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TheHutts wrote:People get mixed up between "Fraction" and "Faction" sometimes. ie "This is a great addition to the Mandalorian Fraction!" the 1/4 master only adds to the confusion! 
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SuperYodaMan wrote:SavageRancor wrote:I'v read shackspear works that has sentences starting with and "Shackspear?" Sounds like a new type of archaic deadly weapon. Try Shakespeare. Besides, his mistakes don't count anyway because he made up half the friggin' English language. I think he can get away with a few mechanical and/or grammatical no-nos. I'm not saying I like the guy, of course (ugh... reading Romeo and Juliet for English class was the biggest pain in the butt ever... and then we had to watch the old movie. At least Much Ado About Nothing was somewhat funny. Romeo and Juliet was just.... bleargh!  ). Commenting on the grammatical correctness of poets/playwrites is a waste of time. They take artistic license with language. The texting and IMing shorthand is entirely up to popular interpretation. ur can be "you are", "your", or an ancient Sumerian city. It's about how adaptive your mind is to reading what people are trying to write and convey.
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Eroschilles wrote:
The texting and IMing shorthand is entirely up to popular interpretation. ur can be "you are", "your", or an ancient Sumerian city. It's about how adaptive your mind is to reading what people are trying to write and convey.
I love those little beards.
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I went to *Mesopotamia last Saturday * Mesopotamia Ohio
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Maybe I missed it, but did anyone mention the exception?
You use an apostrophe to make letters plural. For example, this sentence has two x's.
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FlyingArrow wrote:Maybe I missed it, but did anyone mention the exception?
You use an apostrophe to make letters plural. For example, this sentence has two x's. CE's, or CEs? I never know what to type.  Technically I suppose both are incorrect, but we'll just have to accept them as a rules abstraction. 
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SuperYodaMan wrote:swinfield wrote:I'm not sure why you feel this should be locked, but I believe it should be moved to Off-Topic at this point as it has gathered quite a few responses. Um, this is the Off-Topic thread. I don't know why anybody would be worried about the thread locking; none of this is spam because it's in the Off-Topic thread. Third, I'm curious now about this "Spanish fishing policy." Is it like those dumb laws that we have in the U.S., like how it's illegal to cross the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin with a duck on your head? I heard that its illegal to tie an alligator to a fire hydrant....I forgot which state in the US it was. I must say I am subject to horrible grammatical errors. Well, only two really. One is the use of apostrophes, not because I don't know when/how to use them, but because (since I access BM 90 percent of the time on my mobile phone) I need to click a button 6 friggen times just to pump out one apostrophe. I love being efficient, so thats not happening (see, there I did it again). The second mistake I always make is the use of a comma/semi-colon. I always use a semi-colon, even when there should be a comma. Again, it's not that I don't know when/how to use them, but I need to click a button twice on my phone to dish out one comma, while I can click another button once to poud out a semi-colon. On a side note, I really don't understand how people can get mixed up with your and you're, to/two/too, etc. They all of completely different meanings.
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Eroschilles wrote:The texting and IMing shorthand is entirely up to popular interpretation. ur can be "you are", "your", or an ancient Sumerian city. It's about how adaptive your mind is to reading what people are trying to write and convey. That's the problem with writing in general. Unlike talking face-to-face, you don't have the benifit of body language, tone of voice, or (nor?) personality to help give you context to what the person is saying. That's why I try to be painfully clear in messages, to save time later on and making sure the recipient of my message knows exactly what I'm saying....unless I make myself vague on purpose to mysterious....hmmmm....(*ominous music playing*)
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FlyingArrow wrote:Maybe I missed it, but did anyone mention the exception?
You use an apostrophe to make letters plural. For example, this sentence has two x's. Letters, yes, but years, acronyms, etc. doesn't get apostrophes, or at least I'm pretty sure they don't (e.g. CDs, 1980s, LEDs, LASERs [yes, "laser" is an acronym; it stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"], etc.). So, swinefield, it is "CEs" if you're trying to make them plural.  Oh, and, just in case, for those of you who don't know, "e.g." comes from the Latin expression "exempli gratia," which literally means "for the sake of an example." Since I'm talking about abbreviations, "B.C." means "Before Christ." However, "A.D." does not mean "After Death;" it is the Latin abbreviation for "Anno Domini," which means "in the year of our Lord." "B.C.E." and "C.E." stand for "Before Common Era" and "Common Era," respectively. Basically, the latter designations are the "politically correct" ones, invented by people who try to keep even the slightest tinctures religion out of everything, including history textbooks (and for that matter, references to history itself).  As a side note, someone please correct me if I'm using quotation marks incorrectly with references to words and such, like in the above paragraph.
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SuperYodaMan wrote:someone please correct me if I'm using quotation marks incorrectly with references to words and such, like in the above paragraph. I don't know about that, but... Quote:So, swinefield, it is "CEs" ... ...you're almost there. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I will probably mess it up next time as poetic justice for razzing you about the spelling of my username.  
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swinefeld wrote:SuperYodaMan wrote:So, swinefield, it is "CEs" ... ...you're almost there. ARGH! How did I manage to mess that up again? Now I feel stupid.  I'll just be at my chalkboard writing "swinefeld" 300 times...
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