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Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury!
#5443158 - 03/26/06 03:11 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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They are a necessity damnit!
Every time I see a post that uses no punctuation and poor spelling, it gives me the impression that said post was made by a retard.
Also things to avoid: ~posts composed more than 5% of slang ~using the word "like" (or the ever so common "liek" ) as a conjunction ~generally anything that sounds like it's coming from a dumbass
Seriously, I mean it... posts like that make people want to just ignore you if you make them. They think you're an idiot when they see that sort of thing.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5443167 - 03/26/06 03:14 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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You're taling to a bunch of druggies. Liek, yous be wastin yo times grape soda dawg.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: daimyo]
#5443172 - 03/26/06 03:15 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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daimyo said: You're taling to a bunch of druggies. Liek, yous be wastin yo times grape soda dawg.
Grape Drink*
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5443173 - 03/26/06 03:16 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I pooped a little
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5443256 - 03/26/06 04:18 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Really though... who cares? This isn't English class. As long as you can read it, and understand what they are saying.. who gives a shit? Not I.
... unless u talk 2 me like this n stuff. fk that
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Shroomism]
#5443263 - 03/26/06 04:21 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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T h i s i s n o t e n g l i s h c l a s s
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Shroomism]
#5443428 - 03/26/06 07:51 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I agree. I mean this is the generation of the internet and short form/slang words. I heard on the news that they're going to be teaching it in school. Then what will you have to say about it?
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Bowers]
#5444278 - 03/26/06 03:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't mind a bit of lax in the english, that's fine. It's easy enough to understand, but when somebody misspells every third word and doesn't use a single punctuation mark, it can be unpleasant trying to figure out what the hell they're saying.
And, considering how awful the resulting post is, you have to ask yourself if it's even worth figuring it out. It's easy to get the impression that the person who wrote it is an idiot.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5444321 - 03/26/06 03:22 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Every time I see a post that uses no punctuation and poor spelling, it gives me the impression that said post was made by a retard.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5444324 - 03/26/06 03:23 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: supercollider]
#5444341 - 03/26/06 03:27 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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like, mellow out, dude!
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5444467 - 03/26/06 04:03 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Konnrade said: Every time I see a post that uses no punctuation and poor spelling, it gives me the impression that said post was made by a retard.
That's funny, because every time I see a post that complains about punctuation and spelling, it gives me the impression that said post was made by a pompous arrogant prick who needs to get a life.
why don't you go through everything that has ever been written on the internet and correct all the errors with a red pen. Then you can file the corrections under 'N' for 'Nobody Cares'.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: DoctorJ]
#5444917 - 03/26/06 06:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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You've made yourself known as an enemy to the Grammar Nazi Party.
We shall not forget this treachery. Beware of the impending wrath.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5444928 - 03/26/06 07:00 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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its against my religion sorry
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: DoctorJ]
#5444946 - 03/26/06 07:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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DoctorJ said:
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Konnrade said: Every time I see a post that uses no punctuation and poor spelling, it gives me the impression that said post was made by a retard.
That's funny, because every time I see a post that complains about punctuation and spelling, it gives me the impression that said post was made by a pompous arrogant prick who needs to get a life.
why don't you go through everything that has ever been written on the internet and correct all the errors with a red pen. Then you can file the corrections under 'N' for 'Nobody Cares'.
Well said!
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5444947 - 03/26/06 07:05 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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ive always thought pointing out peoples typos/errors or whatever is nit picking but i do it sometimes myself and i wouldnt pull my hair out over it
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: quiver]
#5445160 - 03/26/06 08:21 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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this post was worthless....just scroll through all the posts i made lol ...i know my spelling and grammar is bad but im not here trying to impress anybody.... are you?
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: camelsmoker]
#5445177 - 03/26/06 08:25 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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My spelling and grammer have always been horrible. Its something I am trying to work on/improve
The funny thing is - english has /always/ been my highest marks in school, even at the university level. I often get the comment
"If you were to fix up the grammar in this paper, this could be an A+ paper" .. but, I was happy with an A, so never pushed that extra bit for the A+. The past few weeks, been a bit more concious of it.
I really need to start turning off auto-correct in MS word, so many typos I make and dont even notice because office auto-corrects it for me.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5445229 - 03/26/06 08:48 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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If I can understand the jist of what the person is trying to say without getting a headache, I really don't give a fuck about the specifics of their articulation.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: camelsmoker]
#5445336 - 03/26/06 09:29 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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nope not me
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5445342 - 03/26/06 09:30 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thank Jezus, 'more wah-wah-wah do thingz ma way' from konney
