Even funnier if you’ve seen “Inglorious Basterds”
http://www.hulu.com/watch/161761/collegehumor-sketches-grammar-nazis
lol… i hate grammar nazis… i subscribe to the idea that language is dynamic and morphs with time… shakespeare is a good example of this, having contributed much of the language himself
[quote]MickyGee wrote:
lol… i hate grammar nazis… i subscribe to the idea that language is dynamic and morphs with time… shakespeare is a good example of this, having contributed much of the language himself[/quote]
Ok but; if your using im-proper grammar than sometimes you just come of looking stupid.
[quote]MickyGee wrote:
lol. I hate grammar nazis. I subscribe to the idea that language is dynamic and morphs with time. Shakespeare is a good example of this, having contributed much of the language himself.[/quote]
Fixed.
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]MickyGee wrote:
lol… i hate grammar nazis… i subscribe to the idea that language is dynamic and morphs with time… shakespeare is a good example of this, having contributed much of the language himself[/quote]
Ok but; if your using im-proper grammar than sometimes you just come of looking stupid.[/quote]
you’re*
off*
[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]MickyGee wrote:
lol… i hate grammar nazis… i subscribe to the idea that language is dynamic and morphs with time… shakespeare is a good example of this, having contributed much of the language himself[/quote]
Ok but; if your using im-proper grammar than sometimes you just come of looking stupid.[/quote]
you’re*
off*[/quote]
Then*
“Improper” does not require a hyphen.
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]MickyGee wrote:
lol… i hate grammar nazis… i subscribe to the idea that language is dynamic and morphs with time… shakespeare is a good example of this, having contributed much of the language himself[/quote]
Ok but; if your using im-proper grammar than sometimes you just come of looking stupid.[/quote]
you’re*
off*[/quote]
Then*
“Improper” does not require a hyphen.
[/quote]
The use of the semi-colon is inappropriate as well.
[quote]otar wrote:
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]MickyGee wrote:
lol… i hate grammar nazis… i subscribe to the idea that language is dynamic and morphs with time… shakespeare is a good example of this, having contributed much of the language himself[/quote]
Ok but; if your using im-proper grammar than sometimes you just come of looking stupid.[/quote]
you’re*
off*[/quote]
Then*
“Improper” does not require a hyphen.
[/quote]
The use of the semi-colon is inappropriate as well.
[/quote]
I genuinely can’t tell if you guys are being facetious at this point or not.
I don’t mind people correcting my grammar unless the intention is to undermine my argument or something like this. English is my third language and I’m always up for improvement.
Bludy gramer Nartzees! There so dum…
You don’t need to go all high-end like “Oh my! Did you split an infinitive my good sir?!”
Just don’t call people Grammar Nazis when they point out that you just wrote “Your wrong and alot to stupid.” and that it was incorrect.
Making mistakes like that just means that you really never pay attention at any time and you don’t understand the fundamentals of English.
[quote]Edevus wrote:
I don’t mind people correcting my grammar unless the intention is to undermine my argument or something like this. English is my third language and I’m always up for improvement.
[/quote]
This if the only way one can win an argument is to straw man and correct a person’s grammer then it is a fail.
Also Edevus much props I can barely speak and understand one language
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
I don’t mind people correcting my grammar unless the intention is to undermine my argument or something like this. English is my third language and I’m always up for improvement.
[/quote]
This if the only way one can win an argument is to straw man and correct a person’s grammer then it is a fail.
Also Edevus much props I can barely speak and understand one language[/quote]
Grammer
[quote]kevinm1 wrote:
[quote]Edevus wrote:
I don’t mind people correcting my grammar unless the intention is to undermine my argument or something like this. English is my third language and I’m always up for improvement.
[/quote]
This if the only way one can win an argument is to straw man and correct a person’s grammer then it is a fail.
Also Edevus much props I can barely speak and understand one language[/quote]
Heh, thanks. I’m not that good at learning languages, but I’m damn stubborn…
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]otar wrote:
[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
[quote]overstand wrote:
[quote]SSC wrote:
[quote]MickyGee wrote:
lol… i hate grammar nazis… i subscribe to the idea that language is dynamic and morphs with time… shakespeare is a good example of this, having contributed much of the language himself[/quote]
Ok but; if your using im-proper grammar than sometimes you just come of looking stupid.[/quote]
you’re*
off*[/quote]
Then*
“Improper” does not require a hyphen.
[/quote]
The use of the semi-colon is inappropriate as well.
[/quote]
I genuinely can’t tell if you guys are being facetious at this point or not.[/quote]
Facetious or not, they are making accurate corrections to actual mistakes.
I’ll agree that there are traditional grammatical conventions that we can let go. Split infinitives and sentence-ending prepositions? These are impossibilities in Latin, and applying them as rules of good grammar to English (a Germanic language), is unnecessarily pedantic. “However” as a post-positive conjunction? I can only use it that way myself, but I’d never correct anyone else; it just doesn’t matter to 99% of the English-speaking population.
In my opinion, however, spelling should still be considered important.