Forum Grammar Poll

[yokel]

Capitalisation is the difference between "Help your Uncle Jack off the horse" and "Help your Uncle jack off the horse".

and the difference in intelligence is whether you start jacking off the horse no questions asked or not.

[Madness]

actungbaby. That is all.

[caspernz]

It shouldn't matter, grammar that is, but yes it does. English is a second language to me, and I'm often amused by examples of grammar that aren't lazy but just plain dumb. In all honesty though, some of the cleverest folk I know suck at grammar... ...so it isn't a mission critical skill in life I'd say.

[R650R]

Often I'll deliberately bad grander just because I know the opponent will GE their knicker in a twist... Forums aren't formal environments, it's like chatting at he pub talking shit, there's a few errors and arrrrs it's not a fucking CEOs annual speech with que cards and teleprompters....

And autocorrect, damn that shit correct to while different word sometimes...

I've actually got a qualification in editing but I'll be fucked if I'm goin to proof one something for here just cause that's all some L plater has over me in a debate....

[Flip]

I am much better at linear equasions than high school grammer.

[R650R]

I was wondering; does forum grammar, or lack thereof, affect the weight of the poster's opinion?

Your semi colon is not needed on such a short sentence either, an en dash would be much more suitable to denote a pause.

[bogan]

Gore starts with a capital letter and has three r's.

Oh yeh, I forgot the rule of spelling gore, as many Rs as they have teeth...

If only it were as simple as grammar. What we are witnessing is much worse.

People either care about what they communicate in writing, and wish others to understand what they have written, or they don't. After a while one gets to know whose utterances are worth reading and largely ignores the rest. Life is too short to care about what the illiterate may have to say, unless they want to help their uncle jack off a horse.

English isn't that hard to master. If I can, anybody can.

That is certainly a valuable perspective.

Your semi colon is not needed on such a short sentence either, an en dash would be much more suitable to denote a pause.

That is largely subjective—en dashes were never in my curriculum and em dashes only used similarly to parenthesis—and using it as I did is appropriate as it marks a change of sentence elements. But it does go to show, even you can learn the basics of correct grammar. Now if you would apply it more often, and in wider scope, your opinions would be more intelligible, and thus worth more.

[husaberg]

Your semi colon is not needed on such a short sentence either, an en dash would be much more suitable to denote a pause.

[willytheekid]

...I am fully trained to offer grammarnazi support



...I also like learning all the big words you smart cunts use on here (Note...do NOT google "feltching"...it stays with you forever!...fuckin THANKS! KBers)

[unstuck]

Oh yeh, I forgot the rule of spelling gore, as many Rs as they have teeth...

I have 11 teeth left, people think I am growling at them when they ask where I am from.

[R650R]

Am I meanto be the soup Nazi or George lol....

[R650R]

That is largely subjective—en dashes were never in my curriculum and em dashes only used similarly to parenthesis—and using it as I did is appropriate as it marks a change of sentence elements. But it does go to show, even you can learn the basics of correct grammar. Now if you would apply it more often, and in wider scope, your opinions would be more intelligible, and thus worth more.

You've actually used em dashes in your post there.... ;p

[Stirts]

You've actually used em dashes in your post there.... ;p

Were those invented prior to the mid 80's? I don't recall being taught them. I had to Google what they were, maybe I bunked English that year.

[bogan]

You've actually used em dashes in your post there.... ;p

You've actually used the right there!

Were those invented prior to the mid 80's? I don't recall being taught them. I had to Google what they were, maybe I bunked English that year.

Was taught them at uni during masters degree. We had far more 'useful' things to do in college english like figuring out who killed the mockingbird.

[Moi]

Were those invented prior to the mid 80's? I don't recall being taught them. I had to Google what they were, maybe I bunked English that year.

Try mid-1780s - they are typographical features of letterpress printing.

So, if you 'bunked' English that year you are bloody ancient!