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07-07-2008, 10:18 PM
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In the future, I'll also make sure never to start a sentence with a conjunction, use a contraction, or split an infinitive.
| ain't that there a split infinitive? | 
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07-07-2008, 10:19 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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| Lol, sorry - I had to conform. | |
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07-08-2008, 12:00 AM
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| "Stigmata? Is that like fermata? I think I heard that in middle school music class once..." | |
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07-08-2008, 12:12 AM
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| "mind-blowingly overachieving records"
I'm just pleased to see the 'ly', it sounds correct. I have a thing about putting that 'ly' on adverbs.
I think all the professor-types who normally post are on vacation, and hence the more mundane phrasing. | |
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07-08-2008, 02:28 AM
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| You think this is bad? This place is like the Oxford English dept. compared to some other forums out there. | |
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07-08-2008, 08:19 AM
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^ I think that you mean you "can't be the only one WHO has noticed this." Remember that phrase about people who live in glass houses?
| Just throwing this out there, but using “that” to refer to people is common today and considered correct in many style manuals. If that’s wrong, then it’s wrong to say “The car whose windshield…” Language Tip of the Week
It’s actually pretty old: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of ... - Google Book Search
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because the proper pluralization of acronyms and initialisms involves an apostrophe.
| It depends on the style manual.
I agree with romanigypsyeyes on ellipses. I despise that. I Also Hate It When People Capitalize Each Word. OR WHEN THEY TALK LIKE THIS. Or when they use too many punctuation marks!!!!!
For the most part, people here have good English, but I do agree that many of the posts are full of “dull, humorless, uninformative writing.”
Then again, this isn’t exactly a forum for thrillseekers or for an RPG…  | 
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07-08-2008, 10:40 AM
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| someone needs to get laid | |
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07-08-2008, 12:04 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
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| Yeah, you. | |
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07-08-2008, 12:11 PM
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| I think a lot of you are misunderstanding me. I don't really care about nitpicking over grammar, as you can probably see from my own posts. What I do care about is the totally incoherent and obnoxious type writing that romanigypsyeyes and kyledavid80 were talking about. So yeah, what concerns me IS that people are unable to express themselves, kwu. | |
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07-08-2008, 02:12 PM
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| ^that's assuming that people are trying to express themselves in a intellectual or humorous way. You don't know what they're trying to express, so how do you know that they failed at expressing themselves?
I definitely know that most of my posts are not meant to be intellectual or funny... just to add some tidbit to a conversation that probably doesn't mean much to anybody.
When you talk with your friends, do you expect each sentence to be meaningful, enlightening, or hilarious? No, friends talk about nonsense all the time (well at least here in Oklahoma... but I doubt it's different in most places)
(BTW, my ellipses are purposeful, even if they're unconscious. They mean "duh?" or something that's obvious to me or just drawing out the previous syllable before for some sort of emphasis) | |
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07-08-2008, 02:44 PM
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| Not everyone in the cafe are in the "chance-me forum." | |
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07-08-2008, 02:51 PM
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| rofl this thread is funny and "insightful." | |
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07-08-2008, 02:56 PM
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| I think MBP pretty much summed it up in a nutshell. | |
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07-08-2008, 11:34 PM
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| For some odd reason, I get the feeling you are confusing a lack of capability with a lack of motivation or caring. | |
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07-09-2008, 12:04 AM
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#30 | | Member
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| i think you're referring to how informally people type on AIM and then bring that way of typing onto CC. my friends never use periods or even questions marks. usually their messages begin with "u". i think it's funny because i used to type like that until i signed up on CC.
i thought this would be funny:
yes = yeah = yeh, yea, ya, yah
you= u, yu
... (no periods, commas, or apostrophes) just ...
hey = yo, sup, heeeeeyyy
no = na, nah
you are/you're = your, ur, youre
so or sooo
words are always butchered or shortened
subjects/verbs are left out (what u doin or left 5 min. ago)
what = wat lol
ing = in (runnin)
and much more that i can't think of. i don't go on AIM much anymore, but when I do I feel like i'm talking to seventh graders. here's a message from one of my friends:
xxxxxxxx: where u at summer league today
translation: Were you at the summer league game today?
how did we do?
xxxxxx: varsity we won 3-2 rp late game heroics
translation: the varsity team won 3-2. RP (nickname) had some late game heroics. he scored in the final minutes.
i think this would be a funny thread (funny AIM messages lol) | |
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