Hilllllarious! Let me start off by redirecting anyone's belief that I am insulting the forum community at large. The whole purpose of my first post was to slam the GRAMMAR POLICE. I can see from the replies that the grammar mafia were, as expected, the most insulting and leanest on value.
If you had lurked and read some of the grammar police's earlier posts, you would be surprised by the fact that their entertainment value is in high regard around here.
I apologize for sounding so pompous to the forum community. Had I made it clearer that all my comments were for the benefit of the grammar mafia and their own unjustifiable (-able/-ible) arrogance, the rest of you might have looked at that post from a different perspective.
Hmm, so what you are saying is essentially FO Grammar police, I'm not arrogant, you are! Meet Mr. mirror. BTW, not all of MATY are grammar police, yet most of us expect others to adhere to the current grammar rules. Which means for me that if I'm called out on a grammatical error (which happens from time to time) I make a note of it and mend my ways. Trust me, it's a learning experience.
It's so funny that there was no interest in this thread for almost a month until I read one post mocking someone's intelligence, got pissed off and launched on a rant. It was unforgivable of me (-ible/-able). I'm really too busy living a life in the real world to waste much precious time in a virtual one, though it seems virtual worlds are preferable (-able/-ible) to those of you beating up on anyone and everyone who decides to post a reply to your sacred thread. Look at how much work you put into "amusing" avatars and badges to represent yourselves. As I stated, I only came to this site to get a mod and thought that a thread initiated by GRAMMAR POLICE might be informative and intelligent. I was mistaken.
Yes, yes, this has been stated before by other n00bs. Every time they get the question: Why are you here then? Why do you care so much? Right, you were beaten up by the Grammar police. Poor you.
I'm amazed that this thread is even allowed to exist, given the ignorance of those purporting to be its mafia squad. You see, here is an example of IT'S and ITS being properly used. I probably shouldn't have mentioned one of my pet peeves in the first place since you misunderstood my intent. Your grammar mafia seem to be truly confused about which to use when. And my FELLOWS, as you called them, would laugh me out of the room if they knew I visited this type of forum, let alone posted something.
So, now we have a mafia? Cool!
The type of exchange I am used to directs responses to the originator and posters are encouraged to include additional information regarding the topic introduced. Many of those posts can be quite long, being of a technical nature, and often include links to sites with even more information than is being given in the post. I was merely utilizing habits I am familiar with when posting to forum threads.
That is well and all, but here people are advised to lurk and to read the faq, preferrably more times than one. Also, it is a good thing to do a bit of research so that forum threads don't get bloated and to make it easier on others to find the technical info you search for.
Looong lecture on grammar.
Look, if you want to become a grammar police that bad, sign up with Rufio. She will help you out.
True, my meaning in that original post got lost in the quagmire. I was HOT when I wrote it. Clearly stated:
#1-That post was directed to the ORIGINATOR of this thread and others titling themselves the grammar mafia, not all posters in general. Don't be so sensitive when you aren't even being insulted (by me, anyway).
See, here all is fair game. That means there is no privacy on the board. Type something and you better expect others to respond, even those who haven't started the thread.
#2-I don't care how vulgar or profane you are, in general. It's an oxymoron, though, for people to declare themselves to be grammarians and yet be unable to express themselves in a civil and educated tone.
Have you talked to the Tard?
#3-Don't declare yourself an expert in something that you obviously don't have a broad command of, like the English language.
I'm not an expert, nor will I ever be. I do however put in an effort to learn me some english grammar and consider the posts by some members here to be highly educational.
#4-Be more sensitive to people's mental capacities. After all, look at how obviously limited your own capacities are.
You really did take a wrong turn at the intersection.
No, I didn't believe typos would be an issue on this thread. By admitting that I probably left behind typos shouldn't offend any of you when text-speak and acronyms are freely used here. I meant that I'm not perfect, but I'm also not trying to pass myself off as GRAMMAR POLICE. The length of my former post, and this one as well, should serve to inform the reader that I am able to pound out loads of crap onto a computer quickly. Anyway, at least I put forth the effort of glancing back over my post (and deleting my more egregious insults). To be frank, I blasted the grammar mafia pretty harshly before I edited my first post. Can you imagine if I hadn't edited it?
Um, the thread is called Grammar POLICE. Followed by what could be construed as a warning. Are you blind? You don't want to be Grammar Police you say, yet earlier in your post you make an effort of correcting some of the Grammar police. I don't get it.
I didn't read 99% of the gibberish between page one and page 99999, so I don't understand the post about being cage-matched against someone else. Perhaps it's another person trying to educate the great unwashed in the grammar mafia? (The "great unwashed" is a derogatory remark from a long time ago and has dropped out of common use; it has nothing to do with hygiene. I just like to pull it out to use on people who feel superior to others without any merit for their assumption.)
A cage match means that you should try fighting with someone. If you don't understand a saying, try googling it. Or even better, search the forum for related topics. And no, it is a meme. It was funny.
One person's which is another person's that. Try reading, a book. A book on grammar might be a good place to start. You may learn something. I have to "read up" on current grammar trends constantly for CPEs that/which are required for my job. Oh, I'm really sorry! My former and current intent is not to insult the forum contributors as a whole, just the mafia!
Bad grammar police, yeah, we got that by now.
Grammar cat and grammar ferret might want to be more concerned about the "presents" coming out of their own mouths (expressed typographically, of course) instead of dropping one in someone's shoe.
Again, if you had any knowledge of MATY's culture, you would have brushed that off with a laugh and moved on. Ferrets and cats can never be wrong!
We are living in the 21st century now. The invention of the typewriter actually took care of the line-slanting problem. The intent of that tidbit of information was a direct insult to the mafia's attempts to use punctuation rules that they clearly don't understand the origin of. Knowing why you place which characters where can make it easier to remember what the rules are. Stupid of me to include that before, but the generous side of me was trying to impart some wisdom on the mafia cretins. (I just love the word cretin.)
Are we really? I wasn't aware of that. Again, if you want to apply for Grammar Police, contact Rufio.
Great job students! At least I got a dead thread going again. Now you kiddies will have to cross verbal blades with each other without parental guidance. I said I would check back to see if anyone reads this thread anymore since it is nonsensical (a real word; look it up in an unabridged dictionary--just a musical way of saying nonsense). I have done so. Now I must say goodbye; to say farewell implies that we will be meeting each other again, and that (which?) will not happen. I know this will reduce the few of you in the mafia who actually deigned to respond to tears, but different paths and all that . . . (ellipsis)
We shall weep for you. No, seriously. Go.
P.S. (Or Post-script to the nit picky) I hope I gave the reader the option of choosing between which and that every time I used one of those words. To the person who found my laziness in correcting my own typos funny, this next line should be a hoot. I didn't go back over this particular installment in English 101! Hurray! I think my intentions have been made clear; the mafia needs a makeover and should allow conversations to flow organically. If a post is indecipherable (-ible/-able), simply ask for clarification. Less insulting heat may lead to more valuable exchange.
Actually, it seemed like you weren't too sure how to use those words. We do have valuable exchange. With people that are less insulted. It is funny though how many come in here weekly to try and change the forum only to say Buh-bye shortly thereafter. Have a nice trip, shelleyb!
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