happythoughts 0 #26 February 21, 2003 I have a buddy who doesn't post here, but other places. He never uses any capitalization or punctuation. Not even periods or commas. You get a running paragraph. Hard to read, but it's his personal style and I like the content. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bbarnhouse 0 #27 February 21, 2003 Quote but it's his personal style and I like the content. Yes, and imagine if Jtval didn't post here due to his lack of grammatical prowess. My goodness it would be rather boring here. Bwahhhhhhhhh Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gemini 0 #28 February 21, 2003 Ok here's a list of grammatical instructions from the St Leo's University web site although they don't claim authorship. Can we clean-up our grammer now? "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. Don't use no double negatives. Don't never use no triple negatives. No sentence fragments Corollary: Complete sentences: important. Stamp out and eliminate redundancy. Avoid cliches like the plague. All generalizations are bad Take care that your verb and subject is in agreement. A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. Avoid those run-on sentences that just go on, and on, and on, they never stop, they just keep rambling, and you really wish the person would just shut up, but no, they just keep going, they're worse than the Energizer Bunny, they babble incessantly, and these sentences, they just never stop, they go on forever...if you get my drift... You should never use the second person. The passive voice should never be used. Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the sixth century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland... As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations." Excessive use of exclamation points can be disastrous!!!!! Don't use question marks inappropriately? Don't obfuscate your theses with extraneous verbiage. Never use that totally cool, radically groovy out-of-date slang. Avoid tumbling off the cliff of triteness into the black abyss of overused metaphors. Keep your ear to the grindstone, your nose to the ground, take the bull by the horns of a dilemma, and stop mixing your metaphors. Avoid those abysmally horrible, outrageously repellent exaggerations. Avoid any awful anachronistic aggravating antediluvian alliterations. This sentence no verb." Blue skies, Jim Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akaGQ 0 #29 February 22, 2003 Quote The main thing to consider is that there are a huge number of techies on this forum during the day. The first rule of coding is that you don't have to spell it right, you just have to spell it the same way all the time. BTW, "Ok so heres another useless post but who cares so who in your opinion makes " s/b "Ok, so here's another useless post, but who cares. So who, in your opinion, makes..." Very nice vedy vedy nice.- GQ ... it was the love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty ... -Charles Lindberg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
