Topic: State of Emergency in Some Areas: Up to 5 Feet of Snow Possible
+Syntax — 11.7 years ago #39,406
Tide here will be at Minimum 12:27 PSTWeather report says 10 AM 68 Degrees 12 to 1PM 75 degrees then it drops a bit 3PM 70 Degrees
Conditions for a world class Sunset today is Super High 4:45 PM PST with a do~able Tide of 3 Feet high
BUT ITS Taco Tuesday with One Fab place on list and two brand new to try 2day so Sunset run is out of the question
95% of the time Christmas here will be 70 degrees with Snow NEVER in forecast YET a couple of times sand covered with Hail.
+Anonymous B — 11.7 years ago, 14 minutes later[T] [B] #434,470
Now your a fucking weatherman?
+Anonymous C — 11.7 years ago, 16 minutes later, 30 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #434,477
·Syntax (OP) — 11.7 years ago, 14 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #434,481
@previous (C)
yea n eye do use You're but when lazy Dyslexic mode and face facts - text speek no longer allows any added '
Ur will soon be adopted by Oxford dictionary as a korrect word
yea n eye do use You're but when lazy Dyslexic mode and face facts - text speek no longer allows any added '
Ur will soon be adopted by Oxford dictionary as a korrect word
·Syntax (OP) — 11.7 years ago, 57 seconds later, 46 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #434,482
+Anonymous D — 11.7 years ago, 35 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #434,495
@434,481 (Syntax )
No it won't. That would mean the death of all language and they know it. It is their sworn duty to protect the sanctity of words from the bastardization of youth.
No it won't. That would mean the death of all language and they know it. It is their sworn duty to protect the sanctity of words from the bastardization of youth.
+Anonymous E — 11.7 years ago, 58 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #434,496
·Anonymous B — 11.7 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #434,497
+Anonymous F — 11.7 years ago, 17 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #434,502
+Anonymous G — 11.7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #434,504
Ur already has meaning to anyone with a "I saw PBS more than once" level of anthropological knowledge
·Syntax (OP) — 11.7 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,509
@previous (G)Ur - Considering I R Tyrannosaurs Rex age wise. Back as kiddlet during the vacuum tube era and the only way I got such tube as in photo was as hand me down from friends and then it took a lot of paper route money to buy the war surplus junk to take apart and re-build to make such tube work and even then it took bypass of electric meter n circuit breaker box to power up such transmitter so as to not blow breakers - If mom only had a clue -
When I larned Morse code for FCC license - One did use text speek much like 2day 2 say vac tub stil fond in space krft as twt wide ban pow out stag
sav letts sav fings save key brd sav bw
@434,495 (D)
> No it won't. That would mean the death of all language and they know it. It is their sworn duty to protect the sanctity of words from the bastardization of youth.
Youth fingers now worn out on smartphone connect internet - no uder choic but2 shorthand
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·Syntax (OP) — 11.7 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,510
and with that its that time·Anonymous D — 11.7 years ago, 2 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,525
·Anonymous E — 11.7 years ago, 3 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,644
@434,509 (Syntax )> Degenerating this rapidly into senile keyboard slapping
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·Syntax + Mark Twain (OP) — 11.7 years ago, 15 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,653
@434,525 (D)
The Rules of Grammar
"I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules-knew them by heart, word for word, though not their meanings-and I still know one of them: the one which says---but never mind, it will come back to me presently."
"Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar."
"The Queen's English"
"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares."
"Adjectives"
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out."
"Verbosity"
"I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English-it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them-then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice."
(Letter to D. W. Bowser, March 1880)"
"SPELLING"
"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."
"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home---where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."
"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."
"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."
The Rules of Grammar
"I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules
"Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar."
"The Queen's English"
"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares."
"Adjectives"
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out."
"Verbosity"
"I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English
(Letter to D. W. Bowser, March 1880)"
"SPELLING"
"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."
"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home---where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."
"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."
"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."
·Anonymous E — 11.7 years ago, 1 minute later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,654
·Anonymous D — 11.7 years ago, 24 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,662
@434,653 (Syntax + Mark Twain )
yada yada, Twain lived in a time where communication was predominantly auditory, and English was barely beginning to solidify the spelling of things. If a kid is old enough to have a smart phone, they're old enough to have learned how to spell in school.
yada yada, Twain lived in a time where communication was predominantly auditory, and English was barely beginning to solidify the spelling of things. If a kid is old enough to have a smart phone, they're old enough to have learned how to spell in school.
·Syntax (OP) — 11.7 years ago, 1 hour later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,691
@previous (D)> yada yada, Twain lived in a time where communication was predominantly auditory, and English was barely beginning to solidify the spelling of things. If a kid is old enough to have a smart phone, they're old enough to have learned how to spell in school.
1: Notice English evolved over the years
2: Shakespeare found English of his day insufficient and had to invent in a matter of days 1800 brand new words - usage - new forms of grammar and in his day many were butthurt over such messing with the language of his day
3: Twain said : "The Queen's English"
> "There is no such thing as the Queen's English
Modern technology comes along aka Telegraph [1836]- Morse code - and Transmission over wires and wireless Morse code ends up as English shorthand for efficiency/speed/
Wireless comes along a few years later with cell phone then smart phones with SMS - I don't know ends up efficiently as idk - Big fingers on mini touch or mini keyboards needs idk instead of ineficcient
I don't know.
Best guess is that you're English - One of those who recently derived from Rape n Pillage of Planet Earth. This of course was done while using the most proper of English language.
Those Oxford Educated wood climb aboard ships to sail to say Egypt or India or the Americas and claim that the natives living on such lands were heathens who spoke strange tongues and practiced strange ungodly religions.
As representatives of Jesus Christ, these English turned People of other lands in2 their slaves (which is approved by the bible as ok with God)
You should NOT be proud of being English. Even less proud to defend a language that took years for IBM to get a supercomputer like Watson to be able to comprehend.
If you were still in charge of technological advances WE al wood still b buyin bugy whips
·Anonymous D — 11.7 years ago, 1 hour later, 13 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,707
@previous (Syntax )
I'm not english, and I don't mind people using shorthand, but I do not believe shorthand belongs in the dictionary because it is not meant to be used in any sort of proper written document.
I'm not english, and I don't mind people using shorthand, but I do not believe shorthand belongs in the dictionary because it is not meant to be used in any sort of proper written document.
+ !!dpBxfmJOe — 11.7 years ago, 5 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[T] [B] #434,709
@previous (D)
97.6% of content on smartphones tablets pc's (Internet total) is not considered a written document.
97.6% of content on smartphones tablets pc's (Internet total) is not considered a written document.
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