RicardoLuigi... Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 well, since there are a few threads where people have gotten into discussions about the english language, and/or "american" language the way americans do things or the way things are in the english language, i decided to make a topic about it! here, we can bicker all we want about english grammar and little things that bother people (actually, mostly only alien426...). anyone care to start an argument/heated discussion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamNMax Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Metaphor should have an "e" at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinkie Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 It should be spelled Fone. not phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Originally posted by Das Mole well, since there are a few threads where people have gotten into discussions about the english language, and/or "american" language the way americans do things or the way things are in the english language, i decided to make a topic about it! here, we can bicker all we want about english grammar and little things that bother people (actually, mostly only alien426...). anyone care to start an argument/heated discussion? Well, you should always start sentences with a capital letter, for one thing. Also, the letter I is always capitalized when referring to yourself. Y'know,.. little things like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 i dont really see a reason to put capitals as "first" letter of a sentence. sure someone could say this makes it more readable. but i think it's only what you are used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Edison 007 Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 I always obey the laws of grammar, and teacher loves me for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 fussically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Edison 007 Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 I don't feel like getting into that right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 What's with the American "Color"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guybrush122 Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 Cacaphone IS NOT PRONONOUNCED "Kaka-fony" Deus is not "Deuce" and damnit, "you're" is not "your" and "yours" is not "your's". "Its" is not "it's" unless you mean to say "it is". "Stupider" and "funner" aren't words, and there's not such thing as "diappropriate" UNLESS you mean the opposite of the distribution definition of "appropriate". IF ANYONE EVER TYPES "ND" INSTEAED OF "AND" AGAIN I SWEAR I'LL KILL THEM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 24, 2004 Author Share Posted July 24, 2004 i think your being a little to touchy, nd u should just clam down. anyway... i don't bother w/the capital letters and crap when i'm typing b/c it just gets in my way. why capitalize? esp. at the beginning of a sentence. that's what punctuation marks are for. and as for capitalizing the letter "i" when it's by itself, i'm not any more important than the next guy. why capitalize it? it's just common sense... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 No, it is proper written English. At least how I learned it. Hey, you started it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien426 Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Does anybody else think that decimals should be separated with a comma, while the thousands separator should be a dot? Clearly the decimal is more important, so it should be bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 25, 2004 Author Share Posted July 25, 2004 yeah, what's with that comma/decimal point thing? you europeans are weird... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamNMax Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 That's a semicolon;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;B0ner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 25, 2004 Author Share Posted July 25, 2004 um...i'm not stupid. i wasn't talking about a semicolon. i meant using a comma instead of a decimal point and vice versa, example: bill at a restaurant: 57,00 how many ditzy people inhabit the earth: 1.764.239 can you imagine a big number w/a decimal? 1.452.098,2971 0_0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMcCoy Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 Originally posted by Das Mole can you imagine a big number w/a decimal? 1.452.098,2971 0_0 what's your prob? it's correct that way! ... (at least where i'm from...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamNMax Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Originally posted by Das Mole um...i'm not stupid. i wasn't talking about a semicolon. i meant using a comma instead of a decimal point and vice versa No. You mean a semicolon Yes, I knew what you met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rundll32.exe Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Originally posted by Dr Edison 007 I always obey the laws of grammar, and teacher loves me for it I guess Teacher is not an expert on grammar. You forgot to capitalize "teacher" since it is used as a name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rundll32.exe Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Originally posted by Dr Edison 007 I always obey the laws of grammar, and teacher loves me for it Wait a second! I missed an even more obvious error! There is no peroid to be found! It looks like Teacher needs a new pair of glasses. Crap. I'll bet I made about 47 grammatical errors just now and I'll end up looking like a great buffoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 26, 2004 Author Share Posted July 26, 2004 You misspelt the word "period". (Try finding a grammatical or even a spelling error in this post) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RicardoLuigi... Posted July 26, 2004 Author Share Posted July 26, 2004 By the way- This will be the only thread in which I actually follow the rules of good, proper English and its grammar. Other than that, f*** the rules. Who cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Originally posted by Guybrush122 "yours" is not "your's". Where exactly would one use the term "your's"? or are you just saying that sometimes ditzy people put in that extra apostrophy? Oh, and decimals and commas? Okay, it's simply common sense not to mention a saviour of lots of confusion to put commas in with big numbers (1,000,000) and decimal points in with decimal numbers (3.1415927). The comma's are used to tell people exactly what to call a number. With the number 1000000, without commas to split the numbers up, people would have to count the 0's to tell that it is a million, whereas, if it's 1,000,000 there is on set of 1 along with 2 sets of 3 digits, which means it would be a million. Now when you start intermingling decimals and commas, but in the wrong order, you get up to ****'s creek. Take Moles example, 1.452.098,2971. I'm not entirely sure what he's saying here anyway, is this what he thinks it would be like if they changed decimal points and commas around? Whatever, first of all, it looks wrong, you start to think of 1.452 (not one thousand, four hundred and fifty two, but one point four, five, two) but then there are more decimals after it. Now I don't know how some people do this, buit after studying advanced mathematics, I know that most of the world deals with decimal points and then either commas for big numbers, or just spaces, but spaces cause mistakes as well, so they do comma's instead. That's how it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien426 Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 Just because a lot of people use your method and you'd have to familiarize yourself with the other method, doesn't mean shit. I was saying that the decimal is more important. The thousands separator merely helps to visualize the number. So the more important part should be better identifiable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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