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Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Grammar Vikings

  Everyone's always going on about Grammar Nazis and how strict they are when it comes to grammar. I totally get the whole "Oh gosh, Nazis are just the worst thing in history and you are now the same thing as those things" insult,  don't get me wrong. But think about it; Nazis have become the enemy in so many video games and movies that they have almost have no real weight anymore. Hell, think about what someone is calling you. "You know those guys who took over a couple countries, set up death camps and killed over 6 million people? Yeah, you're doing that with grammar and me right now."

  So I have come up with someone better! "What could be better than Nazis" you're probably asking yourself right now (then you realize that most things are better than Nazis)? Vikings! No matter where you look in history, Vikings are pretty fucking terrifying. I for one think that if I were threatened with the idea that when my grammar was incorrect a Viking would come out of nowhere and chopped my tongue off, I'd be a lot more likely to learn grammar as fast and best as possible.

This is Bjorn and he's here to fuck shit up.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Reiteration

So, I know I've said this before, but here are the newest, and probably best, examples of the common era. All of these are copy and pasted as I got them.

How to ask for help over email:

1. Hello everyone,
 All week i have been sick and was not able to attend and get the end of ch. 7 and the beginning of ch. 8. Please if anyone can send the notes i will really appreciate it. And will return the favor at any time. Thank You

2. Hey guys, I was unable to make it to class yesterday due to the flu, could any one be so kind and send me the chapter 8 powerpoint. it would be so nice of you. thank you.

How not to ask for help over email:

COULD NEONE SEND ME CH 8 NOTES?
  THX U :3

Every time I reread that one, I actually laugh out loud, because it's just so hilariously shitty.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Go Ahead and Kill Me, but Don't Hurt the Language

Hi ppl
i missed 2weeks of class and today (tuesday)'s lecturewill neone b willing to share chapter 2 lecture and chapter 5?????ill really appreciate t _T
THX!!!!!

Do you know what that is? I wish I didn't. That was an email from a girl in my psych lecture that was sent out to everyone in my class. This is absolutely embarrassing. I am actually embarrassed to be part of this generation. Now, obviously this isn't a good sample of every single person out there, but I've gotten a few terrible emails in the past few weeks similar to this one. This one definitely tops them all though... This wasn't a very extensive post, but I thought that I should at least share it with you all. Have a comic to lighten things up.

http://fancyadventures.com/

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Grammar? I hardly know 'ar!

  There's this thing I have about proper nouns. Who the hell said they deserve to be proper? What did I ever do to get capitalized? Nothing that I can recall important to warrant being larger than all the other words. I can totally understand why the beginning of sentences are capitalized, they got there first, they earned it. But think about it in context of language. Other languages don't capitalize "I". Hell, we don't capitalize "me" but it's the same thing as "I", just accusative. Countries are the same. What'd America ever do that was SOOOOO great that they deserved to get the reaction of, "Whoa, snap, there's America, right there in the sentence!"? Anyway, I'm just putting this out there as one of the few rants (I'm trying not to be that stereotypical rant blog by those 25 and under) and partially as a heads-up. I'm sure a lot of you will sit there in agony reading a post that says, "Today i traveled to england and it was a blast. I can't wait to travel to foreign countries again like france, germany, and spain!' Tough. Stories, such as my soon-to-be-released comicstory (either that or storycomic for the official title, BUT NOT WORTH CAPITALIZING) will be correctly formatted correctly because I want it to at least seem professional. Input blogs like this one or a review of a comic has a higher chance of not having proper nouns capitalized. Just a warning, because I figured I don't want to see like some punk off the street who can't write. I'm a punk off the street with weird ideals who can't write! Pow pow!