In the spirit of the catch-all dobie threads, catch-all out-of-context threads, and other thread-derailment-prevention threads, I offer here, for your enjoyment and delight, a place for those of you who revel in exposing the liguistic incompetence of the masses a special place, all your own, where you can mercilessly taunt and mock your lessers as they attempt to communicate with each other in the other threads.
When those heathens are feeling particularly receptive to your insights, they can open this thread and discover what errors they have been making in ingorance at a time when they're ready to receive them and become converted to the proper use of the semicolon and the ellipses. In the meantime, this thread can serve as a place for those of you "in the know" to remind each other of who you are, so that you may skip the posts of the others on those days when you are not feeling up to the task of trying to bring the heathen typists into the light of the One True Usage.
It is my privledge to be of service.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Olivia would enjoy this, then.
quote:privledge
Privilege.
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
Wow. Was this thread made just especially for me? I feel so honoured.
Yes, it's "honoured", not "honored", you rebellious heathens South of the Border. Skipping letters does not make you cool.
Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :
Alas, despite my efforts to be accepted, I have betrayed my ignorance.
:: Runs from thread crying ::
Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :
:: Runs back in, weilding two by four covered in barbed wire, wiping eyes hurriedly ::
I am tough. No one saw that.
Yes, digging_holes, this thread was created for you. Prior to today, no one has ever corrected the spelling and/or grammar of anyone on Hatrack. I thought I'd begin to address the controversy the first time it appeared, because such events have been known to cause the destruction of forums that were bound together with bonds of friendship even tighter than this one.
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
I was going to think of a clever comeback, but I must bow in the face of such witty sarcasm.
Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :
[whispers] Honestly, I probably shouldn't try to be funny when I'm running on as little sleep as I've had this week. I honestly didn't mean anything by any of this, so if it came across as if I'm being mean, I'm sorry. I really was trying to create a useful thread, and be clever about it. If I blew it, my bad.
But don't tell anybody I apologized. I'm trying really hard to be a two-by-four weilding meanie. [/whispers]
:: Growls loudly in case anybody is listening in ::
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
Can I cite about half of Half-Blood Prince?
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
You just blew it by apologizing, my dear Cactus.
Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :
What! I didn't apologize! I deny it! Never happened!
Somebody added a space at the end of the username and posted AS me!
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
Bad spellers of the world-UNTIE!
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
Funny, that somebody also managed to have the same member number as you. My, but these impostinators really are getting clever these days.
Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :
Remember, these are kids who read the Ender novels.
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
Since a whole bunch of people on this forum are quite a bit older than me, I can't really picture myself calling them "kids". Of course, they do read the Ender novels.
Oh, wait, so do I... nevermind.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
quote:Originally posted by digging_holes: Wow. Was this thread made just especially for me? I feel so honoured.
Yes, it's "honoured", not "honored", you rebellious heathens South of the Border. Skipping letters does not make you cool.
And capitalizing words that don't need it and putting your commas on the wrong side of the quotation marks doesn't make you cool. Also, the omission of the u in words like that originated in Britain. Gasp!
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
Ooh, you just got told, yo.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
I must admit, I like my commas outside quotation marks.
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
Which is right? I always put them inside because I don't know the difference.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
In America, land of the free and home of the brave, we always put them inside the quotation marks. Unless you're fugu. Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
Hey! I only did that ONCE in quite a long time of posting, and only on the ONE usage mistake that absolutely drives me bonkers when I read it in something I have to edit.
I didn't mean it.
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
quote: Also, the omission of the u in words like that originated in Britain.
And that means what to me? I'm not British.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
It means that the Americans didn't come up with it, so it's sort of silly to look down your nose at Americans for it.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
The colon goes outside the quotation marks, however.
As in:
"I think there's something lodged in my" colon.
Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
quote: so it's sort of silly to look down your nose at Americans for it.
First of all, Americans are the principal practitioners of letter-dropping. It may have started in Britain (or so you say, I have no way of confirming this) but it is certainly not taught there; only in the U.S. is it the norm rather than the exception. That is why it is generally called "American spelling" as opposed to "British spelling".
Secondly, I am not "looking down my nose" at Americans. I certainly have my own rather inconsistent preferences, which do tend to lean towards the British spelling most (but not all) of the time, as all good Canadian spelling does; expressing those preferences in a humourous way does not constitute "looking down my nose" at anyone.
Finally, it would be hard for me to look any direction but down when looking at Americans, since you are underneath us on the map. Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
I think what he was saying was that when the colonies were first planted, neither place had standardized spelling, and by the time we did there was no longer any reason (for Americans, at least) to adhere to the British rules.
Houwever, if it will make youu happuy, I will gladuly add many superfluouus letter u's to my pousts. Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
quote:expressing those preferences in a humourous way does not constitute "looking down my nose" at anyone.
I guess it depends on what your definition of humour is, eh?
Posted by Dude Love (Member # 2437) on :
I think adding "It's Fun!" to the title of this thread would give it more hits.
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
quote: The colon goes outside the quotation marks, however.
As in:
"I think there's something lodged in my" colon.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Tenets.
Tenets.
Tenets! Not tenants.
That is all.
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
*hands rivka chill pill*
Check it out! It's made of Ice-9!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*googles* Ah, a mythical form of ice.
That's appropriate.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
This one drives my crazy.
It's "piqued my interest" not "peaked my interest" or even "peeked my interest."
*grumbles*
Someone who wants to be a professional writer should know better.
--Mel
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Most people who want to be professional writers don't know better.
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
Well, can't we have a series of standardized tests before a person is allowed to dream of being a professional writer? Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Although they probably know better than the general populous.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*narrowed eyes* That was on purpose, right?
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
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