Tony's Tweets

[cdbearsfan]

You started a sentence with "And"?

From Merriam-Webster

Many people content themselves with the trusted maxim "do not begin sentences with and or but." If you are interested in learning whether or not this is a sensible rule, well, it is not. And if you don’t much care whether the rule is sensible or not, and just want to keep telling people that they are wrong when they use certain words to begin their sentences, well, you are in luck, since there have been many more prohibitions against sentence-initial words than just and and but.

Firstly, has it ever been wrong to begin a sentence with and or but? No, it has not. We have been breaking this rule all the way from the 9th century Old English Chronicle through the current day. Many translations of the Bible are filled with sentence-initial ands and buts, and they even may be found in some of our more beloved—and prescriptive—usage guides. The 1959 edition of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style begins two sentences in a row with these prohibited words, and does so with nary a trace of self-consciousness.

But since writing is communication, clarity can only be a virtue. And although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.
—William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 1959

For me it's not OK unless BE says it's OK.

We were told that it would be marked against us in English GCSE's back in the 90's.  Somehow I fluked double A, so im sticking to my principles.

Double A? How did you manage that? Did you take it twice?

[MoetVillan]

Literature and Language.  Take that Miss Wait, you said I would be lucky to pass at all!

[ChicagoLion]

We've signed someone today according to tony, I think

I saw that tweet and like a lot of Tony's tweets I can't fathom it out. Can anyone decipher it?

Paid by cheque, got the clap.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

He posted this earlier, seemingly not in reply to any tweet from Kodjia:


@Dr_TonyXia
Thanks,@J_Kodjia .Get ready for the big season! #UTV

Some are surmising that because Kodjia wears 26, it's a thank you for agreeing to give that number to John Terry.

[Sexual Ealing]

Eugh.

[villa `cross the mersey]

26 being Terrys` IQ I assume

[Chris Jameson]

Has anybody knocked up a shirt with the Chelsea badge on yet?

[alftitimus]

Kodjia - 26 - I read is Turkey bound.

I hope that is rubbish, and it was a handover of a shirt number and not a Vacancy.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Kodjia - 26 - I read is Turkey bound.

I hope that is rubbish, and it was a handover of a shirt number and not a Vacancy.

Certainly hope not. He was our best player last season from what I saw.

[cdbearsfan]

There's no chance he'll be ruining his career by moving to Turkey.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Can't help but think that the Doc's recent Small Heath taunting is exactly what we'd expect from them about us. I'd prefer us to rise above that tbh.


👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻📞Welcome JT to Birmingham city...Aston Villa🌈!#UTV! @AVFCOfficial Announcement shortly!

[cdbearsfan]

Agree entirely. It makes us look very small-time. I'm a Xia fan, and don't mind his use of Twitter generally, but ignore those Mickey Mouse clowns from Bordesley, please.

[robbo1874]

It's a bit distasteful, but he's just having a laugh I reckon.

[Toronto Villa]

It's a bit of fun. We've been the butt of jokes for the last 7/8 years. And at times from the likes of those tossers at West Ham because of their Blues connection. This is light hearted, and it's not small time. People need to relax a little. Xia for the most part has used social media well to connect with a new audience and communicate to fans. Embarrassing is what Lerner was with his prolonged silence coupled with his mad periodic statements.

[Brend'Watkins]

It's a bit of fun. We've been the butt of jokes for the last 7/8 years. And at times from the likes of those tossers at West Ham because of their Blues connection. This is light hearted, and it's not small time. People need to relax a little. Xia for the most part has used social media well to connect with a new audience and communicate to fans. Embarrassing is what Lerner was with his prolonged silence coupled with his mad periodic statements.

It is a bit of fun for someone like Gregory to tweet that but not really appropriate for a man in his position.