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5445366 - 03/26/06 09:36 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The one that gets me is 'alot'
ALOT IS NOT A WORD!
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5445371 - 03/26/06 09:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I disagree. I think slang is a good thing. Everyone has their own unique slang, I like to read everyone elses and I enjoy using my own. Plus its just type, if you cant read it, then dont. I never came to a post I couldnt understand.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: XUL]
#5445441 - 03/26/06 10:00 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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You've yet to meet flowstone.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Shroomism]
#5445454 - 03/26/06 10:04 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: Really though... who cares? This isn't English class. As long as you can read it, and understand what they are saying.. who gives a shit? Not I.
Seriously.
I wasn't aware that that this would be graded and taken into consideration for my final grade.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Boom]
#5445497 - 03/26/06 10:20 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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this counts as 1/4 your final grade.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Fade_To_Black]
#5445522 - 03/26/06 10:31 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't normally mind, just so long as said person puts a little effort into making their posts readable...
But when I have to read something 10 times over just to understand what someone is trying to say, hell yeah I get irritated, and hell yeah, I'll let them know that they type like a braindead chimp.
Seriously, it doesn't take much effort to put periods in every now and then, or use a comma when needed. It would make it easier on the eyes of everybody else.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5445711 - 03/26/06 11:51 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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have you met our dear friend skunk? You would like him.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Toddo]
#5446136 - 03/27/06 02:23 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Toddo said: have you met our dear friend skunk? You would like him.
Never met the man... but I remember him. What happened to him, is he banned or something?
By the way, this thread wasn't intended as serious. It's a joke, foolish mortals!
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5446145 - 03/27/06 02:28 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i know it was. But some people are just victims of drug abuse/retardation and cannot write normal posts. I agree with you.. .you feel like beating them to death.
Skunk was sadly one of those. That guy was 0wned by the world at birth.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5446168 - 03/27/06 02:45 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Anyone can make mistakes and/or typos, but sometimes it's pure laziness.
What I hate is people putting (sp?) after a misspelled word, when it takes ten seconds to either google it or use the spell checker to find the correct spelling.
Come on people, look it up.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: koppie]
#5446181 - 03/27/06 03:01 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I see that a lot. Before the spell checker I used to use google to check.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5446183 - 03/27/06 03:03 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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internet message boards, such as this one, have helped my spelling and grammar considerably, which is kind of sad considering i still make lots of mistakes and generally have bad grammar too. it was much worse before i starting wasting my time her though. i guess i was just never very good at the grammar part of english class. i was always more into the literature/writing parts of the course. during the grammar portion i'd usually just lay my head down and try to sleep.
still, i try to write and spell properly, not because i care if it reflects on my intelligence (anyone who concludes you're an idiot because of bad grammar is a fool) but more so because it shows a certain degree of respect for others when you try to make things easier for them to read.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
#5446187 - 03/27/06 03:06 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Running the spell checker really does help. I've caught myself on a few words that I consistantly spelled wrong and now spell them right - thanks to the forums .
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: eris]
#5446191 - 03/27/06 03:09 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah, same for me.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Boom]
#5446244 - 03/27/06 03:25 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Booooom said:
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Shroomism said: Really though... who cares? This isn't English class. As long as you can read it, and understand what they are saying.. who gives a shit? Not I.
Seriously.
I wasn't aware that that this would be graded and taken into consideration for my final grade.
As long as you both would like to be categorized with myspace 13 year old suburban white girls trying to impersonate Lil' Kim over the internet...that's your style.
Slang is fine...spell shit fucked up to get your point across. But fuck it up for a reason--to make a slang point. Don't just be lazy. I can't stand that shit. Maybe on a text message over a cell phone for time's sake, but, fuck. I'm assuming you people all have 10 digits on your two hands, and a functional keyboard, and a fucking 6th-grade education.
You do understand that by expressing yourselves like douchebag mental twats that you're losing the drug war for us by posting here?
It's about fucking self respect and the respect for your position. That's why you express yourself clearly and coherently.
Example: The Black Panthers. They carried guns around that were unloaded. That was a symbol. What did they do when people wanted to join? They fucking shoved them a pile of books to read.
Seriously. If the left of this country ever wants to make any progress, we are all going to have to get fucking far better at expressing our collective will in a coherent manner.
Why the fuck do you think Karl Rove has martialed all that bullshit? That's called lock-step yessir BS.
We don't ask for lock-step mindless shit here. Just fucking express your goddamn ass well. For fuck's sake. Does it feel good to have people that used to live under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, that know English as as second language, and they express themselves better than stoned hippies that care shit about education?
Do you see where I'm coming from?
You've got to fucking express yourself well, and with the currency of knowledge, if anyone is ever going to listen to your bitch asses.
Fucking get your fucking shit straight.
Can you see I studied English lit?
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: GnuBobo]
#5446250 - 03/27/06 03:33 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nabob said:
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Boom said:
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Shroom ism said: Really though... who cares? This isn't English class. As long as you can read it, and understand what they are saying.. who gives a shit? Not I.
Seriously.
I wasn't aware that that this would be graded and taken into consideration for my final grade.
