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What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there get... - 6/6/2005 1:24:29 AM   
FelinePersuasion


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Status: offline 		Do you like get some sick perverse sense of satisfaction for taking others to task for not being as "grammar correct" as you? Is it like a hobby or something, don't those people have something better to do.



WHY in the hell do people think it's their right to take others to task about if they're grammatically correct.


If all their other stuff is legible and readable, And they do their best to punctuate, spell, and capitalize, why go out of your way to take someone to task over something they may be doing their best about. But you're better at it than they are.


These post nazi's, They're not the posters mommy, or daddy, or dominant, or teacher, if they don't like you, or at the very least how you post, what gives them the right or buisness to take someone they don't have that right over Ie being the guardian, or the dominant over, to task.


And if they had the "right so to speak" of criteaking other people's best efforts why don't they go to school where it's APROPRIATE to chastise others for poor what ever it isThey fill the need to chastise over.


And in the same veign couldn't I come back with why don't you try to learn some manners and just keep shut if you don't like a mistake I made. I wouldn't but the thought is there.



Why is it so bloody important to get all high and mighty and snotty* like some but not all do* about it, will the world really shut down, end and implode if someone uses an ' in the wrong place?? Or uses a plural when they should of used a singular.


NO!! SO WHY THE BLOODY HELL DO THESE PEOPLE ACT LIKE IT WILL!!!!






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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 11:14:51 AM   
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WHY in the hell do people think it's their right to take others to task about if they're grammatically correct.


I dunno... I suppose because they are bored and feeling vicious. Online forums are a bit like high school in that respect.

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 11:18:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		I don't know, but I would be afraid to make a post like that. It would come back to haunt me the next time I made a typo or error in spelling...lol.


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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 11:35:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Feline,

I won't point out the couple of misspellings in your post (don't get mad!) but I'd like to make only one comment about this.

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If all their other stuff is legible and readable, And they do their best to punctuate, spell, and capitalize, why go out of your way to take someone to task over something they may be doing their best about. But you're better at it than they are.



I find it amazing that some people DON'T do their best to punctuate and spell; their posts here or on profiles consist of one run-on sentence with NO punctuation or attempt to spell (can't someone spell the words "you" instead of "u" and "four" instead of "4", to name a couple?). Like the radio ad says, "people judge you by the words you use" (I hope you know what I'm talking about here, it's an ad for a vocabulary-building set of tapes). People who can't spell or use punctuation (or who can't be bothered to use a spell or grammar checker) present themselves as not very intelligent. That sounds hard, but it's true.

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 11:41:33 AM   
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ORIGINAL: FelinePersuasion
And in the same veign couldn't I come back with why don't you try to learn some manners and just keep shut if you don't like a mistake I made. I wouldn't but the thought is there.


It's "vein" not to be confused with "vain." ;)

On a text based communication forum, punctuation and grammar becomes highly important. Like it or not, spelling and grammar will be used against you when it comes to evaluating the merits of your post. Not only does it make it more difficult to read, understand and interpret but it is a natural sign that you don't care enough or don't know well enough to do it right.

Now, we ALL make typos. The same way we all stutter occasionally.

And the reality is, most of us can understand badly mangled posts pretty easily and it's not so much a big deal. I think if someone truly does begin to harp on it, they are being a bit unrealistic.

Now, I HAVE pointed out people's mistakes before, for two main reasons. One- the poster was ranting themselves about people having bad grammar and spelling so I thought it apt to point out their own personal mistakes (it's happened, even here). The other- because I think the person will actually respond positively to correction.

Personally, I'm a great speller and always have been. My grammar is above average but I write constantly in passive tense, use run-on sentences and have a few other obvious flaws. I like when someone takes the time to correct me because it helps me become a better communicator. But that's different than someone just pointing out spelling and grammar because they can't actually discuss the points at hand.

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 1:24:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I do my best to always clearly state what I'm trying to get across. I do my best to refrain from errors of any sort.

In a place such as this I demand nothing from anyone but myself. I will correct errors in my posts. I will cringe when I spot a typo mixed in amidst my words. But I do not feel that I should harangue others who post here. It's not my job.

I also think it would generate a negative connotation when others spotted my screen name. I would prefer that others read what I wrote before judging my posts. I'd not care for someone reading my screen name and dismissing the entire thing because they knew that in another topic I'd been the Grammar Nazi.

