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Ozark Wizard

Age : 54 Location : Mark Twain National Forest, MO Registration date : 2014-10-11
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:37 am | |
| So, if I understand this correctly, paragraph structure, spelling and punctuation are required?
I will endeavor to comply......... |
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Hermit

Age : 65 Location : Ascension Parish Registration date : 2008-04-22
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:24 am | |
| - Ozark Wizard wrote:
- So, if I understand this correctly, paragraph structure, spelling and punctuation are required?
I will endeavor to comply.........
It's just the write thing to do.  (Oh yeah, a proper ellipsis has three dots.)  |
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puros_bran Nightrider

Location : Brandenburg, Ky Registration date : 2007-12-10
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:55 am | |
| I saw a ellipse once, butt the teacher maid us glance threw a sheet of paper with a whole punched in it... |
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MisterE Moderator

Location : Mexico City Registration date : 2009-08-24
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:21 am | |
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Puff Daddy Moderator

Age : 54 Location : South of heaven Registration date : 2007-12-09
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:32 am | |
| perhaps just a friendly reminder to those who dont bother to use periods commas or capital letters is it really annoying to try to read stuff like that i guess it might be its like trying to say the whole alphabet with one big breath you know you breath in real deep and just belt it out and hope you dont run out of air anyway maybe something to think about now i have to go bye _________________ These are horrible times and all sorts of horrible people are prospering, but we must never let this disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to annoy and hinder them at every turn.
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Ozark Wizard

Age : 54 Location : Mark Twain National Forest, MO Registration date : 2014-10-11
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:16 pm | |
| - Puff Daddy wrote:
- perhaps just a friendly reminder to those who dont bother to use periods commas or capital letters is it really annoying to try to read stuff like that i guess it might be its like trying to say the whole alphabet with one big breath you know you breath in real deep and just belt it out and hope you dont run out of air anyway maybe something to think about now i have to go bye
Oh my......... I think I may have seen that somewhere here on the forum. Another result of the "No Child Left Behind" program, no doubt. To have to sit as a spectator watching the unabashed murder of a language is rather disturbing. Perhaps the introduction of acronyms was the first blow, FWIW.... I can count the number of people that still hand write letters, in cursive, on one hand. (Myself included) It is fast becoming a lost art. I have had younger folks ask me what I was looking at when reading a posted letter, and when I show them, they hand it back and ask what it says. Very sad indeed. MUAH! |
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Richard Burley

Location : North Coast NY Registration date : 2011-04-09
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:37 pm | |
| - puros_bran wrote:
- ...In light of new and frequent abuse of the English Language, I am asking that the members re-read the above sticky...
I was wondering how long it would take someone.  |
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Ozark Wizard

Age : 54 Location : Mark Twain National Forest, MO Registration date : 2014-10-11
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 4:27 pm | |
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mark Admin

Registration date : 2008-07-02
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:19 pm | |
| Yoo guise er werss sticklerz for punk chewayshun then my inglish teechir wuz bakk in thu day. (period) _________________ .
Sometimes I wake up grumpy. Other times I let her sleep. .
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puros_bran Nightrider

Location : Brandenburg, Ky Registration date : 2007-12-10
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:38 pm | |
| point is i am pretty nori dis at typing ou t wha titype but som folk macc me look li kei know what im doing |
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Richard Burley

Location : North Coast NY Registration date : 2011-04-09
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Sat Feb 06, 2016 2:07 pm | |
| If'n I sees the phrase "begs the question" used instead of "raises the question," or "price point" used for "price" one more time, I'm just gonna BUST!  " /> (above applies to the world at large, not necessarily BoB) |
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eklektos44

Age : 61 Location : Virginia Registration date : 2015-04-10
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Sat Feb 06, 2016 2:09 pm | |
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Stick

Age : 48 Location : 'Blighty' Registration date : 2014-02-19
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Sat Feb 06, 2016 3:01 pm | |
| That chap looks awfully grumpy. |
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Fazby

Age : 60 Location : Chicago area Registration date : 2010-04-22
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Sat Feb 06, 2016 4:11 pm | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Weird Al has it covered. |
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Ozark Wizard

Age : 54 Location : Mark Twain National Forest, MO Registration date : 2014-10-11
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Sat Feb 06, 2016 7:54 pm | |
| - Fazby wrote:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
Weird Al has it covered.
OMG!!! LMFAO!! Nothing like the old back-handed slap. |
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ShortyLaVen
Age : 24 Location : Phoenix, AZ Registration date : 2016-03-21
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Tue Mar 22, 2016 12:58 am | |
| I just joined this forum tonight, and I must say, seeing this thread made me very happy. Poor grammar really get on my nerves! We're all prone to the occasional mistake or typo, but there are some folks out there that just really have a hard time understanding. |
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Cartaphilus

Age : 64 Location : East Texas Registration date : 2011-12-15
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:20 am | |
| I think anyone that has a problem with improper or poor grammar has got bigger problems then they think. Never bothered me and I use it all the time. I figure if I can understand what an individual is saying then what's the problem? There's a hell of lot more things out there that people should be worried about, that they don't, then how someone talks, spells, or fricken writes or type's. Grammar Police, when do you have time to really read anything if your more focused on how a sentence is constructed? I say, Get A Life! and get on down the road. |
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MisterE Moderator

Location : Mexico City Registration date : 2009-08-24
 | Subject: Re: How to use an apostrophe FYI Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:46 pm | |
| _________________ Many of the greatest pleasures in life are illegal, immoral, or smelly.
-Yak
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Richard Burley

Location : North Coast NY Registration date : 2011-04-09
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