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Fitty
13-04-2005, 04:26 PM
Ok, one of the things that shits me about this site is the terrible grammar that pervades each fucking post.
Couple of basic points.
It's and Its
"It's" is an abbreviation. It can be short for "it is" - and that is all, and is used in circumstances such as "Look, it's the pope!".
"Its" denotes posession. It is used in circumstances such as "Haha - the church lost its leader!"
You're and your
"You're" is an abbreviation, just like "it's". It's short for "you are" and is used in sentences like "You're crap at grammar."
"Your", like its, denotes posession, such as "Your grammar is crap".
Misusing this basic kind of grammar is dumb as and even more annoying - just think about it - "I have you're coke" = "I have you are coke" - it's just plain fucked, so all you cunts stop fucking doing it.
First person to reply with bad grammar will get de-repped. For serious.
SamBo
13-04-2005, 04:32 PM
News flash: this is an internet forum!!! *gasp*
I've lost count of how many times people have bitched and whined about bad spelling and grammar being used.
Build a fucking bridge ok! OMGLOLOLOLROFL!!!!!1111!!!1~~
oh toes, pls dont derep mee with ur masive repstatus of 1! oh toes! woe is me! oh no, i think the internet is going to spontaneously combust now!
dwarfthrower
13-04-2005, 04:32 PM
its been done.
sperm
13-04-2005, 04:35 PM
Heh, I didnt know 'its' denotes posession :p
who gives a shit anyway ? typing is for communication
People that complain over slang/sms/abbrev/etc need to get a grip.
I've heard the invention of new useful words was severly fucked when the dictionary was invented :rolleyes:
Building words was far too defined and constrained after that; let language convey concepts and ideas, not be a rule..... :swear:
ShinymetalASS
13-04-2005, 04:37 PM
Hey!
I got learned English real good, hey.
On another note : "me fail english? thats unpossible"
:aah: why did I have the bowl bart?
-=[BB]=-
13-04-2005, 04:40 PM
I lerned it gooder than you Shiny!
~vjay~
13-04-2005, 04:40 PM
First person to reply with bad grammar will get de-repped. For serious.
This is an example of bad grammar and use of the English language right here.
If you are going to be a grammar nazi you should make sure you have a profound grasp of all of the English language before you criticize others for the same thing. :rolleyes:
TK-421
13-04-2005, 04:42 PM
liek OMFG u liek so roK! I agree it's annoying when them idiot's use wrong grammer. I rekon we find there IP's and track down they're houses and beat the poo out of the'm;
Plz dun -rop me, I' really need them.
Merudo
13-04-2005, 04:45 PM
The irony here is he'll probably get de-repped himself for copying a thread which has been done on countless occasions before this.
Necron
13-04-2005, 04:50 PM
Meh
Their, there, they're. That is all.
TK-421
13-04-2005, 05:31 PM
You forgot wear, where and we're.
You forgot wear, where and we're.
And ware....
Arcane1
13-04-2005, 05:39 PM
Ok, one of the things that shits me about this site is the terrible grammar that pervades each fucking post.
Couple of basic points.
It's and Its
"It's" is an abbreviation. It can be short for "it is" - and that is all, and is used in circumstances such as "Look, it's the pope!".
"Its" denotes posession. It is used in circumstances such as "Haha - the church lost its leader!"
You're and your
"You're" is an abbreviation, just like "it's". It's short for "you are" and is used in sentences like "You're crap at grammar."
"Your", like its, denotes posession, such as "Your grammar is crap".
Misusing this basic kind of grammar is dumb as and even more annoying - just think about it - "I have you're coke" = "I have you are coke" - it's just plain fucked, so all you cunts stop fucking doing it.
First person to reply with bad grammar will get de-repped. For serious.
Ummm, guess what? You're fucked.
-First of all, "Misusing this basic kind of grammar is dumb as and even more annoying" does not work as a complete sentence. You never finished 'is dumb as __ and even more...' so de-rep yourself one there.:fu:
-Secondly, "Your grammar is crap" does not work either, as 'crap' needs to be an adjective, not a noun. "Your grammar is crappy." would work.
De-rep yourself another point.:fu:
-Thirdly, "First person to reply with bad grammar will get de-repped." is not proper. It should read "The first person..."
