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"Grammar" and "Punctuation" nit's unite! You're "head" will literally explode! "Grammar" and "Punctuation" nit's unite! You're "head" will literally explode!

12-29-2009 , 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by SoloAJ
qpw, nittery. It's clearly being used there as an approximation because of muddled memory.
So what he meant to say was: "In one of my earliest writing classes".

Or he's a teen valley girl.
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12-29-2009 , 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by prohornblower

Unless your Len Bias; this is unexceptible.
I see what you did there.

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Originally Posted by qpw
Was it you second year but very similar to your first?
If you're going to criticize someone in this thread, you'd better not write stuff like "was it you second." Hypocrisy is highlighted 'round these parts.
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12-29-2009 , 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by private joker
If you're going to criticize someone in this thread, you'd better not write stuff like "was it you second." Hypocrisy is highlighted 'round these parts.
Making a typo in a pedant thread may be embarrassing but it is not hypocrisy.

Look it up if you don't know what it means.

Anyway, there is an Internet law about always making some kind of mistake if you are pointing out someone else's error. So I was just being a law abiding 'net citizen.
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12-29-2009 , 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by private joker
I see what you did there.



If you're going to criticize someone in this thread, you'd better not write stuff like "was it you second." Hypocrisy is highlighted 'round these parts.
Some posts are completely pointless, as opposed to being just a little pointless.

When an OP starts a thread about punctuation and grammar then makes numerous grammar mistakes in his own posts it makes my "head" literally explode.
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12-29-2009 , 10:48 PM
Saw this gem at the gym today:

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12-31-2009 , 12:16 AM
In a thread with well over 1000 posts spanning over a year, I'm surprised no one has mentioned one that aggravates me: "can food" instead of "canned food."

The food in question has been preserved through a process known as canning; in other words, it has been canned. It is not food for cans or food made of cans.
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12-31-2009 , 12:58 AM
whoever is in charge of updating websites suck when it comes to spelling...
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12-31-2009 , 01:32 AM
People calling things "handicapped" like "handicapped parking". No, the parking spot is not handicapped, sir. Please just call it "handicap parking".

I had a loong, sh*tty 14 hour day today in which I flew from Houston to Little Rock, Arkansas, with a transfer in Dallas, followed by a 2.5 hour car drive through cold rain up sh*tty highway 67, featuring several poorly-labeled detours, in Northeast Arkansas to a town called Paragould, for 80 minutes of work, followed by the same thing in reverse all the way back home. I had 10 minutes for lunch to grab Hardee's (yay) drive-thru to eat on the drive back, and made the last flight out of Sh*ttle Rock with only 15 minutes to spare.

Sorry, I'm a bit cranky...they don't pay me well enough for such crap. But during my drive I was reminded why it's cool to be alive when I passed a gas station in some rinky-dink town called "Kum & Go".
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12-31-2009 , 02:50 AM
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Originally Posted by prohornblower
People calling things "handicapped" like "handicapped parking". No, the parking spot is not handicapped, sir. Please just call it "handicap parking".
"handicapped parking" is parking for the handicapped, and perfectly fine. also, in american usage, the period goes inside the quotation mark.
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12-31-2009 , 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by mikech
"handicapped parking" is parking for the handicapped, and perfectly fine. also, in american usage, the period goes inside the quotation mark,
except when adding confusion.

But yeah, I tend to be a nit about the punctuation inside the marks.
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12-31-2009 , 04:52 AM
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Originally Posted by prohornblower
People calling things "handicapped" like "handicapped parking". No, the parking spot is not handicapped, sir. Please just call it "handicap parking".
It's parking for the handicapped.

A handicap is an abstract concept and cannot be parked.

So it's correct to call it "handicapped parking".
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12-31-2009 , 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by mikech
"handicapped parking" is parking for the handicapped, and perfectly fine. also, in american usage, the period goes inside the quotation mark.
I think you mean "inside the quotation marks". You're not going to have much luck putting it inside one with any common font.