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 1:32:33 PM   
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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 1:34:06 PM   
Mercnbeth


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Status: offline 		Damn! I just posted this in another thread. It seems more important here. What the hell, I'll plagerize myself and be "repeatedly redundant".

My prayer...
"God, please invent a grammar check as easy to use as my spell check. You've allowed me to lose 100% of the minimal spelling skills I had beaten into me by the 'Brides of Christ' who oversaw my youthful education, but now I need a similar grammar/usage tool because in my creeping ever faster senility, my grammar and usage editing skills are also abandoning me. Send me a program writing messiah to provide me the 'right click' power necessary to eliminate the opportunities I provide my adversaries and detractors from focusing on these errors, in lieu of addressing the points raised. I ask this as your not so humble servant - 'EM'."

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 1:37:57 PM   
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Personally, I do not enjoy reading posts with horrible spelling, run-on sentences and incorrect grammar. Granted- I am not perfect with my grammar and I have made some typos in my posts, but I tend to indicate that I wasn't sure of the correct spelling. (sp?)
I think that poorly written posts and those that include "netspeak" reflect on the poster, and I am not as likely to listen to them. I take people who don't present themselves well much less seriously than I do a well-written and thoughtful post.
As for manners- I don't think that commenting on someone spelling or grammar is bad manners. I think it's simply making an observation, and as a public forum I am well within my rights to make that particular observation.
It doesn't take that much effort to post in a thoughtful and well-written manner. Most PC's have spellchecker, and it's really simple to cut and paste from Notepad.
I don't consider myself a "spelling nazi", but how someone posts affects my opinion of them.
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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/6/2005 2:39:12 PM   
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Like the radio ad says, "people judge you by the words you use" (I hope you know what I'm talking about here, it's an ad for a vocabulary-building set of tapes).


Well hey - personally - I don't bother about blatent advertising...

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/7/2005 3:24:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey, if the spelling Nazi's get there kinks from correcting-- We; as the "largest BDSM community on the planet" should be tolerant of that kink, no? People here often criticize that which doesn't meet their personal interpretation of SSC or RACK and quite a large population is constantly in endless, arbitrary, inane and pedantic discourse, which is truely asswipe as well as a distinction without a difference. Well, we all have to live in this and the global community, and perhaps we all need to endeavor in more vigorous fashion to tolerate those points of view which we do not share. How many threads are about who is a faker and who is a player and who is a poser and who is really vanilla and... ad nauseum. There are a lot of seemingly brittle and loosely coiled (or perhaps tightly coiled) souls out here. But everybody has an agenda they are pushing out here, wanna-be's, posers, lifestylers, players, rape-and-killlers, smart-asses....whoever......(PEOPLE, beings). So when GrandMasterDomDipshit or DominaDestitute or SwitchTheLightOff or SubFlooring (aside: oh, please God, don't let these names have handles out here, I don't need the vituperative mail...) whack you, then perhaps one comforting possibility is to buy one of thes bondage ducks that are being flogged out here, and let the water run off of its back................or block 'em or ignore them and find your connection in life and learn from the advice of the others out here who don't waste their life on the meaning of such asswipe.

Sincerely,

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P.S. no matter how much I will examine this post for spelling errors, I will not correct it in solidarity with the spelling Nazi's AND those who find that they can communicate comfortably without having perfect spelling........

P.P.S (not corrected for spelling..lol) but I have no monetary or other interest in the bondage duck, but I think it's cute



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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/7/2005 3:39:53 PM   
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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/7/2005 3:51:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dark~angel

Well hey - personally - I don't bother about blatent advertising...





angel, that would be "blatant" LOLOLOL

I can't for the life of me remember the name of that vocabulary-building program, nor was I trying to advertise it .

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/7/2005 3:59:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually; Dearest DarkAngel I used to go with a bondage duck that looked like that once, but she was mean so I left her...............


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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/30/2005 2:29:18 AM   
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Merely commenting and pointing out can be apreciated, it's not apreciated however, when the "pointing out" takes on the form of personal slangs and attacks, and vicious behaviors, like sugesting someone should send the twit a computer virus lol. And it's not apreciated when their pointing out, takes about 1oo to two hundred posts a day to continually be rate a poor speller slash grammarsist. Which yes it did lol. The moderator finally told all the people continueing it to stop or be banned.


