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Nobody under thirteen knows how to use capital letters and punctuation

MyrmidonMyrmidon
edited 2011-06-12 09:11:01 in General
Or so various posters on TvTropes have taught me.

Comments

  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Neither do a lot of people over that age.
    And your title didn't have a full stop (period) at the end.

    ... Those two sentences weren't supposed to be correlated.

    Anyway. Would you mind teaching me the correct use of a semicolon? I keep forgetting.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    edited 2011-06-12 10:07:00
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    It's for when you have a sentence that needs two complete clauses; like this one, for example. 
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    What the heck do you mean "two complete clauses"?
    See, I've long been using it as .... well.... the opposite of a colon, which is probably wrong, but I haven't much cared for the most part.....  But I figure I ought to know the proper way to use it.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Usually, if a clause or thought is complete then you can start a new sentence. But if the thoughts are tied together wel enough that it's more aesthetically pleasing to be one sentence, you can use a semicolon; after all, isn't that what the English language is for? 
  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    ^ I c wut u did thar
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    How obscure.
    That makes it seem like a very unnecessary piece of punctuation.
  • AHRAHR
    I knew how to use punctuation and capitalizing at age thirteen. Just not proper grammar.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Oh generalizations...how much I love thee. Except not.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    It is; but then again, English is all about being as funky and obtuse as possible. 
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Bleh.
    I think I'll just keep using the semi-colon my way then. I like it better. It is something we actually need a piece of punctuation for.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=zxqry1vjj55quafibj0zrk3n&page=257#6423

    Explain these posts, then.
  • AHRAHR
    Robbie Rotten is under thirteen? He's been here for as long as I have, so I think he's prolly a bit older.

    Not that it excuses anything.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Oh ye gods, I remember the porno kid.

    Good times, those were. 

    ^ I thought you knew that. He's a person, all right. 
  • AHRAHR
    edited 2011-06-12 10:51:12
    I know he's young, I just really hope he's not younger than thirteen, since that means he had to have been 12-11 (or hell, even ten) when he first came here...--shudders--
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    It's not his age, it's what he posts that concerns me. 

    Let us stop talking about specific people. 
  • AHRAHR
    Oh, that. Yeah. 
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Please do.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET
    Proper or matter, for word that order.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    I would mention hermanpowers, but he was so obviously a troll it doesn't really count.
  • ColorPrinterColorPrinter
    ʍɥɐʇ po ʎon ɔɐll ɐ ɾoʞǝ ʍıʇɥonʇ ɐ dnuɔɥlıuǝ
    If he's a troll, he's at least.....attempting to look better.

    If not, then like I said, NO YOU DO NOT GO FROM "milk on keyboard" TO "I'm autistic" EVEN IF THE LATTER IS A REASONABLE EXCUSE
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Milk? On? Keyboard?

    ... And autism isn't an "excuse". It is a fully viable explanation in and of itself.
    Feck... what is with mundies and their obsession with "excuses"?  -_-;
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    No, he's not autistic. He just has high-functioning, self-diagnosed Asperger's. 
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    edited 2011-06-12 17:00:44
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Well, the same goes for that... or at least the same goes for that once he gets an official diagnosis.
    I got an official diagnosis. Papers and everything. I was right chuffed by it. Took the papers everywhere with me to shove in peoples' faces...... well.... until they got misplaced somewhere. I'm bothered now. I'm considering contacting the folk who gave the official diagnosis so I can get more copies of the papers....  Hmmm... Just remembering how that lady had like... seven nose-hairs showing.

    Wait, this isn't about me.
    Self-diagnosis varies in accuracy.... but it obviously isn't going to convince anyone else.
    And while I maintain the opinion that one shouldn't NEED to be able to convince other people, mundies just don't take the same stance, and happen to be the majority.... so...

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