Grammar ****?Follow

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actually it's Diatribes...

;)

You could point out ALL the errors in that last paragraph and I may give you a prize. But then...Doh! I guess I'll go scrape my fingernails on a blackboard...

If the prize is a big piece of lasagna I will take you up on that... Mulamen is hungry.

Can I be Rikki-Tikki-Tavi?


p.s. Yes, I know that Rikki-Tikki was a mongoose

That's too bad, I could put that right next to eight crazy nights on my worst animated films ever shelf...

Ding! He revised and added sections to "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. Anyone who didn't cut high school English may remember that...

Sorry brother, can only SoW you on The Seventh Hammer. My shammy makes a mean 10-dose Blood of Wolf...

You can always make a sockpuppet on 7th hammer...

No extra charges for alts, regardless of server (well, except Stormhammer, the premium Legends server).

FFXI does charge you an extra buck a month for alts (per alt, I do believe), so maybe that's where you heard it from.

There's only eight slots per server and some restrict you to 1-4 depending on the ruleset, which is being excessively nitpicky. But someone else was bound to say it anyway

Edited, Wed Apr 7 17:04:27 2004 by Jophiel

To the last question NO. I have chars on CT FV and MT.
Jophiel has a few around as well. Or at least he did.

Well, it was just a guess... 8 to 10.
Me brain r sometimes a lil' dumm!

BTW if an unkown level one comes up and smacks one of your characters, pay no mind... it would definitely not be me.


Edit: Of course it would be a friendly smack, Mulamen is a nice guy.

Edited, Wed Apr 7 17:22:36 2004 by Mulamen

Easy to guess which ones are me, several begin with Dot...
Dotlo (31 Halfling Druid)
Dotluga (33 Ogress SK)
Dottien (30 High Elf Cleric)

You would have to run your level 1 to Stonebrunt or The Great Divide for the first two, but Dottien hangs out in Butcherblock some.

Sorry but you've set me going

I'm usually a stickler for at least semi-decent grammar. However, what you have to realize is that postings on a web site or BB are not traditional "written language", nor are they "speach". They are a blend of the two, and that will result in some fairly common transpositions of words.

I sometimes look back over a post I've made and cringe at the goofed up words I've written. The problem is not a matter of not knowing which words to use when, but simply that when writing in an online forum, you tend to write the way you speak. As a pretty fast touch typist, my fingers don't necessarily know which spelling of a word I should be using. They just type the word.

For that reason, I generally don't worry too much about hominyms in posts. As a mixture of speach and written word, you can generally tell what meaning the author *meant* when he used a particular word. I can tell via context if he meant "they're", or "there", or "their". Theoretically, you should be more concerned with the content of the post, rather then the absolute correctness of the grammar within. After all, you don't worry about whether the correct spelling of a word is being used when someone talks to you, and a board is much more akin to a spoken conversation then traditional writing.

On the other hand, absolutely horrible grammar can make the meaning of a post extremely hard to determine. I've sometimes read a post and had absolutely no idea what the poster is trying to say. Sometimes, you actually have to guess. I find that the grammar errors listed above are usually not the cause of that. It's generally sentence-structure errors that cause a post to be indecipherable. Mixed number, or incorrect case, or botched use of transitives are vastly more likely to make it impossible to determine what someone is trying to say.


Example:

(more or less correct)

I went to the store. I ran into some friends there and asked them what their favorite flavor of icecream was. They told me that they liked chocolate more than vanilla, but then Joe said he liked strawberry the most.

("common" hominym and/or spelling substitutions)

I whent to the store. I ran into some friends theire and asked them what they're favorite flavore of icecream was. They told me that they likd chocolate more then vanilla, but than Joe said he liked strabwaerry the most.

(bad structure sentence)

i go to a store and friends their and ask icecream more like. Chocolate much more then vanilla but Joe strawberry.


The first and second cases are both pretty readable. You can easily determine what the poster is talking about and what they are saying. In the third, if you didn't have the context of the first two, you'd likely have no clue what the poster was trying to say. And I've seen whole paragraphs written in that style. That's usually the only thing that gets my "grammar ****" going...