Continuing Rant Thread - Get it Off Ya Chest here

[goomboogo]

Because most men have trouble knowing what to do with one. More than one is well beyond normal skill levels.

 

[Donske]

The old language evolving line doesn't actually work in the context it is used in most commonly. The idea of an evolving language is that over time and as people move between local dialects/vernaculars you have a shifting of the common usage (and therefore definition) of words that were already used within the language for a different purpose.

Language does not evolve by making up stupid ******* buzz words (which always seem to be written with a hash in front of them, that's a different rant though) or being too ******* lazy to type out a full word.

Typos and incorrect grammar don't bother me online by the way, it's the fact that it's creeping into more formal settings, like emails to clients that annoys the **** out of me.

 

[Mardoo]

Crazy dude on the train...much better at ranting than I'll ever be.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Its hard to know which issue needs to be addressed first, the person who has the problem with spelling and grammar, or the one who lets it affect them.

 

[dent]

The one who is getting it ******* wrong. It actually is, in a small way, jarring and painful to read "there going to brew a larger".

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

You can allways help jack off a horse

 

[jyo]

I find commas and capital letters are pretty important, but we can definitely make meaning without them.

Take the following:

The difference between helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse... and.... Helping your uncle jack off a horse.

Either way, I hope he got off ok.


edit- you're too quick, DucatiBoy!

 

[Not For Horses]

Brewing is a science.
The internet is full of people who know nothing about everything.
Taking those two factors into account, it can be hard to decide if someone actually knows what they are talking about when you read something online.
Given that, I tend to place less faith in someone talking about a scientific topic if they don't appear to have a basic grasp on spelling and grammar.

Ed: proofreading is hard on a phone.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Either way, I hope he got off ok.
Are we talking about the uncle, or the horse?

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Brewing is a science.
The internet is full of people who know nothing about everything.
Taking those two factors into account, it can be hard to decide if someone actually knows what they are talking about when you read something online.
Given that, I tend to place less faith in someone talking about a scientific topic if they don't appear to have a basic grasp on spelling and grammar.

Ed: proofreading is hard on a phone.

Well if you put that into practice it would seriously dent your faith in the worlds greatest mind that ever lived, Albert Einstein one of the worlds greatest physicist's as well as the worlds most well known dyslexic.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Either way, I hope he got off ok.
Are we talking about the uncle, or the horse?

Depends. What if he got off geting the horse off..or getting off the horse...

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Depends. What if he got off geting the horse off..or getting off the horse...

If he got off getting the horse off, that means he would have had both hands full, so who was turning the pages for him and the horse?

 

[pedleyr]

Well if you put that into practice it would seriously dent your faith in the worlds greatest mind that ever lived, Albert Einstein one of the worlds greatest physicist's as well as the worlds most well known dyslexic.

http://www.albert-einstein.org/article_handicap.html

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

If he got off getting the horse off, that means he would have had both hands full, so who was turning the pages for him and the horse?

Pages....in this modern age you just download and click on play. Its all hands free from then on.

Press play.....you know you want to

http://youtu.be/fe4fyhzS3UM

 

[Dave70]

Alan Jones

DING!..DING!..DING!...

Timeless..

C'mon Al you old mincer, give us a show tune.



Dont for get kids, anthropogenic climate change is just hysteria whipped up by leftest media.

God save the Queen.

 

[manticle]

Does that say 'grub'?

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Alan & Chopper

EPIC

http://youtu.be/Dj3jrpQzCe0

 

[goomboogo]

Does that say 'grub'?

According to Christopher Pyne, it's an example of evolving language.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

They are both equally discriptive..........and deserving.

 

[manticle]

That might be because of their history with black people.

Yes, Australia has no history with black people.