Spelling, grammer and punctuation

i was simply referring to the sentence "I have business transaction"
it is correct, but makes no sense.

Originally posted by Jury
Actually, it's technically wrong. Redundancy can never be grammatically correct... but it came to the point that it seems correct when people used them over and over again.

Redundancies don't necessarily have faulty grammar.

'The fire is hot'- is grammatically sound. It just, as the term dictates, has a redundant element- it's pleonastic.

And not a single person liked my rhyme.

*Cuts himself.*

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Because we are talking shit, whereas you are shit?

Yay for emos.

"Obviously, you're not a golfer..."

'Vernacular' is not something that you produce when you have a cold.

However, in your case...Ahhh! "I can see clearly now the rain has gone..."

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom

'The fire is hot'- is grammatically sound. It just, as the term dictates, has a redundant element- it's pleonastic.

Are you repeating yourself from not believing in UFOs ?

Originally posted by GCG
Are you repeating yourself from not believing in UFOs ?

I'm not sure what you mean.

I was pointing out to Jury that a 'redundancy' need not be grammatically unsound.

Your thread amnesiac. The little things that tick you off. 😂

I dont believe in UFOs follwing with a disclaimier.

Originally posted by GCG
Your thread amnesiac. The little things that tick you off. 😂

I dont believe in UFOs follwing with a disclaimier.

Oh. This isn't really one of those kind of threads, it's more of a general discussion. Or at least it was.

Originally posted by JacopeX
I hate using all that. Why cant the internet be freedom like it used to be, now i gotta type how other people type. Hell no. I dont like to be like otha people!

You gotta type how other people type because you sound like a ****ing moron when you don't. Nobody will take you seriously if you can't even speak English correctly.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Neither would be grammar. I don't expect Dickens length sentences, but come on.

Such a lame excuse as well.

It's not maths class but the laws of arithmetic still apply; my pressing of these keys is in fact leading to the corresponding character appearing on the monitor, but we aren't in science class.

Seeing as we are actually using language to communicate, I don't really see why 'we're not in English class' is given any credit at all.

✅ I agree completely. I'm quite obsessive about spelling, punctuation and grammar; it really frustrates me when people just don't bother. Where they're simply getting it wrong (perhaps through ignorance), however, it's unfair to judge them and I think it would be much more constructive to point out their mistakes. Preferably in as polite a manner as possible!

The worst thing I see on message boards is the complete lack of respect for language. Words mutilated, devastated sentences and comments all out of context. Being unaware of one's mistakes is a feasible excuse, but there's no valid reason for purposeful ignorance, or blatant laziness. Surely it's better to try to get your views across to others in an intelligent and 'professional' manner, especially if you expect others to appreciate anything you have to say. I wouldn't expect anyone to take the time to hear my opinions if I didn't at least have the decency to air them properly.

I agree with her for the most part, but I must admit if everyone was obsessive about it then it would take away the fun of a forum... you know, the people who swear all the time, say they have a billion dollars and 3 girlfriends, and their father is a business tycoon.

😄

I know, and I see there's nothing wrong with being relaxed, fun with it and so forth. But it's the blatant, obnoxious ignorance and the fact that certain people simply don't care. It hurts me inside cry

Let us have a moment of silence for the death of good grammar...

*sniffs quietly*

Lord help our doomed world...

Agree with her?

I already said I didn't mean minor typos or even errors, nor exclusively internet forums.

Hey VVD; this was posted in a thread in the OTF.

Tell us what you think of it.

I thought it was horrible.

it was moring as i awake next to my faitfull horse i hear something in the distance as i climb on my horse alto the sound gets lounder like a pounding i am a knight sent by the king to kill a colossus or gaint or what ever u may call them i was sent to get ride of them becasue it was killing off many villages that where important for trade.as i pull my sword from seath and i point it to the sun wich reflects it to the point of the nosie which i knew was the colossus becasue of the terable nise it makes. the sound of it is the sound of death comeing and comeing and all u can do is wait for it till then it stops when it snaps ur body in half.
as i began to kick alto's sides he sped up to a hill which gave me a clear view at the whicked monster..... its eyes bruned red,blue and yellow it seamed to changed with every attack it did. but the strange thing was there was nothing there it was like he was traing. as i truned around and got 100 feet away i quickly ran toward the hill jumped off of alto and landed on the gaints back its eyes glowed blue and ice shards came out of his back hiting my right leg. then the shards went back in and even though i was injured i still manged to stay on. as i held on with 1 arm and stabed blidly at the gaint beast. its tossed its head bucked its back ran aroung in a cicrle to try to get me off. and after all of that i still stayed on.... i wish i quickly fell to the groung landing on my back and that hurted my leg even more. as i try to move to get out of its path it's eyes trued red and fire spit from the horrible giants mouth as i indured the flames which i soon realzied he didt want to hit me but get the surrounding area and then he would watch me die as the fire got closer and closer i had no idea what to do so then i brung my self to my neas and watched as i would slowly die i looked into the eyes of the giant . and i saw alto comeing he ran threw the blazeing flames and aloud be to climb on his back the we rode away but the gaint was not done he came with us....to the kings castle... as we aprrochhed it many of the kings pointed and shouted i had no idea what they pointed to then i saw him the beast mouth was opend and yellow lightingh came down with a loud bang. the king ran out of his bedroom to see what happend the king yelled to the kings to kill that beast and so they tryed...and then they died as i was the only one who knew the attacks and how to tell what type would come next i had to fight the beast from alto we ran up besied it and i shoved my sword into the side for the hole way down leaveing a huge gash. what was left of the kings men where sent out with tourches and shoved them into thew side whith the gian flesh wound in it. i had givein the kinghs men the adveantage they needed to kill it.....and they did i was a hero. i based this on the shadow of colossus for ps2 the colossus i was talking about was the secod one look into his eyes.

Okay....wow

I didn't know we had James Joyce as a member.

Originally posted by GCG
Hey VVD; this was posted in a thread in the OTF.

Tell us what you think of it.

I thought it was horrible.

Oh my... That's just... In the words of BackFire, Wow.

That's one of the things I am talking about. It's very hard to read that, and that is because they haven't used the language properly, NOT because they are 'lazy' (because that comma key is just so time-consuming), or because they are pioneering a new evolutionary step in the development of the language.

It's just terrible communication.