Do I employ the highest level of grammar on this website

Originally posted by Oneness
I doubt it, but point away.

This is dumb. An arrogant reply when I or others could be helping you in a far less antagonistic setting. Anyway, lemme bust out my red pen...

Originally posted by Oneness
If not me, than who?

Then*, not than.

Originally posted by Oneness
Breaking the rule of thumb, one cannot claim themselves as #1 in grammatical imminence relative to this forum's user-base.

This is more coherence than grammar (notice the correct usage of 'than'...take notes), though there's one mistake I'll get to in a moment. But you haven't established the "rule of thumb" so we don't know what you're referring to when you say you're breaking it. Rules of thumb are commonly understood, to the point of cultural ubiquity. Clearly, no such rule exists on KMC.

Also, I believe you meant to use 'eminence' instead of 'imminence' there. So there's your 2nd grammatical mistake.

Originally posted by Oneness
Sincerely though, does no one notice the way in which my vocabulary has developed to the extreme?

Again, this is technically correct, but is an awkward usage of the word 'extreme.'

Originally posted by Oneness
Am I not able to recognize and therefore supremely utilize the minutiae of the English language?

I've used the phrase "word soup" to describe your writing before, and you're guilty of it again here. Nothing about this sentence is technically incorrect, but it's an extremely awkward way of phrasing it. I can't think of a setting, personal or professional, where this would seem contextually normal.

Originally posted by Oneness
Keep in mind this is an individual who was leagues behind almost everyone in the subject of English until his discovery of message boards.

Good for you; I'm glad you've improved. But again, improvement is not mastery, which you are still far from.

Originally posted by Oneness
My intent is to become an anomaly in the business success system of the world. Intelligence is a good tool in that respect.

This straddles the line between word soup and just plain wrong. The first sentence sounds like a foreign language speaker trying to say something in English. We understand what you mean, but you took a very obtuse path to that meaning.

In the second sentence, you fail to identify to what you're referring to. "...in that respect." In WHAT respect? Intelligence is a good tool in becoming an anomaly in the business success system of the world? Maybe the first sentence dooms the second, but it's all just awkwardly phrased. As Neme said, try to avoid big words unless you're absolutely sure of their usage. Otherwise, your language sounds forced.

...

Here's the point: that was a few lines that you were using to say you're the best at this. And they're not good. I won't say they're terrible, but they're not good. And this is among hundreds of posts you've written, many much worse.

So, eat some humble pie. You're probably a smart kid, but this egotistical indignation isn't helping.

I didn't even spot that he misused imminence, lol, wow.

I'd agree that Dolos' main problem seems to be a disturbing propensity toward purple prose. It's like reading fanfiction sometimes, in terms of how virtually incoherent his wording is.

Purple prose? I hadn't encountered that term and had to google it. Thanks.

Also, Neme's not wrong with his comments on comma usage, it's just that the ones he mentioned are likely optional. Your chief problems lie elsewhere.

Oneness: study Hemingway, if you want an entry point that won't bore you to death. He never used an ornate word when a simple one would suffice. His works are a master class in linguistic and grammatical austerity. You'd benefit from taking a few pointers from his style.

Originally posted by Digi
Purple prose? I hadn't encountered that term and had to google it. Thanks.

Also, Neme's not wrong with his comments on comma usage, it's just that the ones he mentioned are likely optional. Your chief problems lie elsewhere.

I mean, Dolos, I've seen much worse. Your posts aren't indecipherable. However, your love for obtuse wording and sentence structure doesn't help your writing, rather, it hinders it.

Also **** Digi my comments on comma usage are not optional. Aesthetic excellence is its own reward. 👆

Originally posted by Digi
Oneness: study Hemingway, if you want an entry point that won't bore you to death. He never used an ornate word when a simple one would suffice. His works are a master class in linguistic and grammatical austerity. You'd benefit from taking a few pointers from his style.

Originally posted by dadudemon
I found your spelling of that word interesting because I recently read this article:

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/get-with-the-programme/

Some words, you use American English spellings. Other words, you use British English spellings: quite interesting. Why the linguistic amalgamation?

When writing professionally I stick with British even though I don't like it.

Originally posted by NemeBro
The anti-Faulkner. Good suggestion. 👆

Originally posted by Digi
Oneness: study Hemingway, if you want an entry point that won't bore you to death. He never used an ornate word when a simple one would suffice. His works are a master class in linguistic and grammatical austerity. You'd benefit from taking a few pointers from his style.

Originally posted by NemeBro
It can be done well (William Faulkner and some would say HP Lovecraft do it pretty well), or wrong, and Dolos certainly does it wrong.

I mean, Dolos, I've seen much worse. Your posts aren't indecipherable. However, your love for obtuse wording and sentence structure doesn't help your writing, rather, it hinders it.

Also **** Digi my comments on comma usage are not optional. Aesthetic excellence is its own reward. 👆

lol

Behold:

Originally posted by dadudemon
It wasn't just Hemingway who criticized him, though. Hemingway was Faulkner's polar opposite, though. I think someone should hand GRRM a few Hemingway pieces. Hemingway succeeded in creating the same sensory as GRRM but with FAAAAAAAAAAAR fewer words. Hemingway was a damn good writer. 🙂

Originally posted by dadudemon
Get ideas on how to descriptive write from William Faulkner. Then contrast that with Ernest Hemingway's ultra-minimalist style. Take a bit from each and then create your own writing style.

Originally posted by Astner
Coolness factor, like with vizor and visor.

When writing professionally I stick with British even though I don't like it.

K.

You have my permission to keep doing what you're doing.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Also **** Digi my comments on comma usage are not optional.

😂

George R.R. Martin and Ernst Hemingway have two completely different writing styles. Hemingway never described thoughts or emotions while Martin uses them extensively. On top of that Hemngway wrote short stories while Martin writes a novel series.

