Can I complement everyone on their grammar and syntax?

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

Seriously, the grammar, spellling, syntax, all that stuff is better on this board than on most boards I've seen.

Must be because homebrewers are an intelligent and educated lot!

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Thank God you used a comma after starting a sentence with a conjunctive adverb!

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

heh, heh...

 

[todd_k]

I love using red pens too..... I used to edit my wife's papers back in college, she hated me when I tore her paper apart. Too much passive voice!!!!!!!!

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

I spelled spelling wrong!

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

I love using red pens too..... I used to edit my wife's papers back in college, she hated me when I tore her paper apart. Too much passive voice!!!!!!!!

Me too, it's one of the joys in my life! I get too edit our bimonthly magazine and it's one of the high points of my job.

 

[todd_k]

If I could edit other people's work all day....... that would be a dream come true. Of course, that would probably mean I would be a teacher and then that would be a nightmare come true. Yes, I majored in History but no, I quickly found out that teaching was not for me!

 

[Ivan Lendl]

editing is a form of sensorship aint it?

i was reading about how kurt vaughnegut would not spell certain numbers out like your supposed to do, so hed write 8 instead of eight, cuz he felt the number carried more weight as a number and not a word...and his editor would refuse to print it the 'wrong' way.

is like when people tell kids to 'stay within the lines' when they are coloring, which is a bunch of crap...there's no rules in art! if everyone 'stayed within the lines' there would be no art...

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

You say that, but every one of your typos was on purpose, wasn't it? Admit it!!!

 

[jro16]

History Major..about all you could do is teach right? Not that there's anything wrong with that, my best bud in college was a history major..kicked my a@# in trivia.

He got all the girls too...yea right

 

[todd_k]

editing is a form of sensorship aint it?

i was reading about how kurt vaughnegut would not spell certain numbers out like your supposed to do, so hed write 8 instead of eight, cuz he felt the number carried more weight as a number and not a word...and his editor would refuse to print it the 'wrong' way.

is like when people tell kids to 'stay within the lines' when they are coloring, which is a bunch of crap...there's no rules in art! if everyone 'stayed within the lines' there would be no art...

Censorship would be altering something that someone did INTENTIONALLY. I believe most grammatically errors are not intentional.
As for Vonegut, he can do whatever the F he wants. Sirens of Titan was so good... and I was in 7th grade when I read it. I know this because I only actually read 2 books in high school thanks to "Uncle Clifford"

 

[Dude]

I love using red pens too..... I used to edit my wife's papers back in college, she hated me when I tore her paper apart. Too much passive voice!!!!!!!!

LOL....I used to edit in red font my wife's ex's e-mails, and then send the corrected copy back to him. He knew it was me, of course. The guy is an idiot though. He couldn't spell his way out of a wet paper bag.

FWIW, he won't e-mail our house anymore. :rockin:

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

LOL....I used to edit in red font my wife's ex's e-mails, and then send the corrected copy back to him. He knew it was me, of course. The guy is an idiot though. He couldn't spell his way out of a wet paper bag.

FWIW, he won't e-mail our house anymore. :rockin:

f that sob.

 

[jro16]

Dude - Have to ask...who are the girls?

 

[Dude]

Dude - Have to ask...who are the girls?

My special lady friends, Dafino. Stay away from my lady, uh special lady friends.

 

[todd_k]

History Major..about all you could do is teach right? Not that there's anything wrong with that, my best bud in college was a history major..kicked my a@# in trivia.

He got all the girls too...yea right

Teach? Hell no! History gives you a foundation for doing anything! What is anything without History? I've worked for a bank, insurance co, and now I work in IT for Capital One.

 

[jro16]

No offense...HurricaneFloyd...It was just a long standing joke in our college group. He ended up being the most successful. I respect history, just was to selfish to learn it.

What's up next any way...I'm gonna bottle 2nd (Fat Tire Clone) and rack (Vanilla Cream Ale) Tomorrow.

He still didn't get the girls though...

 

[todd_k]

No offense taken! Sorry, it is hard to convey tone on a message board.

 

[jro16]

Right on HurricaneFloyd :rockin:

 

[todd_k]

Hells yeah.

I'm brewing up my IPA II tomorrow which I postponed last Sunday. Now that the lauter tun is ready but I'm sure you've seen my drunken ramblings on this topic in other posts....

 

[Ize]

Seriously, the grammar, spellling, syntax, all that stuff is better on this board than on most boards I've seen.

Must be because homebrewers are an intelligent and educated lot!

I must agree! I work in radio, and those boards are populated by some of the most heinous butchers of the english language you have ever seen... It's amazing they can crack a mic.... No wonder the industry is going to hell in a handbasket...

Ok, that AND Sirius and XM....

Ize

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

I must agree! I work in radio, and those boards are populated by some of the most heinous butchers of the english language you have ever seen... It's amazing they can crack a mic.... No wonder the industry is going to hell in a handbasket...

Ok, that AND Sirius and XM....

Ize

two totally different skills, I guess.

 

[Catfish]

editing is a form of sensorship aint it?

i was reading about how kurt vaughnegut would not spell certain numbers out like your supposed to do, so hed write 8 instead of eight, cuz he felt the number carried more weight as a number and not a word...and his editor would refuse to print it the 'wrong' way.

is like when people tell kids to 'stay within the lines' when they are coloring, which is a bunch of crap...there's no rules in art! if everyone 'stayed within the lines' there would be no art...

There are rules in art. That's why there is Bad art. Rules in writing, as any form of art, can and should be broken. But the rules need to be understood before they are broken with intention.

The grammar here is good in general. The only ones that ever bug me are the "allots" and there,they're,their misses.


Good job all.

 

[Dude]

and there,they're,their misses.


Good job all.

I'm TERRIBLE at there and thier. How about a lesson?

 

[homebrewer_99]

I overheard a news article saying all this "political correctness" is the Gov'ts way of controlling our language.

 

[Catfish]

I'm TERRIBLE at there and thier. How about a lesson?

Seriously?
ask sonvolt, I'm in drunking now.

 

[todd_k]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

There - means a location, my beer is over there.
Their - refers to posession, their beer is awful.
They're - is a contraction to abbrebivate "they are", they are the best brewers in the world.

 

[Catfish]

I am shamed by your cromulent grammar use. You're example embiggens the smallest of us.

I really couldn't come up with a concise, reasonable explaining...y thing.

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

I am shamed by your cromulent grammar use. You're example embiggens the smallest of us.

I really couldn't come up with a concise, reasonable explaining...y thing.

LOL.........

 

[God Emporer BillyBrew]

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

There - means a location, my beer is over there.
Their - refers to posession, their beer is awful.
They're - is a contraction to abbrebivate "they are", they are the best brewers in the world.

they're is easy because you just think, would They are sound OK in place of this word? Then all you've got to remember is there and their. Then with there, just remember that it's the opposite of here. Which is, of course, there without a T. And by the process of elimination you are left with their!