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TotalLossBrain posted:Grammar nazis and the alt-write cnut posted:*Grammer *Grandma
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 18:50 |
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I try to pronounce your you're differently. Yore vs yewer. Tricky out loud though. It's not a grammar thing to me. They are completely different words. Like "or" "oar" "ore", "red" "read".
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 19:17 |
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RobattoJesus posted:*Grandma *Grandmaster Flash
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 19:18 |
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Bombadilillo posted:I had a middle school teacher that was pedantic and it rubbed off on me and it took me a long time to get over it and stop telling people they were pronouncing words wrong. Example, Forte, when referring to a strength was originally pronounced "fort", the common usage was only for instruments. So went around as a little poo poo correcting people who said running was their forte. Took a while to get over that and a love affair with "A Way With Words" on NPR. Fort is masculine and forte is feminine , hth
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 21:38 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Fort is masculine and forte is feminine , hth "Honey come quick the girls have built a fort in the guarden!" "Ugh... I think you'll find they've built a FORTE"
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 21:43 |
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Now that we have open gays in the military it's time to start calling it Forte Knox.
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 23:35 |
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Tricky D posted:Dear facebook,
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 23:53 |
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Bombadilillo posted:And lets face it, the your you're correction is babies first grammar Nazi. I misuse that poo poo on purpose at those people knowing I am contributing the changing of language and trolling assholes. Actually it's people pointing out that idiots are using the wrong words and outing themselves as a moran. You went from being a pedantic bitch to a whiny bitch.
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 01:15 |
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ChesterJT posted:Actually it's people pointing out that idiots are using the wrong words and outing themselves as a moran. You went from being a pedantic bitch to a whiny bitch. Nice try. So close.
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 03:42 |
Speaking of bad posts,
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 03:47 |
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Bombadilillo posted:
What was his name
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 04:55 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:Grammar nazis and the alt-write Whoa check it this guys been on Facebook
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 08:27 |
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VRViperII posted:I try to pronounce your you're differently. Yewer dumb
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 08:35 |
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https://twitter.com/bloodhaiI/status/807183754116599809
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 12:56 |
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um, that guy's name is toilet
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 13:15 |
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other people posted:um, that guy's name is toilet AHEM! It's pronounced TWAH-LAY
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 13:16 |
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Bombadilillo posted:I know Im arguing with a dumb jpg. But if you look at how much language changes its crazy. 150 years ago you would have trouble conversing. 500 years ago you could not speak English. The speed at which slang becomes "official" is really fast and when people ignore 'rules' or the 'proper words' they go away really fast. Babbies first linguistics essay.
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 14:43 |
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VRViperII posted:I try to pronounce your you're differently. holy poo poo a goon exists that is too dumb to understand the concept of homophones
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 14:44 |
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thathonkey posted:holy poo poo a goon exists that is too dumb to understand the concept of homophones That could be. Or i could be making an effort not to be saying "yer" when i mean "you are" like a single toothed bayou caricature.
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 16:05 |
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VRViperII posted:That could be. Or i could be making an effort not to be saying "yer" when i mean "you are" like a single toothed bayou caricature. I don't think about it at all
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thathonkey posted:holy poo poo a goon exists that is too dumb to understand the concept of homophones Of course when you're by yourself in your computer den with adjoined lego room with no family or friends or loved ones aside from your eve online goon corp it's easy to start shouting YEWER and YUR to yourself so that you can tell the difference
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 16:22 |
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Fight children with diabetes? How bazaar.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Of course when you're by yourself in your computer den with adjoined lego room with no family or friends or loved ones aside from your eve online goon corp it's easy to start shouting YEWER and YUR to yourself so that you can tell the difference That sounds lonely. Try going outside. For content: Never mind. Facebook is garbage and nothing I can find is worth sharing.
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 17:13 |
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VRViperII posted:That could be. Or i could be making an effort not to be saying "yer" when i mean "you are" like a single toothed bayou caricature. Yer doin'et rong
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 17:20 |
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Languages traditionally change much more rapidly in urban areas versus rural ones. For example, Colonial American backwoods dudes spoke English much closer to the Shakespearean accent than Londoners during the same time period. A lot of the rhymes in Shakespeare's stuff don't work any longer in the stuffy "traditional" accent his works are performed in because the British accent has drifted so much over time. There's a few troupes dedicated to trying to reconstruct the proper accent for performances, so that's cool. The same goes for slang and neologisms, etc. In areas of dense population, those can develop, take hold, spread and then fall out of favor rapidly. By the time a slang term is old news in the city, it might just be starting to creep in on the periphery of the rural lexicon. With giant internet communities being connected and able to instantly message and respond to individuals, there's essentially very high density pockets where language is being pressure-cooked before being flung out into the general population. Soon we will all speak like moon people and movies from the 1980s will be nearly culturally and linguistically unintelligible to kids born in the 2080s. Or something
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 17:55 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:Grammar nazis and the alt-write haha
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Pvt.Scott posted:Languages traditionally change much more rapidly in urban areas versus rural ones. For example, Colonial American backwoods dudes spoke English much closer to the Shakespearean accent than Londoners during the same time period. A lot of the rhymes in Shakespeare's stuff don't work any longer in the stuffy "traditional" accent his works are performed in because the British accent has drifted so much over time. There's a few troupes dedicated to trying to reconstruct the proper accent for performances, so that's cool. Historically informed Shakespeare sounds like a retarded Somerset pirate
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 03:05 |
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ChesterJT posted:Make america drunk drivers again. Jesus walks into a hotel with a handful of nails and says "put me up for the night"
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 03:22 |
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These math ones are my favorite: Gary isn't having your order of operations bullshit.
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 05:42 |
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He seems to think there can be two correct answers, the difference being one is BOSS and the other is for the common man.
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 18:11 |
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whodatwhere posted:He seems to think there can be two correct answers, the difference being one is BOSS and the other is for the common man. Those are actually the legit rules of secret math, so Gary checks out.
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 18:30 |
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How can you get it to 0? I can't figure it out. It's like a reverse IQ-test I like the person who gets it right despite the potentially bogus order of operations
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 18:35 |
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Order of operations is stupid, expressions should be evaluated left to right.
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Vesi posted:How can you get it to 0? I can't figure it out. It's like a reverse IQ-test I assume they are adding and subtracting first then doing division and multiplication, the last bit gives you zero and then multiplying times that would give you zero as well. It's the only way I can figure to get 0
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 18:41 |
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The Management posted:Order of operations is stupid, expressions should be evaluated left to right. What do you expect from a bunch of muslim terrorists
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 18:42 |
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The Management posted:Order of operations is stupid, expressions should be evaluated left to right. All operations matter.
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 18:53 |
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The Management posted:Order of operations is stupid, expressions should be evaluated left to right. Ok, Gary.
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 19:26 |
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"Only 2% of the world's population will <blanket term that describes everybody> and are considered a real genius! The other 99 % are scientifically proven to have never thought of this!" ZOmG that is so me! -type posts are my favorite. The narcissism is staggering. Reddit (I know, I know) has a subreddit called r/iamverysmart that's a real goldmine. It's pure digitized cringe. Some people are completely devoid of self-awareness
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# ? Dec 10, 2016 19:46 |
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I know a dude who is always making fun of sharebait posts with me yet still got into a heated argument over the correct answer to one of those maths posts Also Facebook messenger is the shittest chat client ever. Why the gently caress are my only two options "receive no chat notifications" and "receive every stupid notification including those random 'billy mcdickface scored 10 points playing dickball' ones"
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I refuse to install facebook messenger. gently caress that.
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