ask me anything. man why are the mods always closing my topics here. continuing my topic from last night.
to answer the other questions:
I also like MGS2 and MGS3. I haven’t played MGS4 because I don’t have a PS3 cause they’re too expenisve. I watched my friend (a real friend) play MGS4 at his house, but that was just once. I know MGS1-3 a lot better cause I’ve played them 100 times each (a wild guess but it wouldn’t surprise me if accurate).
I had to tell everyone I was drunk so they would understand why I was posting how I was. I am in college now and avoided drinking for a long time but I did it at a friend’s party and now I am new at it so I still think it’s cool to tell everyone that I am drunk. I can never talk about myself normally so I had to do it when I was drunk. It’s a lot harder to do this now so that’s why I’m doing at at 3 pm instead of at 11 am when I first saw the other topic was closed. I never got hungover really bad. I feel fine now. I was drinking just for fun I guess. Then I made myself sad thinking about myself and telling strangers on the internet (another forum) all my problems and secrets. How much have I *drunk. In the other topic someone said “how much have you drank” Why does everyone say drank instead of drunk? No one uses participles these days. I can type well enough when I put time to it / care enough. Sometimes I just decide that you can understand me well enough even if I don’t capitalize and punctuate. I know a lot of English grammar because I learned it when I learned Latin, and now I see mistakes that bug me but before I didn’t notice. Like when someone says “He is taller than me” instead of “He is taller than I”. Now when I correct it I just seem like a dick because “me” is the commonest way to say it in spoken English.
I can talk to girls I don’t wanna date just fine but I can’t talk to girls I like like that. I can not have serious conversations at all because I just end up making jokes or making movie references. I can’t kiss a girl because I worry that my breath isn’t good. I don’t brush my teeth as often as I should. But I can fix that I can just start doing it everyday. I just don’t do it because I am lazy. that is my biggest problem is that I am too lazy to succeed. I am not doing homework now because I am posting on the internet.
That was the only thread of yours that I actually liked.
Also, “he is taller than I” is just so awkward. Even if it was the right way to say it, and I’m not so sure it is, I would use, “he is taller than me,” instead.
With regard to punctuation (as opposed to grammar):
In the same way that a newspaper will have a style guide (a “manual” for its writers on usage, etc.), the board has a kind of implicit style guide too–it’s not written anywhere, but you can just absorb it by reading a lot of other posts. Here you’re expected to make an effort at standard capitalization and use of periods, and to avoid fragments and run-ons. (This includes refraining all-caps, except when you would be appropriately “shouting” in face-to-face conversation. Correct use of semi-colons and colons is not so critical, though.
If someone new comes along (drunk or not) and spews out something that’s hard to follow because of lack of punctuation, that person will typically be mocked and not taken seriously.
As for the girls, well, don’t sweat it–no one can smell your breadth here…(But they sure can smell a jerk from a mile away, so behave yourself with the ladies!)
It is proper, because you are leaving out a word. A less awkward construction would be “He is taller that I am.”
Also, proper punctuation and capitalization become second nature if you use it often enough, so I would suggest trying it. It might even help you with the ladies–at least at online dating sites.
That’s actually another suggestion I got from a book once: if you can’t talk to women in person, practice online. My psychologist at the time agreed it was a good idea, as long as you don’t use it to replace trying to talk to people in real life.
One of the reasons I’m with my husband is at the time that we were emailing back and forth and getting to know each other, he wrote with proper English. He could have been perfect for me in every other way, but if he couldn’t string a sentence together, he wasn’t the right guy for me.
You don’t need to say “He is taller than I am.” I still think “He is taller than I” is fine. It is only awkard because we aren’t used to it in English anymore.
I do brush my teeth most of the time but sometimes I just don’t bother I just go straight to bed. Not really laziness I just don’t think about it
Perhaps unfortunately for the pedants among us, what is “correct” English grammar is, eventually, determined based on what people use. For instance, it was once considered correct to separate dependent clauses from one another by commas. (eg: He told me, that I was misusing punctuation.) I have a feeling that “He is taller than I” will soon go the way of this practice.
You must establish a schedule wherein you always brush your teeth after you wake up and again before you go to bed. The first few weeks of doing this will require constant reminding but eventually it will become so much a part of your routine that you don’t even think about it.
Have you ever considered trying to date one of the women you do feel comfortable talking to? I don’t think feeling uncomfortable even speaking to someone is in any way, shape, or form a good start to a relationship. Being in a relationship means you need to be comfortable discussing sensitive topics with your partner, so if you can’t even say hello to a girl, you should not be dating her.
Learn to brush your teeth - don’t use a bottle of Jack, no matter what you hear, use toothpaste. I sincerely hope you drive your Jurassic Park liveried jeep into a future filled with smoking hot copy editors.
I thought Diogene’s advice in your previous thread was pretty good for the most part, so I’m gonna repost it:
And, is “taller than I” really more correct? I thought ‘I’ was only appropriate for the subject of a sentence or clause. “taller than I am” is a clause and seems to work fine, but if you take out ‘am’ then ‘taller than me’ seems to be OK as well.
He is taller than I. There is no reason for it to be “me”. When you compare two nouns like that they have to be in the same case. He is subjective, so you must also use the subjective case of “I”
