Unglish - ya doon it rong.

**ellipsis** · 18th December 2010, 16:27

....thats my dots your'e talking of....now that I know they piss people off....I shall use them even more....nor will I use them in groups of three....now that I know that is illegal also..I find them to be cool little things....like dots , almost....what I really hate is cunts using my tools and not putting them back in their particular spots......correct face out..hanging there, waiting....I swear and rant and rave and not one dot issues forth from my tightly clenched teeth....now I know why........I've been saving them all these years....just to unleash on kb'ers.....,(why I finished that dot sequence with that bloody thing, is a mystery that I may have to ponder for a while)

**Big Dave** · 18th December 2010, 16:30

Originally Posted by Daffyd

You could probably get away with "photo's" because it's an abbreviation of "photographs".

Was that a reflection on photos or the photo's reflection?

**Daffyd** · 18th December 2010, 16:36

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Was that a reflection on photos or the photo's reflection?

Now you're confusing me!

**ellipsis** · 18th December 2010, 23:24

Originally Posted by Daffyd

Now you're confusing me!

...surely being confused is a prerequisite to being here in the first place...

**davebullet** · 19th December 2010, 07:25

I brought myself a new dictionary.

Really? I didn't know you could bruy a dictionary.

**MSTRS:Me** · 19th December 2010, 07:56

Originally Posted by davebullet

I brought myself a new dictionary.

Really? I didn't know you could bruy a dictionary.

Of course you can. It's printed on stationary...

**Daffyd** · 19th December 2010, 08:39

Originally Posted by MSTRS

Of course you can. It's printed on stationary...

Speaking of which - the Paper Plus commercials annoy me. "My books, my stationary." (Pronunciation.) Note: NOT pronounciation!

**tri boy** · 19th December 2010, 08:57

Is it okay to screw with the Engrish language when your drunk?
If so, then that will be my defence hence forth.

**MSTRS:Me** · 19th December 2010, 08:58

Originally Posted by Daffyd

Speaking of which - the Paper Plus commercials annoy me. "My books, my stationary." (Pronunciation.) Note: NOT pronounciation!

You should have STOPPED while you were ahead...

**Winston001** · 23rd December 2010, 12:07

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Don't get me fucking started on ellipses. They'll be the fucking death of me. Online social media has much to answer for.

Firstly, ellipses have only three dots. People add lots of dots because they have no idea what they're doing and they think that this somehow looks cool.

Secondly they're generally used where a fullstop or a colon or even a comma would suffice.

Thirdly they're part of a phenomenum about ending sentences with multiple punctuation marks. More than one exclamation mark doesn't make the exclamation any more exclamatory. More than one question mark doesn't make the question any harder or more obscure.

As for wankers who put spaces between the last letter of the word in a sentence and the following punctuation mark: may they simmer for eternity over a steady heat.

I have a theory about predicting the names of the children of punctuation abusers and the colour of the curtains in their front windows...

LOL as a BDOTGNZA pedant nevertheless I'm a bit of a failure.

I didn't know elipses only had 3 dots....

Still, I have to wonder if we shouldn't allow for modern usage? The placement of an extra exclamation mark enforces the point beyond simple emphasis. Its akin to saying "you are kidding" or "believe it". Same for double question marks.

Projecting ideas in writing is very powerful but even so it is a one-dimensional medium. There is little scope for communicating emotion which is why emoticons are so popular. The correct emoticon can turn a nasty comment into a joke, thus drawing out any sting.

Thus we adopt quasi informal grammer and punctuation to phrase the message in a brief form and I believe it works n'est pas....??!!

**Hitcher** · 23rd December 2010, 13:44

Emoticons? Gahh! Thud.

**blackdog** · 23rd December 2010, 14:18

When will people learn that you can't have a couple of handfuls of anything and that rain can not come down in bucketfuls?

It's 'buckets full' in case any of the neanderthals hadn't figured it out yet.