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The Old Hack
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The Moderator: Eh? You saying something about my family there?
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It's written the way it is in the comic. It's pronounced so it rhymes with 'eh'. (Well, roughly. This doesn't include the bloody glottal stop. But whatever.)
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The Moderator: Not a problem, pinned it is.
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loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Old joke by an English teacher of mine: "There ain't no such word as 'ain't.'" I suspect this was his ironic comment on the prescriptivist take. -
loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Any form of 'to be' is stubbornly irregular in any Indo-European language I am aware of. German: 'zu sein', 'ich bin', 'du bist, 'er/sie/es ist', 'wir sind', 'ihr seid', 'sie sind' French: 'être', 'je suis', 'tu es', 'il/elle est', 'nous sommes', 'vous êtes', 'ils sont' In Danish it is funny. Its infinitive is 'være' and then it is 'er' throughout its present tense. Latin: 'esse', 'sum', 'es', 'est', 'sumus', 'estis', 'sunt'. That's just a few examples. Obviously, the Latinate examples are all very similar -- see French and Latin. -
That depends on the kind of dreamworld rules you are using. One, two, Freddy's coming for you...
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loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Text files! Back in th' day, we din't 'ave no fancy TEXT FILES. Or magnetic storage media. Luxury, I calls it! No. We used punch cards! An' when bug got inta program that way, we 'adda look each punch card o'er in detail ta find out what 'ad been punched wrong. An' then we 'adta fin' programmer an' punch HIM until he stopped punchin' beck an' got ta work punching th' cards right. An' we needed ten thousand punch cards just ta boot computer, an' computer was so ornery, it booted us right back. And when ye tell young people nowadays, they'll never believe ye.- 132 replies
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loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
That's for old people like you and me. All these youngsters don't even remember the time when ascii was basically all the graphics we had. -
GO YOU!!!
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The Moderator: Following a suggestion from PSadlon, I am introducing a second type of moderator post. When I simply wish to explain or clarify a rule instead of warning someone, I'll be posting in blue instead of red. This is in order to save wear and tear on poster nerves so they do not think they have made a mistake or broken a rule when I am making a moderator post right after something they have written. ~tOH.
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It's for when I am feeling in less of a Royalist mood. If I ever start to post in grey text, it's because I'm starting to go Confederate and by that time it might be a good idea to talk me into visiting a shrink before I become divided against myself.
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As said, it should be credited to @PSadlon, not me. But yeah, I agree, it is a great idea.
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Look, I already made this known a long time ago. I am actually a spambot, I'm just so well programmed that I tricked the admins here into making me a mod.
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Hack, what have you been you been up to? Absolutely nothing. Nobody can prove anything. And the DNA matches could easily have been pure coincidence.
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I would occasionally play this track during a roleplaying session when I wanted to completely freak my players out. Ideally, just as they had settled to camp for the night and when I had something nasty planned.
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This one is kind of cheating, but I love it anyway:
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Apologies! I'll try to remember.
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loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Maybe it means that they have added spin doctor to the lens cleaning fluid? That's a very good notion. I think the best gamer spell checking disaster I ever encountered was the horrible 'dawizard' that I first encountered in a Ravenloft supplement and later on met again in a book that collected magical items over the time. I could NOT work out what in the world it meant that the device inflicted such-and-such an amount of 'dawizard' on the players that tried to meddle with it. Finally, more than a year later, it dawned on me that someone had for whatever reason done a search-and-replace on 'mage' in exchange for 'wizard' and that this had resulted in damage becoming the absurd dawizard. The blessings of early spell checking programs. -
loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Sorry about that! I didn't even consider it, I was in Nile mode. -
The Moderator: 'Leninade' was one of the posters who made the environment so very toxic in the old days. I have renewed his permaban and will request of the admins that they do not allow him to register a new account.
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loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Did you have similar troubles with the spell checkers in the Middle Kingdom? I heard a rumour one was notorious for employing an ibis when you actually meant heron. -
loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
The Moderator: There will be no further discussion of 'prescriptivism' or related matters. If any still wish to argue this, kindly take it to private messages. (Requests for clarification of meaning and settling personal issues are still okay.) -
loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
The Moderator: Sweveham, CritterKeeper is correct. The thread is made for this purpose and it even states that those who do not care about such matters are free to simply ignore it. What is more, no matter how hard I try, I cannot see this thread as 'prescriptivism'. It would be the latter if it somehow imposed itself on others and required them to follow whatever results it may arrive at. As it is, it is simply a little niche where those who care about little things like a unified standard of spelling, the various ways of employing diction and the like may have debates in peace. I would say you owe CritterKeeper an unreserved apology but I do not have the authority to require you to give her one. I leave that to your conscience. As it is, I do have the authority to give you a warning point, which is hereby done -- it is richly deserved. ~tOH. -
loving language The Grammar Thread
The Old Hack replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I received an important lesson in this sort of thing through having known two dyslexics. One is an engineer who works at a nuclear power plant. The other holds a PhD in high-temperature superconductors. They taught me to not judge by spelling but by content, a lesson which I have always been grateful for. I have at times found humour in typoes, but I tend to keep it to myself unless it is between me and someone I know very well. Mind you, I am completely merciless when it comes to spell checkers pulling stupid shit. A good example would be a friend of mine with the last name of Bolland. The stupid spell checker tried to write 'Ebola' instead. I and my friend had a field day with that one. -
The only time she was together with him that I remember was during his stay in the hospital. Back then she did not show her nightmare side though she did sort of go Galadriel Dark Queen near the end.