Originally posted by Lord LucienAnd me a testosterone filled young man. Yes, yes you have, never talked to the woman for conversationalist and cba with another play through.
If I use a mic you'll find out that I'm actually a 70 year old woman. And nya ha ha hah ha ha---I beat you in Assassin's Creed.
This is not so. Language is a very real construct- a formalized catalog of symbols. Punctuation is merely an agreed upon method of how to put ideas (symbols) together. While it is true that this convention is almost completely reliant on common usage, we cannot abandon rules entirely in favor of "common usage" (read: ebonics) because the accepted rules are what maintain the library of symbols' meanings.
Grammar (and punctuation!) unifies the users of a language and prevents it from splintering into a thousand (or bajillion, as the case may be) regional dialects.
So therefore any attempt to disregard their usage is the very definition of Fail.
Originally posted by Red Nemesis...
This is not so. Language is a very real construct- a formalized catalog of symbols. Punctuation is merely an agreed upon method of how to put ideas (symbols) together. While it is true that this convention is almost completely reliant on common usage, we cannot abandon rules entirely in favor of "common usage" (read: ebonics) because the accepted rules are what maintain the library of symbols' meanings.Grammar (and punctuation!) unifies the users of a language and prevents it from splintering into a thousand (or bajillion, as the case may be) regional dialects.
So therefore any attempt to disregard their usage is the very definition of Fail.
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So is your FACE.
This is not so. Language is a very real construct- a formalized catalog of symbols. Punctuation is merely an agreed upon method of how to put ideas (symbols) together. While it is true that this convention is almost completely reliant on common usage, we cannot abandon rules entirely in favor of "common usage" (read: ebonics) because the accepted rules are what maintain the library of symbols' meanings.Grammar (and punctuation!) unifies the users of a language and prevents it from splintering into a thousand (or bajillion, as the case may be) regional dialects.
So therefore any attempt to disregard their usage is the very definition of Fail.
It very much is so. Language is only so real as the greatest works of fiction, it exists only in your head and the signifiers you place around it. So while you may see a fish in your head and think 'this is a fish' that doesn't actually make it a fish at all. There is no innate meaning in a fish that means that it is it is termed as a fish. There is no real link between the word Fish and the body of matter that is termed a fish.
Language is an abstract concept that creates meaning- a system that people have created out of thin air to make the world nice and orderly. Lying to themselves that the world makes sense when in actual fact it does no such thing.
Punctuation and grammar is merely a way to organise a system meant to organise the world, a system that has absolutely no basis in fact whatsoever.
Thank you, come again.