The Thread for Competitive Grammar-Nazism

[gay_Aleks]

This thread will soon turn into "Ask OT: How do I write?", won't it? And afraid of ending sentences with prepositions, is something, I will not vouch for.

Also, in other news, this is harder than I thought it would be.

 

[Takhisis]

Gori, a dash can't come right after a word, otherwise your joining them!

 

[Borachio]

Doesn't that depend on the dash? They're's an "em" dash and... another one, iirc. "-" and " ̶̶ "

 

[Takhisis]

Not it doesnt, damnit!

 

[gay_Aleks]

That's just dashing.

 

[Borachio]

Dash it all! I haven't got time for this: I've got to dash orfft.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Just don't dash into a wall; I heard that's detrimental towards future dashing, or living a proper life with proper grammar.

 

[Gori the Grey]

The scores have been posted (in post #2, which I had reserved for that purpose).

Allot of erors have been left unremarked, more then I would have expected.

Some have been glancingly noted, by a subsequent poster making they're own error of a similar sort right after your seeing a first version of that error. That wont do. You must express you're outrage at the barbarism.

And to answer the second question in your first post, Tolni: honor.

 

[Bootstoots]

Come on now, do I get any points for pointing out that Tim meant "for whomever follows"? Of course it's purely academic, because negative infinity + finite points = negative infinity. This thread is all about things that are purely academic, so I thought I should point it out anyway.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Nah, I'm gonna let you crawl out of that hole. I just wanted to make an example of you for a while.

Prescriptivism is this thread's deepest axiom. It is That Which Cannot Be Gainsaid.

Just get the game going again, and you're back in plus territory.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The scores have been posted (in post #2, which I had reserved for that purpose).

Allot of erors have been left unremarked, more then I would have expected.

Some have been glancingly noted, by a subsequent poster making they're own error of a similar sort right after your seeing a first version of that error. That wont do. You must express you're outrage at the barbarism.

And to answer the second question in your first post, Tolni: honor.

There are two many errors in this post too point them all out in the time I am willing too allot too the task!!! I will subtly point out to of them while introducing a classic of my own!

Such a shambles is beneath you Gori!

 

[Civ'ed]

Your abhorrent misuse of to, too and two is, for lack of an better word, abhorrent.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Your abhorrent misuse of to, too and two is, for lack of an better word, abhorrent.

Your failure to write properly is, for lack of a better word, a boar. Wait, there may be a better word after all.

 

[Gori the Grey]

There are two many errors in this post too point them all out in the time I am willing too allot too the task!!! I will subtly point out to of them while introducing a classic of my own!

Such a shambles is beneath you Gori!

+3. I'm also giving +1 style points for "shambles," not because it constitutes particularly colorful vituperation (because it doesn't), but just to signal to future posters that it represents in some measure (however small) the sort of berating of a previous poster that is an expected element of each post.

Your abhorrent misuse of to, too and two is, for lack of an better word, abhorrent.

+3. I'm counting the to homonyms as the more serious problem than the omitted comma before a vocative. Ditto +1 style points for abhorrent. Ditto my disappointment at how meager the flyting has been, overall.

Your failure to write properly is, for lack of a better word, a boar. Wait, there may be a better word after all.

+3.

Borachio, incidentally, is belatedly being credited with an instance of authority-oneupsmanship that I neglected in my previous scoring: +2.

Continue from Timsup2nothin's last post.

 

[gay_Aleks]

And to answer the second question in your first post, Tolni: honor.

It's honour, anyway.

 

[Gori the Grey]

It's honour, anyway.

You can't be credited with having spotted an error. Honor is a perfectly legitimate spelling. But major style points for British "-our" spelling snobbery which is perhaps only exceeded in unctuous self-aggrandizing by hipsterism and feminister-than-thouism. I was never very good at maths, but I'll give you 3 points for this.

On second thought, 6 points; I like the sneer in "anyway."

 

[Borachio]

"Honor" may be legitimate to some, but it simply don't look rite.

And what's this "feminister-than-thou-ism"?

If I can't pronounce a word as it appears on the page, I call it pitifully lacking in all sense of style: a crime punishable by flogging with a much-thumbed copy of the King's English (as spoken by the Quean - and all other queans incidentally), Fouler and Fouler.

 

[Gori the Grey]

And what's this "feminister-than-thou-ism"?

It's a deliberately tortured verbal construction which I've concocted in the wake of some torturous threads on an internet forum on which I'm active.

Authority-oneupsmanship (+2) for citing the King's English, from which I derive the following--

ANY one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

--complete with its British "-our" spelling snobbery and its parenthetical showoffishness.

(And its really good advice, which may serve as a touchstone for adjudicating cases in which the relative offensiveness of various ungrammaticalities is in dispute).

 

[gay_Aleks]

Is CFC this certain forum or is it a completely different and unrelated forum?

 

[Gori the Grey]

Is CFC this certain forum or is it a completely different and unrelated forum?

This forum is CFC.