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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2012, 08:08:06 PM »
I count 3 commas in the first 4 sentences.  and if somebody want to take the high road, perhaps they should take the correct one.  after all if some dumb guy like me see the mistakes, what can be expected of an extremely intelligent person like him.


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Commas are open for interpretation.  I, can put, commas wherever I want to cause the reader to pause. 

As for his choice to not use the Oxford comma, that is not an error, but simply, a choice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma#Arguments_for_and_against

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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #31 on: February 12, 2012, 08:38:09 PM »
Commas are open for interpretation.  I, can put, commas wherever I want to cause the reader to pause. 

As for his choice to not use the Oxford comma, that is not an error, but simply, a choice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma#Arguments_for_and_against

will wait for him to decide.  it's his posting  :salute.


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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #32 on: February 12, 2012, 09:06:41 PM »
Utter nonsense. Was not a complete sentence and deserves a ding.

The rest was correct.

Nowhere did I call myself "extremely intelligent". I was actually referring to people like Hitech.

Your comprehension is as atrocious as your spelling.

Does your speltcheck not work?
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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #33 on: February 12, 2012, 09:09:28 PM »
Utter nonsense.

A basic understanding and the ability to utilize the English language is all that is asked for.

It is in no way comparable to the understanding of calculus, differential equations or special relativity.

When extremely intelligent people show that they are too lazy to spell their natural language properly I get really annoyed.

It is easier for me to do calculus then spell a simple word like explane correctly. It is only your complete uneducated understanding that you believe it is easy to spell and calculus is difficult. I did semesters of collage calculus with out going to class and just do 15 hours of study to ace the exams. I could study how to spell explain for 20 hours and spell it incorrectly 2 days later  with absolutely no way of finding the correct spelling.

You assume laziness, it isn't you pompis jerk.

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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #34 on: February 12, 2012, 09:13:15 PM »
Utter nonsense. Was not a complete sentence and deserves a ding.

The rest was correct.

Nowhere did I call myself "extremely intelligent". I was actually referring to people like Hitech.

Your comprehension is as atrocious as your spelling.

Does your speltcheck not work?

spelt is synonymous for sarcasm :).  and it's hitech, not Hitech doesnt your spellchecker work?


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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #35 on: February 12, 2012, 09:31:51 PM »
It is easier for me to do calculus then spell a simple word 

That much is obvious.

I could study how to spell explain for 20 hours and spell it incorrectly 2 days later  with absolutely no way of finding the correct spelling.

I keep a dictionary handy. Surely you've heard of one?

You assume laziness, it isn't you pompis jerk.


It's spelled pompous. If you are going to be rude and hypocritical, the least you can do is spell the insults properly.
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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #36 on: February 12, 2012, 09:42:55 PM »
Melvin you truly show your ignorance of the depth of the problem that  I can not even come close enough to spell a word to find it in the bloody word in a dictionary or spell checker. Many times I have to choose different words then I wish to communicate with simply because I can not find the correct spelling

You may note that this gets under my skin, and you would be correct. I had to put up with people who have your view , the people who believe everyone one has the same ability as they do. I do not begin to believe everyone should be able to write code correctly. But simply because you can do something correctly , you believe everyone else must do the same.

And hence your a pompiss (misspelling emphasis intend) jerk.

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« Reply #37 on: February 12, 2012, 09:54:27 PM »
I entered this thread to express how it annoys me when people, especially smart ones, misuse common words and phrases in the English language.

For some reason you continue to equate elementary spelling skills with calculus and other higher studies.

I'm glad to see how quickly you have devolved this conversation into name calling and acts of condescension.

A real class act.

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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #38 on: February 12, 2012, 09:57:42 PM »
Man I love starting to read a thread thats been going for while.

No thank you Turkish, I'm sweet enough.

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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #39 on: February 12, 2012, 10:11:18 PM »
I entered this thread to express how it annoys me when people, especially smart ones, misuse common words and phrases in the English language.

For some reason you continue to equate elementary spelling skills with calculus and other higher studies.

