowledge, however, English usage tolerates a comma before the "and" introducing the last element of a list. For me, the examples above are plainly wrong. If the correlation is meant to convey causation, "and" should be replaced with "therefore", otherwise the comma before it should be removed.

So, what's the verdict?

I tend to punctuate English as I'd speak it.....if a pause is in order then so too is an apostrophe.