Thought or Rant of the day!!!

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Snickie
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Snickie » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:21 pm

You left-handed or something?
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby NostalgicMelody7 » Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:45 pm

GAH! This character just stopped over to where mine is, and he happens to be the same exact one that ended on bad terms with /another/ of my characters! JFKLDS:JKLFSDJLFJS! Must not use ooc information D;
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Chroma Key » Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:09 am

<-- Sinistral. *nods*
I had so many thoughts racing through my head through the last 6 hours... but the only one that remains is... "spectacular". Wow... just wow. Truly breathtaking, especially the part about GOSH, touching something very close to my heart (God bless your soul, E.). What... a... night...
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby NancyLee » Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:15 am

Punctuation marks are not the work of the evil; they're friendly, nice, and make easier to silly people like me understand what the heck your writing. Please use them!
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Chroma Key » Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:13 pm

^ Good advice, that. However, whilst you're at it, you may also want to learn the difference between "your" and "you're" and so on.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby NancyLee » Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:15 pm

That even could be a good idea XDD
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Sunni Daez » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:08 pm

Lazy? Or Productive?
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Snickie » Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:45 am

Some more grammar complaints I have for people:

A part ≠ apart
A part: included
Apart: excluded

Effect vs affect
"Affect" is a verb. Something affects someone. Someone is affected by something.
"Effect" is a noun. Things have effects on things.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby NostalgicMelody7 » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:44 am

Today, multiple character interactions had me in tears D; This is how you can tell that roleplay is going awesomely. NOW I JUST NEED TISSUES D; D; D;
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby EchoMan » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:25 am

Snickie wrote:some sensible things

I have to add:

of is not the same as have

"I should of thought about that" ... really? Come on now.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Snickie » Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:25 am

There's the one I was forgetting.

I think people do that because "should've" sounds more like "should of" to them instead of "should have", which said people only use when have is the verb. "I should have those papers by five o'clock." Or something like that.

But that doesn't mean that "should of" is correct....because it's NOT correct. "Should've" uses the exact same number of characters and it's also correct, so why are people still using "should of"?

All of this applies to "could" and "would" as well, by the way.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Bowser » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:13 pm

Suposebly
Homer wrote: "Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel. "
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Black Canyon » Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:34 pm

Are we talking about proper grammar in general or are we talking character dialogue? Because some of my characters do not use proper grammar when speaking and I have no other choice but to write what they say :D
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby NancyLee » Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:19 pm

RoD keeping with my previous rant: "Ahí hay un hombre que dice ay".
(which literally means "there's a man saying ay" and is what I want to put, even by force, in my goddaugther's head to teach her the difference between using an "h" in one place, in another or not using it at all).


I am trying hard to think if I have ever seen "should of" and I think that I haven't found that yet, (but I also thought I wasn't over there mistaking possesives with verbs, so I'm not trustworthy at all) but yes, for me it sounds just like "should've" so maybe is that. I'm trying to keep good note of that, though.

Since I have English chars I think my English has improved, but also I do mistakes that I never did before and I don't really understand, (I think the most epic fail was when I noticed I wrote "I'll" instead of "Ill" and I wanted to hide and die a little :oops: ) and I'm wondering what could cause that. Maybe just lack of attention, being too centered in a long speech or in the char's thoughts and missing "the trees", the combination of both...?
To the players interacting with my English chars: I will try to re-read before clicking.
To my lovely part time English teacher: you know one of the reasons to adore you is your patience and your "try again" at each grammar crime of mine, don't you? (:
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby g1asswa1ker » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:33 pm

When you lose your keys and someone knows where they are and doesn't tell you...
Somehow you strayed and lost your way,
and now there'll be no time to play,
no time for joy,
no time for friends
- not even time to make amends.
You are too naïve if you do believe life is innocent laughter and fun.

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