[quote]randman wrote:
I see at least 5 “rediculous” mispellings a day on this forum. The amount of misspelled words is unreal. The meathead image definitely lives on.[/quote]
EXACTLY!
Couple that with the usage of piss-poor grammar and a dash of ignorance and you’ve got yourself a recipe for stereotyping. I say we change that!
[quote]randman wrote:
I see at least 5 “rediculous” mispellings a day on this forum. The amount of misspelled words is unreal. The meathead image definitely lives on.[/quote]
Yea, your other post about ‘ridiculous’ grammar and spelling mistakes made me self-conscience about writing the word “ridiculous” in all of my future posts. Before that, I always typed ?rediculous?.
How about bi-lingual illiteracy. That one is a real puzzler to me. I know several people who can speak English and Italian or English and Spanish, but can’t read or write either.
Begs the question WTF?
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
Varqanir wrote:
By the way, would the opposite of hypertrophy be apostrophy?
Please tell me you know the answer to your own question. Its been discussed on the nation several times. Just in case you don’t, I’ll help and I’ll even give a tip of the hat to the math kids on this one:
Hypertrophy > Atrophy … Or is that Hypotrophy? Those damn science people can never follow their own rules.[/quote]
All right, Lonnie, since you asked politely, I will tell you that yes, I knew the answer to my own, I assumed obviously rhetorical, question. I will even go so far as to say that I know there is no such word as “apostrophy”.
Actually, hypotrophy refers to degeneration of muscular or other organ tissue caused by loss of cellular matter, while atrophy is the wasting away of that tissue due to disease or disuse, without necessarily a loss of cells. So the opposite of hypertrophy would indeed be atrophy…or as you correctly stated above, “Hypertrophy is greater than Atrophy”.
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
I could care less - This one makes my blood boil. When you hear someone say this, for Gods sake… CORRECT THEM. The phrase is “I COULDN’T care less” not “I COULD care less.” If you say it the second(wrong) way, it means that you do in fact care, and you could care less, however the first(proper) way means you don’t care AT ALL and you could not care less even if you tried.
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I disagree with this. I think either way is correct.
Example: You telling me something. I tell you I could care less. That means literally, I could care less and probably do. Care less than what? I don’t know. Less than you, perhaps, since you’re the one that thinks it’s so important to tell me.
Besides, it’s conversational English; a colloquialism that doesn’t need to be taken literally.
Well, I’ve been studying with Bulking Machine, and I thinks it’s helped my English a lot of.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
I disagree with this. I think either way is correct.
Example: You telling me something. I tell you I could care less. That means literally, I could care less and probably do. Care less than what? I don’t know. Less than you, perhaps, since you’re the one that thinks it’s so important to tell me.
Besides, it’s conversational English; a colloquialism that doesn’t need to be taken literally.[/quote]
Use the same phrase in any other sentence and you will see it is wrong. “I could drive less”, “I could spend less money”… It all means that you could go down from your current point.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
All right, Lonnie, since you asked politely, I will tell you that yes, I knew the answer to my own, I assumed obviously rhetorical, question. I will even go so far as to say that I know there is no such word as “apostrophy”.
Actually, hypotrophy refers to degeneration of muscular or other organ tissue caused by loss of cellular matter, while atrophy is the wasting away of that tissue due to disease or disuse, without necessarily a loss of cells. So the opposite of hypertrophy would indeed be atrophy…or as you correctly stated above, “Hypertrophy is greater than Atrophy”.[/quote]
Okay so maybe I just wanted to use the math symbols on my keyboard for once. What do you do for a living, you seem to be a fairly knowledgeable guy.
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
Wow, People are really checking my shit, huh? I better be on full alert from now on…[/quote]
Apparently, you weren’t careful enough.
“I better be on full alert…” should be “I’d (Or ‘I had’) better be on full alert…”
LOL Lonnie, just give up… almost every post you make about how you hate bad grammar or spelling involves you making an error yourself. Your posts are irony in action, and… actually, I changed my mind. Don’t give up. You are making me laugh quite a bit down here. Keep up the good work!! 
Funny thread, guys.
PS “All right” is two words. It’s not “Alright”. I just thought I’d make a contribution of some sort besides heckling.
One thing that drives me fucking INSANE is the use of grams. Gram is an SI base unit for God’s sake, yet most people have no idea how to type the symbol. IT’S g!!! g!!!
g!
NOT gr!!!
“i drink 30 gr of whey in my pwo shake lolol”
How the fuck did this trend start, anyway? Argh. Rant out.
Btw, I do think T-nation has better spellers than most forums. In fact, most of you guys write very clearly. The geeks in coumputer hardware/software sites are the worst! 95% of the people there spell everything blatantly wrong, plus they’re using all these crazy acronyms. Funny huh? Meatheads more intelligent than nerds? 
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
What do you do for a living, you seem to be a fairly knowledgeable guy.[/quote]
How did I overlook this one?
“What do you do for a living, you seem to be a fairly knowledgeable guy,” is a run-on sentence. Since the first clause is interrogative, you need to separate it from the second clause with a question mark.
“What do you do for a living? You seem to be a fairly knowledgeable guy.”
Now I feel much better.
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
Okay so maybe I just wanted to use the math symbols on my keyboard for once.[/quote]
Actually, I think you would write it “¬ hypertrophy”. This means “not” rather than “opposite of”, but I think it would satisfy the math kids in the audience.
Thank you very fairly.
What do I do for a living? Well, I garden, I hunt, I fish, I lift large and heavy objects, I read obscure books, I dabble a bit in philosophy and science, I fight, I make love to beautiful women, I build things, I climb mountains and explore jungles, and occasionally I plan revolutions.
But I believe what you meant was, what do I do for money, right? The answer to that is, whenever absolutely necessary, I write, I translate, and I teach.
I wanted it to mean “Better Than” or “Greater Than” depending on how you prefer to say it.
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
malonetd wrote:
I disagree with this. I think either way is correct.
Example: You telling me something. I tell you I could care less. That means literally, I could care less and probably do. Care less than what? I don’t know. Less than you, perhaps, since you’re the one that thinks it’s so important to tell me.
Besides, it’s conversational English; a colloquialism that doesn’t need to be taken literally.
Use the same phrase in any other sentence and you will see it is wrong. “I could drive less”, “I could spend less money”… It all means that you could go down from your current point.
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Exactly. It shows indifference–a lack of caring.
Then again. like I said before, the phrase is not meant to be taken literally. By placing it in other situations, you are attempting to use it in a literal sense. It’s like “taking a dump.” Use “take” in any other way and it doesn’t mean the same thing.
Which is why I ALWAYS leave a dump right where I put it!
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
I wanted it to mean “Better Than” or “Greater Than” depending on how you prefer to say it.
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Ah, but see, there’s the rub of mathematics. The symbols mean what they mean, and not what we want them to. Unlike words, for which many people use the Alice in Wonderland approach:
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
&mdash Lewis Carroll, via Humpty Dumpty