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08-24-2013 , 04:03 PM

#4626

mikech

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Originally Posted by pushy26

An amusing article from one of my favourite online news sources.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/s...-2013082378916

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56-year-old Roy Hobbs said: “Heaven forbid that my scrupulous attention to linguistic detail should be driven by intellectual vanity.

“The reason I loudly vocalise my frustration about a writer confusing ‘that’ and which’ is because of my passion for good English.

“It’s not that I want a crowded room to know how clever I am.”

well, i like the choice of roy hobbs as a name in this onion-like piece, but this section really botches its whole point. if you're gonna write an article satirizing grammar nits, then you can't begin a sentence with numerals, and you can't use the construction "the reason is because."

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08-24-2013 , 04:18 PM

#4627

Rei Ayanami

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why not

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08-24-2013 , 04:23 PM

#4628

Dominic

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Originally Posted by Kvitlekh

Lol. I had to read the lyrics, because I couldn't hear a single word in that song. It's trash like this song that influences people the most. Horrible group, horrible song, butchering of the language - how is this **** legal?? Enraging.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an awesome group. I've seen them live twice and have everything they've ever recorded. You're a poopy head.

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08-24-2013 , 04:25 PM

#4629

pushy26

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Originally Posted by mikech

Well spotted Mr. "I don't need to begin my sentences with capital letters."

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09-01-2013 , 11:05 PM

#4630

steve1238

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I Didn't know where else to put this and found it hysterical

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09-13-2013 , 12:32 AM

#4631

Bunkosity

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Here's a Robot Chicken clip I shot a while back. Obviously they're referring to punctuation and not grammar,(<-- comma correct here?) but still funny.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qmblju88a8...JunctionRC.mp4

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09-13-2013 , 07:11 PM

#4632

RussellinToronto

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Originally Posted by Bunkosity

Yes: "not grammar, but still funny."
No: "not grammar,(<-- comma correct here?) but still funny."

Seeing commas in front of parentheses always bugs me.

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09-13-2013 , 10:47 PM

#4633

AlexM

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Originally Posted by Bunkosity

Obviously, they're referring to punctuation and not grammar, but it's still funny.

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09-17-2013 , 09:39 PM

#4634

sufur

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Originally Posted by sorrow

Stephen Fry on Language nittery:

Nobody really commented on it last time it was posted.

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09-17-2013 , 10:30 PM

#4635

NewOldGuy

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Originally Posted by sufur

Nobody really commented on it last time it was posted.

I think most who post nittery in this thread know when to not nit in real life, and when it doesn't matter. But this is a nit thread.

The video had some good points, and he made them very eloquently.

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09-18-2013 , 06:37 AM

#4636

sufur

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Yea, obviously nothing wrong with nitting amongst yourselves.

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09-18-2013 , 08:48 PM

#4637

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09-20-2013 , 11:07 PM

#4638

baumer

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09-21-2013 , 11:11 AM

#4639

SGT RJ

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JFC that's terrible. But at least she let everyone know up front she's a moron.

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09-21-2013 , 11:38 AM

#4640

Bunkosity

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How do people not check correct spelling for tattoos? Pretty sick comma fail too.

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09-21-2013 , 02:22 PM

#4641

Bremen

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Maybe she was going for subtle irony?

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09-21-2013 , 02:49 PM

#4642

SGT RJ

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Because nothing says subtle like a tattoo that covers your entire forearm.

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09-21-2013 , 04:41 PM

#4643

AlexM

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Photoshop IMO.

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09-24-2013 , 10:02 AM

#4644

Kvitlekh

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Is the hyphen misplaced?

"...Lev was flown to Cooper Medical Center in Camden for non-life threatening burns, police said."

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/n...9bb2963f4.html

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09-24-2013 , 10:05 AM

#4645

Clare Quilty

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Wouldn't it be "non-life-threatening"

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09-24-2013 , 11:04 AM

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Rei Ayanami

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ya (to CQ)

eta: if it were an open compound it'd require an en dash, as in "...Lev was flown to Cooper Medical Center in Camden for non–Abraham Lincoln burns, police said."

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09-24-2013 , 12:26 PM

#4647

NewOldGuy

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Agree with CQ on hyphen. The version that was published is awkward.

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09-24-2013 , 05:22 PM

#4648

atakdog

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Originally Posted by AlexM

Photoshop IMO.

Having blown it up to look more closely, I agree. (I'm not 100% certain, but it looks likely.)

Of course, if this were something one of my FB friends had posted I'd point that out and (s)he would respond "Yeah, but it's still funny, right?" To which I would probably not bother giving the obvious answer.

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09-25-2013 , 02:13 AM

#4649

AlexM

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The obvious answer being "no"?

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09-25-2013 , 09:49 PM

#4650

Dynasty

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Originally Posted by SGT RJ

I'm pretty sure we need to start using the snark, the interrobang, and the exclamation and question commas again. Someone please explain how they ever went out of style.

8 Punctuation Marks That Are No Longer Used

I'm in favor of bringing back the snark.

Irony is very hard to write, especially in casual writing on the internet.

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