As long as you both would like to be categorized with my space 13 year old suburban white girls trying to impersonate Lil' Kim over the internet...that's your style.
Slang is fine...spell shit fucked up to get your point across. But fuck it up for a reason--to make a slang point. Don't just be lazy. I can't stand that shit. Maybe on a text message over a cell phone for time's sake, but, fuck. I'm assuming you people all have 10 digits on your two hands, and a functional keyboard, and a fucking 6th-grade education.
You do understand that by expressing yourselves like douche bag mental twits that you're losing the drug war for us by posting here?
It's about fucking self respect and the respect for your position. That's why you express yourself clearly and coherently.
Example: The Black Panthers. They carried guns around that were unloaded. That was a symbol. What did they do when people wanted to join? They fucking shoved them a pile of books to read.
Seriously. If the left of this country ever wants to make any progress, we are all going to have to get fucking far better at expressing our collective will in a coherent manner.
Why the fuck do you think Karl Rove has martial ed all that bullshit? That's called lock-step yes sir BS.
We don't ask for lock-step mindless shit here. Just fucking express your goddamn ass well. For fuck's sake. Does it feel good to have people that used to live under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, that know English as as second language, and they express themselves better than stoned hippies that care shit about education?
Do you see where I'm coming from?
You've got to fucking express yourself well, and with the currency of knowledge, if anyone is ever going to listen to your bitch asses.
Fucking get your fucking shit straight.
Can you see I studied English lit?
how extremely ironic that all is coming from a hardline Order. all that soap box BS about representing the mushroom community is kind of ridiculous when you post/laugh at/look at disgusting scat pictures all day long and negatively abuse every new person to set foot in a forum (very open minded). it undermines your credibility when it comes to issues such as progress for drug users' rights etc etc.
why is it that OTD'ers are always the biggest grammar nazis. it's so trivial.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: JonnyOnTheSpot]
#5446256 - 03/27/06 03:44 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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JonnyOnTheSpot said:
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Nabob said:
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Boom said:
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Shroom ism said: Really though... who cares? This isn't English class. As long as you can read it, and understand what they are saying.. who gives a shit? Not I.
Seriously.
I wasn't aware that that this would be graded and taken into consideration for my final grade.
As long as you both would like to be categorized with my space 13 year old suburban white girls trying to impersonate Lil' Kim over the internet...that's your style.
Slang is fine...spell shit fucked up to get your point across. But fuck it up for a reason--to make a slang point. Don't just be lazy. I can't stand that shit. Maybe on a text message over a cell phone for time's sake, but, fuck. I'm assuming you people all have 10 digits on your two hands, and a functional keyboard, and a fucking 6th-grade education.
You do understand that by expressing yourselves like douche bag mental twits that you're losing the drug war for us by posting here?
It's about fucking self respect and the respect for your position. That's why you express yourself clearly and coherently.
Example: The Black Panthers. They carried guns around that were unloaded. That was a symbol. What did they do when people wanted to join? They fucking shoved them a pile of books to read.
Seriously. If the left of this country ever wants to make any progress, we are all going to have to get fucking far better at expressing our collective will in a coherent manner.
Why the fuck do you think Karl Rove has martial ed all that bullshit? That's called lock-step yes sir BS.
We don't ask for lock-step mindless shit here. Just fucking express your goddamn ass well. For fuck's sake. Does it feel good to have people that used to live under the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, that know English as as second language, and they express themselves better than stoned hippies that care shit about education?
Do you see where I'm coming from?
You've got to fucking express yourself well, and with the currency of knowledge, if anyone is ever going to listen to your bitch asses.
Fucking get your fucking shit straight.
Can you see I studied English lit?
how extremely ironic that all is coming from a hardline Order. all that soap box BS about representing the mushroom community is kind of ridiculous when you post/laugh at/look at disgusting scat pictures all day long and negatively abuse every new person to set foot in a forum (very open minded). it undermines your credibility when it comes to issues such as progress for drug users' rights etc etc.
why is it that OTD'ers are always the biggest grammar nazis. it's so trivial.
You are so fucking missing this point....
If you post shit pics and laugh at gay orgy pics and midget porn, well, YOU'D BETTER FUCKING HAVE YOUR GRAMMAR STRAIGHT.
If you want to talk about how awesome The Dead are and how stoned you are and how sucky your pre-algebra class is, then, fuck, do it--you can go work for the City and never get out of Odessa.
But even if you never get out of your home town, have enough self-respect to present yourself as someone anyone can talk to about basically anything.
Where the fuck is the common expectation of people in this nation?
It's not fucking cool to be a fucking lazy retard. Pull your shit together. Express your ideas clearly and coherently.
Do you think that putting a bandana over your face and jumping up against the riot shields of the police at a WTO conference is going to make a difference?
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: GnuBobo]
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hahah ok i see your point. tis' a valid point.
this is my favorite part "If you post shit pics and laugh at gay orgy pics and midget porn, well, YOU'D BETTER FUCKING HAVE YOUR GRAMMAR STRAIGHT." that is sig worthy
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5446359 - 03/27/06 06:02 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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> Every time I see a post that uses no punctuation and poor spelling, it gives me the impression that said post was made by a retard.
I understand why, but it is a very shallow view of others. I have a learning disability when it comes to proper spelling. I can do integration by parts in my head, but I have to use a dictionary to lookup how to spell dictionary. I can recite the value of pi, by memory, out to 50 decimal places (for true!), but I cannot remember how to spell permanent. I have over 180 hours of college credit, most of it in science and engineering, and a good portion of that at the graduate level, and yet I doubt that I could pass a second grade spelling test. Trust me, ones intellect is not determined by a single aspect, such as proper grammar or spelling.
There are also a lot of people posting on the internet that use English as a second language. Not everybody posting has the luxury of communicating in their native tongue.
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kaniz
That one, overthere.


