Grammar Nazis of the world unite....

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Well then if we ever meet at a bar and you are sitting and I'm standing behind you I'll use my favorite bar line...."Would you like me to push in your stool?"

:biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1: Oh Nudey you're gross! :biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1:

 

[nudeyorker]

:biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1: Oh Nudey you're gross! :biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1:

You would be surprised at how many dolts did not get it, and blushed and batted their eyelashes and said..."Oh yes thank you; you are a true gentleman."

 

[Deno]

Oh I've used it for outgoing. If I had a few drinks in me I'd probably take up that ingoing offer though: and hate myself in the morning, or not.

 

[D_Andreas Sukov]

Oh grate a nothere eletist groop! Problee woont be excepted in their Eyethere:frown1: I also wonder how many errors will be found in there.
I know when to use the colon I have more trouble with the semi.


I make mistakes at times and have been corrected. It doesn't bothere me when it happens; it just tells me to watch what I'm doing. Some things are just repetitious with me; such as adding an e after the letters er. I have no idea why that happens. Then there is my repeating a letter when it should not be repeated. For example: Chief will become chiief or will becomes wiill. This is most likely from my fingers moving too quickly.


As to Lemon, you present yourself as a University student. I realize this means your time on this board is more for relaxation; however, if you persistantly make errors here, when you know better, they will most assuredly begin to enter into the writing of your class papers which will lead to lower grades and possible dismissal if they drop low enough. Make the occasional error, that's human and normal; but, to do it as a thumb up the nostril of another poster {or all of us} shows immaturity laced with arrogance.

In support of Lemoon, he iis not the first to make errors, nor will he be the last. In recent weeks while reading various books I have noticed errors which went right by proofers and editors and made it to 3rd and 4th editions of books. One from yesterday, in a book published in 1968, and which I have a 1970 printing of, has the following: 'What was you hurry to get out of there?' The statement was made by a fictional character who supposedly is college educated. It stopped me in my tracks, as spelling and grammatical errors often do, and I read the sentence several times to be sure I wasn't in error. I wasn't.

Lastly Lemon, as I said somewhere to you, my comment in that thread the other day, was, as were some of the others meant more with a touch of humor, I did not do it as a massive bitch slap on your face or ass. However, your later rush at me, in another thread, seemed completely inappropriate as you came at me for using a word which I was only quoting from another poster::: http://www.lpsg.org/2548941-post7.html
We all make errors, and people will comment~~take it as a chance to learn and to grow.

I was talking about were you wrote "Filng", but that's ok if you were confused. From what ive read of your posts that you have posted regularly, most seem to be knocking someones character on here, so while you talk about how i present myself, maybe you should think about how you do too as i expected it to be some sort of attack and didn't see one shred of evidence it was done in humour.

Ill admit that my charge at you was childish and im now seriously embarrassed by it, but your response im PM was far more immature, and was calculated. To challenge someone on something present is one thing but to search through someones history to find something against them not even linked to any "offense" caused shows the signs of a bitter, sad man. I wont excuse myself for what i did, but im 19, if that allows people to talk down to me like people do to lots of youths on here, then it can be used as a defense. You.....well, you are not 19. I should grow and i will from this, but it is rich coming from you.

 

[Onslow]

I was talking about were you wrote "Filng", but that's ok if you were confused. From what ive read of your posts that you have posted regularly, most seem to be knocking someones character on here, so while you talk about how i present myself, maybe you should think about how you do too as i expected it to be some sort of attack and didn't see one shred of evidence it was done in humour.

Since you failed to indicate which bolded word you were speaking of, I was at liberty to take the one I believed you meant. You did nothing to alter that belief as you never entered that thread again after I made my indication as to where I had found the word taken.

Ill admit that my charge at you was childish and im now seriously embarrassed by it, but your response im PM was far more immature, and was calculated. To challenge someone on something present is one thing but to search through someones history to find something against them not even linked to any "offense" caused shows the signs of a bitter, sad man. I wont excuse myself for what i did, but im 19, if that allows people to talk down to me like people do to lots of youths on here, then it can be used as a defense. You.....well, you are not 19. I should grow and i will from this, but it is rich coming from you.

