[quote]danmaftei wrote:
Lol, then why the hell didn’t you say that from the start? You have to see my confusion with your first post, not knowing he’s from NJ.[/quote]
Harris is wonderful comic relief and gets pissed off easily. I admit my weakness, it is fun to ‘rattle his cage’ once in a while.
[quote]vroom wrote:
A…a rock! Living under a rock!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah, when I read his troll post I actually felt sorry for the dude because he sounded so unbelievably lame. Who the fuck writes something like that?[/quote]
Come back when you can write something intelligent. Or, collaborate with X and maybe come up with something worth posting. He at least has a triple-digit IQ.
Hey now, don’t be stupid, I’d never try to drag X down to my level.
Anyhow, when you’ve shown yourself to have a high IQ, then perhaps you should start throwing stones at mine.
[quote]FlyingEmuOfDoom wrote:
harris447 wrote:
You still make no sense. And you’re not funny.
Since you made the comment to me that I was “so fucking stupid” for spelling “ridiculous” incorrectly, I thought I would correct your improper grammer.
You don’t start a sentence with “and”.
A serious question: Where did you go to school?[/quote]
I cannot believe you just said you can’t start a sentence with “and…” Elementary and middle schools stress “rules” like that because it’s important to know them and understand them as you mature as a writer, but once you reach a certain level, say, high school (hint, I’m insulting you here), you learn that it is OK to break these “rules,” and they are not set in stone. A multitude of great writers start sentences with “and” or “but.”
And while we’re going over grammar, when enclosing a phrase/word in quotations, the ending punctuation goes inside the final quotation mark, as in
“and.”
“and!”
“and?”
etc, and not
“and”.
[quote]vroom wrote:
Come back when you can write something intelligent. Or, collaborate with X and maybe come up with something worth posting. He at least has a triple-digit IQ.
Hey now, don’t be stupid, I’d never try to drag X down to my level.
Anyhow, when you’ve shown yourself to have a high IQ, then perhaps you should start throwing stones at mine.[/quote]
You failed.
That would probably mean I owe X an apology…
Just a little observation…
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
Just a little observation…[/quote]
Right back atcha.
[quote]harris447 wrote:
Rockscar wrote:
Just a little observation…
Right back atcha.
[/quote]
Damn he looks evil!!
THAT is part of his problem. If he spoke and looked like Clinton he’d have all the blue state wrapped around his finger!
LOL
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
danmaftei wrote:
Lol, then why the hell didn’t you say that from the start? You have to see my confusion with your first post, not knowing he’s from NJ.
Harris is wonderful comic relief and gets pissed off easily. I admit my weakness, it is fun to ‘rattle his cage’ once in a while.
[/quote]
Troll
[quote]miniross wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
danmaftei wrote:
Lol, then why the hell didn’t you say that from the start? You have to see my confusion with your first post, not knowing he’s from NJ.
Harris is wonderful comic relief and gets pissed off easily. I admit my weakness, it is fun to ‘rattle his cage’ once in a while.
Troll[/quote]
Take your finger out of your nose (your Simpsons avatar or whatever it is) and bugger off.
[quote]danmaftei wrote:
FlyingEmuOfDoom wrote:
harris447 wrote:
You still make no sense. And you’re not funny.
Since you made the comment to me that I was “so fucking stupid” for spelling “ridiculous” incorrectly, I thought I would correct your improper grammer.
You don’t start a sentence with “and”.
A serious question: Where did you go to school?
I cannot believe you just said you can’t start a sentence with “and…” Elementary and middle schools stress “rules” like that because it’s important to know them and understand them as you mature as a writer, but once you reach a certain level, say, high school (hint, I’m insulting you here), you learn that it is OK to break these “rules,” and they are not set in stone. A multitude of great writers start sentences with “and” or “but.”
And while we’re going over grammar, when enclosing a phrase/word in quotations, the ending punctuation goes inside the final quotation mark, as in
“and.”
“and!”
“and?”
etc, and not
“and”.[/quote]
Yes, what you said is correct. The way Harris used the word “and” at the beggining of his sentence was not correct.
[quote]FlyingEmuOfDoom wrote:
danmaftei wrote:
FlyingEmuOfDoom wrote:
harris447 wrote:
You still make no sense. And you’re not funny.
Since you made the comment to me that I was “so fucking stupid” for spelling “ridiculous” incorrectly, I thought I would correct your improper grammer.
You don’t start a sentence with “and”.
A serious question: Where did you go to school?
I cannot believe you just said you can’t start a sentence with “and…” Elementary and middle schools stress “rules” like that because it’s important to know them and understand them as you mature as a writer, but once you reach a certain level, say, high school (hint, I’m insulting you here), you learn that it is OK to break these “rules,” and they are not set in stone. A multitude of great writers start sentences with “and” or “but.”
And while we’re going over grammar, when enclosing a phrase/word in quotations, the ending punctuation goes inside the final quotation mark, as in
“and.”
“and!”
“and?”
etc, and not
“and”.
Yes, what you said is correct. The way Harris used the word “and” at the beggining of his sentence was not correct.
[/quote]
It’s not correct if I were in fifth grade and first being taught these rules.
Or, we were in the 1800’s.
Or, everyone were as dim as you, desperately grasping at straws so that you may, in one lone instance, prove yourself smarter than me.
Ain’t gonna happen.
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/wab/1-1-grammar.htm
You can’t start a sentence with “and” or “but.” Of course you can. You always could. “And” and “but” are coordinating conjunctions, and since they both coordinate and conjoin, they can begin a sentence. The trick, of course, is that it’s got to be a sentence that flows from the previous one.
Steve Tollefson is a Lecturer in the College Writing Programs and a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. He is author of the books GrammarGrams and GrammarGrams II.
[quote]harris447 wrote:
It’s not correct if I were in fifth grade and first being taught these rules.
Or, we were in the 1800’s.
Or, everyone were as dim as you, desperately grasping at straws so that you may, in one lone instance, prove yourself smarter than me.
Ain’t gonna happen.
http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/wab/1-1-grammar.htm
You can’t start a sentence with “and” or “but.” Of course you can. You always could. “And” and “but” are coordinating conjunctions, and since they both coordinate and conjoin, they can begin a sentence. The trick, of course, is that it’s got to be a sentence that flows from the previous one.
Steve Tollefson is a Lecturer in the College Writing Programs and a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award. He is author of the books GrammarGrams and GrammarGrams II.
[/quote]
It’s interesting because an English teacher of mine in high school told me that I can’t start a sentence with “and” when I did this in a paper. From then on, I never did it again because he lowered my grade on that paper. I never forgot.
It’s also interesting to note that he was a Bill Clinton loving, hardcore liberal who repetedly told me that George Bush (senior) was an evil idiot.
Yeah, the time some gomer tried to do that to me I suggested that I read books all the time that did such things.
Then, we had a little discussion about how writers, authors, don’t have to follow the rules, but that the “rules” are taught because most people don’t know when it is appropriate to break them.
I think you missed that part… and there are teachers of all sorts, that is neither here nor there in the discussion.