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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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 Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject: I think it's fun |
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I think there is no better way to rile people up on this board, especially the grammar-nazis, than to purposely screw up the grammar.
I mean it is fun to see how people, with nothing better to do with their lives, goes through each and every thread and try to knitpick at each every grammar and punctuation mistakes others make in their threads...
I sometimes do it for the fun of drawing them into my web of destruction as their heads ultimately blow up in frustration because no matter how many mistakes a person makes in a post, they continue to make the same mistakes, which forces the grammar-nazi's head to swell up as the blood rushes to their brain and let out a hollow scream right before their head explodes into a million fragments- why? Because someone was having fun with them by playing games with the grammar and punctuation.
Let's face it, no one's perfect (not even the most educated individual on the planet) and because we have a difficult day and we want to express our feelings, emotions as they come out, many times we have no time, energy or we just plainly don't care to check to see if the grammar is correct or not- if its correct, then we try to build credibility among our anonymous peers. But if it isn't- oh well, tough luck, sh^t happens....
But I will do it, from time to time, just to keep people on their toes. The worst thing a teacher could have is complacency, it is always better to think in different ways as to keep your brain functioning properly by thinking abstractly than doing the same thing, day-in and day-out.... |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: I think it's fun |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
| knitpick |
It's nitpick. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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You discuss how people have nothing better to do while at the same time you sit in the USA purposely make grammatical mistakes on a Korean forum to rile up teachers?
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: I think it's fun |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
I think there is no better way to rile people up on this board, especially the grammar-nazis, than to purposely screw up the grammar.
I mean it is fun to see how people, with nothing better to do with their lives, goes through each and every thread and try to knitpick at each every grammar and punctuation mistakes others make in their threads...
I sometimes do it for the fun of drawing them into my web of destruction as their heads ultimately blow up in frustration because no matter how many mistakes a person makes in a post, they continue to make the same mistakes, which forces the grammar-nazi's head to swell up as the blood rushes to their brain and let out a hollow scream right before their head explodes into a million fragments- why? Because someone was having fun with them by playing games with the grammar and punctuation.
Let's face it, no one's perfect (not even the most educated individual on the planet) and because we have a difficult day and we want to express our feelings, emotions as they come out, many times we have no time, energy or we just plainly don't care to check to see if the grammar is correct or not- if its correct, then we try to build credibility among our anonymous peers. But if it isn't- oh well, tough luck, sh^t happens....
But I will do it, from time to time, just to keep people on their toes. The worst thing a teacher could have is complacency, it is always better to think in different ways as to keep your brain functioning properly by thinking abstractly than doing the same thing, day-in and day-out.... |
yeah yeah... me too! from this point on, any future mistake i make is actually an elaborate socialogical experiment. |
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
You discuss how people have nothing better to do while at the same time you sit in the USA purposely make grammatical mistakes on a Korean forum to rile up teachers?
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Come on man. There're grammar mistakes and then there're incomprehensible crap. I'm riled up.
"you sit in the USA purposely make grammatical mistakes"
please correct this bit of gibberish in your sentence . . . . . |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: I think it's fun |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
| I think there is no better way to rile people up on this board, especially the grammar-nazis, than to purposely screw up the grammar. |
Sorry, I's just don't believes it. Just crawls back to the rock you came under from. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:16 am Post subject: Re: I think it's fun |
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| lastat06513 wrote: |
I think there is no better way to rile people up on this board, especially the grammar-nazis, than to purposely screw up the grammar.
I mean it is fun to see how people, with nothing better to do with their lives, goes through each and every thread and try to knitpick at each every grammar and punctuation mistakes others make in their threads...
I sometimes do it for the fun of drawing them into my web of destruction as their heads ultimately blow up in frustration because no matter how many mistakes a person makes in a post, they continue to make the same mistakes, which forces the grammar-nazi's head to swell up as the blood rushes to their brain and let out a hollow scream right before their head explodes into a million fragments- why? Because someone was having fun with them by playing games with the grammar and punctuation.
Let's face it, no one's perfect (not even the most educated individual on the planet) and because we have a difficult day and we want to express our feelings, emotions as they come out, many times we have no time, energy or we just plainly don't care to check to see if the grammar is correct or not- if its correct, then we try to build credibility among our anonymous peers. But if it isn't- oh well, tough luck, sh^t happens....
