Shishkov's For Sale

[Ting Ho Dung]

1 hour ago, cynic said:

Yep, JohnnyB won...if rubbing the nose of a 50 year old in apostrophe rules on the internet is winning.  Way to go JohnnyB!

I stand by my assertion that everyone knew what he meant, so why bother with all the pretension.

Actually it wasn't Johnny B who instigated this. I just kind of dumped him in the pot since he came in late.  It was McChris who called me a moron. I've been called a moron all through school. I'm used to it. The thing that's (contraction there) insulting is that those who call me moron in most cases I perceive (i before e except after c) as someone of inferior intelligence. And you can't argue with stupid. 

[The Shark]

23 minutes ago, Ting Ho Dung said:

Actually it wasn't Johnny B who instigated this. I just kind of dumped him in the pot since he came in late.  It was McChris who called me a moron. I've been called a moron all through school. I'm used to it. The thing that's (contraction there) insulting is that those who call me moron in most cases I perceive (i before e except after c) as someone of inferior intelligence. And you can't argue with stupid. 

I've met Thorn.  Casting aspersions on his intelligence is laughable. 

[kenjones]

Anyone feel like having a passionate argument about the oxford comma? 

[The Shark]

9 hours ago, MCChris said:

My question stands: If you're gonna be wrong, why not do so with the fewest keystrokes (and thus the least effort) possible?

Who gives a shit?  Not Thorn.  Not me.

[kizanski]

1 hour ago, kenjones said:

Anyone feel like having a passionate argument about the oxford comma? 

I am a big fan of the Oxford comma. 

[JohnnyB]

27 minutes ago, kizanski said:

I am a big fan of the Oxford comma. 

Me too. It eliminates ambiguity. As a tech writer I'm all over that.

[JohnnyB]

1 hour ago, The Shark said:

I've met Thorn.  Casting aspersions on his intelligence is laughable. 

I think Thorn is one of the smartest guys on the forum. Misplaced apostrophe or not, he's one of the very gifted writers here.

[Ting Ho Dung]

10 hours ago, kenjones said:

Anyone feel like having a passionate argument about the oxford comma? 

This makes absolutely no sense to me. I just don't understand or can't think in these terms.

" In English language punctuation, a serial comma or series comma (also called Oxford comma and Harvard comma) is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and or or) in a series of three or more terms. "

8 hours ago, JohnnyB said:

I think Thorn is one of the smartest guys on the forum. Misplaced apostrophe or not, he's one of the very gifted writers here.

Thanks JohnnyB. That's quite a compliment coming from someone as educated as you. I've marveled time and again at your detailed and knowledgeable responses to posts and how succinctly you are able to make your point. 

I don't want this to become a shitstorm. I'm fine with constructive criticism. I've learned to live with this and have masked it very well in my adult life. I read very slowly and sometimes I have to read a sentence or even just a word several times for it to make sense to me. Give me an english test and I will fail. I remember drawing the little lines under parts of sentences in grade school. "Pick out the noun and verb." I ultimately got 90% of them wrong. I can't spell. Just in this paragraph Google has already underlined at least five words that I've had to lookup. If I had to write something longhand I'd be laughed at. So in this case technology has really helped me. After high school and after the usual start up jobs a kid gets like flipping pizzas I decided I needed to cram and try to learn some of these things. I quit worrying about the labels and names associated with parts of a sentence and what makes them proper and improper and just started looking for patterns. I could speak intelligently enough but just couldn't put it down on paper. I knew what proper grammar was I just didn't know why it was proper. Still don't. It was Boomerang-Junkie who pointed out to me that "asshole" is one word. My whole life I have written it ass hole and knew there was something wrong. Many times I'd stare at the word "hole" and think there was something wrong there. It wasn't until he told me to combine the two that it clicked and looked correct. I've been doing that now with other words and google tells me when they are incorrect. Like Rattlesnake. For the life of me I can't figure out why that's one word and Milk Snake are two words. I can go on and on but I usually manage to pound out something that makes some sort of sense if I go over it enough times. This paragraph took me about half an hour to write and I feel it's still chopped up and not very cohesive. 

