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| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 19 2009 : 02:33:44 AM
Sure has a lot of errors. I think i got them all. I skipped over the errors in Random Thoughts section. |
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| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 6:52:33 PM
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Originally posted by thedude
Why do people create topics like this?
I have found lots of wonderful information here.
If you really want information, you look past the language errors.
Yerboogieman, what do you think will happen if everybody on the road have their own rules?
It seems they do, as i think most other drivers are retarded as most don't know what they are doing. |
| boron |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 10:30:00 AM
My thought exactly thedude. |
| thedude |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 01:43:01 AM
Why do people create topics like this?
I have found lots of wonderful information here.
If you really want information, you look past the language errors.
Yerboogieman, what do you think will happen if everybody on the road have their own rules? |
| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 6:50:59 PM
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Originally posted by pebe
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
Like my semicolon, which i disagree is a typo, your dashes, seem to be typos, or useless and out of place.
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Then you have a pretty poor command of the English language.
Your semicolon should have been a comma.
Your 'i' should be in upper case.
A dash with a space on either side is in common usage and to most people is a perfectly acceptable alternative to a semicolon, or an alternative to brackets if used twice in the middle of a sentence.
Does not compute. I say 'i' because it is not at the beginning of a sentence, so i feel i do not have to capitalize it, i know it is not proper but i have my own rules. Just as you probably have yours. I do not say chicken salad without spelling it 'Chicken Salad! Yes!'
I think i will leave this topic be as i will not reply or "Quote" any longer. |
| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 11:23:10 AM
As long as I can understand it, I don't care about spelling mistakes. A technical text-book on the other hand should have a 100% correctness about it, otherwise technical details become blurred.
Here's one for you.
I are going to sleep. |
| Aaron Cake |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 11:15:10 AM
I don't think we need to become such annoying pendants that we dissect each other's posts for errors. However I do think that an error rate of 22 errors per page on this site is rather excessive. There are pages with several errors, and there are pages with no errors. A flat rate of 100 errors is probably accurate. When I see error, I correct them. However as I mentioned before, I may not always see them due to how a person reads their own work.
As much as possible I try to always use proper spelling, sentence structure and grammar. As I am just human (mostly) sometimes I make errors that squeak through. Additionally much of the writing others do is so piss poor that it has been effecting my own writing. For example, I am now unsure about the use of "it's" vs. "its" simply because almost no one uses them correctly. The difference is that while many people don't even bother making an effort to communicate properly, I do go through considerable effort to do so. Just once an a while, an error gets through. |
| pebe |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 05:49:09 AM
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
Like my semicolon, which i disagree is a typo, your dashes, seem to be typos, or useless and out of place.
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Then you have a pretty poor command of the English language.
Your semicolon should have been a comma.
Your 'i' should be in upper case.
A dash with a space on either side is in common usage and to most people is a perfectly acceptable alternative to a semicolon, or an alternative to brackets if used twice in the middle of a sentence.
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| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 04:39:01 AM
quote:
Originally posted by boron
Are we really going to start arguing about the location and usage of punctuation? lol...
If we are, then the commas are ok where they are but the spaces are in the wrong place. 
You mean "okay". |
| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 04:38:02 AM
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Originally posted by pebe
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Assuming there is 22 errors per page
'22 errors' is plural. 'Is' is a singular verb, so it should read 'there are 22 errors'.
And in an earlier posting
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Then again there is the pages
My error? Yes, a typo - the space was in the wrong position. It slipped in by accident - like your semicolon!
Like my semicolon, which i disagree is a typo, your dashes, seem to be typos, or useless and out of place. |
| boron |
Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 2:56:59 PM
Are we really going to start arguing about the location and usage of punctuation? lol...
If we are, then the commas are ok where they are but the spaces are in the wrong place. |
| pebe |
Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 2:55:38 PM
quote:
Assuming there is 22 errors per page
'22 errors' is plural. 'Is' is a singular verb, so it should read 'there are 22 errors'.
And in an earlier posting
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Then again there is the pages
My error? Yes, a typo - the space was in the wrong position. It slipped in by accident - like your semicolon! |
| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 2:30:55 PM
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Originally posted by pebe
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
There is no reasoning here. You have more errors than you are calculating for. Assuming there is 22 errors per page and 346 words that is a 20.7% error rate.
For someone whose grammar is less than perfect, you really should not be nit-picking.
And 22 errors in 346 words is ,rounded up, 6.4% - not 20.7%
Ah yes. Thanks. How is my grammar less than perfect? Also, you have a useless comma between is and rounded; along with a space. |
| pebe |
Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 02:13:23 AM
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Originally posted by Yerboogieman
There is no reasoning here. You have more errors than you are calculating for. Assuming there is 22 errors per page and 346 words that is a 20.7% error rate.
For someone whose grammar is less than perfect, you really should not be nit-picking.
And 22 errors in 346 words is ,rounded up, 6.4% - not 20.7% |
| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 9:29:31 PM
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| Yerboogieman |
Posted - Aug 20 2009 : 9:27:05 PM
Well, 20.7% chance of an error. Then what you said. |
