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Postby Caesar on Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:34 pm

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Postby Ramshi on Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:37 pm

I don't get the point of these :?
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Postby Turquoise Dragon on Wed Dec 26, 2012 11:49 pm

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Re: ATTN

Postby Caesar on Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:06 am

randomly decided to post these because they made me chuckle
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Re: ATTN people who care about grammar

Postby Caesar on Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:08 am

btw that last chart describes my school day fairly accurately.
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Re: ATTN people who care about grammar

Postby Magyk on Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:22 pm

Caesar wrote:btw that last chart describes my school day fairly accurately.


Why? On numerous occasions you've displayed a clear disregard for proper yews of the English language.
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Re: ATTN people who care about grammar

Postby Caesar on Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:23 pm

If I were to total up all the points I have lost on paper/reports/homework due to english, you would see why I dislike it. :/
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Re: ATTN people who care about grammar

Postby Caesar on Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:27 pm

for instance, we were citing books using standard mla/apa format. I missed a comma and was docked 20pts. :/ I have many others.
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Re: ATTN people who care about grammar

Postby Turquoise Dragon on Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:40 pm

'Let's eat grandma!' vs. 'Let's eat, grandma!'

Commas save lives.
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Re: ATTN people who care about grammar

Postby Magyk on Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:04 pm

Don't waste your time with MLA/APA, learn Chicago/Turabian.
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