Grammar faux pas!

jas72

jas72

jas72

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When reading the forums you see lots of typos and apostrophe errors but if some writer continually makes mistakes should we as fellow users correct their mistakes.

Speaking as a language student of 12 years I like it when someone points out my mistakes. (Unless they are clear typos like ***!)

What's your thoughts. It's a pity you can't PM them instead. :(
 
I do occasionally point out mistakes in posts, but try to refrain from doing so due to the result of people bombarding you with 'Grammar Nazi' posts. :p
 
I hate threads like this :( I can understand people not wanting txt speach but why do we have to have ironic grammer nazi's prancing about all over the shot!
 
Sadly it's like fighting a losing battle.

Incidentally,

jonislost said:
I hate threads like this :( I can understand people not wanting txt speach but why do we have to have ironic grammer nazi's prancing about all over the shot!
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Nazis.

What is an ironic grammar nazi?

What does "prancing all over the shot" mean?

I'm doing a public service.
 
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DB_SamX said:
Sadly it's like fighting a losing battle.

Incidentally,



Nazis.
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You anger me.

Edit: The irony was the mistake in the OP post. The prancing grammer Nazis are the people who seem to like editing the forum and not just have a normal running convo, which I believe is what forums were made for. Seems a bit sad to me...
 
It's very disturbing to see so many grammatical and spelling mistakes here. The most common ones are the most annoying - ect ect; its and it's; general misuse of apostrophes; death of capitalisation at the start of sentences; and just other bad stuff.

GeForce said:
That's what I said :p
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Not enough ninja.
 
jas72 said:
When reading the forums you see lots of typos and apostrophe errors but if some writer continually makes mistakes should we as fellow users correct their mistakes.

Speaking as a language student of 12 years I like it when someone points out my mistakes. (Unless they are clear typos like ***!)

What's your thoughts. It's a pity you can't PM them instead. :(
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Have you ever heard of question marks?

Edit: you're Belgian. I'll let you off, as your English is a lot better than the majority of English people, and certainly better than my French. :)
 
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