Be honest now, does a chiding grammar correction warrant "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!

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I'm blown away by this.

Who'd have thunk that a grammar chide would net "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!

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I'm blown away by this.

Who'd have thunk a grammar chide would net "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!

fixed it for you

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Ya know, sometimes, it's not what you say, but how you say it.

Well, the funny thing is, I don't think it was said all that heinously. It even had a after it. And it was not to someone I've picked on mercilessly--or ever.

I'd have thunk that a fairer exchange would have been a chide back! But wishing death? To a fellow skydiver? (Presumed fellow skydiver, that is. I have no knowledge or proof that this person even jumps.) That's pretty damned fucked-up, if ya ask me. Certainly tells me something about the state of this person's mind, you bet.

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lol no the funny thing is you bring it here as if you need confirmation it's a fucked up thing to say to someone when you know it is and THAT'S why he/she said it to you. You just wanna make some drama with your baby mama.

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lol no the funny thing is you bring it here as if you need confirmation it's a fucked up thing to say to someone when you know it is and THAT'S why he/she said it to you. You just wanna make some drama with your baby mama.

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I'm blown away by this.

Who'd have thunk that a grammar chide would net "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!

I'm not blown away by it, considering some of the crap people spout here. Was it a PM or a direct post? And no, a grammar chide does not warrant a response like that.

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Ya know, sometimes, it's not what you say, but how you say it.

Is that a yes?

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lol no the funny thing is you bring it here as if you need confirmation it's a fucked up thing to say to someone when you know it is and THAT'S why he/she said it to you. You just wanna make some drama with your baby mama.

Right, which is an extension of the same personality that spell checks everything.

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I'm blown away by this.

Who'd have thunk that a grammar chide would net "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!

It wasn't me that said that, assuming it was said in PM. If it was stated in PM, I think it's really ________ to bring it here. In other firums we have names for people who bring PM's to public and most people think it's really petty to do so. I think I know who might have written that and I back that person all the way in general with their ideologies. Have a nice day .

Oh, in case your board, hears sumthing for you two do.

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>>>>>>>>>>>>Be honest now, does a chiding grammar correction warrant "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!


BTW, you didn't insert a comma after the word, "warrant."

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Stupid question. Why who wished you'd go in? I wouldn't wish that on anyone for something they wrote on the internet.

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No - you broke it

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>>>>>>>>>>>>Be honest now, does a chiding grammar correction warrant "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!


BTW, you didn't insert a comma after the word, "warrant."

Comma not required

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I'm blown away by this:

Who'd have thunk that a grammar chide would net "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!

It should have been a colon instead of a period.

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>>>>>>>>>>>>Be honest now, does a chiding grammar correction warrant "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!


BTW, you didn't insert a comma after the word, "warrant."

Comma not required

According to my university it does, I wish to belive them over you, sorry. I really don't give a fuck, I don't spell-correct, Birdman does tho.

Not to mention, the question mark and exclamation mark should be within the quotation marks, unless the author actually wrote it that way.

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>>>>>>>>>>>>Be honest now, does a chiding grammar correction warrant "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!


BTW, you didn't insert a comma after the word, "warrant."

Comma not required

According to my university it does, I wish to belive them over you, sorry. I really don't give a fuck, I don't spell-correct, Birdman does tho.

Not to mention, the question mark and exclamation mark should be within the quotation marks, unless the author actually wrote it that way.

I stand corrected. You're right on both points.

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No - you broke it

What do you know? You're from Britain.

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Fair point and well made

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>>>>>>>>>>>>Be honest now, does a chiding grammar correction warrant "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!


BTW, you didn't insert a comma after the word, "warrant."

Comma not required

According to my university it does, I wish to belive them over you, sorry. I really don't give a fuck, I don't spell-correct, Birdman does tho.

Not to mention, the question mark and exclamation mark should be within the quotation marks, unless the author actually wrote it that way.

I stand corrected. You're right on both points.

As were you about the colon. Comma usage is very subjective and changes thru time as with other grammatical use. Point is, and I'm sure you're with me on this, this is a posting board, not a term paper, not a legal document, who gives a fuck except you know who?

For that guy to think perfect grammar and spellcheck somehow makes the content more persuasive is ridiculous....and I'm sure you're with me.

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for that guy to think perfect grammar and spellcheck somehow makes the content more persuasive is ridiculous....and I'm sure you're with me.

Perhaps not.

But i can tell you without a doubt that the opposite is absolutely true.

for those who have trouble with reading, i mean that poor grammar and punctuation make an argument LESS persuasive.

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for that guy to think perfect grammar and spellcheck somehow makes the content more persuasive is ridiculous....and I'm sure you're with me.

Perhaps not.

But i can tell you without a doubt that the opposite is absolutely true.

for those who have trouble with reading, i mean that poor grammar and punctuation make an argument LESS persuasive.

Sure, if it's a mess all the time, every time, it tends to pursuade us that a person is probably uneducated on the issue at hand.

OTOH, it is a major ad hominem to say, "Guy X is so f'ing stupid he can't even put a sentence together, his point in this argument must be as believable." I know Einstein was an idiot-savant, I understand he would leave the house without his pants at times and his social skills were weak, as well as his writing skills. I'm not an Einstein historian, but I tend to believe the essence of that. So intelect can be ugly or some people may have great social skills and be great writers, but have little base knowledge, essentially a car salesman, so I say fuck the writing skills, give me content.

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I'm blown away by this.

Who'd have thunk that a grammar chide would net "I hope you go in, you miserable piece of fuck"?!

I'm not blown away by it, considering some of the crap people spout here. Was it a PM or a direct post? And no, a grammar chide does not warrant a response like that.

It was in a PM from someone who is closed to accepting PMs in return. I first tried to send back, and would have expressed how flabbergasted I was, but I was met with a message that the user does not accept PMs. Go figure.

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It wasn't me that said that, assuming it was said in PM. If it was stated in PM, I think it's really ________ to bring it here. In other firums we have names for people who bring PM's to public and most people think it's really petty to do so. I think I know who might have written that and I back that person all the way in general with their ideologies. Have a nice day .

Oh, in case your board, hears sumthing for you two do.

You can throw that old strawman around if you want to, that I'm forever correcting people's grammar and spelling. The fact is, it's bullshit. I've done it once in a while, at most, to jab at people who were themselves in the process of giving others shit for grammar and spelling errors while making their own.

As for it being "______" to post about it; well, maybe if the "_____" (whom I will not name) had not closed off replies by PM, I could have just addressed it with that person privately. Who knows, maybe that person will be anonymously shamed into feeling bad about doing something that most of us (well, there are 6 who think it's ok so far) think is pretty reprehensible.

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