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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