[bubs_42]

I mean no harm and have no business poking around in any topic that involves punctuation, grammar or spelling. But don't we have an Outer Circle for Mud Slinging for this type of discussion? Plus this is the Shishkov Section, other interests outside our little realm of the HFC may come to peer in on Mikes work only to find this kind of BS lurking and may just turn them off. 

[MCChris]

9 hours ago, JohnnyB said:

I think Thorn is one of the smartest guys on the forum. Misplaced apostrophe or not, he's one of the very gifted writers here.

Okay now you've lost me completely.

[kizanski]

28 minutes ago, Ting Ho Dung said:

This makes absolutely no sense to me. I just don't understand or can't think in these terms.

" In English language punctuation, a serial comma or series comma (also called Oxford comma and Harvard comma) is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating conjunction (usually and or or) in a series of three or more terms. "

It's the difference between "I bought milk, eggs and butter," and "I bought milk, eggs, and butter." The latter having the Oxford comma employed.

 

20 minutes ago, bubs_42 said:

I mean no harm and have no business poking around in any topic that involves punctuation, grammar or spelling. But don't we have an Outer Circle for Mud Slinging for this type of discussion? Plus this is the Shishkov Section, other interests outside our little realm of the HFC may come to peer in on Mikes work only to find this kind of BS lurking and may just turn them off. 

You're right, this is the Shishkov section. We argue about more cerebral topics.

We'll leave intonation for the Hamer section.

 

[Ting Ho Dung]

3 minutes ago, kizanski said:

It's the difference between "I bought milk, eggs and butter," and "I bought milk, eggs, and butter." The latter having the Oxford comma employed.

 

Ah, okay. I've taught myself to always comma the "and" and everything before it. 

[MCChris]

54 minutes ago, bubs_42 said:

I mean no harm and have no business poking around in any topic that involves punctuation, grammar or spelling. But don't we have an Outer Circle for Mud Slinging for this type of discussion? Plus this is the Shishkov Section, other interests outside our little realm of the HFC may come to peer in on Mikes work only to find this kind of BS lurking and may just turn them off. 

This BS is no more detrimental than someone seeing a thread with the title "Shishkov's for sale" .... they might think the company is on the block because it wasn't viable, or that people are selling their Shishkovs en masse because they aren't that great.

[hamerhead]

And I can't believe I just spent 10 minutes catching up on punctuation etiquette. It's pretty funny, but I need a beer. At 8:32 AM.

[bubs_42]

41 minutes ago, kizanski said:

It's the difference between "I bought milk, eggs and butter," and "I bought milk, eggs, and butter." The latter having the Oxford comma employed.

 

You're right, this is the Shishkov section. We argue about more cerebral topics.

We'll leave intonation for the Hamer section.

 

So punctuation is for pussy's? 

[kevinbower1959]

Milk + Eggs + Butter. Problem solved.

[hamerhead]

Sounds like the beginnings of a delicious cake recipe. Cake and beer, the Breakfast of Champions.

[cmatthes]

Okay.

 

I think this one has run its (not it's) course.

[The Shark]

36 minutes ago, cmatthes said:

Okay.

 

I think this one has run its (not it's) course.

But nobody solved my math quiz!!!!!!!

[MCChris]

42 minutes ago, cmatthes said:

Okay.

 

I think this one has run its (not it's) course.

Yes, in the same thread Thorn has been called smart and JohnnyB has been called succinct.

[Ting Ho Dung]

1 hour ago, cmatthes said:

Okay.

 

I think this one has run its (not it's) course.

That one I don't mix up.

[Ting Ho Dung]

36 minutes ago, The Shark said:

But nobody solved my math quiz!!!!!!!

Bubs has #20? or you are getting #20 from whomever owns it. (I have issues with whom too)

[soli'd]

Yeah I thought Velo's was 23... I'm coming up with 68?

[hamerhead]

Wouldn't "it's course" be possessive, i.e 'the subject has run the subject's course'? Which, of course, would render "its course" incorrect.

[Ting Ho Dung]

13 minutes ago, hamerhead said:

Wouldn't "it's course" be possessive, i.e 'the subject has run the subject's course'? Which, of course, would render "its course" incorrect.

Now you're thinking like me. 

30 minutes ago, soli'd said:

Yeah I thought Velo's was 23... I'm coming up with 68?

The Shark has or is getting #45 so 65-45= 20. So bubs must have #20