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| Re: "verbal diahorrea" [message #181521 is a reply to message #181099] |
Tue, 06 December 2005 10:03   |
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Goztow
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I took the liberty of revealing some of your posts in this rather funny topic, after seeing some funny quotes. Don't be too proud of it though...
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| Re: "verbal diahorrea" [message #181525 is a reply to message #181099] |
Tue, 06 December 2005 11:15 |
Tunaman
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Nice one warranto. 
I wonder if anyone highlighted my previous post. lol, I thought that someone would notice it.
mision... WTF mate?
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your
adj. The possessive form of you.
1. Used as a modifier before a noun: your boots; your accomplishments.
2. A person's; one's: The light switch is on your right.
3. Informal Used with little or no sense of possession to indicate a type familiar to the listener: your basic three-story frame house.
you're
Contraction of you are.
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I'm pretty sure that you're(you are) trying to use the second one...
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| Re: "verbal diahorrea" [message #181529 is a reply to message #181099] |
Tue, 06 December 2005 11:43 |
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NukeIt15
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I would just like to note, for the record, that it is positively stunning how shaky a grasp most people have on the English language. Perhaps it is because I spend so much of my time working with words, but I just cannot comprehend how anyone who has passed third-grade English could possibly not know the difference between "your" and "you're." One is a contraction consisting of a pronoun and a verb, one is a possessive pronoun.
I'm equally annoyed, for that matter, with people who cut in and correct grammar when their own grasp of the language has several glaring holes- "American's" for instance. Apostrophes are never used to indicate a plural- they denote possessive and are used in contractions. I apologize- this is one of my pet peeves, and it annoys me to nearly the same extent as people who spell "turret" with an extraneous n.
Americans- plural of American. "The Americans visited Europe."
American's- possessive of American. "The American's suit was clean and new."
Most folks who read these forums are advanced enough in their education that they ought to have much more competence and ability with the English language. This is a message board, after all- there are no time limits imposed on posting; you are not going to be penalized in any way for taking a few extra minutes to go over your spelling and grammar before clicking the button. It is, of course, entirely up to the poster to decide whether or not to make that effort, and sadly most people do not seem highly inclined to do so. In my opinion, that reflects very poorly on the quality of education and the intellectual capacity of most of the English-speaking world (allowances must be made, naturally, for people who are only just learning the language- English is, after all, one of the most complicated and tricky languages to learn).
*edit* And for the love of sanity, if you make a typo or some other screw-up during posting, do please use the edit button. That's why the damned thing is there.
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine
Remember, kids: illiteracy is cool. If you took the time to read this, you are clearly a loser who will never get laid. You've been warned.
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| Re: "verbal diahorrea" [message #181540 is a reply to message #181099] |
Tue, 06 December 2005 15:45 |
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NukeIt15
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The word "it" is a rather peculiar exception. "Its" is actually the possessive form, while "it's" is a contraction of "it is." That's a fairly common mistake, and a little easier to understand.
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine
Remember, kids: illiteracy is cool. If you took the time to read this, you are clearly a loser who will never get laid. You've been warned.
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| Re: "verbal diahorrea" [message #181618 is a reply to message #181099] |
Wed, 07 December 2005 12:13 |
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Ryan3k
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Location: USA
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I decided that I would choose a sentence from one of DJM's posts in this thread and point out the grammar mistakes. Within ten seconds, I found this:
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And in case you havn't noticed, this is an American website, and suprise suprise American's speak English.
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1. Begins sentence with a conjunction.
2. Misspelled words:
-havn't
-suprise (X2)
3. Uses the singular possessive form of "American," as opposed to simply the plural.
Strictly speaking, your sentence doesn't make sense. What is this strange thing known as "speak English" that the American you were referring to apparently owns?
EDIT:
Here is a helpful tip to improve your use of English grammar:
1. The semicolon (;) is your friend. I like to use it when I need to join two subject-related independent clauses!
By the way, there is another structural error in DJM's sentence that I failed to bring up; however, it is closely related to "offense" #1. Can anybody catch it?
A Path Beyond
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| Re: "verbal diahorrea" [message #181622 is a reply to message #181099] |
Wed, 07 December 2005 14:31 |
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Jecht
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The second sentence you want him to create( period or semicolon after the word website. ) starts with another conjunction.
You should also know that you are, in fact, allowed to use a coordinating conjunction to begin a sentence:
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/032601.htm
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Most likely, many people believe they should not start a sentence with a coordinating conjunction because their grammar teachers in grade school discouraged them from doing so. Yet such a rule is completely unjustifiable. When grammar teachers teach youngsters the essentials of sentence structure, they most likely explain that coordinating conjunctions are used to hold together elements within a sentence. Therefore, they may discourage students from starting sentences with coordinating conjunctions because they are trying not only to explain conjunctions but also to help their students learn to avoid sentence fragments like this one:
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Teachers in grade school just discourage this because younger children tend not to use proper sentence structure when they use coordinating conjunctions like so:
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She was a nice girl. And smart, too.
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However with a proper subject and predicate, you can use a coordinating conjunction as the first word of a sentence. Take this for example:
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She wanted to leave the office, drive home, and spend the evening alone in front of a fire. But she knew that duty called her to finish the project and to put her best effort into making it superb.
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| Re: "verbal diahorrea" [message #181632 is a reply to message #181622] |
Wed, 07 December 2005 16:31 |
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Ryan3k
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The second sentence you want him to create( period or semicolon after the word website. ) starts with another conjunction.
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What I had written implies that the "and" would be removed:
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...in case you havn't [sic] noticed, this is an American website; suprise [sic] suprise [sic] american's [sic] speak English.
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Yes, I am being mean-hearted with the [sic] barrage.
I admit I was aware of this, so I apologize for underestimating your intelligence. I have seen this little "rule" I listed "broken" so many times in thesis papers without consequence that I was well aware that its grammatical importance was negligible.
It must make sense now why the word "offense" was in quotation marks in my original post.
A Path Beyond
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| Re: "verbal diahorrea" [message #181653 is a reply to message #181099] |
Thu, 08 December 2005 00:44 |
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Goztow
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Location: Belgium
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Sorry if i misspell this, but...
The arouser has been aroused?
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