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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Seuss]
#5446590 - 03/27/06 08:08 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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The posts that I hate the most? Are posts that are like one single giant run on sentance that spans lines and lines and lines and lines of stuff and you really have no idea what they are saying because they didnt even bother to add line breaks or paragraphs let alone puncutation My eyes just totatly glaze over posts like that not because of lack of puncutation but because of lack of line breaks and just seeing that massive block of text before me makes me want to scream as I have no damn clue what they are tying to say its hard on the eyes I would rather have no or poor punctuation mixed in with appropiate line breaks than proper punctuation and grammer with no line breaks as its just much much much easier to read but you know part of the problem is the spell-check and auto-correct in word proccessors and combine that with chatting and slang on MSN really I dont expect people talking with me on MSN to take the time to spell check every single thing they say and then you see on CDs and lyrics people writing I Luv U 2 (and well anyone who actually listentes to a song called that needs to be shot in the first place) and the ooh its cool to use slang like that catches on and then all of a sudden you have a bunch of rejects who use 2 instead of two too or to and dont even know the difference between them and think that using U for you is cool and I just really want to lump them up with the people who spell boy boi god that really pisses me off
(I wonder if anyone will actually bother reading all of that)
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quiver
freedrug


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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: kaniz]
#5447092 - 03/27/06 11:28 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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'boy'=young at heart,minor 'boi'=faggot but i've been wrong before
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kaniz
That one, overthere.


