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03-26-2008, 11:28 PM
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#226
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 621
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Originally Posted by XXChristabelXX
Which is worse- formerly "literate" members chilling out and being goofy on occasion or the grammar Nazis who have nothing else to stand for?
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03-26-2008, 11:55 PM
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#227
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: California
Posts: 390
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Originally Posted by GothicChristian
The above is simply a question, I've been noticing that a lot of places with used-to-be intelligent users/posters have become overrun my illiterate boons, for lack of a better word. I'm not meaning to be rude, I'm simply too lazy to look at all the posts.
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"overrun by illiterate goons"
/irony
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03-27-2008, 12:27 AM
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#228
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Auckland
Posts: 627
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Originally Posted by XXChristabelXX
Which is worse- formerly "literate" members chilling out and being goofy on occasion or the grammar Nazis who have nothing else to stand for?
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What about gassing Jews?
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03-27-2008, 02:59 AM
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#229
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 155
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Originally Posted by Wednesday Friday Addams
What about gassing Jews?
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Is this comment a deliberate attempt to prove the point about the standard of posts?
XXChristabelXX was referring to "grammar Nazis". Not Nazis. Please see the explanation from the Oxford English Dictionary listed below (I have highlighted the relevant definition):
• noun (pl. Nazis) 1 historical a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. 2 derogatory a person with extreme racist or authoritarian views.
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03-27-2008, 03:15 AM
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#230
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Originally Posted by ionic_angel
"overrun by illiterate goons"
/irony
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Those who live by the sword, die by the sword, eh?
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03-27-2008, 03:17 AM
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#231
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 155
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword, eh?
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**giggle**
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03-27-2008, 04:23 AM
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#232
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: in a kingdom by the sea
Posts: 95
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More like live by the sword, get pistol-whipped by reality.
And gassing Jews? Are you that obtuse, that stupid, or that inept at humor?
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03-27-2008, 06:45 AM
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#233
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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I think it was just a joke, guys...
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03-27-2008, 08:34 AM
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#234
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
Posts: 6,909
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Wednesday Friday has an interesting dry sense of humor I think.
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03-27-2008, 08:50 AM
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#235
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,687
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Originally Posted by KontanKarite
Wednesday Friday has an interesting dry sense of humor I think.
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If by 'has an interesting and dry sense of humor' you mean 'spent an afternoon on Encyclopedia Dramatica and decided she was an epic lulz /b/tard'.
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03-27-2008, 09:08 AM
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#236
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 155
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The thought crossed my mind that it might be an attempt at humour, but unfortunately, if it was it was rather crass.
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03-27-2008, 12:48 PM
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#237
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Auckland
Posts: 627
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It actually had a bit to do with what I was doing at the time as well.
Fail troll is fail?
This thread has lost any point anyway...
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03-27-2008, 02:00 PM
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#238
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Down the Rabbit Hole
Posts: 1,724
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Pretty much. I say we move on.
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03-27-2008, 02:25 PM
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#239
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,835
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword, eh?
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I'd rather die by the pen, since the pen is mightier than the sword. Which means it's a worthier opponent. 
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03-27-2008, 02:51 PM
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#240
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 423
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Originally Posted by ionic_angel
"overrun by illiterate goons"
/irony
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Oh dear, I seemed to have missed that "by," one mistake out of many a post; but, "boons" was intentional. It is my word; I use it when I cannot think of a good description.
boons- Noun /originally spelled "b00ns"/ The plural form of the word "boon;" Megan's fusion of a n00b and a baboon, seeing as how they are, generally the same thing.
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03-27-2008, 02:52 PM
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#241
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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That joke was awesome!
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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03-27-2008, 02:55 PM
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#242
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 423
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Originally Posted by XXChristabelXX
So... your laziness is a step above their illiteracy how?
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Just a step; I'm not claiming to be better than them, but this is a literary forum, dear.
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03-27-2008, 03:15 PM
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#243
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,835
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Originally Posted by GothicChristian
Oh dear, I seemed to have missed that "by," one mistake out of many a post; but, "boons" was intentional. It is my word; I use it when I cannot think of a good description.
boons- Noun /originally spelled "b00ns"/ The plural form of the word "boon;" Megan's fusion of a n00b and a baboon, seeing as how they are, generally the same thing.
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Actually, "boon" is already a word, meaning benefit or favor.
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03-27-2008, 03:16 PM
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#244
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,835
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
That joke was awesome!
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Which one?
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03-27-2008, 03:18 PM
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#245
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Auckland
Posts: 627
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Originally Posted by GothicChristian
Just a step; I'm not claiming to be better than them, but this is a literary forum, dear.
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No its a magical unicorn site in disguise..
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03-27-2008, 03:49 PM
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#246
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,687
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Originally Posted by gothicusmaximus
If by 'has an interesting and dry sense of humor' you mean 'spent an afternoon on Encyclopedia Dramatica and decided she was an epic lulz /b/tard'.
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Originally Posted by Wednesday Friday Addams
Fail troll is fail?
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Made point is made.
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03-27-2008, 04:06 PM
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#247
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Auckland
Posts: 627
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Foiled again.
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03-27-2008, 04:22 PM
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#248
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 423
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Originally Posted by Beneath the Shadows
Actually, "boon" is already a word, meaning benefit or favor.
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It's a homonym; there are a few of those, you know.
I knew that there was a word that was spelled the same; I saw it once while skimming through the dictionary.
A word can mean more than one thing, dear.
I hope I'm not seeming rude or angry, I'm not. I actually laughed about my little "my" is equal to "by" slip up. Those don't happen very often; I was rush typing yesterday and so it was inevitable that I would make an error. I extend my apologies for the typographical error, but it happens to the best of us.
(Honestly though, is it not ridiculous to have an average of twelve, or so, per post?)
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03-27-2008, 07:00 PM
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#249
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
Posts: 2,015
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GothicChristian:
1. If you stop using "dear," you'll sound less condescending, sweety.
2. Inventing new meanings to words that already exist is not conducive to clarity. All it does is make you look like an ignorant ass who is trying to sound impressive.
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03-27-2008, 07:12 PM
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#250
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 423
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Originally Posted by LaBelleDameSansMerci
GothicChristian:
1. If you stop using "dear," you'll sound less condescending, sweety.
2. Inventing new meanings to words that already exist is not conducive to clarity. All it does is make you look like an ignorant ass who is trying to sound impressive.
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I call every one dear, unless I don't like them, hun. I used to call everyone hun, and I guess I could go back to that. I can't help the compulsion, it's far too great to use, what I think of as, terms of endearment. If you knew me in real life, you'd know that it's impossible for me to sound condescending.
Also, at the time that I made the friggen meaning I didn't know that it was already I word. I've been using it for a few years now. You couldn't, possibly, have expected that I knew every word in the English language at the age of eleven. Surely, if I did, I'd remember more than the fraction that I do now.
Honestly, you people just assume that people are trying to sound one way when ;
A. Typed out words cannot tell you how someone is trying to sound, and
B. You know absolutely nothing at all about said person.
Honestly, I think I'm going to go through some trouble and type exactly how the words are meant to sound .
(I'm somewhat irate here, if you were wondering.)
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