Jumping the Moon Dairy - the next chapter

[misfitmorgan]

The English language really is so so screwy.

I like it the way it is despite a possible grammatical error....welcomed sounds wrong no matter how many times i try to say it to myself

Hopefully your sister gets you an answer. At the end of the day, it is your dairy and you can have the wording however you like....even despite what us BYH people think it should or shouldnt be.

 

[AClark]

Welcomed would be how I would use it, welcome sounds like present and past tense, despite welcomed being used potentially as a past tense as well (We welcomed them into our home last week). With that said, I am still a fan of the Oxford comma.
What I did notice was the use of a semi-colon, which the vast majority of people either don't use or use incorrectly, but here it's used correctly, so the the proper term for welcome should be used as well to complement proper grammar.

 

[babsbag]

My sister says that welcome is describing the word 'addition" and it is used as an adjective in this sentence and that it "should probably" be welcome but doesn't think that anyone will notice. She's a peace keeper too.

The more I read that more confused I get. I keep trying to change the sentence but it doesn't work...yet.

 

[babsbag]

What I did notice was the use of a semi-colon, which the vast majority of people either don't use or use incorrectly, but here it's used correctly, so the the proper term for welcome should be used as well to complement proper grammar.

I do use semicolons where they belong, or at least I try. But I don't see one in the current version on my computer. Did one of the ones I posted on BYH have a ; ?

 

[Mike CHS]

Our language is one of the reasons I decided to join the Navy before college.

 

[Bruce]

English is a lousy language. Pronounce these words:
mow (the action, not the place you put the hay)
cow
WHY are they not pronounced similarly?

And these:
caught
laughter
?????
Stupid language

 

[CntryBoy777]

I thought of something while on final rounds tonite....it may work with the word "welcome" with just a slight change in the last part of the sentence. Where it says....a bond with people, making them a welcome(d) addition to the herd.....ya could take out the....making them a....with "as we welcome them to the herd."......this would subside the issue and still work with everything else that is stated...............

 

[Bruce]

But is she telling people the kids are handled so they are a "welcome addition" to HER herd, or to a prospective kid BUYER's herd?? I don't guess people would care a whole lot about the ease of adding kids to the dairy's herd.

 

[babsbag]

@Bruce the words that really get me "goat" are too, to, and two. And then there is bear and bare and they both have multiple meanings. Or read, read, and red. All I can say is that I am glad that I don't have to learn English as my second language; it's hard enough to learn it as my first.

As to the question about whose herd the kids are to be welcomed to...it could be mine or theirs. In this day of crazies that think that all livestock owners are cruel and that dairies are particularly evil I want to make a point by letting them know that the kids are cherished and cared for in spite of what they think. So it doesn't matter whose herd, it only matters that they are welcome(d).

 

[babsbag]

Ok, so this is what the collective brain in my family has come up with. They all agree that "welcome" is used as an adjective and it is not a verb and therefore not "welcomed". Even if "welcomed" is the way my brain rolls I will concede that "welcome" is correct. Do you know how hard it is to say that my siblings are right?

This is the last and final revision. It is time to send this to my printer and get 'er done. Thank you all for the critiques, it is nice to know that you all have my back.

We hand-raise the kids. This helps them bond with people and develop trust, and makes them a welcome addition to the herd.