The Thread for Competitive Grammar-Nazism

[Borachio]

"Meager"?

Don't you know that "meagre" comes from the French maigre? You, sir, deserve to be shent. Roundly and soundly.

What would happen if parts of the Francophonie also started spelling words just as they pleased, without a buy your leave?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Oh, yeah, "-re" snobbery, too. I was trying preemptively to get out ahead of all forms of British language snobbery by anticipating it with my snide crack at "maths." It's like you people think you freakin' invented the language! Don't make me use a rubber on some of the points I've awarded you.

 

[Borachio]

Well, I've some sympathy for spelling words more or less as they are pronounced. (And they were before the C16th, I think.)

However, American English makes nothing that could be considered a consistent stab at this.

And I think that any attempt at reforming English is probably doomed to fail at this stage of the game, anyway.

 

[Gori the Grey]

We haven't fully reformed it, true; your adherence to the stuffy antiquated spellings is scarcely becoming. Truce.

For purposes of this thread, no spelling that is in common use anywhere in the Anglosphere will count as a full-fledged error.

Back to the game.

 

[jackelgull]

"Meager"?

Don't you know that "meagre" comes from the French maigre? You, sir, deserve to be shent. Roundly and soundly.

What would happen if parts of the Francophonie also started spelling words just as they pleased, without a buy your leave?

Misspelling by is you error, are you even trying to speak English anymore or are you trying to subvert the language into nonsense? You are lucky that it was only me who has caught the mistake, for Hell has no wrath like a grammar Nazi scorned.

 

[Gori the Grey]

A model post (well, almost):

Misspelling by is you error

Error identified (+3) (Words used as words, though, (here by) should be italicized.)

are you even trying to speak English anymore or are you trying to subvert the language into nonsense?

Upbraiding (+3).

And a new error included. (Several, but I think I know the one you want to count as your deliberate error.)

 

[Takhisis]

Silly Gori you're righting mistake scoring standard make no sense.

 

[Borachio]

Is this where we start writing sentences so garbled that they teeter on the verge of sense, but without being nonsense?

 

[gay_Aleks]

We passed this point after post 12.

 

[Gori the Grey]

We passed this point after post 12.

The post that comes after post 12 doesn't strike me as garbled nonsense. It didn't at the time, anyway. I'm reconsidering it in light of something else I've read more recently by that same poster.

 

[Takhisis]

Well not, every one can do that, canthey?

 

[Takhisis]

btw you should try you're hand at any Internet Relay Chat's, their grate for seeing misspellings that make people look dislexyc