Grammar Nazi gets pwned.
Posted on: December 8, 2006 - 12:15pm
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Grammar Nazi gets pwned.
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----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: ~S~
Date: Dec 8 2006 1:31 PMYour page and blogs are 'riddled' with grammatical errors (not to mention all the other sorts of errors).
Are you really so narrow as you potray yourself?
(That's not to be answered back, just pondered on in that head of yours.)Merry CHRISTmas
Dear Grammar Nazi,
The word is "portray."
Thanks,
The dumbass who is smarter than you
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This sentence should read (If I am correct):
This is not to be answered (the "Back" is supperflous, but then considering who you are, this is not surprising). I was just pondering (No "on" needed) what is inside that head of yours.
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I wait for these extra-grammatical errors.
Awesome!
I also notice it should be "are you really as narrow MINDED as you portray yourself." (unless he thinks we are all showing ourselves as thin.)
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I'd love to be able to show myself as thin
That's "Christian-assimilated."
Technically this is not a sentence: The word is "portray."
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- = fancy
me =/= fancy
tee hee.
Not that he's making any really significant point for us to ponder.
Spelling and intellegence are not linked...
"In the high school halls, in the shopping malls, conform or be cast out" ~ Rush, from Subdivisions
Well, you are not correct. Your way is no better than his way. We are not on this site writing formal papers that must conform with arbitrary academic principles of language use. Many things that seem ungrammatical in the north, for example, are grammatical in African American English. For example, take the word "be." In African American English, there are two ways of expressing instances of something. If some speaker of AAE said "john is late" this is different than if that speaker said "john be late." The former simply means that John is late this one instance. The latter, means that John is cronically late.
You knew what he ment, so lets not try and act like juviniels pointing out percieved grammatical errors.
"In the high school halls, in the shopping malls, conform or be cast out" ~ Rush, from Subdivisions
But he doesn't think that, and you know that. So why are you pointing this out?
"In the high school halls, in the shopping malls, conform or be cast out" ~ Rush, from Subdivisions
Technically speaking, yes it is. A sentence consists of three things: A subject, a verb, and an object. This is basic syntax theory. So, the subject is "the word," for thats what the sentence is about. The very "is" acts as the verb, showing a relation, and "portray" is the object.
I encourage everyone posting in this thread to go study linguistics before posting further.
"In the high school halls, in the shopping malls, conform or be cast out" ~ Rush, from Subdivisions
The point Chaos, which I'm surprised you seem to be missing was that pointing out the original grammar flaws was not a wise engagement of argumentation if one is susceptible to the same type of mistakes.
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alright...
"In the high school halls, in the shopping malls, conform or be cast out" ~ Rush, from Subdivisions
I just realized you commented on my dumbass statement. I just wanted to offer clarity that the original title of the email was something like "You're a dumbass."
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Everyone on this forum knows that the "Grammar and Spelling Nazi" is ME!
Or is that "grammer and speling natzi"?
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Ok. Your point? (Sorry for giving you a hard time, man).
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Re: above post
Based on this....
I thought maybe you thought I was implying that spelling and intelligence were linked. Instead I was attacking the title of the email in which he called me a dumbass, I was being a sarcastic wiseass. I realized my wiseassery had no context to discern what I was up to, so I added the clarifying statement.
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Well, this isn't really important, but it popped into my head...so why not express it out loud?
If I were a Christian and believed in Jebus, I would probably not insult other people's grammar...because I would assume Jeebus was illiterate. (Seeing as how he never wrote a damned thing himself)...Funny, you'd think Gawd Fairy would have his Earthly incarnate educated so he could write his own damned bible, huh?
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That's an admirable example of the use of a predicate nominative construction, Brian. (And that was an excellent example of my usage of the vocative case in English.)
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