Punctuation

[conjohn9]

So...its time to talk about punctuation and capitalization and spelling and grammar and using commas to seperate a list.

One of my pet peeves is when people are talking:

but all u g3t outof them issome garbelde gcuk

And I cannot for the life of me read their equally intelligent opinions and valuable words, because its so hard for me to read.

Please, lets work together to create a community that is 90% literate.

[Dark_Haze]

yes mum <.<

[Lance_Maddison]

Your right -- its time for the forum to make it's stand!

:D

Yes, it's intentional.

[Synner]

As much as I'd like to agree with you, any online communication is going to full of exactly what you dislike. When was the last time to spoke to someone, face to face, and they said "QFT" or some such...probably never. It's part of the joy of the web, better to spend your time discussing this great game than to worry about punctuation and grammar.

Translation: Good luck but its not going to happen. :)

[Dark_Haze]

And dont try to rally MY community. ;)

[Ravenstein]

So...its time to talk about punctuation and capitalization and spelling and grammar and using commas to seperate a list.

One of my pet peeves is when people are talking:

but all u g3t outof them issome garbelde gcuk

And I cannot for the life of me read their equally intelligent opinions and valuable words, because its so hard for me to read.

Please, lets work together to create a community that is 90% literate.

I am Ravenstein, and I fully support this message.

[conjohn9]

As much as I'd like to agree with you, any online communication is going to full of exactly what you dislike. When was the last time to spoke to someone, face to face, and they said "QFT" or some such...probably never. It's part of the joy of the web, better to spend your time discussing this great game than to worry about punctuation and grammar.

Translation: Good luck but its not going to happen. :)

I actually know people that say lol instead of actually laughing out loud. And it makes me wanna get angry. I agree, the acronyms are fine, so long as they are appropriate.

[KeystoneMan]

Dis iz stoopit!

[Gold_Leaf]

I actually know people that say lol instead of actually laughing out loud. And it makes me wanna get angry. I agree, the acronyms are fine, so long as they are appropriate.

My 10 year old brother is one of these.

It's disturbing to say the least! ~

[conjohn9]

Haha, my 16 year old friends have no qualms with yelling out ROFL or FAIL everytime something goes wrong. And lets not forget people who say FTW instead of For the win. FTW=4 syllables, For the win=3. I see a definate advantage in real words here.

[Dark_Haze]

y liek lolz iz sdoopit i R t3H fUtUR3 n00|3

[KeystoneMan]

y liek lolz iz sdoopit i R t3H fUtUR3 n00|3

Finally someone is making sense in this thread

[Dark_Haze]

Contrary to my previous post... I do not disagree with the idea.
Good luck. You will fail. But good luck nevertheless.

[conjohn9]

*twitch-twitch*

Don't make me angry, you won't like me when I am angry...I will knit you into oblivion!

[Dark_Haze]

*twitch-twitch*

Don't make me angry, you won't like me when I am angry...I will knit you into oblivion!

Erm... ok... I wish to retract my previous statement? O.o

[Big_Lunk]

This is all cool and all, but i was wondering if people would please stop putting question marks on the end of statements?

[conjohn9]

Alright, we won't ask questions anymore.

Or at least have every statement end in an upwards inflection where it seems like a question.

[Dark_Haze]

This is all cool and all, but i was wondering if people would please stop putting question marks on the end of statements?

Actually that was questioning. And therefore completely acceptable. yours, however made no sense. i put in question form because it seems he is sending mixed messages. (although by mistake)
So please. Try to keep up.

Also. Sorry if im bad at explaining things. Im a very confusing person as it is ^^

[conjohn9]

Derailment and punctuation are two very different things.

Although it can serve as an example that there is such a thing as realativity punctuation.

[Big_Lunk]

Actually that was questioning. And therefore completely acceptable. yours, however made no sense. i put in question form because it seems he is sending mixed messages. (although by mistake)
So please. Try to keep up.


Actualy, i was being ironic by doing the very thing i was critisising at the same time. I missed that you had seemingly done so just before that :p just a strange coincidence

[Dark_Haze]

Sir. I challenge you to a cookie toss.

[conjohn9]

Is this a grammatically correct cookie toss?

And if so, are we dealing with snickerdoodles?

[SenshiBat]

Moi blames this degradation of the Kings English thus.. Texting and Twittering...

That being said.. I have no dark thought for a Chavy... in need of A "My Fair Lady" upgrade.

