Grammar ForumFollow

I think it's about time we nominated someone to create and maintain a grammar forum. I see so many posters complaining about sentence structure, spelling and everything else that I feel I must be the one (since I am a bard of sorts) to start things off.

If you can contribute to this post with some healthy advice and possibly give a list of commonly misspelled words, that would be great. I believe all that is needed are some knowledgeable people to come forth and enlighten us all.

Bring a pen/pencil, paper and dictionary then let's get started.

I'm ready to look, "listen",learn then apply... how about you?

First lesson, you place the close of a quoatation mark after a comma or period (but before other punctuation).

Examples:

I'm ready to look, "listen," learn then apply... how about you?

I'm ready to look and "listen."

I'm ready to "listen"?

I'm ready to look and "listen"; how about you?

Edited, Thu Jul 29 10:41:14 2004 by Thoronmir

Not 'u', 'you'.

Not 'r', 'are'.

Not 'ur', you're.

You're = You are

Your = Possesive for 'you'


There = A place. Let's go over there

Their = A possesive for 'them'. That's their bike.

They're = They are



Edited, Thu Jul 29 10:44:43 2004 by CBD

Haha...this guy beat me to it. I appreciate your attempt to help curb poor grammar, but people in this forum only like to talk about grammar when making fun of someone. They don't like to be proactive about it.

There is something about not having an intelligent response to someone's post but seeing that they missed a comma or had a typo. Then you have something to fire back with.

It's - IT'S a wonderful day.
Its - The beetle ran for ITS life.


The - THE quick brown fox jumped over THE lazy dog.
Teh - An understandable typo, but only that...
Da -

Edited, Thu Jul 29 10:50:35 2004 by Corosato

Than = a comparison. "My bike is bigger than yours."

Then = a consequence or an addition. "If anyone makes this mistake again, then I'll have to kill you."^^ or "I ate dinner, then I went to the park."

Also, one space after a comma, and 2 spaces after a period.


That's all I have for now but Im sure I'll find a lot more if I read more posts.

Edited, Thu Jul 29 10:53:03 2004 by Eleusynia

I try to suppress my Inner-Grammar-****, especially if I suspect that English is not the poster's native tongue. But one grammar sin is like fingernails on the chalkboard: Faulkneresque stream-of-consciousness posts that lack punctuation, paragraph structure, or capital letters at the start of sentences ... they make my eyes bleed.

I was always taught that anything worth writing was worth writing well.

A mini-rant.

I am getting really tired of this shorthand speak. I dont know why people decide to do it. It isn't cute, it isn't much faster, and it is more difficult to read. In fact, I'll give no respect to anyone who sends me a /tell talking like that. So please talk like you went school for at least 5 years.

Some things are okay, like using abbreviations. However when you start replacing "you" with "u" and "what" with "wat" you become my headache. So stop plz thx. ^^;

Thoronmir, were you refering to "paragraphs" like this:^^

*****First why do you care about it and second why did you bounce my thread? Dident have to do that dont do it its rude much like you cursing At devilwolf dont cuss at people that proves that you are a fool cussing at people and dont tlak crap about our ls dw runs an awsome ls you are hateing becasue we have more ls mebers then any other ls in bismark (except may JP ones) your a fool for cussing at people like that DW has help me out alot ok so who cares nad what is a GM like you called on him gonna do They mostly deal with glitches you cussed witch isent neccaery you like to get into other buissness and you cuss most importantly you keep things to your self that doesnt hurt you or your friends or your friends friends you think it would of sold anyways people do that all the time and dont say where low leveld there alot of new member start the gmae we recruit that come for help and that we treat with respect dont hate apreciate dont be cruel either it doesnt help and as for dw seling the armor for that price yes its messed up and i dont like it one bit but dont talk crap about others in the ls that you make a presumtion you see a few weaks you think were all weak you are rude but you can change oh and im annonymys casue i lost allakz passwords and forget user name just be nice bbut yes dw did do something that very wrong and unaceptable but dont talk about everyone else you dont know us. One thing calling people low level is low it self becasue maybe they dont have time to play or dont have enough time to play or cant play much. ********

**taken from another forum for illustrative purposes, and I have no idea how to quote on this so that's the best I can do**

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!

This is only true for American English.

On the other hand, the quotes in the sentence you corrected were superfluous in the first place.

As a point of interest, the rigorous application of this rule is more of an American convention. For example, in English used in other parts of the world,



would be fully acceptable as ---> I'm ready to look and "listen".

For a high-quality site on English grammar, check out a Guide to Grammar and Writing. (The explanation above can be found there, in greater detail, as well as information on nearly any aspect of grammar that one might have a question about).

Most of the grammar errors that we see on the forums and in-game are, I would guess, a result of laziness or lack of time - I tend to emphasize proper sentence structure (even in-game), but then I type quite quickly and have no trouble keeping up with the flow. The lack of a spell-check function likely contributes as well, though I fully understand why this isn't implemented. :)

I applaud the creation of this thread. For those who wish to correct their common errors without being flamed for them, I feel that this is the place to be!

Cheers!

Edit: *How* did I manage to get a typo in the midst of a thread on grammar? <laugh>

Edited, Thu Jul 29 11:11:15 2004 by Winawer

"wuts ur def?"
"g2g thx"
"protect plz"
"can i hav sum gils plz? PLZZZZZZ???"
"ne1 hav a mithka i cn hav plz?"
"ur dumb" or "your dumb" or "u r dumb"

/suicide

You're right of course. I made an unwarranted assumption.
I agree, but I tried to retain as much of the original poster's sentence as possible for purposes of illustration. I suppose he put "listen" in quotes since we aren't literally listening (i.e., using our sense of hearing) when we read posts. Again, that's just my inference drawn from the post.