De-Rep yourself another one.:fu:
-Lastly, " For serious." is not a complete sentence. For serious what?, when? where? would have to be added to complete it.
De-Rep yourself another one guy.:fu:
Here is a gramatically correct sentence: He who lives in glass houses should refrain from throwing rocks.
gooey
13-04-2005, 05:45 PM
Heh, I didnt know 'its' denotes posession :p
I've heard the invention of new useful words was severly fucked when the dictionary was invented :rolleyes:
i've read this somewhere too.
the first dictionary produced had more spelling and grammar errors than all the posts this site.
it is only over the last 100 years or so that the dictionary has been standardised and as a result concepts such as grammar and puncuation have arisen
Sagacious
13-04-2005, 06:02 PM
A few words on grammar spelling and usage...
The english language is recognised as the second non-mother tongue to learn behind hebrew because it is essentially a bastardisation and rip off of any linguistic tradition that it is culturally exposed to...french, german, latin, greek, welsh, gaelic, arabic, hindu...you name it.
The english language allows for many homonyms...words pronounced the same but with different meanings such as: sight, cite, site and shite (although not sure about that last one there).
There is also the ability for the same word to have several different meanings dependant on context...for example the word set has over 100 acceptable definitions varying with context.
And then we have our friends the Americans who over the last 200 or so years have raped, pillaged and plundered the language and stuck z's in where none should be...tragic I tell you tragic.
AsterisK
13-04-2005, 06:43 PM
Hehe sounds like this guy at work who lectures sum1 if they send a company wide email with spelling/grammar mistakes... Us g33k (did i spell that right?) can talk how we like, and we understand each other.
ShinymetalASS
13-04-2005, 07:06 PM
He sounds like this fucker who had a go at someone for swearing at netball last night.
What fucken australian doesnt swear when playing sport?
What fucken geek doesnt typo at least a little when posting?
Lets see how many contractions i can completely ignore before the end of the post.
cock smack
:D
dwarfthrower
13-04-2005, 07:13 PM
before the end of the post.
[Geek Grammar Nazi]before teh end of teh post. [/Geek Grammar Nazi]
Arcane1
13-04-2005, 11:31 PM
And then we have our friends the Americans who over the last 200 or so years have raped, pillaged and plundered the language and stuck z's in where none should be...tragic I tell you tragic.
Watch those generalizations Man. Don't blame me for ebonics. :swear:
s3raph
13-04-2005, 11:37 PM
He sounds like this fucker who had a go at someone for swearing at netball last night.
What fucken australian doesnt swear when playing sport?
What fucken geek doesnt typo at least a little when posting?
Lets see how many contractions i can completely ignore before the end of the post.
cock smack
:D
Well it is netball, its not exactly ocher.
Mate, don't you DARE go knocking netball! What red-blooded bloke DOESN'T like watching girls running around in tiny skirts, getting sweaty and bitch-slapping each other?
Thyraeus
13-04-2005, 11:58 PM
Mate, don't you DARE go knocking netball! What red-blooded bloke DOESN'T like watching girls running around in tiny skirts, getting sweaty and bitch-slapping each other?
Mate ... I for one am never one miss an opportunity....and I do like watching girls running around in tiny skirts, getting swaety etc...but try as I might, watching netball ain't sexy......can't really explain why.
* Note - not a :fag:
Asmodeus
14-04-2005, 01:11 AM
heh. same old topic.. same old replies.
u r teh dumm
*yawn* boring now
dozer
14-04-2005, 01:23 AM
grammar nazis that cant use correct grammar, great.
LauraleeBug
14-04-2005, 01:41 AM
Ok, one of the things that shits me about this site is the terrible grammar that pervades each fucking post.
Couple of basic points.
It's and Its
"It's" is an abbreviation. It can be short for "it is" - and that is all, and is used in circumstances such as "Look, it's the pope!".
"Its" denotes posession. It is used in circumstances such as "Haha - the church lost its leader!"
You're and your
"You're" is an abbreviation, just like "it's". It's short for "you are" and is used in sentences like "You're crap at grammar."
"Your", like its, denotes posession, such as "Your grammar is crap".
Misusing this basic kind of grammar is dumb as and even more annoying - just think about it - "I have you're coke" = "I have you are coke" - it's just plain fucked, so all you cunts stop fucking doing it.