Originally posted by Digi
This is dumb. An arrogant reply when I or others could be helping you in a far less antagonistic setting. Anyway, lemme bust out my red pen...

Then*, not than.

This is more coherence than grammar (notice the correct usage of 'than'...take notes), though there's one mistake I'll get to in a moment. But you haven't established the "rule of thumb" so we don't know what you're referring to when you say you're breaking it. Rules of thumb are commonly understood, to the point of cultural ubiquity. Clearly, no such rule exists on KMC.

Also, I believe you meant to use 'eminence' instead of 'imminence' there. So there's your 2nd grammatical mistake.

Again, this is technically correct, but is an awkward usage of the word 'extreme.'

I've used the phrase "word soup" to describe your writing before, and you're guilty of it again here. Nothing about this sentence is technically incorrect, but it's an extremely awkward way of phrasing it. I can't think of a setting, personal or professional, where this would seem contextually normal.

Good for you; I'm glad you've improved. But again, improvement is not mastery, which you are still far from.

This straddles the line between word soup and just plain wrong. The first sentence sounds like a foreign language speaker trying to say something in English. We understand what you mean, but you took a very obtuse path to that meaning.

In the second sentence, you fail to identify to what you're referring to. "...in that respect." In WHAT respect? Intelligence is a good tool in becoming an anomaly in the business success system of the world? Maybe the first sentence dooms the second, but it's all just awkwardly phrased. As Neme said, try to avoid big words unless you're absolutely sure of their usage. Otherwise, your language sounds forced.

...

Here's the point: that was a few lines that you were using to say you're the best at this. And they're not good. I won't say they're terrible, but they're not good. And this is among hundreds of posts you've written, many much worse.

So, eat some humble pie. You're probably a smart kid, but this egotistical indignation isn't helping.

I would be a lot better off if I had time to do more cardio, get more tail (from thotties); could afford to consistently eat super-foods w/beneficial spices, engage in lucid dreams, meditation, laughter by playing pranks on my friends, and engaging in high-rep, endurance strength-training.

Before I can do all of that, intermittent fasting, marijuana, nicotine, melatonin, and Sicilian red wine will have to get rid of 99.9999999999% of the estrogen-compunds produced from the death-defying fat-cells in my mid-section (products of the anti-psychotic medications I was subscribed by dull-croakers).

I have a plan to maximize my neorogenesis, and these drugs will make me dull in the short-run. However, you haven’t witnessed an unnaturally intelligent individual until you have seen me in a couple of months.

You know, I'm talking instantaneous recognition of errors, prodigious development in semantic-skills, and a mind that can do more than normal. Autism helps with that, given the right situations in which I must build for myself.

Here's where that sub-vocalization comes in handy.

Only two errors made when reading a relatively complex paragraph in 68 seconds:

YouTube video

Originally posted by Astner
Interesting thesis, but it kind of falls short when the individual in question has a Master's degree from one of the most prestigious programmes available.

On the contrary, being adept in one field makes you even more prone to incorrectly assume you excel at others. There is an informal term for that, btw, it's called Engineers' Syndrome.

[edit]On the error spotting front; "pseudo" not "psuedo"

Originally posted by Bardock42
On the contrary, being adept in one field makes you even more prone to incorrectly assume one excels at others. There is an informal term for that, btw, it's called Engineers' Syndrome.

Originally posted by Oneness
"The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of experience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" creativity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known."

-Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

-William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

You do know I was stupid drunk as I made the OP?

As I am now?

When I've transformed myself I'll not need drugs. Can you imagine the possibilities of my potential?

Bumpaholic.

I crave Digi's appraisal.

You know, being an intelligent individual and all.

Originally posted by Oneness
Well, first of all, I was claiming myself as "imminent" linguist. For someone to claim another would be defying the example put forth by me. Apropos, breaking the rule of thumb. Admittedly, my mind often plays a trick by confusing words that are like-sounding because sub-vocalization is a tool I use for comprehension when reading text.

I would be a lot better off if I had time to do more cardio, get more tail (from thotties); could afford to consistently eat super-foods w/beneficial spices, engage in lucid dreams, meditation, laughter by playing pranks on my friends, and engaging in high-rep, endurance strength-training.

Before I can do all of that, intermittent fasting, marijuana, nicotine, melatonin, and Sicilian red wine will have to get rid of 99.9999999999% of the estrogen-compunds produced from the death-defying fat-cells in my mid-section (products of the anti-psychotic medications I was subscribed by dull-croakers).

I have a plan to maximize my neorogenesis, and these drugs will make me dull in the short-run. However, you haven’t witnessed an unnaturally intelligent individual until you have seen me in a couple of months.

You know, I'm talking instantaneous recognition of errors, prodigious development in semantic-skills, and a mind that can do more than normal. Autism helps with that, given the right situations in which I must build for myself.

Originally posted by Oneness
Here's where that sub-vocalization comes in handy.

Only two errors made when reading a relatively complex paragraph in 68 seconds:

YouTube video

What just happened....

Originally posted by Bardock42
What just happened....

Originally posted by Bardock42
On the contrary, being adept in one field makes you even more prone to incorrectly assume you excel at others. There is an informal term for that, btw, it's called Engineers' Syndrome.

[edit]On the error spotting front; "pseudo" not "psuedo"

I had straight A's throughout my high-school years, in which I took three English courses each one over a period of two semesters. Most of my course literature in University was written in English. I communicate with most of my clients in English. I read English-written novel series on a regular basis.

Now it's interesting that you bring up a typo rather than an actual grammatical error, because typos frequently occur throughout all professional reports. Hence why even professional authors proof-read their own work and then have other people do another proof-reading.