For Sailor Steve...

vienna · 09-24-12, 12:23 PM

...Happy National Punctuation Day!

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/playtimerap.html

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Herr-Berbunch · 09-24-12, 12:51 PM

Not just Steve! I try to ensure I use correct (UK for me) spelling and grammar and I like to see it in other posts. I'm not against so-called leet speak per se, just the over-use of it.

At school I was crap in English lessons, but have learnt the value of it since.
For instance, how invaluable is it in the sentence: Go help your Uncle Jack off the horse. ?

AVGWarhawk · 09-24-12, 01:02 PM

wow what a neet idear,

Jimbuna · 09-24-12, 01:33 PM

Nothing like a few examples of bad grammar

1. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it.

2. He's got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it anymore.

3. It's the dogs' mess that I find hard to swallow.

4. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.

5. And their 18-year-old son is continually banging his balls against my fence.

6. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.

7. My lavatory seat is cracked where do I stand?

8. I am writing on behalf of my sink which is coming away from the wall.

9. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path my wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant

10. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.

11. 50% of the walls are damp 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are plain filthy.

12. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.

13. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.

14. This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broke and we can't get BBC 2.

Sailor Steve · 09-24-12, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Not just Steve! I try to ensure I use correct (UK for me) spelling and grammar and I like to see it in other posts.At school I was crap in English lessons, but have learnt the value of it since.

I wish more of our American and British brothers would learn this. Misuse of the language is understandable coming from someone for whom it is secondary; seeing it from someone from Bristol or Hackensack makes my teeth hurt.

@ Jim: Your absolutely right!

antikristuseke · 09-24-12, 01:48 PM

I find it disturbing that my English grammar is better than most, English is even my secondary language. Then again I am crap at any and all languages I speak.

vienna · 09-24-12, 01:50 PM

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...seeing it from someone from Bristol or Hackensack makes my teeth hurt.

I didn't know English was the first language of Hackensack...

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EDIT:

Given the nature of jimbuna's prior post, perhaps it is not a wise idea to get him started on Bristol(s)...

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Jimbuna · 09-24-12, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

@ Jim: Your absolutely right!

I wasn't aware I was ever wrong

Sailor Steve · 09-24-12, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

I wasn't aware I was ever wrong

You're ususally not, except in that one point.

Herr-Berbunch · 09-24-12, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

wow what a neet idear,

Sorry, I don't understand.

Jimbuna · 09-24-12, 02:56 PM

Well, coming from the area you do....frankly I'm not surprised

09-24-12, 12:23 PM	#1
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,711 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	For Sailor Steve... ...Happy National Punctuation Day! http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/ http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/playtimerap.html ... __________________ __________________________________________________ __

09-24-12, 12:51 PM	#2
Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	Not just Steve! I try to ensure I use correct (UK for me) spelling and grammar and I like to see it in other posts. I'm not against so-called leet speak per se, just the over-use of it. At school I was crap in English lessons, but have learnt the value of it since. For instance, how invaluable is it in the sentence: Go help your Uncle Jack off the horse. ? __________________

09-24-12, 01:02 PM	#3
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	wow what a neet idear, __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

09-24-12, 01:33 PM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Nothing like a few examples of bad grammar 1. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it. 2. He's got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it anymore. 3. It's the dogs' mess that I find hard to swallow. 4. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off. 5. And their 18-year-old son is continually banging his balls against my fence. 6. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off. 7. My lavatory seat is cracked where do I stand? 8. I am writing on behalf of my sink which is coming away from the wall. 9. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path my wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant 10. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen. 11. 50% of the walls are damp 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are plain filthy. 12. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared. 13. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces. 14. This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broke and we can't get BBC 2. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

09-24-12, 02:56 PM	#11
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Well, coming from the area you do....frankly I'm not surprised __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

09-24-12, 01:48 PM	#6
antikristuseke Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Estland Posts: 4,330 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I find it disturbing that my English grammar is better than most, English is even my secondary language. Then again I am crap at any and all languages I speak.