Cello net speak is a whoooooooole nother ball game than just mis spelled things lol. I detest chat speak like u r 4 and stuff. An abreviation of TY or BBL or something is fine, but I absolutely see no need to speak to someone who couldn't be bothered to spell three letter words lol. Infact it's a personal requirement if I am going to speak to submissives privately they have to at least have common sense enough not to be lazy lol. And I certaintly expect Doms not to be to lazy to post three letter words right, because it is a reflection on the dom to me and a poor one if someone claims to be Master Dominant, and can't even bother:P

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/30/2005 7:34:08 AM   
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ORIGINAL: FelinePersuasion

Cello net speak is a whoooooooole nother ball game than just mis spelled things lol. I detest chat speak like u r 4 and stuff. An abreviation of TY or BBL or something is fine, but I absolutely see no need to speak to someone who couldn't be bothered to spell three letter words lol.


Feline, would you believe I didn't even know that there WAS something called net speak until just the other day? I just thought people didn't know how to spell! LOL The abbreviations like TY, BBL, those are cool. The misspelled words, like "thot" instead of "thought", etc.... that's just annoying. But that's coming from someone who always did well in English class. Too bad the "algebra nazi's" can't get me here! LOL

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/30/2005 11:50:49 AM   
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On a text based communication forum, punctuation and grammar becomes highly important. Like it or not, spelling and grammar will be used against you when it comes to evaluating the merits of your post. Not only does it make it more difficult to read, understand and interpret but it is a natural sign that you don't care enough or don't know well enough to do it right


pardon me, but what bulls*t. this sounds like elitist crap to me; as if only posts which measure up to the standards insinuated (but since no reference book is cited, we cannot know what they are) will be considered. as if everyone must run out and buy E.B.White's book on "Style" and in addition, remove all spelling errors from their posts, all to suit one poster.

not to be nasty, but i read this poster's profile, found grammatical errors, and emailed her about them so she could correct them. i did it that way to avoid embarrassing her; but since she wants to claim to be the message board arbriter of grammar and spelling, i thought i'd point out she needs to clean her own house before she takes on anyone else's.

the purpose of the message board is to communicate and to the degree that an acronym or spelling error makes a post hard to understand, that's a shame. the poster's ideas where not as broadly cast as they could have been. (btw, what is RACE?)

apart from that, grammar and spelling errors are of no consequence whatsoever. if the poster communicated and everyone understood him, the post was effective and that is the end of that.

anyone as driven as the author quoted above to treat posts as book reports, and correct grammar and spelling errors, should email the poster; and not use the message boards. the fact that she does not -- that it is not enough to notify the author -- signals to me that what she really wants is to "show off" to the community that she can proof read. well, maybe; but since she could not proof read her own profile, i am a bit suspicious of that claim.

when a poster has communicated his idea, and another one responds not to his thoughts but to his spellings or grammatical errors, that responder shows a complete lack of respect to the poster that is totally uncalled for. people who try to build themselves up at the expense of others are amoung the ones i most disrespect.





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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/30/2005 12:13:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		What is it with people that think it's ok to call anyone they don't like a 'nazi?'

I find that incredibly offensive.

If you really think that a group of people that murdered millions of people is comparable to someone criticising your (atrocious, btw) prose, you have much more serious problems than simple illiteracy.

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/30/2005 2:01:10 PM   
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the purpose of the message board is to communicate and to the degree that an acronym or spelling error makes a post hard to understand, that's a shame. the poster's ideas where not as broadly cast as they could have been. (btw, what is RACE?)


Rage At and Cuss Everyone?

To me, poor spelling and grammar is like a worn and stained book. Yes, its a little off-putting but I can overlook the unpleasantness so I can enjoy the communication being offered. The times are rare when I say to myself, "This isn't worth the struggle."

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ORIGINAL: Raphael
What is it with people that think it's ok to call anyone they don't like a 'nazi?'


Its a variation of an old Seinfeld joke. And yes, its a little old. But those who use it do not intend it to be taken literally.

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RE: What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there... - 6/30/2005 3:34:40 PM   
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What is it the forum post/ grammar nazi's out there get out of correcting others?


Ask lordandmaster...

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