Note; however, I took my inquiry directly to you in a PM. I did not open up and fire at you in a post with my questions; thus maintaining for you some level of privacy on the matter. Additionally as I stated in the PM, I look at the profiles on a regular basis. It helps me become more familiar with a poster. This is especially true with threads started by a poster.

As I said in the PM to you: Any time you wish to make a search, click on the person's profile and then the statisticsit will give you both posts and threads started.~~~~~~~~ ,{text removed here for privacy of lemon} It was done neither for amusement nor in hopes of a hot torrid and sordid tale, only curiosity about you as a poster, the same as I do with others, look at their topics for thread starts and gain a perspective/feeling on the person. Additionally, it was not done with the intent of finding a discrepancy in your posts.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~{text removed here for privacy of lemon}
Thank you for the response.

I was not at any time talking down to you. My responses have all been straight forward and clear. In the posting with your instead of you're I made clear that I was injecting {or trying to} some levity. You chose to come after me in that one and then in the thread from DGirl, you again took a swipe at me. It was then, and only then that I sent a PM to you. Childish on my part to bring up a matter which could have jeopardized the legal safety of the board? No. Cowardly for not having taken in directly to the administrative level when I first had questions? Perhaps, or maybe I was just too lazy.

When I came to this thread, I was again not trying to talk down to you, I was telling you I make mistakes and that most people make mistakes. I expressed concern about your future if you insist on flouting standard grammatical practices; since, it can easily become second nature to you and start crossing over into your school papers, causing lower grades and possible removal from the place of education. If showing any level of concern for your well being is viewed by you as talking down at you, then that is a concern you will need to address.

I then went further and added a real life experience in which I have found errors within written text of books which have been printed several times over and had been presumably proofed and edited. That was, as I said, in support of your writing style, letting all readers know that it has been happening for years and where it can be a little hard to grasp an idea on the first read, it in general makes sense.

 

[D_Andreas Sukov]

im sorry, but dont try and look innocent here. The original PM was easily an attack on me. The title sounded like the title of a mrs Marple episode. You may do it regularly but please, do not try and say you brought it up to protect the legal standing of the site. For the love of god dont say that. If you truely cared for it, you wouldnt have taken the oppurtunity to wave it in my face. Your PM to me didnt ask me for my story, it simply accused me of many things in the most upfront manner. It wasn't an inquiry, it felt like a court case.

After the way you have acted towards me, why would i want you to look out for my education. It may become a second nature to some, but you know nothing of my work at uni. Don't assume anything.

It's obvious that we are not going to get on. However, im going to say that after this post that the issue between us if over. Im not going to come at you for any other reason then what you post in that post and not for any other held grudge. I will throw this whole Episode away and carry on as if nothing happened. I hope you do the same.

 

[Viking_UK]

I know when to use the colon I have more trouble with the semi.

Are we still talking about grammar here? :biggrin1:

A lot of younger people, certainly in the UK, haven't been taught grammar and punctuation properly in school because "they'll pick it up". Correct spelling isn't considered as important either so long as they get their meaning across. It's becoming a problem for quite a few companies now because they need staff who can write and spell properly, but are struggling to find them. The last company I worked for binned 250 out of 400 applications because of poorly written covering letters. The trouble is when I started working for them 15 years ago, they discarded less than a tenth of applications for that reason.

Although I graduated in microbiology, 10% of the mark in every paper, report or essay was for grammar, spelling and construction. Even if the facts were correct, you didn't get top marks unless it was well written.

My first job was working for a QUANGO. Every letter, document or report there had to be proofread before being posted or submitted. (We even got them back marked up in red ink.) It was worse than being back at uni - but, again, it was important that documents were well-written and clear.

