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Khamul, lovely! Twisting words, ah, a talent, I suppose?
 Twins was also the sign of evil, in a way. One twin would be "evil" and the other would be "good". They brought someone in to determine which one was "evil", and would kill that child. Sad.
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02-17-2003, 09:02 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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i cant spell very good. and my puncuation is not very good. and i am bad at grammar
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03-16-2003, 08:05 PM
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The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain
Join Date: Mar 2002
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I don't expect a formal essay on a messageboard, but a little punctuation would be nice.
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03-17-2003, 09:01 AM
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03-24-2006, 09:57 PM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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*bump*
Here's the old Grammar Nazi thread - I think Nurvi coined the term ... and I think Crick said "Commanists"
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun!  Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 03-24-2006 at 09:58 PM. |
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03-25-2006, 12:02 AM
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Grammer Nazis. Let me spell in freedom. Allow me spell you are with "your", and believe with "beleive", and if i misspell mispell let me do it. Viva La Misfit Fingers. if i wanna type without caps or punktuataion let me why not huh why cant i. You wanna(want to) burn books? Let's burn the dictionary!
Down with correctness! Up with rebelion!  This is just a joke people.  Just having a little fun here. I can't help my misspeling and I do try to go back and fix any that I make. If you look at 70% of my post you will notice I made some changes do to either, typing to fast or just misspeling a word.
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03-25-2006, 01:23 AM
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BTW you misspelled "misspelling"
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 It seems I have joined the ranks of the Commanists!
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03-25-2006, 01:25 AM
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03-25-2006, 03:14 AM
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Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
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We generally just ignore the errors, helped by a big swig of something or other to ease our pain ... People are MUCH more important than their occasional grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors! It was just funny to find out others that are bugged by the its/it's thing, too. Like I said, to some of us, it's like an out-of-tune note is to a musician.I had forgotten the "commanist" thing - hilarious! It was just something that came up once and someone started a thread on it and off it went!
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. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?*"How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
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03-25-2006, 05:52 AM
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Entmoot Attorney-General,
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Sween once said: "If people spent all there time correcting people spelling (well mine at any rate) we would never get and drinking or eating done"
I think he had a point. I miss Sween and his spelling. Thread titles like "Proof Aragorn will get Narsil regorged in two towers" were hilarious!
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03-25-2006, 06:12 AM
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the Shrike
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I miss pervy ol' sween as well.
 Remember his home movies? *lol*
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03-25-2006, 06:39 AM
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Entmoot Attorney-General,
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Home movies? No I must've missed those completely. Tell me about them!
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03-25-2006, 07:31 AM
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the Shrike
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He kept braggin' about his home movies made with his GF... I'll leave you to fill in the blanks.
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03-25-2006, 07:41 AM
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he was firing blanks???
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Faramir, are you going for a t3h st00pid fingers revolution? How do you say this properly: The dog of my brother and I needed to be spayed. Referring to a dog that belongs to myself and my brother. I can't figure it out. 
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03-25-2006, 08:00 AM
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This isn't the philosophy thread!
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03-25-2006, 10:37 AM
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Ah, grammar and spelling.
As for English, I suppose I'll keep my mouth shut because it's my second language. In my native togue, however, I never had problems with spelling or grammar or anything. Even though Hungarian is pretty hard and tricky, and the spelling is very hard to learn, and many people just can't get it right however hard they try. For me, it's like an instinct; I never had to prepare to grammar classes by memorizig rules or anything. And yes, I am bugged by errors that are so very screamingly obvious - for me... And Nurv - I really don't have a clue... "our dog" just doesn't say that the dog is your bro's and yours... *ponders*
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03-25-2006, 07:07 PM
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Because the few times I've corrected people's spelling on the Entmoot, irony never failed to kick in and I'd make mistakes in the same sentence where I am pointing out one of somebody else.  But then again, my spelling in my mothertongue isn't perfect either because they bloody well keep changing it every four years or somethin'! Dutch spelling rules, no, let's not go there.
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