Unfortunately my son has been with me for the weekend, so I always seems to miss out on these things.
Are we all calm now or do I need to shout at everybody?
The Lady in Red has been suffering from a heavy cold, plus having a flu jaband areduce immune system had been getting her down. She required some extra attention from me so I suggested that some constructive grovelling was in order from me. She posted this as a joke to garner some fun comments from you all, as I did say everybody has a sense of humour here. It seems I was somewhat mistaken.
I’d just like to say the nipple clamps and car battery was a good idea though.
BTW:Sarky is a contraction of sarcasm.
If this was in the pit would it have counted as a pitting? 3 years I’ve been here and not managed to get pitted yet, this is so disappoting.
I will now return you to your fun, it seems I have an appointmen with a chair and some ropes. Luckily the car battery hasn’t arrived yet.
Interesting. If you could point me at a particular paragraph in which you think either of us have violated the terms of the agreement, I would be interested to see it.
If you have a problem any of our posts then I suggest you report the relevant post.
I don’t know about foreign unless her first language isn’t commonly written, the worst spellers and writers I’ve suffered were monolingual. But she certainly seems to have worse grammar than the average fourth-grader.
I felt ashamed when I saw the remark about the most demeaning criticisms are the politest ones and the ones with the best interests at heart. That did make me question my motives in later re-posting her words with the addition of punctuation and so on.
I think pretty everyone on this board has a robust sense of humour, and I like to think that I am included in that group. However, the opening post was so very poorly written that the notion that it was a joke was lost on me. What we had, therefore, was a failure to communicate. And the communication is made much, much murkier by the lack basic writing skills. I truly believed that Lady in Red would get more responses to her post if people could read it more easily, and not have to work quite so hard to make out what she was trying to convey. She reacted to my post with some hostility, and I responded poorly.
Honestly, if she cannot see the difference in her posting and writing styles and those of the rest of the board, it is difficult to gently advise that yes, spelling, grammar and punctuation do matter. They are the bricks and mortar of writing, and if they are falling apart, I can’t see what she’s trying to build. (There is a fabulous analogy that I can’t quite summon here, alas.)
Let’s go easy on the junior modding, please. If you think someone’s breaking a rule, just report it.
And I don’t see any rule violation here. One doper made a real-life comment to another which led them to post a thread, albeit a probably ill-advised one. I’m not seeing any conspiracy to deceive or troll here, just a bit of mixing of real life and the SDMB (always a potentially scary recipe, especially when one forgets to add the every important dash of grammar.)
It’s just occured to me that the OP is written like a lot of the emails of the customers where I work. I.e. it seems like they are not used to using the internet and typing things. Usually older people. Could it be that correct Grammar in typed form* is exclusive to ‘Internet People’?
Some of the emails we get are worse than the OP. With NO IRONY WHATSOEVER we’ll get an email which is in all-caps, hasn’t a SINGLE punctuation mark, and is difficult to parse.
So bearing that in mind, I’m no longer as surprised about the typing style of the OP as I was.
And I’m not just saying that cos her ex is here! Savanah I apologise if my comment made you feel bad. I think it’s true but it wasn’t meant to make you feel bad.
Heck: We do it so ___-Damn Much that we’re bound to be pretty good at it!
With all due respect, why is it that everyone who posts so poorly and is (no matter how gently) admonished for it responds with their best “You don’t know me! You can’t *juuuuuuuudge *me!!!”
Is it so very difficult to understand that’s the point? We *don’t *know you. So if you wish to be treated as an intelligent, mature, serious person, you must *present yourself *as an intelligent, mature, serious person.
Totally the right decision…all to long ive felt constrainted by all the lurking grammer nazis ready to jump on my postings for not conforming to arbitrary rules that are all made up and stuff…peeps need to understand that language is definated by it’s usage and gramme rules are just a historical record of how it has been done and not how it has to be done because language is always evolutionizing and growing and transformating…just because you spell orange as orange doesnt mean i cant spell it as QXZYURGZ especially cause orange doesn’t rhyme with anything anyway so if i change the spelling it still wont rhyme…so its totally unfair to jump on Lady in Red for being a free spirit who pioneerizes new ways to use language…yall need to stop being so stuffy and hoity toity!!
I think your trying to be sarcastic with that so your implying that its actually the purpose of communication to be understood…but if that were true then we should all be posting in mandarine chinese instead of english cause theres like a gabillion people who speak chinese and wed want to be understood by as wide an audience as possible…so clearly our point is not to be understood which means you were right if we ignore the sarcasticasm…the real point of communication is to hear ourself speak.
