10-23-2007, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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This thread is a mood point
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Settle down there, Temple Grandin.
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10-23-2007, 12:46 PM
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Missed the bus
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Originally Posted by llama64
While I'm not arguing with you I'd like to clarify that if you use "utilize", to many people you come off as a doofus.
The words you choose to employ matter.
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If someone thinks I am a "doofus" because I exercise the word "utilize", their opinion of me means nothing to me. The fact that someone would form an opinion about my intelligence because of the vocabulary I choose to employ, so be it. If the word is correct and is being used correctly, there is nothing more to be said.
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10-23-2007, 12:46 PM
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Why is globalize a word and globalized not?
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10-23-2007, 12:47 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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This grammar thread is better than the last six.
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10-23-2007, 12:48 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Maybe I'm alone, but I've always been annoyed with the improper use of "your". I find it kind of ironic when someone posts "your a moron!"
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
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I've seen admin assistants of CEOs write letters that say "Your Welcome" 
Me speak no English!
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10-23-2007, 12:48 PM
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This is why I love this site. I hate the Flames but here you can bring this up without being blasted without end for being a grammar Nazi.
As long as we're at it, put your commas inside the quotation marks, guys.
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10-23-2007, 12:50 PM
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This is why I love this site. I hate the Flames but here you can bring this up without being blasted without end for being a grammar Nazi.
As long as we're at it, put your commas inside the quotation marks, guys.
And, kudos to I-Hate-Hulse for not writing: Man, 24, looses 83-year-old wife. 
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10-23-2007, 12:51 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
As long as we're at it, put your commas inside the quotation marks", "guys.
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Fixed.
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10-23-2007, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by llama64
Fixed.
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Well, that was a feeble try, my friend. 
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10-23-2007, 12:55 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Can we put in a new rule, that people who use too many, useless comma's, are banned for each successive, abuse?
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10-23-2007, 12:56 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: South of Calgary North of 'Merica
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you people should get off your padol stool's
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10-23-2007, 12:59 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alltherage
Then is a time reference. "I ate my burger right then and there."
Than is a comparison reference. "My dad is stronger than your dad."
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I love you for this.
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10-23-2007, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Shanghai
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alltherage
Wikipedia weighs in that:
"Since the prefix ir- means 'not' (as it does with irrespective), and the suffix -less means 'without,' irregardless is a double negative." (Cf. inflammable, flammable.)
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Quick! Someone change that article!!
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10-23-2007, 01:08 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I concur with everything in this thread.
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10-23-2007, 01:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands
Of coarse, there is the improper use of then and than. Every now and than you see it, and it is more annoying then wholes in your socks.
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course
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10-23-2007, 01:16 PM
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Personally, I'd say prescriptive morphology is just for uptight dicks, though I'll admit it bothers me as well.
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10-23-2007, 01:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redforever
course
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Their is no getting by you. 
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10-23-2007, 01:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands
Their is no getting by you.
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there ))
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10-23-2007, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by redforever
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Than it's true. You have no problem with the wholes in his socks...
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10-23-2007, 01:23 PM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I'm the Rhymnoceros.
Language evolves. The British still spell tire with a y. Americans drop the u from words like color. Shark is an ancient Mayan word that entered the British lexicon when a reporter interviewed an old sailor about a dead animal on a beach.
I tend to get irritated when people use common misspellings and poor grammar as well. But sometimes you have to look at the big picture and realize that the internets have shrunk the world. Leet speak can make you LOL. If you don't learn to accept it, you might just get pwnd1
(I hate the tubes and trucks)
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