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lastat06513



Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Location: Sensus amo Caesar , etiamnunc victus amo uni plebian

PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:33 pm    Post subject: I think it's fun Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:04 pm    Post subject: Re: I think it's fun Reply with quote

lastat06513 wrote:
knitpick



It's nitpick.
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Bibbitybop



Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?

Laughing
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endofthewor1d



Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:16 pm    Post subject: Re: I think it's fun Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?

Laughing


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)

PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:33 pm    Post subject: Re: I think it's fun Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 1:16 am    Post subject: Re: I think it's fun Reply with quote

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

PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Wink
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PGF



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.