Grammar Apocalypse thread. Bring your red ink pen.

[barelyawake]

Hmmm Ruz, I'm unsure what your objection was to what I said. Is it that you believe funnily is not a word? Check a modern dictionary. You know, they add words every year. If your objection is based on a mistaken belief that one cannot start a sentence with an adverb, then I should tell you that is not the case. An adverb placed at the start of a sentence is called a sentence adverb. "Unexpectedly, my uncle called" is perfectly proper. I think the grammar police need to go hit a donut shop. Personally, I'ma gonna keep slingin' slang on a website dedicated to basketball. F' the police.

[Ruzious]

You might have slipped by this time, Barely, thanks to the left-wing Websterization of our once honorable language, but we're everywhere - just waiting for you to get comfortable and slip up... though we could use that donut break you mentioned. Eh, what the heck - say whatever ya want. I'm in the mood for some double D's... and Dunkin Donuts.

[Zonkerbl]

Yeah, you can't loose with a thread like this.

Argh! I hate you!

I specifically came to this thread to make that point.

[hands11]

Hmmm Ruz, I'm unsure what your objection was to what I said. Is it that you believe funnily is not a word? Check a modern dictionary. You know, they add words every year. If your objection is based on a mistaken belief that one cannot start a sentence with an adverb, then I should tell you that is not the case. An adverb placed at the start of a sentence is called a sentence adverb. "Unexpectedly, my uncle called" is perfectly proper. I think the grammar police need to go hit a donut shop. Personally, I'ma gonna keep slingin' slang on a website dedicated to basketball. F' the police.

And the Mule they road in on.

And while your at it. Make like a leave and .... get out of hear.

[pancakes3]

call myself out, once i used penultimate instead of ultimate. another time i spelled judgment with an e inside.

forgive me wizboard for i have sinned. write 10 anti-lebron posts and 5 fire-eg posts?

[montestewart]

call myself out, once i used penultimate instead of ultimate. another time i spelled judgment with an e inside.

forgive me wizboard for i have sinned. write 10 anti-lebron posts and 5 fire-eg posts?

The Bic Penultimate; the ultimate pen. What is the sound of dgm? There's no real logic to spelling it judgment rather than judgement. Imagine a flavor called fudgmint. Message boards aren't like books or articles or briefs or term papers. They're a little closer to conversation. I don't really care about a few misspellings or typos (which are occasionally hilarious), as long as I can tell what someone's saying. Sometimes grammar and spelling police let too much air out of the balloon.

PS: I'm a horrible typist, with many recurring errors. Writing "form" when I mean "from" is the most common.

[jmrosenth]

for all intensive purposes

The funny thing is that I was once mocked here for using this exact phrase...

For now, I'm just going to fade [back] into Bolivian.

[doclinkin]

From now on whenever I'm asked to fill out my race or ethnicity on a form, I'm going to write in Callipygian.

Credit Jef Mallet of the comic strip Frazz.

[montestewart]

for all intensive purposes

The funny thing is that I was once mocked here for using this exact phrase...

For now, I'm just going to fade [back] into Bolivian.

Nothing wrong with that phrase. Sounds like a heavy duty cleanser.

[tkunit]

I'll just retire, because I know I can't spell or grammar.