Random Thoughts Thread

[Ack]

Screw this, I'm out.

Twodles!

[J T]

Et tu?

Just to/too/two is annoying? Not your/you're and there/their/they're? Or than/then? I find it all equally annoying. End hears the won know won nose: Affect and effect.

I effected a change in the system to affect the most people, which was the desired effect and filled a grammar nazi's heart with warm affect.

[Hobie-wan]

Me free!

[dsheinem]

I would be a member of a forum where mods gave people a warning for improper spelling/grammar usage, that blocked them for posting for a month if they got three such warnings, and then booted them from the site if they racked up a third tempban.

I would not like to moderate such a site, though.

[Ack]

I would be a member of a forum where mods gave people a warning for improper spelling/grammar usage, that blocked them for posting for a month if they got three such warnings, and then booted them from the site if they racked up a third tempban.

I would not like to moderate such a site, though.

And that is why you are no longer a moderator here.

[KalessinDB]

The problem is, when are you following commonly accepted rules of grammar, and when are you just being pedantic? I have read many a well-thought-out blog post by people with very advanced English degrees that basically say "Stop saying that 'I'm doing good' is incorrect grammatically, it's not!" or "Literally used to mean 'as could be found in literature', aka what we now use for figuratively"... so other than the obvious homonym/spelling mistake, where do you draw the line?

[Luke]

In my experience proper grammar does show intelligence, yet in some areas grammar doesn't seem to exist. How people speak has become "dialect" in certain regions.

And in England? Oh boy. That's an entirely different discussion.



Random thought:

I sent myself an email and marked it as spam. Looking forward to see how that plays out.

[TSTR]

Random thought:

I sent myself an email and marked it as spam. Looking forward to see how that plays out.

Why?

[Ziggy]

In my experience proper grammar does show intelligence, yet in some areas grammar doesn't seem to exist. How people speak has become "dialect" in certain regions.

Grammar shows intelligence? So a person with poor grammar is unintelligent? I know that you probably didn't mean that, but the way you worded it, that's what it sounds like. I don't know, that's going into the whole "book smart vs street smart" thing.

When I post here, I actually type in my area's "dialect" even when I'm aware it's not proper grammar. It's mostly just contractions and conjunctions. I just feel that it's more authentic to how I would actually talk in person, speaking extemporaneously, rather than if I'm trying my hardest to write some sort of paper or essay on a college or professional level. If some one wants to put my posts under the grammar microscope and deem me not as intelligent as I actually am, that's their problem. I just feel that it's more personal, more human sounding.

I will, however, proof read before posting. Well, most of the time. I wont if I'm in a hurry. I know the difference between your and you're, then and than, et cetera, but fairly often I'll type the wrong one because I'm typing at a fast past (trying to type as fast as I'm thinking it). I only correct it if I proof read my post. Most people are too lazy to proof read a post, so I'd say a good percentage of people that post with bad grammar and whatnot are just lazy. And if you don't know the difference between words like that, and you're over the age of 20 (being real fair here) then you're just too lazy to learn it. Plain and simple. So I wouldn't say that good grammar shows intelligence, I would say that poor grammar just shows laziness. It's not that a person isn't intelligent enough to learn the correct grammar, it's just that they're too lazy.

Of course, I'm just joking around here. I blame the schools. I taught myself better grammar after graduating high school. But I'm probably a bad example since I might be dyslexic.

[MrPopo]

I learned proper English grammar through German class (a series of "in English the grammar is this, here's what it is in German" examples).