Little Things that make you Happy

[TinuvielChild]

aha! i just love discovering when people misuse apostrophes or other mutilation of the English language!

Originally posted by BeardofPants
"Little BoP-eep"?? You want I should direct it's evil red gaze upon you?

you should not have used an apostrophe in "its". "it's" is a contraction of "it is", so right now your sentence reads "You want I should direct it is evil red gaze upon you?", which makes no sense whatsoever. sorry, i'm evil. i can't help it.

yeah, yeah, go vent about me in the Venting thread.

[galadriel88]

you should not have used an apostrophe in "its". "it's" is a contraction of "it is", so right now your sentence reads "You want I should direct it is evil red gaze upon you?", which makes no sense whatsoever. sorry, i'm evil. i can't help it.

Finally! Someone else who notices that kind of thing and who people hate for it!!!!

[Elfmaster XK]

Originally posted by TinuvielChild
aha! i just love discovering when people misuse apostrophes or other mutilation of the English language!



you should not have used an apostrophe in "its". "it's" is a contraction of "it is", so right now your sentence reads "You want I should direct it is evil red gaze upon you?", which makes no sense whatsoever. sorry, i'm evil. i can't help it.

yeah, yeah, go vent about me in the Venting thread.

I totally agree! The other thing that gets me is the 'you're' and 'your' and 'their' and 'there' (and sometimes 'they're')

Now if i do it wrong you'll all notice!

Knowing i only have three more weeks of studying physics!!! YEAH!!! *jumps up and dances briefly. Composes self again*

[BeardofPants]

Originally posted by TinuvielChild
you should not have used an apostrophe in "its".

Actually, it is "it's", because it is pertaining to something that it owns, i.e, it's gaze....

Turns it's red gaze upon T.C.

aha! i just love discovering when people misuse apostrophes or other mutilation of the English language!

There is a few instances, in which you should have used capitalisation in those two sentences. Use of the exclamation point is invalid. The use of the 'or' conjunction renders the sentence to make very little sense. Use of "other" is extraneous.

you should not have used an apostrophe in "its".

The full stop should fall between the quotation marks, not outside.


And, now I will pull out my cherry pie, and shove it up your derriere. You pendantic git (And yes, that is a sentence fragment.)

[trolls' bane]

-Jim Svejda
-Entmoot
-Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show on the radio
-Jack Benny Program
-Thai Tea
-All other tea.
-The sound the Metro Red Line subway in L.A. makes when it stops at the station.
-Lake Shasta
-Vacation to the Carina Nebula.

[EarthBound]

Originally Posted by trolls' bane

-Jim Svejda
-Entmoot
-Phil Harris and Alice Faye Show on the radio
-Jack Benny Program
-Thai Tea
-All other tea.
-The sound the Metro Red Line subway in L.A. makes when it stops at the station.
-Lake Shasta
-Vacation to the Carina Nebula.

Lake Shasta rocks for hanging out with friends on a houseboat with plenty of jet skis & boats to play with....my family and friends play there nearly every year.....I rarely go though, I prefer to hang out on high mountain lakes rather than reservoirs....

[Nerdanel]

a summer course with a lot of sun, swimming and being in Nature..*dies of happiness*

[EarthBound]

Waking up and then relizing you still have several hours before you have to get up for work......sweeet

[Earniel]

Originally posted by TinuvielChild
aha! i just love discovering when people misuse apostrophes or other mutilation of the English language!
you should not have used an apostrophe in "its". "it's" is a contraction of "it is", so right now your sentence reads "You want I should direct it is evil red gaze upon you?", which makes no sense whatsoever. sorry, i'm evil. i can't help it.
yeah, yeah, go vent about me in the Venting thread.

fne i think im gonna start writing like this now without proper punctuation accents capitals or whatever you use to make a phrase understandable just to keep tinuvielchild and other languagepurists busy and so that they can have a fieldday im not sure how long i will keep this up though my fingers keep itching to include even a rAnDom cApiTals

lemme think little things that make me happy chocolate oh damn now ive cornered myself i cant write exclamationmarks without giving in

fne

[olsonm]

There is a few instances, in which you should have used capitalisation in those two sentences.