First person to reply with bad grammar will get de-repped. For serious.
Oi! Another one. Dood, don't know where you're from but believe it or not the national IQ of America (a sickening 90) is not prevalent here.
Trust me, son; I know how to write proper grammer in the British Style (as in you can "practise" law but have a "Law Practice" - like no fucken biggie. We hate you guys only because you grammar nazis are not letting us see the "real you" (if "there" is one to know, but "they're" usually blank slates waiting for those of us with style to fill your vessel for you).....
My spelling, punctuation & speaking voice can be whatever I want them to be; to express MY mood right now; because these ppl (if not "friends") are at least my tribe, ok - so; give us some meat or stop chowing down on our stew, ok?
BTW - Although writing totally "proper" English my whole life (ok, since age 8 at least, yeah, yeah - I was "Lisa Simpson")... with British spellingings and the slashes through my 7's & Z's may seem the least to you... But believe it or not - I grew up yank, went to yank schools. They didn't do it that way, but I did; and they could not find it incorrect althought it was not for where I lived.
I was born & raised in NYC; and sometimes I yell at cars still
"Hey ya bastid~ I'm wawlking heah!"
Good to crack up the crowd with anyway....... So, if you're done toilet training (we hate anal fucks) comeon back 'n try agin, son - y'might get looky this time, hey?!
Sorry, I'm not usually this harsh; but you remind me of this chick that really screwed with my family; but that's no excuse.
Really, I'm sincere. Try again. You're better off talking war, politics or religion than you are about grammar.
Good luck & hope that it works out for ya......
m0loch
14-04-2005, 03:41 AM
..snip...
It's and Its
"It's" is an abbreviation. ...snip...
"It's" is a contraction for either "it is" or "it has". If you're going to bitch, do it correctly.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/apostrophe.htm
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=abbreviation
Why is abbreviated such a long word?
kleph
14-04-2005, 04:04 AM
http://forums.zgeek.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10918
The Cunt
14-04-2005, 04:10 AM
I'm not saying a fucking thing until this thread has the SOC Seal Of Approval.
Directed
14-04-2005, 04:16 AM
I just want to say that people moaning about grammar are the worst elitists I have heard. They go on and on about how people don't talk right and communicate correctly, but in the mean time what have they contributed? All they have accomplished is to complain and moan. No ideas were communicated, nothing interesting was discussed, in the end, it was only a waste of time.
LauraleeBug
14-04-2005, 04:16 AM
I'm not saying a fucking thing until this thread has the SOC Seal Of Approval.
AS long as it's clean, fine by me......
None of that "navy sox" shit now, boys....... :p
Arcane1
14-04-2005, 04:52 AM
I just want to say that people moaning about grammar are the worst elitists I have heard. They go on and on about how people don't talk right and communicate correctly, but in the mean time what have they contributed? All they have accomplished is to complain and moan. No ideas were communicated, nothing interesting was discussed, in the end, it was only a waste of time.
Typically, I find that those people have one primary problem. If you hold your thumb and index finger close together, you will immediately see it.
rosamund
14-04-2005, 05:05 AM
Next we'll be bitching about instances of poor 'netiquette'.
Asmodeus
14-04-2005, 06:01 AM
hmm. netiquette.. lemme think here..
fuck people and their made up words. there is no such thing.
Arcane1
14-04-2005, 06:46 AM
I make a motion to kill this thread dead. Anyone second it?
asskickergod
14-04-2005, 07:46 AM
http://www.trephination.net/gallery/macros/yourthread.jpg
Thread fails to get the SOC Seal Of Approval
LauraleeBug
14-04-2005, 08:13 AM
I make a motion to kill this thread dead. Anyone second it?
Hell no, just change it to War, Politics, or Religion and lets get this bloodbath started!!!
Hey! Where's Noodles? Anybody around to poke at (cept me) ? Or we could just play poker.......
and smoke cigars... why not?
Hey yanks! I get legal Cubanos now woohoo!
Arcane1
14-04-2005, 08:19 AM
Hell no, just change it to War, Politics, or Religion and lets get this bloodbath started!!!
Hey! Where's Noodles? Anybody around to poke at (cept me) ? Or we could just play poker.......
and smoke cigars... why not?
Hey yanks! I get legal Cubanos now woohoo!
