You say that it’s not relator, it’s realtor. However, it should be “real estage agent.”
REALTOR is actually a trademarked name for a particular association of real estate agents. The word REALTOR is properly spelled in all caps with a (r) rights reserved thing by it. The realtor R is also properly depicted with a rights-reserved (r) thingy. Check REALTOR.com. (I was an engraver and I had to engrave those stupid things on REALTOR plaques.)
Well, nonetheless, I hope you’ll understand if I’m a little pissed that they initially decided that English-speaking North Americans could handle the repeated destruction of Tokyo, the bloody maiming of a teenage boy crushed in a robot’s hand, the decapitation of another, one biomechanical robot eating another, streams of bloody battles, and the eventual apocalypse, but one boy being in love with another was too disturbing to make the cut.
It is spelled probably, not prolly. I don’t know who invented that “shortcut” but it’s not worth saving two letters to make yourself look like a freaking idiot.
The funny thing about this thread is that the people who need the “edumakation” about grammar and spelling errors are probably at Yahoo playing games or in a chat room somewhere.
Not true, I am here and I know my grammar and spelling needs some work. Everybody needs some work. I have learned quite a bit from this thread alone. (ya just have to admit you are wrong when evidence is overwhelming)
I found it informative and interesting. However, beginning your list of undeniable truths with an absolute about the Kennedy assassination did not set a good pace. I’ve watched the latest certainty swing back and forth for forty years. We will probably never know to a point of established fact.
Actually, it is a word meaning to assign a portion – as in: I will alot this amount of money to you for vacation expenses.
Despite the captioning on DVD’s and televisions shows, all right is correct – not alright.
The topic doesn’t center around something. It centers on something.
There are a few proper nouns that are exceptions and I don’t know why: Jesus, Brutus, Cassius – to name a few.
Traditionally, Hi Opal is reserved for the third spot on a list.
A feminist can be male or female and believes in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. (Webster’s
I was travelling through Michigan once and stopped at a Schuler’s off the interstate to eat. The special of the day? French dip. My waitress described it to a gentleman at the next table thusly: “Well, hon, it’s a roast beef sandwich, okay? And what you do is, you dip it in the oh joo juice…”
• Just because someone belongs to a certain group (race, religion, nationality, etc) does not make them automatically innocent.
• Just because someone belongs to a certain group (race, religion, nationality, etc) does not make them automatically guilty.
• Just because I say Hi Opal, doesn’t mean that I know why
• Just because someone does not belongs to a certain group (race, religion, nationality, etc) does not make them automatically innocent.
• Just because someone does not belongs to a certain group (race, religion, nationality, etc) does not make them automatically guilty.
• If you start fighting with the police, don’t be surprised when they fight back.
• If you don’t like the way that your group is portrayed in the movies, don’t blame Hollywood. Blame the members of your group who act the same way as the movies in real life.
But seriously, I only bashed his business practices. I don’t know anyone who’s going to stand up and say he’s a choir boy in the business world, or anyone who will openly admire someone who would show that lack of morals in the pursuit of profit. I didn’t even compare him with the Hearsts or the Rothschilds or the other Robber Barons, as there is no comparison: They were much, much worse.
I did, however, shred his company’s software mercilessly.
Maybe this is beyond the realm of the Pit, but attacking someone’s company’s product is a far cry from calling that person a moronic droolbucket who couldn’t find his ass with both hands and a map. I don’t know Bill Gates personally, but I do have a better-than-average knowledge of his company’s product, and it is the shoddiness of the product I am angry with.
Both mademoiselle and rjung have posted their opinions as facts. To demonstrate the difference between an opinion and a fact, I’ve bolded the parts of the following post that are opinion:
When Robert Frost wrote that he took the road “less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference,” he was not saying that things have turned out better, and he was certainly not endorsing the road that he’d taken.
From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.):
It’s is a contraction of it is.Its is the possessive form of it.
If you can’t stand the occasional lame post, don’t go to a message board.
If you can’t take as well as you give, don’t go to a message board.
If you don’t like wading through lots of posts for the one gem that’s actually worth your time, don’t go to a message board.
If you can’t stand wildly varying opinions, don’t go to a message board.
If you can’t stand back-and-forth arguments that go nowhere, don’t go to a messag board.
And for the love of the immortal superbing of your choice, if you think that subjects like certain words not actually being acronyms counts as a freakin’ incredibly deep subject, you have issues.
(If you can’t stand the occasional pointless, irascible, purely-out-of-spite knee-jerk blowback response in the Pit…well, you get the idea. )
