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plonqThis is not aimed at any of you on my friends list. I was reading some game forums over the weekend, and I lost a few layers of enamel off my molars from all the grinding. I would like to write a long rant about my findings, but since I have a day job that is taking up most of my time, I will settle for tossing out some random thoughts into a jumbled mass of rantiness as I find time this morning.
<rant>
Please learn to differentiate between loose and lose.
Did you lose some change? There is some loose change behind the cushion on the couch and I wondered if it was yours.
It is you, not u.
Right: Are you going for a beer later?
Wrong: r u going 4 beer l8r???? <-- you are an idiot, and I stopped reading after the initial "r". This was cute when you were five years old. It's not cute any more.
Adding more puctuation to the end of a sentance does not add emphasis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does it????????????????????
There are vowels in the word people. Why do you bother to write an otherwise coherent paragraph, but toss in the word "ppl" when you are referring to a person in the multiple sense? You managed to save twelve letters out of the six hundred that you typed. It doesn't make you look l33t, it makes you look like an idiot.
You do not need an apostrophe when you pluralize a word. When you have more than one word, you have words, not word's.
Putting "quotes" around key "words" in a sentence does not "add emphasis", it makes you look like you are speaking "ironically" if you "know what I mean".
Example: These "cookies" are "really good", and you should "try" them when you get a chance.
It's = It is.
Its = possessive. It's not rocket science. If you are not familiar with Bob the Angry Flower then do a Google search and see what he has to say on the matter.
Example: It's fun to watch our cat when it's chasing its own tail.
You're = You are.
Your = possessive.
ur = ur a moran.
People seem to have problems with too, to and two too.
When you mean "in addition to", then the correct word is "too". For example, "I need to learn this one too!"
When you mean "to excess", the proper word is "too". For example, "I see too many people misusing the word to in this context."
Two always refers to the numerical value; always.
"I had to much to eat last night and Timmy did to cuz he had to times as much as me." No. Wrong. You are an idiot.
Capitalization, punctuation and line breaks were invented for a reason. You should try using them sometime.
</rant>
I wish that had more time to add to this list, but my paying job is starting to demand more of my attention. How about you out there in friends land; what is peeving your pet this morning? Is there anything you would like to add to this this?
On an entirely unrelated note; does anybody know what would cause Acrobat to put a moire pattern on my document? At first I thought that it was just an artifact on my LCD monitor, but when I dragged the document over to my CRT screen it was even more obvious. The pattern is definitely part of the image that it created, because it scales with the image when I expand it. I have have been using this Word/Acrobat combination for ages, and this is the first time it has produced that pattern.
<rant>
Please learn to differentiate between loose and lose.
Did you lose some change? There is some loose change behind the cushion on the couch and I wondered if it was yours.
It is you, not u.
Right: Are you going for a beer later?
Wrong: r u going 4 beer l8r???? <-- you are an idiot, and I stopped reading after the initial "r". This was cute when you were five years old. It's not cute any more.
Adding more puctuation to the end of a sentance does not add emphasis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Does it????????????????????
There are vowels in the word people. Why do you bother to write an otherwise coherent paragraph, but toss in the word "ppl" when you are referring to a person in the multiple sense? You managed to save twelve letters out of the six hundred that you typed. It doesn't make you look l33t, it makes you look like an idiot.
You do not need an apostrophe when you pluralize a word. When you have more than one word, you have words, not word's.
Putting "quotes" around key "words" in a sentence does not "add emphasis", it makes you look like you are speaking "ironically" if you "know what I mean".
Example: These "cookies" are "really good", and you should "try" them when you get a chance.
It's = It is.
Its = possessive. It's not rocket science. If you are not familiar with Bob the Angry Flower then do a Google search and see what he has to say on the matter.
Example: It's fun to watch our cat when it's chasing its own tail.
You're = You are.
Your = possessive.
ur = ur a moran.
People seem to have problems with too, to and two too.
When you mean "in addition to", then the correct word is "too". For example, "I need to learn this one too!"
When you mean "to excess", the proper word is "too". For example, "I see too many people misusing the word to in this context."
Two always refers to the numerical value; always.
"I had to much to eat last night and Timmy did to cuz he had to times as much as me." No. Wrong. You are an idiot.
Capitalization, punctuation and line breaks were invented for a reason. You should try using them sometime.
</rant>
I wish that had more time to add to this list, but my paying job is starting to demand more of my attention. How about you out there in friends land; what is peeving your pet this morning? Is there anything you would like to add to this this?
On an entirely unrelated note; does anybody know what would cause Acrobat to put a moire pattern on my document? At first I thought that it was just an artifact on my LCD monitor, but when I dragged the document over to my CRT screen it was even more obvious. The pattern is definitely part of the image that it created, because it scales with the image when I expand it. I have have been using this Word/Acrobat combination for ages, and this is the first time it has produced that pattern.
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Grammar Nazis aren't common enough...
Date: 2006-02-20 04:12 pm (UTC)Re: Grammar Nazis aren't common enough...
Date: 2006-02-20 05:24 pm (UTC)Still, it's disheartening when you are trying to find content in a forum and it's buried under hundreds of posts zero-content posts.
(animated emoticon) ur a looser lololololol (animated emoticon) (animated emoticon) (animated emoticon) (animated emoticon) (animated emoticon)