I offend and throw myself on the mercy of thee courts...
[like a snowball somewhere Milton spoke of or was it Dante']

For I am the Bat... and I would swing at anything... except the cruelness to cookies..

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Panne d'essence ,Creve ,feu rouge...

[conjohn9]

He hath wrung me from my slow leave. By labousome petition, and at last upon his will I seal'd my hard consent: I do beseech you give Dark Haze leave to toss cookies

[Gold_Leaf]

Forsooth!

10char

[conjohn9]

Thy best graces spend it at thy will!

[Gold_Leaf]

Action is eloquence, my dear!

[SenshiBat]

^ Réparations Grammar
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Exits stage right...

[conjohn9]

Aye, that it is. But only through action can eloquence be defined. And that action resolves itself to being speech, which defines eloquence, but only though eloquent speech can its essence be captured.

[Gold_Leaf]

I was born into a world of irony

Read the script, SB, it was stage left! <curtain close>

[conjohn9]

Have you ever noticed that the more tired you become, the more circular your logic gets?

[Gold_Leaf]

I like rhombuses

[conjohn9]

As do I, very kite like, although nothing is more kite like than a kite...which is obvious

[Gold_Leaf]

Unless its an invisble kite. I hear those cause mayhem, especially if they have bad punctuation ;(

[conjohn9]

Ah yes, of course. We should do our best and unite agains the invisible kites

[Gold_Leaf]

I guess that depends on the price of fish ~

[conjohn9]

Yes, because fish is the only weapon that is relatively useful against invisible kites. I hear, if you equip the proper materials, you can upgrade a frozen tuna into a battle axe...but only in a Dark Cloud

[Gold_Leaf]

Psh the economical climate surely is changing the very effectiveness of such weapons :( I've taken to wearing a special suit (http://laeastside.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/san-diego-002.jpg) to help resist the unwanted attacks of invisible kites.

[conjohn9]

I am forbidden to enter the realms of special suits, but would I be so bold to suggest that is is a doughnut suit? With a sombrero? And a gun?

[Gold_Leaf]

Yes, I was hit with link failure! The invisible kites are getting intelligent !

[conjohn9]

Indeed they are, but fear not!

I hear an everyday spacesuit (NASA Issued) can both protect you from invisible kites AND zombies.

[Nosdarb]

Just stopping in to laud your efforts and to let you know I appreciated seeing "grammar" instead of "grammer" as often happens on the internet.

[conjohn9]

But it is Grammar, is it not?

[Skylancer87]

Ok, so how are you going to handle this?
Free grammar lessons for everyone? Better yet! Make it part of the Beta application system!
That would put it to good use.

[conjohn9]

Y'know, that wouldn't be a bad idea!

We could have a supergroup devoted to maintaining the grammar of the world, one punctuation at a time!

[Pathstalker]

I have an urge to make a character by the name of "The Backslash."

For as we all know, the backslash is an unholy demon of murderous grammar.

I implore you to take Mr. Period's advice on this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/4/27/

:D

[lazyeyeh]

I'm not that much of an elitist or grammar nazi to really care. If I can vaguely understand what you are saying, I'll play along.

BUT for all that is holy, use a question mark when you ask me a question. You can add a milllion commas, spell the way you want to, or talk like a spaz. If you want me to respond, please include the question mark.

[Skylancer87]

Of all the random threads...

EDIT:
Oh right!
..Question mark ?

[conjohn9]

Because I was bored

Is that the answer you were looking for?

[SenshiBat]

A query without a mark is just.... Rhetorical... :D

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Be mindful of the nun with a ruler...
All good words are not found on liner notes of rap music..

[conjohn9]

Yes, enjoy your smile, for you passed it onto me as well

[Viciouspen]

So...its time to talk about punctuation and capitalization and spelling and grammar and using commas to seperate a list.

One of my pet peeves is when people are talking:

but all u g3t outof them issome garbelde gcuk

And I cannot for the life of me read their equally intelligent opinions and valuable words, because its so hard for me to read.

Please, lets work together to create a community that is 90% literate.

God yes...
If there were some kind of auto-ban filter for this kind of thing I'd so vote for it.
I get that people that do it, the whole internet lobotomy victim speak, think it's ....well I don't know what they think they're accomplishing but, they think it's positive somehow, but yeah, it's just an instant way to make anyone who's not a fellow lobotomy customer ignore you and anything you have to say as completely worthless.

