Paging the grammar Nazis

What's wrong, if anything, with the following sentance:

"Ok no problem, but if you could send a fax copy that would be
extremely useful"

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Andy Cunningham
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Fax is short for facsimile therefore "copy" is redundant.

 

Would instead of could?

 

that's true, though you can't just leave out the word "copy" from the
sentence and have it make proper sense.

I'd suggest:

"Ok, no problem, but it would be extremely useful if you could fax it
as well."

 

Some sort of punctuation after 'Ok'.

Anyway, what's wrong with "OK, NP, SND FAX PLS TY"?

 

You're missing the comma before "TY"?

 

Of course you can, it's a noun.

 

It's spelt sentence, twat

 

You left "STOP" off the end.

 

Possibly, but without knowing the situation it's not necessarily the case.
It might genuinely be unknown if the possibility to send a fax machine
exists and the statement might not be a request to receive one.

 

You misunderstand. The word "copy" in the original sentence is not just
tautological, it implies that the fax is of the particular document
under consideration. Leaving out the word "copy", and otherwise leaving
the sentence alone, implies that it would be "extremely useful" to send
a fax of absolutely anything at all.

 

"That" is making the object of the sentence confusing - you have asked
for an extremely useful fax, rather conveying that it would be useful
if you were sent a fax, which is what I assume you meant....

 

What's wrong, if anything, with the following sentance:

It's sentence

No comma after ok, if doesn't seem right, no comma after copy, I would
change that to it.

Then again, I'm a crazy Dutchie, so what do I know....

Spete

 

Facsimile means "an exact reproduction", and fax is defined as "a printed
page transmitted/received by a fax machine". To say "fax copy" is
redundant, and I'm surprised to see you championing it. Further, I think
you're talking rubbish and you know it.

 

I'm not, you fucknugget. In my original reply, I suggested the word
copy be replaced by another word ("it") making it clear what the score
was:

"Ok, no problem, but it would be extremely useful if you could fax it
as well."

using fax in its gerund form, to further clarify intent.

 

I find it amusing, Klaun botti, that you think the exclusion of an implied
pronoun is of more grammatical importance than the repetition that we all
know and hate. I assume this is a consequence of your usual work environment
where management-speak, laziness and redundancy is endemic.

 

Andy Cunningham composed the following;:

Anbiguous. One answer could be " ... Yes, I could send a fax copy. Do you
want one sending then?"

What about "OK, no problem, but please send a fax as well, as a hard copy
would be extremely useful"

 

where did I espouse ignoring repetition?

Sorry for the tardy response, BTW, had to pop out to get some money out
of the ATM machine.

 

Who said you did?

Er...ok. Thanks for the update. I might make a sandwich in a minute.

 

You'd probably fax the original, wouldn't you? Unless there's any doubt as
to what would appear at the other end.