I'm glad to see how quickly you have devolved this conversation into name calling and acts of condescension.

A real class act.

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Wow melvin I gotta say, you're being kind of a dick, dude. I mean seriously, you're arguing with Hitech, the guy that gave us this entire game, over something as trivial as spelling and grammar on an internet forum, which is, again, one of the most informal places for the exchange of words in the history of the planet, one thats probably only matched by the beer keg, water cooler, and the campfire.


All I see when people post about spelling and grammar mistakes (often while making the very same mistakes themselves) are people trying to say "look at me! I has good gramer!"
You started this thread and it was obviously about your want and desire in spite of your use of 'we' and Google.

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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #40 on: February 12, 2012, 10:31:48 PM »
Wow melvin I gotta say, you're being kind of a dick, dude. I mean seriously, you're arguing with Hitech, the guy that gave us this entire game, over something as trivial as spelling and grammar on an internet forum, which is, again, one of the most informal places for the exchange of words in the history of the planet, one thats probably only matched by the beer keg, water cooler, and the campfire.


All I see when people post about spelling and grammar mistakes (often while making the very same mistakes themselves) are people trying to say "look at me! I has good gramer!"

I wasn't arguing anything until I was called a pompous jerk.


It's not so much even the spelling. What really gets me is the inability for people to distinguish between their, there and they're. Lose and loose is another one that makes me cringe. That's a grand total of five words that, if used properly, would end about 75% of all grammar Naziism.
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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #41 on: February 12, 2012, 10:54:11 PM »
Commas are open for interpretation.  I, can put, commas wherever I want to cause the reader to pause. 

As for his choice to not use the Oxford comma, that is not an error, but simply, a choice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma#Arguments_for_and_against

Commas should not be used to denote a pause. If you want to express a pause it should be expressed as a -.
There are specific rules that go with comma usage.
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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #42 on: February 12, 2012, 11:01:12 PM »
I entered this thread to express how it annoys me when people, especially smart ones, misuse common words and phrases in the English language.

For some reason you continue to equate elementary spelling skills with calculus and other higher studies.

I'm glad to see how quickly you have devolved this conversation into name calling and acts of condescension.

A real class act.

 :salute

I think you took it the wrong way. Some people do well at things like calculus and some people do well at grammar.
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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #43 on: February 12, 2012, 11:07:53 PM »
dude, the first three are really close. Infact, one of those mistakes can easily be made if your apostrophe key is isn't very sensitive, or just doesn't always work for whatever reason. My shift key doesn't always work, and so I sometimes the first words to my sentences, and my proper nouns aren't capitalized, simply because I don't notice when they keyboard screws up.

Or if your keyboard has a quirk where it likes to put repeat letters, or if you simple double tap the O key on accident, you end up with "loose" instead of "lose".


Like I said, this is just about the least formal place for conversation (mostly because it about an unimportant subject, and essentially anonymous), and as a result, many don't really care enough about minor mistakes to go back and proof read their posts.


And language changes. Think about how many words we have now that weren't around in 1899, simply because the things the words represent weren't around back then. Grammar also changes, as does spelling and punctuation, though to a lesser degree. I'm sure that, were we able to talk with them, some one from 1692 would think our grammar horrendous.
You started this thread and it was obviously about your want and desire in spite of your use of 'we' and Google.

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Re: Another ranking on the Aces High Bulletin Board please.
« Reply #44 on: February 12, 2012, 11:20:57 PM »
I entered this thread to express how it annoys me when people, especially smart ones, misuse common words and phrases in the English language.

For some reason you continue to equate elementary spelling skills with calculus and other higher studies.

I'm glad to see how quickly you have devolved this conversation into name calling and acts of condescension.

A real class act.

 :salute


Somebody as smart as you would have figured out by now what he's telling you.  Unless of course you lack some basic comprehension skills.  go back and read his postings and perhaps you will understand why.  that is unless you want to keep being a dick.

I really wish I had the patience hitech has.


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