GRAMMAR LESSONS

**icedawg** · 02-27-2004 05:37 PM

Originally posted by Stalker
Well, in that case the english rules are different on that part from the swedish ones. According to my book punctuations goes within the quotes if they were part of the original quote, otherwise you skip them and put them outside the quotations.

yep, that's right. a lot of people don't realize that, but that's exactly the case.

l3xicon · 02-28-2004 01:31 AM

you speak canadian...stop pretending you know english ;p

**icedawg** · 02-28-2004 03:30 AM

Originally posted by VV3l2l3vl2ll
you speak canadian...stop pretending you know english ;p

please don't create multiple accounts...seriously. if you want your username changed, then ask me.

**wasup** · 02-28-2004 03:52 AM

or maybe ask eric estrada

**Truthbearer** · 02-28-2004 04:05 AM

the more you brag about it, the longer you will be forced to keep it....

But then again.... Why would that be a bad thing????

Its nice to have colorfull characters in our little community

**munkle** · 02-28-2004 04:22 AM

It's gone past colorful, now it is starting to get a little bit creepy.

**sand** · 02-29-2004 12:39 AM

mayb sum of us r2 lazy 2 type tha right way......jk

**WerBurN** · 03-01-2004 11:09 AM

hehe sry icedawg...you can delete that other account...i jus did it for the 3 or so posts...ill go and not make any in the future if i can help it (which i cant) ;p

**Naruto** · 03-02-2004 03:43 AM

Nothing annoys me more than saying "u" instead of you. A kid in my class wrote "u" in a test *bows and shakes head* 1337 is consuming the weak

**ffx-dreamz** · 03-02-2004 03:50 AM

My teacher's would literally slaughter me...

**Kaniaz** · 03-02-2004 07:06 PM

Never use "u" instead of "you". STUPID! BAD! WRONG!

**icedawg** · 03-02-2004 08:17 PM

Originally posted by Kaniaz
\"you\".

GRRR...

**Truthbearer** · 03-02-2004 08:33 PM

Hahahaha, wonder if that was on purpose......

[/sarcasm]

**Kaniaz** · 03-03-2004 11:00 PM

Yes, it was. And I think it worked quite well.

(Oh no! A sentence starting with 'and'! It's a world disaster!)

Well, let's not nitpick at people's grammar. As long as it's up to a decent standard (ie: "I believe that the world will explode", not "i believe world explode soon"), great. You can't make everybody have perfect grammar- I don't have perfect grammar, for one- but you can make people have decent grammar.

**icedawg** · 03-04-2004 04:06 AM

Originally posted by Kaniaz
Yes, it was. And I think it worked quite well.
(Oh no! A sentence starting with 'and'! It's a world disaster!)

Well, let's not nitpick at people's grammar. As long as it's up to a decent standard (ie: \"I believe that the world will explode\", not \"i believe world explode soon\"), great. You can't make everybody have perfect grammar- I don't have perfect grammar, for one- but you can make people have decent grammar.

If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed I've been keeping the nit-picking within the confines of this thread, which is clearly acceptable seeing as THAT'S THE THREAD'S BLOODY TITLE!

thus, if one doesn't want his or her grammar open to criticism from me, then he or she best not post in this thread.

p.s. starting a sentence with BUT or AND is acceptable when trying to make that sentence stand out; when used frequently, it becomes too much of a distraction.

here's some more fun with English (WOOO!!)

common spelling errors:

SEPARATE (not seperate)
DESPERATE (not desparate)
TOMORROW (not tommorow or tommorrow)
RECEIVE (not recieve)
IRRESISTIBLE (not irresistable)
CONGRATULATIONS (not congradulations)
FRUSTRATE (not frusterate; I used to make this mistake)
also, REOCCURRING is not a word (even though i use it on the site somewhere); the word you're looking for is recurring
Note also that recur (to happen again) has one "c"; whereas occur (to happen once) has two "c's."

**WerBurN** · 03-04-2004 05:29 AM

and remember, its "Canadia" or "Canadialand" not "Canada"

...of course you can always call it "That Crappy Frozen Place" or "The Land of the Idiots"

**icedawg** · 03-04-2004 03:39 PM

Originally posted by WerBurN
and remember, its \"Canadia\" or \"Canadialand\" not \"Canada\"

...of course you can always call it \"That Crappy Frozen Place\" or \"The Land of the Idiots\"

ya know, ripping on someone's country, especially mine, is never a wise idea...

**Naruto** · 03-04-2004 03:43 PM

Canada pwns.

**WerBurN** · 03-04-2004 10:02 PM

ya, i know...Canada is cool *ba-dum-kshh*

**icedawg** · 03-05-2004 01:09 AM

Originally posted by Naruto
Canada pwns.

it sure does, brotha.

**WerBurN** · 03-05-2004 11:08 AM

Originally posted by icedawg+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(icedawg)</div>

<!--QuoteBegin-Naruto

Canada pwns.

no it deosn't.[/b]

**Kaniaz** · 03-05-2004 05:25 PM

OMFG! WERBURN! YOU DIDN'T CAPATALIZE YOUR SIGNATURE! OMFG!

(Warning: This post has excessive use of captials).
(Message: Oops, too late).

**WerBurN** · 03-08-2004 02:55 PM

...huh? im lost...

**Stalker** · 09-02-2004 07:16 PM

Now that other old threads (or just one so far) are being resurrected I might as well bring this back to the front page. Some (*cough* *cough*) people could use this reading...

**Kaniaz** · 09-02-2004 07:21 PM

Just look at how much people love this thread...

lord_of_grammer: this thread sux i CaN use my captlizition proerly, gremmer is bad lol.
coolgirl347894379: ...lol
coolgirl890234324: i cannot use those elipseseseseseses.

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