EMPIRE GRAMMATICA

i dun lyk dis plase ):

Ah, no wonder. I was always confused about it.

So what is required of one to achieve higher standing in this glorious Reich? Being a lackey in a cause so near and dear to my heart is something that I shall not accept.

Care to provide a brief example to illustrate, Reichsführer?

[font=verdana][color=green]I shall, seeing as you asked so nicely.

Okay, let's say I was quoting an academic, but his important points are very minimal compared to his whole quote. Instead of using a regular ellipsis to mark the removal of some words like:

"Sentence sentence... sentence continuation"

I would, in fact, use:

"Sentence sentence [. . .] sentence continuation"

It shows clearly that the academic had said other things, but they were not important in my own personal argument.

Meritocracy.

However, it will likely be difficult to climb through the ranks here, since the only way to do so would be to be exemplary- and since I'm only around every once in awhile, I'd never get to see everyones' grammatically correct posts.

The ranks given out were somewhat random, with exception to Sam and Circe because I know them well enough to gauge their grammatical prowess.

In all likelihood, they're better than me- I'm just a four-time dropout, blue-collar goon, after all.


BUT I CARE ABOUT THESE THINGS, DAMMIT.

Language- both writ and spoken- have been created as means of communication, scilicet, a manner to convey meaning.

Careless errors and blatant disregard to the RRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUSSS cheapens it and undermines it's purpose.

Now- before anyone calls me a hypocrite, yes- I do not practice what I preach (to which I've already stated my reasons*)- but at the very least, I am well aware of the rules that I break.


* My fashion of writing has more emphasis upon pacing and tone, in my attempt to make it resemble spoken speech a little more. Just feels a little more natural to me, personally.

Understood. Thank you for the explanation, Reichsführer.

*salutes*

I do find this extraordinarily fun to say.

Did me helping you understand that sentence, work at all? Just curious.

I can take away that meaning from the sentence, yes. My point is that the wording leaves the meaning open to interpretation. If I edited Wikipedia, I would correct it.

But I don't. : x

Mmm... I see what you mean.

I also had Deja vu for some reason...

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=81273&start=15#2894794

That post... I think I might have cancer because of it.

Another comedy sketch which is relevant...

You have failed, Mouse

I say that "Mouse, you have failed." is more appropriate.

I tend to disagree. Putting the word "failed" in the same sentence as "Mouse" is never appropriate, unless there is a not of some kind.

Looks like you didn't fail, Mouse. NOT!

First of all, I said a sentence, not two. And secondly, I said "failed", not "fail".

Well aren't you just a lawyer. No need to be all persnickety there, tiger.