It seems that looking for an online forum community that helps you with English literacy is not a quick find. Does anybody know of any English literacy forums like stackoverflow but for people in need of help with there English literacy?
I want to ask a question on how you would word with multiple possibilities. In my application, it currently says, “Select an image file”. How would I change this so that it can mean either selecting a single image file or a bunch of image files. Should it say “Select some/an image file(/s)”. It looks messy but from my understanding this is near enough proper English.
Specific to very English - don t know one.
You might try with http://forum.wordreference.com alhtough it’s targeted at translating, who knows if you’d decide to go Worlwide
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“Select desired image(s)” might be what you are looking for. I’m relatively certain that you wouldn’t want to use a “/” because it is improper english, and you definitely wouldn’t place the slash inside of the parenthesis. As for a forum on it, I have no idea.
How long can it be? You could use “Select one or more image files” if you have room. Otherwise, you start to get into common but non-standard English usage, such as using “(s)” to indicate the possibility of selecting more than one.
Don’t forget there are many subtle differences in ENGLISH (UK) and “AMERICAN” (US) both are called “English” but you say certain “ENGLISH” phrases to an “AMERICAN” and you just might get slapped or worse… where to an English person, they would know just what you meant…
“Knock me up” and “Hand me a rubber” are two that come to mind
(translation to AMERICAN : “give me a call”, “hand me that eraser”)
[quote=53148:@Lennox Jacob]How about http://www.grammarly.com
Lennox[/quote]
Cool, not an online forum. But it would probably work better than an online forum. Depends on what needs to be analysed but great thanks!!
