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Post by I Can Fly Now on Jan 16, 2009 23:58:55 GMT -5
^ I have also found myself becoming concerned with this trend of bad spelling and grammar. And it's not just in fanfiction, either. I see it every day on signs, in flyers, and lately, even in a great many published books. I've read books rife with so many typos and grammatical errors that I've asked myself, "who edits these things?" I think part of it has to do with poor education, but also it seems that people just don't put as much importance on spelling and grammar anymore. I hate to sound like an old lady, but now that we have things like spell-check, grammar-check, people don't really feel the need to learn this stuff anymore. They figure if they make a mistake, the computer will get it. What really pains me is when I read an announcement from my little brother's teachers that say things like: "If it is not to much trouble..." or "Bring the money in it's envelope." And these people are teaching our children to read and write?! I understand that typos and things happen, I really do. But if it's something that's going to be put out there for other people to read, a little proofreading goes a long way. ...Yeah. Sorry for going off. My grandmother was a grade-school teacher and is now a writer, and she's taught me to be kind of a grammar nazi -_-o
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Post by concreteangel on Jan 17, 2009 0:58:29 GMT -5
I'm a writer, so I should be concerned about the grammar. I mean, no one knows every use of every word, especially all those darn homophones, but, seriously? They can learn to use them properly most of the time. And teachers? Wow. That's sad. I don't have the best grammar, I'll admit, and I use incomplete sentences a lot, but it's mostly when I'm writing dialogue. Sometimes the grammar check doesn't make sense, though. There's one sentence in particular that's in my book that grammar check doesn't like, and I can't figure out what's wrong with it. It's probably a colon or semicolon or something. Those are harder than just a period or comma.
At my school, grammar is pretty much drilled into our heads. It's a small private school and we had these obnoxious grammar books last year. They were awful, but SO helpful.
There definitely needs to be better editing with published books. They go through a long process just to be published, so why can't they take a little more care making sure they get even the majority of the grammar correct?
My own books will have decent grammar, I promise.
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Post by Yakuza on Jan 17, 2009 11:00:05 GMT -5
What I like about my writing is I have an accepted truth that I will never take it any farther than the hard drive on my laptop. I write and I type and I edit and save.. but I know that deep down I was meant to graph derivatives..
I suppose the only rant I have right now so early in the morning is my pops. The kind of guy who makes a lot of promises to me late at night while completely drunk, just simple things like "tomorrow morning Im getting up and Im gonna make you an omelet. Ballin' right? I have to leave for work in 30 minutes and he's taking his sweet time walking off a hangover. He will probably finish it close to 4 minutes before I have to leave and I will have to eat it like a burrito on my way to work. The way he makes eggs is kinda weird too. They taste strange.. almost like he added water to them but I know he didnt. Just another one of those mysteries of the universe.
Omelets are a big step up from my normal breakfast. Usually 2 packets of Quaker oatmeal, a bowl of ramen, a gallon of water, and a glass of ocean spray to wash it all down with. It kind of depresses me to know that I dont eat as well as I should for breakfast. Im sitting here complaining about how I can never break certain weights when I dont eat proper at all. Even though I love to live my life in contradictions, this one is one I am not really proud of. Before that oatmeal and ramen thing, it used to be ramen, and before that it was microwave burritos. Before that it was nothing. Even the burritos were fine. Sure they would stir an empty stomach up horribly to the point where I'd feel like I'd puke, but they were at least something.
I just need to start eating breakfast. Any breakfast.
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Post by I Can Fly Now on Jan 23, 2009 2:01:23 GMT -5
I HATE money. And banks. I don't know why I now have over $500.00 in overdraft fees right now. I've been keeping track of my account, and I haven't gone over in years. But apparently something went wrong. Whatever thing put it over, I didn't notice until today. So every time I used my card these past few days, they sent me another $35.00 fee. As far as I knew, I had at least a hundred dollars left, so I don't know what happened. So now I'm negative over $500.00 and I still have to pay for my class.this semester. What's really upsetting is that right now I can't do anything. It's already one in the morning. So I'm just sitting here, freaking out, and I can't do a thing about it till morning, by which time I'm sure they'll have found something else to charge me for. Raaaaaar. Why can't we just go back to the barter system? It made so much more sense.
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Post by Grandi on Jan 23, 2009 13:26:19 GMT -5
I'll trade you my daughter for that Lexus.
You are such a Dork, Love! Daughters are more valuable as a car.
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Post by mike1921 on Jan 23, 2009 15:57:44 GMT -5
Currency is easier to make the value of many small things compared to one or two big things comparable. I know my house is worth 5000 video games just by using one process google calculator. I don't mind script format\. I agree on the spelling, adjective use, and grammar though. Either New Jersey has awesome public school systems or it's inattention. speaking of which
I hate how I have no idea how to use a semicolon. Everyone else in my school and the people who gramatically try on the internet do but I don't.
I hate people who try to force you to eat breakfast. I don't eat breakfast when I'm going to school because if I eat it from home it'll be when I wake up at 5 (I like my computer and want some time to go on it in the morning) and I'll be absolutely starved 1 hour before lunch, and when I don't eat breakfast I get starved 10 minutes later. Why that is I'll never know. When I'm not going to school I wake up and it's already lunch time. Sure, I could go to school and eat their breakfast, but that costs too much (one dollar for a pop tart, I refuse to give the school that much profit).
