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Watch your grammar, guys

RymRym
edited September 2008 in Forum Stuff
Since Mr. Period has been absent, a small number of you have been making increasingly annoying posts. I would hope that you know who you are. This is your warning that forum courts martial will be forthcoming if you continue to annoy me by posting ill-thought-out gibberish and lazy, worthless comments.
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  • edited September 2008
    This is your warning that forum courts martial will be forthcoming if you continue to annoy me by posting ill-thought-out gibberish and lazy, worthless comments.
    Is there any provision for having a Captain's Mast first?
    Post edited by HungryJoe on
  • Is there any provision for having a Captain's Mast first?
    The "grammar probation" and other scarlet letter banners are the closest to that which we have. ^_~
  • Oh no, the grammar stick hath crushed my soul.

    This is fair enough I suppose. I am really lazy about my "because" and "cause." I don't know how I'm going to fix my tendency to forget words though, because I gloss over that in proofreading.

  • This is fair enough I suppose. I am really lazy about my "because" and "cause." I don't know how I'm going to fix my tendency to forget words though, because I gloss over that in proofreading.
    Just think about what you're posting and what you're trying to say. Read your post before hitting submit. This is a discussion forum, not Twitter/4chan.
  • edited September 2008
    Yes, we HAVE a twitter here for that!

    Or do the same rules apply in Suffice to Say?
    Post edited by Tyashki on
  • Well for example, in the thread on MS Office, I completely forgot "going to" in one of my sentences. I meant to type it and I know I proofread it too. My mind just put the missing words in there as if they were on the page.
  • Or do the same rules apply in sufficetosay?
    Suffice To Say is lawless for the time being. Unless we state otherwise, you won't be banned there for posting stupidly: people simply won't subscribe to you.
  • Yes, we HAVE a twitter here for that!

    Or do the same rules apply in sufficetosay?
    Suffice to Say is a tool we provide for your use. It is unregulated. Everything is ok there, except for SPAM.
  • Thank you both for the clarification.
  • Suffice To Say is lawless for the time being.
    Ahaa! That'll mean I can undisturbed continue my silly rants about one-hundred-and-forty characters and why it sucks to have so few. And of course why it's thus awesome to get exactly one-hundred-and-forty characters in your post.

    Also, I always thought 'forty' was spelled 'fourty', or at least in British, but it's wrong according to my Firefox British dictionary. It's a sad Nine because of that. Fourty complies with the multitude of words that have 'ou' and is thus easier to type with muscle memory...[insert forceful interruption of this rant]
  • edited September 2008
    Since Mr. Period has been absent, a small number of you have been making increasingly annoying posts. I would hope that you know who you are. This is your warning that forum courts martial will be forthcoming if you continue to annoy me by posting ill-thought-out gibberish and lazy, worthless comments.
    Took you long enough to do something about it...

    I'm still up for court martial-ing Morio-Kun.
    Post edited by Dkong on
  • @ Rym
    The moderators will be lenient with non-native English speakers, right?
  • edited September 2008
    The moderators will be lenient with non-native English speakers, right?
    It has been stated that most of the non-native English speakers here have better grammar than those who are native English speakers, as ironic as it sounds.
    Post edited by Rochelle on
  • The moderators will be lenient with non-native English speakers, right?
    Grammatically, I hope so. For basic spelling (capitalization, punctuation), I hope not.
  • We also try to be more careful and usually read our posts twice before adding them because we are posting in a different language.
  • Clue me in...who are the non-native English speakers?
  • I speak Spanish as a native language.
  • I speak Kannada as a native language but I have lived in the US for half my life (8 years.)
    So, I'd like to think that my English is just as good, if not better, as my native language. ^^
  • I speak Kannada as a native language
    Kannada? Never heard of that, where's that from? Also, if you still don't know that I'm non-native in English, I will be forced to hit you on the head Dkong.
  • Isn't Kannada the source of the weird character in the, ಠ_ಠ face?
  • edited September 2008
    Kannada is a South Indian language that is spoken by people from Karnataka, India.
    If Karnataka isn't familiar, you may have heard of Bangalore, which is the capital.

    Edit: Yes! ಠ is a Kannada letter. This is the first time I have seen that face.
    Post edited by Meru on
  • TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  • edited September 2008
    My native language is Russian. However, by the time I was old enough for school, my family had moved to Australia. Consequently, my English is far better than my Russian.
    Post edited by lackofcheese on
  • Shouldn't there be a period at the end of this thread's subject line?
  • Kannada is a South Indian language that is spoken by people from Karnataka, India.
    If Karnataka isn't familiar, you may have heard of Bangalore, which is the capital.

    Edit: Yes! ಠ is a Kannada letter. This is the first time I have seen that face.
    And here I thought Kannada was a funny way of identifying Canadian English. XD
  • Kannada is a South Indian language that is spoken by people from Karnataka, India.
    If Karnataka isn't familiar, you may have heard of Bangalore, which is the capital.

    Edit: Yes! ಠ is a Kannada letter. This is the first time I have seen that face.
    Never heard of Karnataka or Bangalore. India was never a topic during history or geography class. Hence I did not know India was divided into states where some also have their own language. Also, that letter screws up the line-height. D:
  • Clue me in...who are the non-native English speakers?
    Spanish is my first language.
  • Clue me in...who are the non-native English speakers?
    If you can't tell who they are, they're doing fine.
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