# Grammer; whats the big deel **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039 "2011-09-03T08:06:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Doughnut\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Doughnut\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Doughnut_Thief)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/1 "2011-09-03T08:06:56Z")
I mean it is the interwebs. However, if you are like me and enjoy posting on SDMB here are some helpfull lite hearted links. Ever wonder how to use a [semicolon?](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon) Once that skill is mastered you will be moving up the ranks quickly. Next, in your step to mod selection domination you should tackle the infamous [i.e. vs e.g.](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/ie) battle. Moving onward in your quest of SDMB supremacy, concur the unrelenting beast that is…[irony](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/irony) and his evil half cousin [literally](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally). Now you have made you way the final battle witch will require you to dawn your chest plate of +10 [spells](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling) and demolish the impeccable evil that is the [apostrophe](http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe). Then and only than can you and me be taking ceriously. Good luck on your quest as I venture on mine I shalest see thee on the otherest side in the kingdom of mod-Dom. I bed you a due. P.S. Thanks to “the oatmeal” for the posters. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/2 "2011-09-03T08:37:10Z")
To get it out of the way: grammar. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/3 "2011-09-03T09:30:38Z")
That’s right, **FinnAgain**. 'Cause the rest of the title is completely correct… ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/4 "2011-09-03T13:22:41Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > To get it out of the way: grammar. wooooosh ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/5 "2011-09-03T13:23:56Z")
Thanks for the linked article on how to use semicolons; I’ve been using them in a half-assed manner. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/6 "2011-09-03T13:40:08Z")
I know how you feel, **Little Nemo**. I finally mastered colon use in 2005 after seeing the rissole I’d eaten in 1989. Now it seems so alimentary. ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/7 "2011-09-03T13:44:46Z")
I like to use a lot of eclipses… ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/8 "2011-09-03T14:12:05Z")
I do too…but I can’t look directly at them… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/9 "2011-09-03T15:12:15Z")
Oh my God - I think I used i.e. wrong. The shame, the shame! I want a Gayroller t-shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/10 "2011-09-03T15:24:33Z")
Your gammar married your grandpa. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/11 "2011-09-03T19:01:00Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Your gammar married your grandpa. Unless we’re talking about _Futurama_, in which case “you’re grandpa” is correct. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/12 "2011-09-03T19:38:00Z")
Aw! I was hoping for something on when to use a colon versus a dash or semicolon. I avoid the colon as much as possible, but I wonder if my dashes make me look stupid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It isn’t my dashes that make me look stupid. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/13 "2011-09-03T19:45:10Z")
> [@Ibanez](#): > > wooooosh metawoosh ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/14 "2011-09-04T02:38:18Z")
After her surgery, my wife has a semicolon. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grammer-whats-the-big-deel/595039/15 "2011-09-04T02:47:45Z")
Thanks for the hearted link on the unrelenting impeccable apostrophe.