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Post by femaleairbender on Jan 23, 2009 18:14:28 GMT -5
I hate my Internet. Every time I get on, I'm only on it for about five seconds before it kicks me off the Internet. And sometimes when I try to get on, it won't let me! What's up with that?!
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Post by mike1921 on Jan 24, 2009 16:16:58 GMT -5
bad router, half un-plugged wires, un-payed bills, bad provider.
People who take a turn-off as sexism. Not finding something attractive doesn't make you a pig, it makes you human.
When you get revenge on someone of the opposite gender and they assume it's because you like them and respond to everything you do with an "I don't like you" as if that's going to crush you/make you stop. I don't like you either and never did, in fact I hate you, that's why I'm doing whatever I'm doing. Now shut up and try to stop me from screwing up your day/week. Or at the very least don't assume that I'll stop just because someone I hate doesn't like me.
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Post by Yakuza on Jan 25, 2009 1:44:14 GMT -5
bad router, half un-plugged wires, un-payed bills, bad provider. People who take a turn-off as sexism. Not finding something attractive doesn't make you a pig, it makes you human. When you get revenge on someone of the opposite gender and they assume it's because you like them and respond to everything you do with an "I don't like you" as if that's going to crush you/make you stop. I don't like you either and never did, in fact I hate you, that's why I'm doing whatever I'm doing. Now shut up and try to stop me from screwing up your day/week. Or at the very least don't assume that I'll stop just because someone I hate doesn't like me. 1. Get a popcorn bowl 2. Get 60 american cheese slices 3. Melt slices into bowl 4. Pour contents onto enemy's face while they are sleeping 5. 6. Profit. Its beautiful. An art.
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Post by Grandi on Jan 25, 2009 5:08:06 GMT -5
And the permanent facial disfigurement from 3rd degree burns will guarantee that they never forget you!
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Post by Yakuza on Jan 25, 2009 10:31:04 GMT -5
See? Even Grandi is on board!
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Post by mike1921 on Feb 11, 2009 0:11:46 GMT -5
bad router, half un-plugged wires, un-payed bills, bad provider. People who take a turn-off as sexism. Not finding something attractive doesn't make you a pig, it makes you human. When you get revenge on someone of the opposite gender and they assume it's because you like them and respond to everything you do with an "I don't like you" as if that's going to crush you/make you stop. I don't like you either and never did, in fact I hate you, that's why I'm doing whatever I'm doing. Now shut up and try to stop me from screwing up your day/week. Or at the very least don't assume that I'll stop just because someone I hate doesn't like me. 1. Get a popcorn bowl 2. Get 60 american cheese slices 3. Melt slices into bowl 4. Pour contents onto enemy's face while they are sleeping 5. 6. Profit. Its beautiful. An art. I'll do that. Youtube and their ridiculous user bans. My all time favorite user got banned for no reason (if they did it wasn't about anything in their rules and banning for something not in the rules would make the bans just as ridiculous) The only vids that seem like they could be breaking the copyright notice aren't because no copyright for any of the material exists. Unless someone got a patent for an AMV. But since those vids were all posted at the same time and every other video he posted within 6 months of the banning is fair use for being a criticism, they should just take the vids down. It's not like it was a big deal, it was at the very best youtube overreacting when they should've just took the vids down.. youtube only ever warned him and made him take down one of his vids once(and that was BS because it was a criticism, those idiots don't get fair use). No, I'm not just posting here because I'm angry about that one guy. Tons of people I've subscribed to and enjoyed got banned. He's just the only one who I'd be able to defend so easily. Sadly, I have to use them because I can't stand bad interfaces, and they have the best (and livevideo's is horrible).
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Post by Aura of Cruxis on Feb 11, 2009 8:39:05 GMT -5
OOH~! I just noticed this thread! MAI TURN!
I hate...EMOTIONS! I really do. They slow a person down, trying to get through life. Sometimes, I wish I didn't have them. I'd rather not linger on the past, but that's what they make me do. I'd rather do today as best as I can so that my future would be better! Emotions can cloud the truth, can make one say something absolutely horrid, or drive someone to do something bad, like how anger can lead to murder, or even fear leading to murder.
I dunno, I just wish I didn't have them sometimes.
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Post by Yakuza on Feb 11, 2009 15:57:07 GMT -5
I hate getting caught vandalizing stuff.
I've resorted to turning my hoodie inside out, weaing a balaclava (terrorist ski mask kinda thing, google it son!), and using just a lot of permanent markers.
Its a dying art.
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Post by username on Feb 11, 2009 20:18:06 GMT -5
Teachers and Professors luring students into a class on their nationality.
So I was working as an Assistant Arts Teacher at an elementary school this year, and one of the teacher's I worked with ran a class called "Recycled Art." Now I have no idea what Recycled Art was originally intended to be, but under the tutelage of Ms. South African Pride, it became a class on African art. Oh goody. On an unrelated note, it seems I've had several teachers over the years with South African accents, and I've hated all of them. I fear that the universe is trying to condition me to hate that accent.
And now I've signed up for a class on "Sociology and Film," and while I was hoping for some jolly good pretentious fun, it seems like I'll be getting a semester of "Italian Sociology and Italian Film." Bah.
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