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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3169
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 12:55 pm: | 
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Everybody ready for this world-shattering event? This utimate in self-indulgence? OK, then settle down and take note. I, the grand pubah of nit-pickin have abdicated my throne. Why? Because too often am I, myself, guilty of misspellings and typos and - the bane of my life, screwing up names! Referring to Jesse Jackson as "Jessie" being my most recent offense. So from here on out, my pedantics are exiled! And in response to the loud chorus of "who cares?" I say: "me, myself, and I." heh-heh. |
Tonya
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Tonya
Post Number: 1112
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 01:24 pm: |
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***I confess that I'm finally starting to realize that what I call a comfort zone, others call a bubble. I equated a bubble with a balloon that can be punctured and deflated by (disapopointment. Whatever.***
Nit-pick! -- Nit-pick! -- Nit-pick!!!!!!!
(LOL)
Tonya |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3170
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 - 02:24 pm: |
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I don't think that's an example of nit-picking. I was clearing up a misconception, not correcting something. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1689
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 12:59 pm: |
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Cynique:
You can't throw in the towell. The people demand you keep picking those nits. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3180
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 01:34 pm: |
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Well, alert your fellow nits to be on the look-out just in case I defer to my public. BTW, you spelled "towel" wrong. |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1692
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 01:41 pm: |
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I was just trying to see if you were paying attention--by the way that spelling is correct if in fact you are using Colin Powell's towel--or a towell. |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1090
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 01:56 pm: |
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Cynique...have you considered editing? |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1091
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 01:59 pm: |
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While I am probably more "literate" than most, since I came to standard english only recently...i am terrible with prepositions...lmao! What do you suggest...that is, on improving this weakness? |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3181
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 02:24 pm: |
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Well, Yukio, prepositions introduce a phrase that contains a noun. Grammarians have started to cut people a little slack when it comes to prepositions. They used to say never end a sentence with a prepostion but now it's permissable to say: where is it "at", or:I don't have anybody to go "with." As for editing, I have been asked and have done editing for people. But I've found that folks really get a little testy if you tamper with their writing and revise or cut things to eliminate redundancies - especially if you are not a professional editor. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3182
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 02:34 pm: |
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Actually, prepositions can introduce any type of phrase whether it contains a noun or not. Conjunctions connect phrases, so a word that connects two phrases is a conjunction, not a preposition. |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1092
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 02:59 pm: |
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hmmm..... Yes, that I know...the difference between prepositions and conjunctions and general usage. Let me try to be more precise. I guess I was talking more so about which to use. For example, I often say something like "in which" when I should have said "by which." This pertains more so to the actual meaning of the preposition rather than its grammar, so to speak...if that makes any sense.
Hmmm...so you edit. ok. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3183
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 05:56 pm: |
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Well, Yukio, sometimes it has to do with your style of speech. Otherwise, I guess "in" is the way, and "by" is the means. "In" is internal, and "by" is external. Shit, who you axin? LOL. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 3184
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 06:01 pm: |
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Wonder if chrishayden is waiting for me to finally tell him that he secretly admires Thomas Sowell and that's why he spelled the word towel instead of towell. |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1096
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 06:49 pm: |
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cynique is are clever and wise... |
Yukio
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1097
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 06:51 pm: |
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oops...i meant "you are clever and wise.." I think I am dyslexic... |
Chrishayden
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 1694
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 04:42 pm: |
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It could have been a Sowell towel, yes. It could have been down the well. It could be a Foul Sowell towel. |
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