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Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 3:47 pm**

doclinkin wrote:[BTW fish. What's an "exepctation" ? Thanx...]

Might as well have a thread where we can mock and correct each others' grammar. Where frustrated school marms can underscore and strike words and so on and so forth. All in good fun.

I s'pect the true samurai of syntax may draw swords and do battle at times here. Duels of linguistical honor and all -- to prove who paid closest attention in 3rd and 4th grade. But all in the name of the public good, more than working out irks and pounding out peeves.

Any musings on language in general can land here. Consider the emoticon (especially sans gif or animation). Who ever thought that in our lifetimes we would experience a revolution in punctuation? Punctuation? What was the last revolution in written language? Secretarial shorthand?

Granted spelling has gone all to hell. Texting (terrible word) has made a virtue of brevity, where previously only court stenographers cared to circumsize the vowels out of words. The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince (TAFKATAFKAP) freely substituted numbers for words, thumbing his nose at first grade teachers everywhere, and thoroughly baffling future generations. With twitter etc we're now looking for the simplest rebus to convey a thought. I h8 tht sht. Yes I can diagram the sentence, but I'm not sure I can solve it's mathematical proof.

That said, any extraordinary relics of grammar can be parsed and untangled here in this venue, rather than interrupting the flow of conversation on the topic at hand. If someone drops a block text of untranslatable arblegarble we can drag drop it here to dissect it, for people who are amused by that sort of thing. Frustrated schoolmarms I say. I, for one, expect to actually learn something now and again. Develop mastery, such that I too can use a semi-colon like a six-gun.

Have at thee.

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 3:50 pm**

By the way, I loved this:

12 Emoticons for the Advanced Writer

Have you ever been overcome with an emotion but unable to find the right emoticon to express yourself? The answer is yes. And I'm going to help you.

*:0 = "MY FACE IS ON FIRE!!!!"

!,! = "Hi. I am a rabbit"

% = "I feel like I am a mosquito looking directly at you."

|:( = "I am displeased with my unibrow."

<:( = "Pointy hats make me sad."

>:( = "Now my hat is upside-down and I don't feel any better about it."

(::::) = "I feel like I am the underside of a pregnant dog."

:0& = "I LOVE PRETZELS!!!! NOM! NOM! NOM!"

:*( = "You make me cry sparkly tears."

{:| = "I am a Frenchman."

Q:| = "I'm Davy **** Crockett."

:$ = "I am trying to look unimpressed, but someone drew a squiggly mouth over my real mouth and this must be terribly confusing for you. I am sorry."

Hyperbole and a half. The pregnant dog one made me snort aloud.

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 3:56 pm**

Perhaps I'm speaking out of self-preservation as an iPhone poster with a touch of dyslexia, but have we collectively sunk this low for entertainment? I feel like Allen Iverson ought to come up in this bi!&h and exclaim, "Grammar? We talkin' 'bout grammar? Not a post. Not a post. But, grammar?"

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 4:06 pm**

We are in the post-literate age and shouldn't be uptight about this stuff. Standard English will prove to have been a cultural artifact of industrialization, like mass education. Read stuff written in the 18th century and before--there are all kinds of weird spellings and grammatical formulations.

My two suggestions for written English, that would eliminate a large percentage of spelling errors on Internet message boards:

(1) "Thare" should be an acceptable replacement spelling for "there," "their," and "they're."

(2) The opposite of "win" should be spelled "looz." And the folks who aren't winners are "loozers."

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 4:14 pm**

I'm usually not one to complain given my routine savaging of the English language, but the one pet peeve of mine is when people say that a point is "mute".

If the point is mute, you wouldn't hear it!

Irrelevant points are moot, not mute!

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 4:30 pm**

nate33 wrote:I'm usually not one to complain given my routine savaging of the English language, but the one pet peeve of mine is when people say that a point is "mute".

If the point is mute, you wouldn't hear it!

Irrelevant points are moot, not mute!

An irrelevant point is like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter.
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Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 7:14 pm**

I love the "moo point" joke, because even though it's a mondegreen, it still makes sense in its own way.

I also love grammar nitpicking in general, so this thread should be fun.