It's like when they tried to make a move for ebonics to be a recognized language, black community leaders were outraged, they were all "umm no, we don't want our kids talking like morons, how are they going to get anywhere in life like that?"

lol :D

[conjohn9]

God yes...
If there were some kind of auto-ban filter for this kind of thing I'd so vote for it.
I get that people that do it, the whole internet lobotomy victim speak, think it's ....well I don't know what they think they're accomplishing but, they think it's positive somehow, but yeah, it's just an instant way to make anyone who's not a fellow lobotomy customer ignore you and anything you have to say as completely worthless.

It's like when they tried to make a move for ebonics to be a recognized language, black community leaders were outraged, they were all "umm no, we don't want our kids talking like morons, how are they going to get anywhere in life like that?"

lol :D
Yes, I would like some kind of script to be run that prevents people from making words without vowels...or perhaps a spell checker would be nice.

We have one, just many people don't take the time to download it

[Brodiewan]

My spellcheck isn't working, so until I get it fixed you'll have to put up with the odd spelling mistake here and there.

[cobrawax]

your way to picky

[Brodiewan]

your way to picky

Oooh, he's not going to like that.... unless you're giving directions.

[conjohn9]

A spelling mistake is alright, so long as its not some slaughter of the word you're trying to spell.

For example, spelling dog.

doog
dawg *Possibly okay
doug
god
Fish

[Brodiewan]

A spelling mistake is alright, so long as its not some slaughter of the word you're trying to spell.

For example, spelling dog.

doog
dawg *Possibly okay
doug
god
Fish

I don't mind people spelling things badly on an general internet forum... its when they do it in stories (ala fan base alpha) that it begins to annoy me.

[SenshiBat]

But, then . We would . All talk . Like Captain... Kirk?

Never be it said that I slept whilst in Lit.. I saved that for the Evil Mathematics class...

I simply out read the punctuations.. trying to read Right to Left Top to Bottom...

Warped me for life.

I travel the forum here trying to exhibit the proper Tense and it seams to annoy so many Trolls;
of a lower reading comprehension skill.

Morale of story- Pay tax to employ their teachers so they may ignore the official way to format
non-pig latin.

So we attempt to communicate by dumbing things down..

Listen to Guns of Brixton and get in touch with our inner Dread locks.. Rasta.. as a firend did.

Some of their concepts of Slang are quite bizarre.. Harmless to Profane.
The Thesaurus on my PC wants to gag

I would argue the nice Cryptic Programmer Should pay visit to a Brevity and Text Urban dictionary
and re-programme this place. To show the decoruam due all cultures that pay us visit.

[King_Aries]

i idk whats the problem with typing different and not using punctuation i say let them type how ever they want this the internet people get enough crap at their jobs let them type how ever

[Viciouspen]

General spelling errors and grammar aren't a problem. Hell, I'm an award winning author and I slack off on the net.
I just hate the moronic lawl speak. If that could be outlawed I'd vote for it. Some slang is okay. It's the people that spend all that extra effort to sound stupid.
If you want to say "My dawg is cool", that's fine.....but going the extra effort of saying it "Mai dawg i5 ku3lz"....I believe should justly call for a FBI task force to break in and waterboard you.
I believe that would be a fair response.
mmm.....what a beautiful world that would be. I can hear Louis Armstrong right now.

[Mythntyme]

Mavis Beacon can show the way!

[SenshiBat]

Wel lthe guide book said type en masse then review and correct...

[Ravenstein]

Champions needs to hire a team of out of work English teachers to police the game and forums.

[Evil_Ghost_Artist]

will they use red markers....er....correct with red script, and make our avatars into big red "F"'s for the day? will they make our title be dunce for a day? will they have a billboard to post our old uncorrected posts to make fun of us?

[SenshiBat]

Champions needs to hire a team of out of work English teachers to police the game and forums.

You know that German mod is not really all that bad.. He doesn't worry about punctuations..

But if you go to American school overseas.. there is english and dare be english and British and..
polite sales callers for Pakistan and India. using some bizzare. language..
Pleasse to bwe not hanging up now i need this job...
Iron Angel and Awen the Leads CSR for Cryptic are good. Kestrel was .editor. I believe..
Alivet.. actually taught.. at College Level..an Lit Prof
But wait that's a good idea.. Summer furloughed Teachers... A nice Community project for them..

I always thought the red marks were a sign they cared about me.. like a step-child..
GPA I could always read or do something creative to raise mine..
To make up for my evil math Arch Nemesis
Mr Payne.. Honest that was his name.. Loved to put the arm bar on you and grin..

I have spent too much time being good.. It is fun to be occasionally bad... mod me mod me good...