But I will do it, from time to time, just to keep people on their toes. The worst thing a teacher could have is complacency, it is always better to think in different ways as to keep your brain functioning properly by thinking abstractly than doing the same thing, day-in and day-out.... |
Can you give an example of someone who goes through each thread looking for syntax errors? I suspect that you can't, and that this is just another one of those threads where people complain about people who do not exist. |
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lastat06513
Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:04 am Post subject: |
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There are several posters on Dave's who purposely go from post to post and if they really don't like the person, for some strange celetrial reason, they would try to point out each and every mistake they make.....there were several posts that specifically talk about this topic.
And while I am in the US at the moment (by that, this moment in time), I still have alot of well-wisher and fans who still want to know what I am up to and I tried very very very hard to retire from the forum, it is like heroin, you can't get enough of it.
As for crawling back under the rock from which I came?
If that were the case, I would be on my way back to Korea, that was my favorite ROK  |
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:31 am Post subject: |
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There are several posters on Dave's who purposely go from post to post and if they really don't like the person, for some strange celetrial reason, they would try to point out each and every mistake they make.....there were several posts that specifically talk about this topic.
And while I am in the US at the moment (by that, this moment in time), I still have alot of well-wisher and fans who still want to know what I am up to and I tried very very very hard to retire from the forum, it is like heroin, you can't get enough of it.
As for crawling back under the rock from which I came?
If that were the case, I would be on my way back to Korea, that was my favorite ROK |
OK, let me correct your grammar. I was a lit major, not a grammar teacher so if I make a mistake, I'm sorry.
Here is how I think your post should've read:
There are several posters on Dave's who purposely go from post to post checking for grammatical errors and if they really don't like the person who posted, then they,for some strange celetrial reason, [/b] try to point out each and every mistake the original poster makes.....NOTE(too many jams. only one jam when ending a sentence) -->cap when starting a sentenceThere are several posts that specifically talk about this topic.
And while I am in the US at the moment (by that, this moment in time), I still have alot of well-wisher and fans who still want to know what I am up to and I tried very very very hard to retire from the forum, it is like heroin, you can't get enough of it.
2nd paragraph rewrite
Even though I am in the US at the moment, I do have a lot of well-wishers and fans in Korea who want to know what I am up to. Even though I have tried very hard to retire from this forum, I find it difficult to stiop posting. For me, posting here is like a drug. Imagine a heroin addict giving up smack. That's what it's like for me to give up posting on this message board. Like a junkie fiending for his/her drug, I fiend for posting here. I can never post enough.
Do you really have fans?
damn, I want fans. But not when I am sleeping; I value my life. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: Re: I think it's fun |
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| endofthewor1d wrote: |
yeah yeah... me too! from this point on, any future mistake i make is actually an elaborate socialogical experiment. |
That's "sociOlogical"!! You suck!! |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| There are several posters on Dave's who purposely go from post to post and if they really don't like the person, for some strange celetrial reason, they would try to point out each and every mistake they make.....there were several posts that specifically talk about this topic. |
No, you are still being vague. You are still citing a non-existent phenomenon. Who are you talking about, specifically? |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: |
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Is it really that bad for that here?
By the way, it's "grammar nazi" or "grammar Nazi". Not "grammar-nazi".
Get a life, you sociapath.
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| lastat06513 wrote: |
| There are several posters on Dave's who purposely go from post to post and if they really don't like the person, for some strange celetrial reason, they would try to point out each and every mistake they make.....there were several posts that specifically talk about this topic. |
No, you are still being vague. You are still citing a non-existent phenomenon. Who are you talking about, specifically? |
Correction:
No. You are still being vague.
At least try, damn it. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| PGF wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| lastat06513 wrote: |
| There are several posters on Dave's who purposely go from post to post and if they really don't like the person, for some strange celetrial reason, they would try to point out each and every mistake they make.....there were several posts that specifically talk about this topic. |
No, you are still being vague. You are still citing a non-existent phenomenon. Who are you talking about, specifically? |
Correction:
No. You are still being vague.
At least try, damn it. |
Actually, I'm pretty sure both forms are ok. A period or a comma. Both work, genius. |
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| PGF wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| lastat06513 wrote: |
| There are several posters on Dave's who purposely go from post to post and if they really don't like the person, for some strange celetrial reason, they would try to point out each and every mistake they make.....there were several posts that specifically talk about this topic. |
No, you are still being vague. You are still citing a non-existent phenomenon. Who are you talking about, specifically? |
Correction:
No. You are still being vague.
At least try, damn it. |
Actually, I'm pretty sure both forms are ok. A period or a comma. Both work, genius. |
probably, I am not a grammar teacher. just keeping with the humor of the post, comedian. |
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