Ansem Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 EW YOU EAT DEAD PIG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 The period adjacent the quoted word "pepperoni" should appear before the quotes close. Really? I never knew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNG Princess Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Poor Soul his tummy aches but dont do it again... Overeating is no good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momo Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Poor wittle baby Soul hurt his tummy wummy Drink your bottle and go to sleep, young one. I'll read you a bedtime story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lux Aeterna Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Really? I never knew. Quotations are annoying. In every context I can think of, you place periods before the end quotations "like so." It's "the same with commas," but exclamation marks and question marks are a little different. It depends on the context. If the quote itself is a question, then the question comes before quotations like "to be or not to be?" If you're asking a question like a quotation inside of the question, as with this example: Wait, did you just say "I slept with your sister"? Since the quote is just part of the question, the question goes outside. Same with exclamations. by the way that last quote was just an example. tl;dr I just like teaching grammar. /cue "Grammar Know-it-All" ending credits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 lux teach me the way of the jedi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lux Aeterna Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 lux teach me the way of the jedi You take this little stick and press a red button. Some pretty neon color should come out. Then you start slashing stuff with it--it always cuts. Also, Jedi have this weird power: if they wave their hand at people then the person could choke or get thrown way back. You now know how to be a jedi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ansem Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkhead Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 Clearly you are not worthy of the glorious invention known as pizza. It is thus my responsibility to ban you from wasting good pizza by eating it yourself. Allow others to eat it from now on. Who was I to share with? I always have lunch by myself at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkhead Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 (edited) Whoa, u mad? Actually, I am. I don't know why humans tend to have the tendency to always want to be correct. It's irrational, and it's nothing to be proud of, really (If that's what they're looking for, anyway). And it only makes you look like an annoying smartass when it's done on the Internet over a matter that isn't even supposed to be meant taken seriously. Then again, I apologize for being a douche, Sir Raymond. :( Edited February 12, 2011 by Junes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anouleth Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 (edited) Somebody didn't read the other posts in the topic, methinks. Unless you also feel obliged to repeat stuff :P Ok, I didn't notice it, I guess. Actually, I am. I don't know why humans tend to have the tendency to always want to be correct. It's irrational, and it's nothing to be proud of, really (If that's what they're looking for, anyway). And it only makes you look like an annoying smartass when it's done on the Internet over a matter that isn't even supposed to be meant taken seriously. Wouldn't it be natural to always want to be right? I mean, nobody wants to be wrong. And I guess it's perfectly natural to feel bad about being wrong. What's problematic is when people refuse to admit that they're incorrect. Edited February 12, 2011 by Anouleth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkhead Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 But it's also natural to make mistakes. Can't you let people fall without having to be an ass to them when "helping"? Being the smartass of the group will only make fall harder when it's their turn to make a mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florete Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Ok, I didn't notice it, I guess. You should have just gone with my explanation. But it's also natural to make mistakes. Can't you let people fall without having to be an ass to them when "helping"? Being the smartass of the group will only make fall harder when it's their turn to make a mistake. Maybe it's just me, but Raymond was not being an "ass" about it as far as I can tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkhead Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 Well, he did completely fail to aknowledge the point of this topic, and just sweep in and correct me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anouleth Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 You should have just gone with my explanation. I don't really get what's ironic about complaining about someone's spelling when someone has already done so. Now, if I had been posting right after Junes responded to Raymond, it would probably have worked, but a page later? Well, he did completely fail to aknowledge the point of this topic, and just sweep in and correct me. This is FftF. You really should not expect people to remain on topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkhead Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 I know. But it's very annoying, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darros Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 I know. But it's very annoying, in my opinion. DERAIL DERAIL DERAIL It's not too annoying in FFtF, but anywhere else it's extremely annoying IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkhead Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 I didn't mean the derailing was annoying. I meant it's annoying when people try to be a smartass on a video game forum, and specially on the spam section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 It's especially, not specially. Chill, Soul. If you want to post on FftF, you have to get used to stuff like this. And, if you pay attention, deep down, this pet peeve of yours is really silly, so you should not encourage it to grow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lux Aeterna Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 (edited) Maybe it's just me, but Raymond was not being an "asss" about it as far as I can tell. This. It's hard to imagine Raymond deliberately acting like a prick. my response to his grammar correction, however... I will not take the quotes being edited so I added an extra s. D:< Edited February 12, 2011 by Lux Aeterna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Then again, I apologize for being a douche, Sir Raymond. :( That's fine, I don't mind. I was just trying to be funny, and we all know that I am not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleph Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Really? I never knew. That's because it's complete bullshit. Ask any programmer, they'll tell you. English is all kinds of fucked up. It needs some formal reform. It makes no sense to quote a thing "like this" and then have the period be "in the quote." That looks retarded. The sentence never ended! When you quote something you don't need to quote the whole thing, so you can leave the punctuation off. Hence quoting things "like this" instead of "like this." which looks weird, especially if I had done "like this.", which would have made more sense. Instead we do things "like this," where the period becomes a comma. WTF? I want my sentences to be contained by a leading capital and terminating punctuation like all sentences should, for consistency. So if I quote at the end of a sentence it should look "like this". The quote only contains what was quoted. The sentence, which contains the quote, indeed appears to contain the quote by containing the sentence's ending AFTER the quote's ending. It makes no sense to terminate the sentence and then the quote contained with in it in that order. So just keep doing it the way you were, Raymond. Language evolves through mutation so let's mutate this mother fucker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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