You should have used 'are' instead of 'is'. And speaking of extraneous; what's with the comma? --Mr. Pendantic B*stard (the master of Pedantry)

[BeardofPants]

Originally posted by olsonm

You should have used 'are' instead of 'is'. And speaking of extraneous; what's with the comma? --Mr. Pendantic B*stard (the master of Pedantry)

That is deliberate, just like my misuse of the present tense that I have handily highlighted in italics.

Rather dubious use of semi-colon there. Also, the fullstop should fall between the quotation marks.

:P

The evil sheep will get yous all!!

[olsonm]

Originally posted by BeardofPants
Rather dubious use of semi-colon there. Also, the fullstop should fall between the quotation marks.

Those weren't direct quotes. They were an alternative form of italicizing. Therefore it's debatable where the period should be placed.
That wasn't a semi-colon, that was a typo. --Mr. Pedantic (the master of hair-splitting and a$$-covering revisionism)

[BeardofPants]

Originally posted by olsonm

Those weren't direct quotes. They were an alternative form of italicizing. Therefore it's debatable where the period should be placed.
That wasn't a semi-colon, that was a typo. --Mr. Pedantic (the master of hair-splitting and a$$-covering revisionism)

Heh heh...

TC look what you have started. WWIII is truly on the way.

There still should have been a full stop, young man.

A comma after 'therefore' is appropriate as well.

Alright, Mr. Pendantic, you get to pass on the incorrect usage of a semi-colon... this time.

[Tanoliel]

~Reading a really good book for the first time

btw, Bop-eep () it would be its...heh. Now there's another to join the ranks, eh?
-tano

[BeardofPants]

I stand corrected, you villifying piece of veal.

The sheep turned its gaze upon the pedantic buggers of entmoot... and suddenly it felt very happy.

:P

[TinuvielChild]

lol BoPeep, this has been an enlightening discussion. and yes, it is 'its'; 'its' is a possessive pronoun. 'his', 'hers', 'ours', 'theirs', 'yours'. none of them use apostrophes. i rest my case. (over there, in the corner )

~annoying little BoPeep.
~winning an argument
~reading a really good sci-fi/fantasy novel
~proofreading

[elf_princess]

Oh dear! I don't check this thread for a day and a whole english lesson is discussed! It was very interesting I must say...

[Elfmaster XK]

Originally posted by TinuvielChild
lol BoPeep, this has been an enlightening discussion. and yes, it is 'its'; 'its' is a possessive pronoun. 'his', 'hers', 'ours', 'theirs', 'yours'. none of them use apostrophes. i rest my case. (over there, in the corner )

~annoying little BoPeep.
~winning an argument
~reading a really good sci-fi/fantasy novel
~proofreading

yOU LIKE TO PROOF READ...Ack!!! Damn caps lock! I hate it, tho i have done it about six times already!

Winning an argument is good!
Finding a calculator that actually works.
People who use correct punctuation (no one in particular...)
Sometimes using no punctuation at all and typing without the space bar

justlikethisitfeelssowierdandyoumakeloadsoftyposso noonecanreadwhatyoureallywantedtosay

Good for venting...

[elf_princess]

OK... I've got an incident that made me really happy.

Last night my church youth group had a pizza party. And my pastor asked for volunteers. So I raised my hand along with 2 others... who were both these big boys. We were going to have a pizza eating contest... the first to finish their piece was the winner. I was the last one up there so they left me the biggest piece. He said go... I tore into that piece of pizza like a bear that's found a bunch of honey. I had it finished in two bites. The two guys had looks of astonishment on their faces. They had just started. All the girls went wild!!! I was named the PIZZA EATING CHAMPION!

Ok... I got a little carried away there... I'm just proud of the fact I can stuff my face faster than the average joe. My daddy was very proud of me... my mama was not... lol

That's my face ready for a big bite of pizza!

[TinuvielChild]

go elf princess! congrats on that!

yes, Elfmaster, i do like to proofread....got a problem with that??