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 7:52 pm**

Their needed to be a thread people can put they're incorrect uses of words so that there not making mistakes in other threads.

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 7:54 pm**

doclinkin wrote:Yes I can diagram the sentence, but I'm not sure I can solve it's mathematical proof.

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 8:03 pm**

All I can say about this thread is: DAME!

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 8:06 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 8:24 pm**

keynote wrote:
nate33 wrote:I'm usually not one to complain given my routine savaging of the English language, but the one pet peeve of mine is when people say that a point is "mute".

If the point is mute, you wouldn't hear it!

Irrelevant points are moot, not mute!

An irrelevant point is like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter.

That's udderly preposteris.

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 8:27 pm**

barelyawake wrote:Perhaps I'm speaking out of self-preservation as an iPhone poster with a touch of dyslexia, but have we collectively sunk this low for entertainment? I feel like Allen Iverson ought to come up in this bi!&h and exclaim, "Grammar? We talkin' 'bout grammar? Not a post. Not a post. But, grammar?"

Says the man who recently started a post with the word "funnily". You best start practicing. The grammar police are keeping an eye out everywhere. :wink:

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 8:51 pm**

Irregardless of what anyone says, this thread sucks!

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 9:01 pm**

I cant believe you guys are so annal. When I first saw this thread, it peaked my interest, because message board posts tend to run the gambit from a single emoticon to mini-novels. Ostensively, the internet allows everyone to say their peace in a supposably anonymous environment.

But now the Grammer police are out! Better be careful what you type or someone will prolly make fun of you for any typos that slip in. But not me, I'll take a different tact. I'm not going to pour over every post just because some grammer nazis have their own little click to make fun of the rest of us. They're libel to put you on ignore if you make a mistake - case and point, look at poor hands. Dame!

Nope, I'm unphased by their taut's. It's my perogative to type whatever I want, it's a free country! If my posts aren't up to stuff, so be it. I'll just buy my time until I can become a moderator, then you'll all be sorry! (I'm a shoe-in, based on my tenure and willingness to rat out others...) Irregardless, I won't bow before the nazis, and I'm not adverse to a little underhanded politics. It's a doggy-dog world, baby!

It is a mute point anyways, because for all intensive purposes, were just a bunch of guys typing opinions about atheletes on a web sight. It's threads like this that cause the board to flounder and lose members. So bare in mind that if this kind of mocking drives posters away, then the board is all for not - and who would we make fun of then?

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 9:02 pm**

I could care less. Six of one, dozen of another.

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 9:41 pm**

Severn Hoos wrote:I cant believe you guys are so annal. When I first saw this thread, it peaked my interest, because message board posts tend to run the gambit from a single emoticon to mini-novels. Ostensively, the internet allows everyone to say their peace in a supposably anonymous environment.

But now the Grammer police are out! Better be careful what you type or someone will prolly make fun of you for any typos that slip in. But not me, I'll take a different tact. I'm not going to pour over every post just because some grammer nazis have their own little click to make fun of the rest of us. They're libel to put you on ignore if you make a mistake - case and point, look at poor hands. Dame!

Nope, I'm unphased by their taut's. It's my perogative to type whatever I want, it's a free country! If my posts aren't up to stuff, so be it. I'll just buy my time until I can become a moderator, then you'll all be sorry! (I'm a shoe-in, based on my tenure and willingness to rat out others...) Irregardless, I won't bow before the nazis, and I'm not adverse to a little underhanded politics. It's a doggy-dog world, baby!

It is a mute point anyways, because for all intensive purposes, were just a bunch of guys typing opinions about atheletes on a web sight. It's threads like this that cause the board to flounder and lose members. So bare in mind that if this kind of mocking drives posters away, then the board is all for not - and who would we make fun of then?

Oh, once I get my badge in the mail from the Spelling Police Academy, I am going to have a field day with you, mister!

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 9:45 pm**

WTF

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 10:00 pm**

I cant believe you guys are so annal. When I first saw this thread, it peaked my interest, because message board posts tend to run the gambit from a single emoticon to mini-novels. Ostensively, the internet allows everyone to say their peace in a supposably anonymous environment.

- Emmit Smith

Posted: **Tue May 11, 2010 10:20 pm**

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