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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: quiver]
#5448036 - 03/27/06 03:44 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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boi=faggot
and even fags who use 'boi' to describe themselves need to get punched in the face. Not for being a fag, but for using the word boi.
*note: I'm a homo, and I still hate 'boi'
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Konnrade]
#5448424 - 03/27/06 05:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Silversoul]
#5448485 - 03/27/06 05:57 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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thread backfire lol
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Konnrade
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Silversoul]
#5448798 - 03/27/06 07:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Paradigm said:

I always laugh at a good grammar nazi image.
By the way, as I said... this thread is mostly a joke
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Liz
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: backspace1111111]
#5448812 - 03/27/06 07:55 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I just saw this imagine on boston.com.
It was taken at a rally to support immigrant rights, and to oppose the policy that the Bush administration wants to pass on immigration
...if they feel so strongly about staying in America, they could at least spell "terrorists" correctly
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Liz]
#5448852 - 03/27/06 08:06 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Liz said: It was taken at a rally to support immigrant rights, and to oppose the policy that the Bush administration wants to pass on immigration
Actually, Bush has been very lax on illegal immigration whereas members of his own party are much more hawkish about it. I think Bush is lenient on that because he has always kissed ass to the Hispanic vote.
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Liz
Owl Lady



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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: RandalFlagg]
#5448863 - 03/27/06 08:10 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Either way...
They should spell terrorists correctly damnit!!
-------------------- Remember, remember the fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.
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Konnrade
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Liz]
#5448864 - 03/27/06 08:10 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Liz said: I just saw this imagine on boston.com.
It was taken at a rally to support immigrant rights, and to oppose the policy that the Bush administration wants to pass on immigration
...if they feel so strongly about staying in America, they could at least spell "terrorists" correctly
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backspace1111111
Hi
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Liz]
#5448874 - 03/27/06 08:12 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Liz said: Either way...
They should spell terrorists correctly damnit!!
Who cares they're getting their asses deported anyways.
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DoctorJ


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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Liz]
#5448879 - 03/27/06 08:14 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Liz said:
"We're not terrorists, we're just morons."

sorry, bro, we don't need any more of those, either.
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nonwo
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Shroomism]
#8822887 - 08/25/08 12:05 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Shroomism said: Really though... who cares? This isn't English class. As long as you can read it, and understand what they are saying.. who gives a shit? Not I.
... unless u talk 2 me like this n stuff. fk that
ahmin
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Blasphemous
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: nonwo]
#8822926 - 08/25/08 12:20 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
nonwo said:
Quote:
Shroomism said: Really though... who cares? This isn't English class. As long as you can read it, and understand what they are saying.. who gives a shit? Not I.
... unless u talk 2 me like this n stuff. fk that
ahmin
I agree; i h8 it wen n00bsbe talkin da smak nd stuffs. lol. Seriously.
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: nonwo]
#8822933 - 08/25/08 12:22 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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2 years, 4 months
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Entropymancer

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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Ferris]
#8822939 - 08/25/08 12:24 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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That's how far back he had to dig to find a quote that legitimizes his incoherant posting style.
I will say that critical thinking is a more important quality in posts than spelling and grammar though.
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Blasphemous
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Entropymancer]
#8822948 - 08/25/08 12:28 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Cant believe I did not catch that.
Oh well, at least I wasn't the one to bring it back.
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nonwo
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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: Entropymancer]
#8822951 - 08/25/08 12:29 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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but it felt good
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Entropymancer

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Re: Grammar and Spelling are not a Luxury! [Re: nonwo]
#8822953 - 08/25/08 12:32 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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So does putting your thumb up your bum  (or so the anon forum tells me)
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