However, this is a place for people to chat, so I try not to get too fussy about grammar and punctuation (except in a few cases) even though it sometimes sets my teeth on edge and I have to re-read a post to make sense of it. To be honest though, sometimes I just give up and move on to the next post, because if someone can't be bothered to organise their stream of consciousness into something sensible, is it worth my while putting in the effort to decipher it when, half the time, they don't seem to have a point to make at the end of it all? Saying that, there are some posters whose points and opinions make the effort worthwhile, but with many, it's a case of time you'll never get back.

What I don't understand is why, if someone can write fluidly and correctly, they don't. I'd actually find it harder not to capitalise or use apostrophes, commas and full stops/periods, but maybe that's just who I am. I read and write a lot, had an old-fashioned education and English is my second language.

 

[luka82]

I look at the profiles on a regular basis. It helps me become more familiar with a poster. This is especially true with threads started by a poster.
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Oh, what does my profile say?:biggrin1:
Am I a great poster, or what????:wink:

 

[Onslow]

I look at the profiles on a regular basis. It helps me become more familiar with a poster. This is especially true with threads started by a poster.

Oh, what does my profile say?:biggrin1:
Am I a great poster, or what????:wink:

It says you are cute and sexy as a hairy husky horny hot men covention. A person who doesn't care for people leaving either on their own or by the hands of fate, you're curious and like knowing things about people, liking most and are continually pleasant while lusting after hairy men with 11 inchs of meat or anyone else in power on this board {which mods have 11 inchs? Make yourselves known!!}and you seem to have a thing for pandas and a superb poster.

You're a nice guy and many of us could benefit from a few niceness hugs from you.

 

[luka82]

You're a nice guy and many of us could benefit from a few niceness hugs from you.

OMG!!!!
I think I love u!!!
But, I ain`t nice:wink:.
That`s my strategy for hot daddies:biggrin1:

 

[BigDallasDick8x6]

What I don't understand is why, if someone can write fluidly and correctly, they don't. I'd actually find it harder not to capitalise or use apostrophes, commas and full stops/periods, but maybe that's just who I am.

My thoughts exactly. If you learn to do it right, it is automatic. I would actually have to work at not using punctuation and capital letters. At the end of every sentence my hands just type a period without me even thinking about it.

 

[Onslow]

OMG!!!!
I think I love u!!!
But, I ain`t nice:wink:.
That`s my strategy for hot daddies:biggrin1:

I'm intrigued!

How about the hot grand-daddy? Grandfathers need love and attention too you know.

 

[yhtang]

What I don't understand is why, if someone can write fluidly and correctly, they don't. I'd actually find it harder not to capitalise or use apostrophes, commas and full stops/periods, but maybe that's just who I am. I read and write a lot, had an old-fashioned education and English is my second language.

Like you, English is my second language. Perhaps this makes a difference. We actually had to learn the grammatical rules and proper spelling in school. We also had to learn proverbs and idioms, similes etc.

I suppose not that much emphasis is placed on spelling and grammar in schools in English speaking countries.

My two cents.

 

[luka82]

I'm intrigued!

How about the hot grand-daddy? Grandfathers need love and attention too you know.

I honestly don`t know what to say.....

 

[Onslow]

I honestly don`t know what to say.....

I find yes always works. Of course it also lands me in some strange places.

 

[luka82]

lol

 

[mikey41]

I vote that you take a deep breath and forget about it. You're going to raise your blood pressure!

I concur. That is synonymous with agreement.

 

[TomCat84]

I consider myself pretty damn good at writing and typing using correct spelling and grammar....but I know I'm not perfect. I'm sure I occasionally misuse a colon, semi colon, commas, etc. I guess the only instance of incorrect grammar/spelling that gets my blood pressure up is the confusion of you're, your, there, they're, and their. Most of the time, people don't even seem to care that they look like children. I mean, come the fuck on...I don't even care if you use apostrophes or not....just use the correct damn word. I don't care if I'm called a grammar nazi- I just think it shows a carelessness in what you're saying/typing. I'm not even talking about a one time slip up- which I sometimes am guilty of. Most of the folks I notice are doing this TIME AND TIME AND TIME again! I would have made an excellent English teacher....