[QUOTE=Inner Stickler]
Ouch. I was going to tell you that because of your posts, I’ve stopped being irritated by the less vs. fewer brouhaha, and that I’ve left most of my prescriptivism behind. But not anymore. Nope, it’s strictly by the (Strunk & White) book from now on. No colloquialisms, no dialects, no split infinitives. English, the way the 18th century (and God) intended.
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(I also adore parentheticals. It’s a sickness. Really.)
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There, there, dear. You had a brief fliration with the dark side, and now you’ve returned back to the side of light. We welcome you back with open arms. And parentheticals are not a sickness! A friend of mine once told me, “You speak (how should I say this?) parenthetically.” Ended up cracking us both up, enough so that I remember the line twenty-five years later.
Stranger On A Train, matt, QtM, John W. Kennedy, FriarTed, Exapno Mapcase, although I guess they are all A-listers.
Reading WordMan’s posts makes me want to learn to play guitar.
And if there’s anybody on the planet funnier than Sampiro, I haven’t met him.
There are a slew of others, too, who do not come to mind at the moment. Your time will come, though, oh yes.
Oh, yes, RiverRunner is the smartest and sexiest guy around. And perfectly shameless, too.
RR
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove]
You guy’s who are depressed at not being mentioned: just be glad this board has a search engine you can plug your name into. I once spent hours at “that other board” looking in vain for my name, slogging through years of archives. You wish you could get a b-list compliment? Try not rating even an offhand insult. Oh well, at least I’ll get a mod-spank for this paragraph.
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For us people with common user names (Joey P, Rick, Gary etc…) searcing doesn’t bring up any useful results.
[QUOTE=Joey P]
For us people with common user names (Joey P, Rick, Gary etc…) searcing doesn’t bring up any useful results.
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Ditto for anyone whose user name is also a word. No vanity searches for me!
This is an MPSIMS style thread. (Not just because it’s in MPSIMS).
So that means it’s going to attract MPSIMS-type people.
So the regular contributors in GD, the Pit, GQ, may not always get mentioned. Because those people don’t often enter threads like this. So they don’t always come in here and mention each other.
I always enjoy reading whatever Ivylass and Hippy Hollow have to say, and I appreciate the way Shodan and Bricker manage to disagree with most of the board in a pointed but polite manner. I may not agree with their political views but their manner of posting makes me tend to at least give their thoughts serious consideration.
