Not until you've finished cleaning your room, young man. Now march your ass up those stairs and get to work!
It was minor, but thats a little better. Probably still not perfect though.
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Not until you've finished cleaning your room, young man. Now march your ass up those stairs and get to work!
It was minor, but thats a little better. Probably still not perfect though.
Actually, I meant to put "you ass"
Don't forget, I was emulating a smart ass while saying that.
Don't forget, I was emulating a smart ass while saying that.
commas, usually a nightmare for beginner english teachers, would have made your statement a bit easier to read. but hell who needs commas when they dont do you no good especially when nothing and i mean nothing goes your way however you want it to be?
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Hahahaha, I had this giant discussion with Matt about punctuation last night. He decided:
- People either use too many commas, or not enough
- Not enough people are aware that those dots when you trail off an a sentence are called an ellipsis, and there are three dots, no more, no less. Four dots is an ellipsis and a period. Any more is just ridiculous.
- Ask someone to use a semicolon in a sentence. A lot of the time they can't do it properly.
- Exclamation points are not to be abused: you use one, or on rare occasions, you may use three. You may use a question mark and an exclamation point together (!?), but Matt is silly and likes the way "!?!" looks, even though we agreed that it probably isn't acceptable punctuation.
- (This is called a parenthesis.) [These are called brackets and are used in math]. Do not call parenthesis "brackets", because that is not what they are.
- When writing a list, use semicolons to separate the items if there are commas within the items: I need celery, which must be green; carrots, which should be a shade of bold orange; lemons, which should be sour and also yellow; and radishes, which should be a shade of dusty red.
- Not so much punctuation, but: they're/their/there, and your/you're. How is this so difficult to grasp? "They're" is used in a sentence where you would use "they are". That is why the apostrophe is there. To denote that we are missing letters. They are going to the store = they're going to the store. "Their" is used to denote possession. It is their dog. "There" is used to denote location. She is over there by the house. "You're" is a contraction of "you are". You're going to have a lot of fun. And "your" is possessive. It is your cat.
I HATE getting invitations to things and having it say, "Your invited!" at the top. Your invited what? Your invited... cat? Your invited... friend? Your invited body is not allowed to come?
Also, not on the list because it isn't exactly punctuation, but it really annoys me when people speak in quotations. If someone were being dictated to, they would write what they hear as, "We are now going to introduce you to Sarah, who is a 'biological engineer'." Why do people randomly stress things as though they are in quotations? Do you not believe what it says? Do not stress something like that unless it is in actual quotes! I am pretty sure his page did not say: We are now going to introduce you to Sarah, who is a "biological engineer", if that's what she really is.
/rant.
All the grammar corrections in previous posts just reminded me of Matt's rant.
Did I mention Matt originally wanted to be an English teacher?
- People either use too many commas, or not enough
- Not enough people are aware that those dots when you trail off an a sentence are called an ellipsis, and there are three dots, no more, no less. Four dots is an ellipsis and a period. Any more is just ridiculous.
- Ask someone to use a semicolon in a sentence. A lot of the time they can't do it properly.
- Exclamation points are not to be abused: you use one, or on rare occasions, you may use three. You may use a question mark and an exclamation point together (!?), but Matt is silly and likes the way "!?!" looks, even though we agreed that it probably isn't acceptable punctuation.
- (This is called a parenthesis.) [These are called brackets and are used in math]. Do not call parenthesis "brackets", because that is not what they are.
- When writing a list, use semicolons to separate the items if there are commas within the items: I need celery, which must be green; carrots, which should be a shade of bold orange; lemons, which should be sour and also yellow; and radishes, which should be a shade of dusty red.
- Not so much punctuation, but: they're/their/there, and your/you're. How is this so difficult to grasp? "They're" is used in a sentence where you would use "they are". That is why the apostrophe is there. To denote that we are missing letters. They are going to the store = they're going to the store. "Their" is used to denote possession. It is their dog. "There" is used to denote location. She is over there by the house. "You're" is a contraction of "you are". You're going to have a lot of fun. And "your" is possessive. It is your cat.
I HATE getting invitations to things and having it say, "Your invited!" at the top. Your invited what? Your invited... cat? Your invited... friend? Your invited body is not allowed to come?
Also, not on the list because it isn't exactly punctuation, but it really annoys me when people speak in quotations. If someone were being dictated to, they would write what they hear as, "We are now going to introduce you to Sarah, who is a 'biological engineer'." Why do people randomly stress things as though they are in quotations? Do you not believe what it says? Do not stress something like that unless it is in actual quotes! I am pretty sure his page did not say: We are now going to introduce you to Sarah, who is a "biological engineer", if that's what she really is.
/rant.
All the grammar corrections in previous posts just reminded me of Matt's rant.
Did I mention Matt originally wanted to be an English teacher?
haha... ellipsi [?], to me, indicate that i trailed off of some subject... or maybe its because my thoughts are run-on sentences, and that i just naturally allow the ... anyways, heh @ matt being an english teacher... then he would really have a reason for the drinks...
Hey I like using dots... I use them all the time... a bad habit I got when I worked for a collection company... had to keep lots of notes... although I have tried to cut down my dot usage...
*Shudders*
Sorry :dunno:
Hahaha, yesterday was just this giant day of rants for me. There were many.
Rants aree good.. someday's ya just have to rant, I rant often, Usually only to myself however.. Can't help it, I argue a good point.
Haha, I rant to Leland, and he just nods his head and smiles. So I may as well just rant to myself.
Lol.. for some reason I can vision that.. and I know that would just make me Rant even more..
rants, eh? veronica! silent says we need a rants section!
Well... Now since I am really bored, ad Bacon Is keeping all the Jeager to himself :mad
and Lemon seems to have issues with innocent stalking :dunno:
And no one is online for me to annoy
I guess I will just have to go and make a coupel, few annoying game threads
and Lemon seems to have issues with innocent stalking :dunno:
And no one is online for me to annoy
I guess I will just have to go and make a coupel, few annoying game threads
usually, im on yahoo. you can always bother me on yahoo. 
I opened Yahoo.. All I saw was Adverts ??
heh - get a third party client - i use yahelite - YahELite Home
no adverts, ignore list (will never see their text, if you use chatrooms, and wont receive pm's from them, just a good client)
there are others too. i just use yahelite, i have no problems with it so far.
no adverts, ignore list (will never see their text, if you use chatrooms, and wont receive pm's from them, just a good client)
there are others too. i just use yahelite, i have no problems with it so far.
Chat? Anyone?
There's a tonne of people online, someone must want to talk to me! (Matt doesn't count, I could just talk to him out loud if I wanted to, but he's not productive to non-boredom right now).
So, uh, chat?
There's a tonne of people online, someone must want to talk to me! (Matt doesn't count, I could just talk to him out loud if I wanted to, but he's not productive to non-boredom right now).
So, uh, chat?
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