Why not just use English grammar as it should be & say the program is "free"
rather than "for free"?
Royce G.
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From: "Ross Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: your ad doesn't deliever take this one instead
Pete Holsberg wrote:
mike scott typed the following on 6/27/2006 4:47 AM:
On 27 Jun 2006 at 7:27, Mr. Vega wrote:
hi, i've designed an ad for you, because i like
openoffice.org and i want others to try it :) take a look
http://img8.picsplace.to/img8/17/testgif.gif and i'll attach
the other JPEG picture in my msg
If there's to be /anything/ at all, please let it be in
correct English. "for free" may be alluringly alliterative,
but it is not idiomatic English.
You may find <http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990108>
informative! :-P
That explains why "for free" always sounds uncomfortably uneducated. But,
at the same time, the correct alternatives "free of charge" or "free of
cost" sound more than a little old fashioned these days.
I suspect that avoiding the word "free" altogether would be a good thing.
Ross
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