Another proper England rant...

**Banditbandit** · 30th March 2011, 12:55

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Somebody opened a stable door and released several of my hobby horses. Just what somebody recuperating from recent brain trauma needs.

It's interesting to note that somebody discouraged by this thread's endeavours when it first emerged and who subsequently sought solace between the legs of a considerately ovulating female, would have recently celebrated the fruit of that union's first day at school. Hopefully that fruit is learning how to appropriately render the English language. We should be so lucky.

Commas PLEASE!!!!

Originally Posted by Elysium

Oh good gods, who digs up a thread over five years old?

That is more than five years old - over is a spatial relationship, not a time or amount relationship.

Originally Posted by Edbear

That's ah, "have said", mate...

That's why I hate the language Nazis .. they usually make mistakes too. I once found six mistakes in a five sentence Letter to the Editor complaining about language use ...

Originally Posted by Maha

Things couldn't get any worser....

They could get worsted?

**MSTRS:Me** · 30th March 2011, 16:18

Originally Posted by Elysium

Oh good gods, who digs up a thread over five years old?

Originally Posted by Wolf

The guy who started the thread over five years ago, 'twould seem...

Originally Posted by Swoop

The exhumation of your own thread is acceptable?

Sometimes it's a good idea to save the mods a job and simply tack a new post onto an old thread...and a bloody pearler of a thread it was (and is).
Besides, the day that one needs permission to dig up oneself, is the day that the GreyMen have won.
The number of intelligent and prolific posters from earlier days that are no longer seen about the forums...sad, really. But nice to see Wolf still here.

**Elysium** · 30th March 2011, 20:08

Originally Posted by MSTRS

Sometimes it's a good idea to save the mods a job and simply tack a new post onto an old thread...and a bloody pearler of a thread it was (and is).
Besides, the day that one needs permission to dig up oneself, is the day that the GreyMen have won.
The number of intelligent and prolific posters from earlier days that are no longer seen about the forums...sad, really. But nice to see Wolf still here.

No I agree, one doesn't need permission to dig up ones corpse.

**Hitcher** · 30th March 2011, 20:23

Originally Posted by Elysium

No I agree, one doesn't need permission to dig up ones corpse.

One's corpse, the corpse of one.

**Hitcher** · 30th March 2011, 20:25

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Commas PLEASE!!!!

Are you serious? And one exclamation mark is plenty. Things don't become more exclaimed or more questioning by adding multiple shrieks.

**Elysium** · 30th March 2011, 20:28

Originally Posted by Hitcher

One's corpse, the corpse of one.

**bows head** Yes master.

**Wolf** · 30th March 2011, 22:43

Originally Posted by MSTRS

nice to see Wolf still here.

Thanks. Lurking and occasionally "delurking" between bouts of being a solo dad of four.

**scissorhands** · 31st March 2011, 00:45

Another dog, another moon...

I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!

**Wolf** · 31st March 2011, 07:56

Originally Posted by scissorhands

Another dog, another moon...

I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!

"I wish I were a glow worm", surely.

**steve_t** · 31st March 2011, 07:58

Originally Posted by scissorhands

Another dog, another moon...

I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!

Originally Posted by Wolf

"I wish I were a glow worm", surely.

Nope. It's "I wish I was..."
I was, you were.

**Banditbandit** · 31st March 2011, 08:18

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Are you serious? And one exclamation mark is plenty. Things don't become more exclaimed or more questioning by adding multiple shrieks.

Yeah ... you see, the point of language is communication - if the ideas are communicated, what's your problem?

Extra exclamation marks is a good way of adding extra emphasis in on-line communications ... Any human communication can be broken down into it's words, it's tone and it's body language. Now the words count for 5% of the total communication, tone for 35% and body language for 55% (there's a 5% that no-one rerally knows what it's about - but I believe it's around the expectations of the receiver).

Think of how many different ways you an say the words "Shut the Door" ... quietly, loudly, yelled ... all in different tones to convey different meanings ... then add the body language - gestures, stamping feet - all convey different meanings.

So, in the written word, (like newspapers or books) we only have the words - but a good writer can convey tone. In radio, for instance, we have words and tone, but a good radio person can give an idea of body language .. on TV we get words, tone and body language ...

Think of how many different ways you an say the words "Shut the Door" ... quietly, loudly, yelled ... all in different tones to convey different meanings .. then add the body language - gestures, stamping feet - all add body language ... and convey different meanings.

So, on the internet we only get words .. and few people are good writers .. using extra exclamation marks is a way of conveying tone ... and possibly body language.

As an academic - yeah, I can pick language apart, and frequently do when I'm marking student essays ... as a human being DILLIGAF ...