If you're going to start giving lessons, you really need to brush up on your capitalisation.

And in English English the full stop goes outside the quotation marks so you can't be correct for everyone.
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12-31-2009 , 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by qpw
I think you mean "inside the quotation marks". You're not going to have much luck putting it inside one with any common font.

If you're going to start giving lessons, you really need to brush up on your capitalisation.

And in English English the full stop goes outside the quotation marks so you can't be correct for everyone.
You may be English but PHB is from Texas. He also makes numerous mistakes dispite his self-righteousness. I'm fine with every mistake of his being hammered.

By the way, I bought my hick brother and his girlfriend a joke book for Christmas. It turns out it's from Australia. Every five seconds I had to listen to, "zomg, they spell color with a 'u'" and "zomg, they spell realize with an 's'" and "they spell check 'cheque.'" It was pretty annoying.

They're in Texas, btw.
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12-31-2009 , 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by sourdiesel
whoever is in charge of updating websites suck when it comes to spelling...
seriously, website = Web site. Two words and a capital "W."
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12-31-2009 , 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by mikech
also, in american usage, the period goes inside the quotation mark.
So the sentences should have been

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Originally Posted by prohornblower
People calling things "handicapped" like "handicapped parking." No, the parking spot is not handicapped, sir. Please just call it "handicap parking."
?
I'm not american, but that just looks wrong.
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12-31-2009 , 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by dalerobk
the store's Web site.
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Originally Posted by dalerobk
seriously, website = Web site. Two words and a capital "W."
Dale, you really need to stop this nonsense. Are you going to bitch at people for writing email and online too? "No! It's E-mail and on-line!"

Guess what, dude -- we're not in the late '90s anymore.

Dictionary.com:
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Usage Note: The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to website seems to have progressed as rapidly as the technology itself. The development of website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to evolve into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email has recently been gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there has been an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout.
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12-31-2009 , 01:42 PM
Wait, we're not in 1995 anymore?
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12-31-2009 , 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by dalerobk
You may be English but PHB is from Texas. He also makes numerous mistakes dispite his self-righteousness.
lol. Also, I may be from Texas, but if you've ever interacted with me for 5 minutes, you would know that I'm wont to utilize The Queen's English.
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01-05-2010 , 12:26 AM
Today driving through some small town in Southern Colorado, there was a billboard for a McDonald's, which I guess was also a truck stop type place. Anyway the sign said:

"Trucks"
"RV's"
"Campers"
"all welcome"

For some reason, they added an apostrophe to RV. Even though this is short for recreational vehicles, it should still read RVs, right?
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01-05-2010 , 12:30 AM
right
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01-07-2010 , 12:13 AM
this one made me go "wtf?"

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1646

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Originally Posted by amarillotg
so doug where's some sort of poker clothing everywhere he goes?
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01-07-2010 , 12:42 AM
nuisance tearing it up, yet i'll sit silently because correcting people is lame

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PPl ignore there kids because
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Well babies use there mouth to recognize things
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talking louder than you approve of to bad it's not your house
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No war wounds from there kid years
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your parent's will have a different version then you will.
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Kids tend to listen to ppl that aren't there parent's though.
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It's there problem not mine.
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and coddle there kids to much.
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smack upside there head .
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01-07-2010 , 12:52 AM
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Originally Posted by mikech
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Originally Posted by prohornblower
People calling things "handicapped" like "handicapped parking". No, the parking spot is not handicapped, sir. Please just call it "handicap parking".
"handicapped parking" is parking for the handicapped, and perfectly fine. also, in american usage, the period goes inside the quotation mark.
No, only when the quotes are for dialog (or maybe a few other cases). When used as above by prohornblower, the period inside the quote would be wrong.
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01-07-2010 , 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by spadebidder
No, only when the quotes are for dialogue (or maybe a few other cases). When used as above by prohornblower, the period inside the quote would be wrong.
FYP

oh, and +1.
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01-07-2010 , 12:55 AM
Come here a minute.
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