Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.
jolrei:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 July 28, 10:28:55
Actually, I've heard people's inner voices before. Remarkably, they all sound rather similar: Moist and squishy.
Are you sure that's a voice? I mean, once you get inside there, everything is moist and squishy.
On the other hand, if that is a voice, it seems possible that Joan of Arc's "voices" that compelled her to rampage through France and then jump into a BBQ were little more than gas and perhaps her tummy rumbling. Joan was a hungry emo; thousands die.
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Jelenedra:
Quote from: jolrei on 2009 July 28, 13:45:38
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 July 28, 10:28:55
Actually, I've heard people's inner voices before. Remarkably, they all sound rather similar: Moist and squishy.
Are you sure that's a voice? I mean, once you get inside there, everything is moist and squishy.
On the other hand, if that is a voice, it seems possible that Joan of Arc's "voices" that compelled her to rampage through France and then jump into a BBQ were little more than gas and perhaps her tummy rumbling. Joan was a hungry emo; thousands die.
[/historical reductionism]
Now you're making me want to watch The Messenger. Just for the scene where the Dustin Hoffman voice starts giving her a bunch of random scenarios as to why there might've been a sword lying in the middle of a field.
K_L_Carten:
I have been lurking here on and off for years, but I have been a little afraid about my grammar. Just like many of others here, its been years since I have taken a English class and even had to write something that I was truly worried about my grammar. My spelling compared to most in any reports I had to write up at work was always better than my co-workers and my handwriting was the best of the lot. I was always worried that I would have been called out by inadvertently making grammar errors. Sometimes, I forget and sometimes use the rules of Spanish instead of English, and English is my native tongue. It just slips and I am not fluent in Spanish anymore, it just seems that when writing I happen to mix it up at times. It sounds strange, but its the truth, ok, enough rambling.
I just want to say on one thread there was question asked in a very misspelled and really hard to read grammar and logical way. Someone cared enough to interpreted it for the rest of us and a few post down someone put a link on the site. The site is SpellCheck, not only does it check your spelling. I always did that before posting, but it checks your grammar. I have a tendency to be wordy and wow, it really shows on SpellCheck. If only we had that 20 years ago. I could have run it through SpellCheck and not worry about grammar. Damn, kids are lucky today, I remember arguing over what was considered too wordy and cut it down so easy with this, and with that. I just have to say the grammar police should be on patrol. Really there is no reason that a post should not be misspelled and grammatically correct. Thank you grammar police, and now when I go back to college, I will not be afraid of writing term papers again.
rufio:
Quote from: K_L_Carten on 2009 August 08, 09:17:19
Sometimes, I forget and sometimes use the rules of Spanish instead of English, and English is my native tongue. It just slips and I am not fluent in Spanish anymore, it just seems that when writing I happen to mix it up at times.
Just out of curiosity, what kinds of errors?
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I just want to say on one thread there was question asked in a very misspelled and really hard to read grammar and logical way. Someone cared enough to interpreted it for the rest of us and a few post down someone put a link on the site. The site is SpellCheck, not only does it check your spelling. I always did that before posting, but it checks your grammar. I have a tendency to be wordy and wow, it really shows on SpellCheck. If only we had that 20 years ago. I could have run it through SpellCheck and not worry about grammar.
I didn't see the site, but computerized grammar checkers generally suck balls. Anyway, being too verbose is not a grammatical problem, so a "grammar checker" should not be concerned about that.
maxon:
Quote from: K_L_Carten on 2009 August 08, 09:17:19
I just want to say on one thread there was question asked in a very misspelled and really hard to read grammar and logical way. Someone cared enough to interpreted it for the rest of us and a few post down someone put a link on the site. The site is SpellCheck, not only does it check your spelling. I always did that before posting, but it checks your grammar. I have a tendency to be wordy and wow, it really shows on SpellCheck. If only we had that 20 years ago. I could have run it through SpellCheck and not worry about grammar.
I shouldn't rely too heavily on something like that if I were you. The effectiveness of grammar checkers is very limited. Similarly, spell-checkers - there are many words that sound the same but are spelled differently depending on what they mean. You need to know (no) this, so you use the correct word.
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