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I've written nothing but emails and text messages since I graduated and no one who gives a single poo poo had ever said anything if you let outlook put in the comma or not. Maybe they are posting in the cloned thread on another forum frothing at the mouth about it but never telling anyone they work with about their ocd. I'm not sure.
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Wendigee posted:I've written nothing but emails and text messages since I graduated and no one who gives a single poo poo had ever said anything if you let outlook put in the comma or not. So, what are you pedantic about?
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The dude abides homie 🤙
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Vegetable posted:I used to be a stickler for the oxford comma. Now I prefer going without. It’s sometimes useful but for every example where the oxford comma clears up confusion, it’s really not hard to create one where the opposite happens. Some people still swear by it and won’t shut up. It’s a punctuation mark, don’t make it part of your personality, dweeb. I honestly dislike the Oxford comma for a dumb reason: I think it makes my sentences look messier. Just ever so slightly. A lot of the problem is that I use so many commas elsewhere. (Pauses in speech, before so/but/and, between joint bits of dialogue, etc.) One more shouldn't make a difference, but it's also one more comma that I don't really consider as necessary making my sentence look messier. Like I said, dumb reason.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:The parenthesis are confusing me enough to stay my probe finger. the only one who needs a probe here is you for using ‘parenthesis’ when you should have used ‘parentheses’
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Regarding word definitions I am a descriptivist for most things, but when specific meanings are lost I am a steadfast prescriptive. Envy vs Jealous Calling all sodas/fizzy/pop/soft drink "coke" Litteraly as a superlative
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Most "mega"threads are kilothreads at best.
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:I get the feeling some folks think OP stands for "Other Poster." I'm pretty sure it stands for "One Piece" and signifies that you believe the person you're quoting is valuable beyond measure. It's a really kind thing. Bad Purchase posted:it stands for "ordinary poster" and can be used to refer to any poster without rank or title But what if I do have posting rank? Please address me by my title, Edit: D --- no, "Duke" won't work either. There are not a lot of good "_P" abbreviations.
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i used to care about grammar and proper capitalisation and stuff on the internet when I was a teenager in the early 00's. you know, one of those guys who prides himself on not using lol and saying haha instead. i mellowed at some point and now i usually post like this unless it's a big seriouspost i'll even use imojis idgaf op 🤙
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3.2 inches does not make me the "3 inch guy", Mary. Accuracy is a virtue like tidiness and not telling lies!
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yugioh mishima posted:the only one who needs a probe here is you for using ‘parenthesis’ when you should have used ‘parentheses’ You are correct. I doubted myself and checked the spelling and changed it to the singular because I was being too lazy to read the whole definition. My petard, I am hoist by it. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Shadow0 posted:Like "U.S.A" instead of "U.S.A." or just without the dots like "USA" Which reminds me that people often use too many periods. "I like living in the U.S. Army 1st division headquarters has free pizza on Fridays." is correct. "I like living in the U.S.. Army 1st division headquarters has free pizza on Fridays." is breaking the rules.
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Phyzzle posted:Which reminds me that people often use too many periods.
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Phyzzle posted:Which reminds me that people often use too many periods. This is what semicolons are for.
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Phyzzle posted:Which reminds me that people often use too many periods. It might depend on style guide, but I think the second might generally be more correct. It reminds me of how awkward citing a paper by "so-and-so, et al." could be, because if it is at the end of a sentence it becomes et al.. It's also an argument in favor of not using periods to denote initialisms - NASA or CIA wouldn't have the issue you describe, for instance. "I live living in the US. Army 1st division headquarters has free pizza on Fridays."
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It might depend on style guide, but I think the second might generally be more correct. It reminds me of how awkward citing a paper by "so-and-so, et al." could be, because if it is at the end of a sentence it becomes et al..  lol
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Wendigee posted:
Do you even know what thread you're in anymore? If you really want a sixer you can just ask, you know.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:If you really want a sixer you can just ask, you know. Sweet! I would like a sixer with this image please and thank you:  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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xcheopis posted:Sweet! I would like a sixer with this image please and thank you: Done. I ain't doing a lot of these, though - apparently some people take their Leper's Colony experience very seriously and I'll get yelled at if I put in too many images.
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Elentor posted:That doesn't do anything to me but every time I stumble upon a site saying the left eye is processed by the right hemisphere of the brain and vice-versa I convulse a little. Thinking about how fields of vision interact is kind of difficult for me, but this is a key place to think about how augmentation will need to be implanted to keep the cognitive shift within "normal" perceived values. I wonder how the prefrontal controls the top and bottom view. Like an imagination overlaid on top of whatever pictures we use buts upside down and inverted 😮
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we DONT negotiate with thread terrorists
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Done. That only makes me want to probe more
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Oddly, Depeche Mode enjoyed dancing to "No Masses for the Pity" in hard club 96, before a lot of goons were even alive.
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The members of the band are at a gig. You’re at a concert.
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