War? Politics? Religion? Fuck NO. Sex, that is the only really worthwhile avocation without all this conflict shit. Ever notice how it is always the uptight fucks that cause all the problems? You know, the Religious Right... Conservative ass holes. :mad:
Make love, pleasure your partner, multiple orgasms galore. Forget this war shit, if'n you can't handle the nudity, SHUT THE FUCK UP. I sure wish I could get this message through to Bush.
m0loch
14-04-2005, 08:30 AM
War? Politics? Religion? Fuck NO. Sex, that is the only really worthwhile avocation without all this conflict shit. Ever notice how it is always the uptight fucks that cause all the problems? You know, the Religious Right... Conservative ass holes. :mad:
Make love, pleasure your partner, multiple orgasms galore. Forget this war shit, if'n you can't handle the nudity, SHUT THE FUCK UP. I sure wish I could get this message through to Bush.
Uhhuh huh huh
you said "Bush"
huhuhuh uhuh uhuhhh uhuhuh
LauraleeBug
14-04-2005, 08:44 AM
Sex is good........ /me no mind :p
ShinymetalASS
14-04-2005, 10:45 AM
I like people who post the way they talk, that way you get a much better idea of what they are really like....
I post exactly the way I speak, except I may or may not edit out some of the language...
:D
Thyrd
14-04-2005, 10:59 AM
Sorry, but not all of us can have masters degrees in englamish...
King_Crud
14-04-2005, 04:43 PM
well maye you should go to the zoolander school for kids a can't read good
That's Thyrd, he's so hot right now
Thyrd
14-04-2005, 05:45 PM
/me rubs his nipples
ShinymetalASS
14-04-2005, 05:59 PM
well maye you should go to the zoolander school for kids a can't read good
and wanna learn to do other stuff too
:D
as long as it's not a centre for ants
Arcane1
14-04-2005, 11:28 PM
I like people who post the way they talk, that way you get a much better idea of what they are really like....
I post exactly the way I speak, except I may or may not edit out some of the language...
:D
Unless you're writing a damn term paper, I agree thoroughly. Problem is that the thinking happens so much faster than the typing that oftentimes things getallmuddledtogtherand you have to say FUck IT. :mad:
Fitty
16-04-2005, 02:07 AM
To all you motherfuckers who don't give a shit - fucking wow! I know, that's why you have shit grammar. It's in B&R, because it annoys me, so fuck off.
asskickergod
16-04-2005, 02:38 AM
http://www.trephination.net/gallery/macros/you_saget.jpg
Arcane1
16-04-2005, 06:01 AM
To all you motherfuckers who don't give a shit - fucking wow! I know, that's why you have shit grammar. It's in B&R, because it annoys me, so fuck off.
Seriously Man, chill. It's a damn forum, a place of fun and entertainment. Kinda' like "casual dress" you know? The world won't implode, and if it does, so what? We won't be around to be giving a goddamn. Then, when the planet is just a mass of swirling dust and chunks, floating in space waiting to coagulate into another damn planet, things will be just like they used to was to starts with.
Boom.
kleph
16-04-2005, 11:34 PM
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?" - Clarence Darrow
Goat Boy
16-04-2005, 11:44 PM
Shouldn't it be "to whom are you going to speak it to?"
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
Hellgrf
16-04-2005, 11:49 PM
Shouldn't it be "to whom are you going to speak it to?"
Whom is not a word... go trip somewhere else :ha: :weed:
Arcane1
16-04-2005, 11:57 PM
Whom is not a word... go trip somewhere else :ha: :weed:
Agreed, that is like saying that GW Bush is not human. He is human, just a really useless and shitty one. Whom is a word, according to m-w.com:
Main Entry: whom
Pronunciation: 'hüm, üm
Function: pronoun, objective case of WHO
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hwAm, dative of hwA who
-- used as an interrogative or relative; used as object of a verb or a preceding preposition <to know for whom the bell tolls -- John Donne> or less frequently as the object of a following preposition <the man whom you wrote to> though now often considered stilted especially as an interrogative and especially in oral use -- occasionally used as predicate nominative with a copulative verb or as subject of a verb especially in the vicinity of a preposition or a verb of which it might mistakenly be considered the object
Just a pretty useless one. :cool:
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