c'mon people

[ODA 226]

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How about putting prepositions at the end of a sentence? Like: "Where's the next OC dinner at?"

IT DRIVES ME CRAZY! :cuss:

So people please don't forget that a preposition is a horrible thing to end a sentence with!

 

[marshaul]

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ODA 226 wrote:

How about putting prepositions at the end of a sentence? Like: "Where's the next OC dinner at?"

IT DRIVES ME CRAZY! :cuss:

So people please don't forget that a preposition is a horrible thing to end a sentence with!

...a terrible thing with which to end a sentence.

 

[mrjam2jab]

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Johnny Stiletto wrote:

Maybe we should juststicky this thread. It will be a good place foreveryonetocome together and take out all our grammar frustrations on each other.

Weeooo Weeooo! Hear comez teh gammer puhlease!!!1111!1one11!

 

[Batousaii]

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old dog wrote:

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THERE,THEIR, THEY'RE ------- it ain't rocket surgery!

need we say more ?[/align]
[align=left]Boot um da gudest speeler I no, so U cannut gimme krap no mo.[/align]
... how off topic forOCDO are we going to be ?

 

[HankT]

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The grammar/spelling problems don't bother me anywhere near as the reliance on poor logic and shoddy argumentation.

Logical fallacies are relied on by so many to make their points. Therefore their points can be easily and effectively rebutted and refuted.

The top 3 fallacies in use here seem to be:

1. straw man argument

2. slippery slope argument

3. irrelevant thesis

Honorable mention goes to the ever popular ad hominem argument...

 

[old dog]

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Alexcabbie is quite correct. It is a sore point with me also.

However, affect does have a noun usage. I've heard mental health professionals use it in respect to a physical response to stimuli -- specifically an unusual response, or lack thereof, to a threat or an immediate peril. Beyond this I've no knowledge and I may have it all wrong. Not my field at all.

As to prepositions, it can be carried too far. Winston Churchill once responded to a critic "that is the kind of pedantry up with which I will not put". Still, poster has a very valid point.

 

[SpringerXDacp]

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Here ya go Hank. Might as well include the other 39:

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

 

[Alexcabbie]

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Sounds like we ought to get together and split an infinitive .

 

[Darroll]

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OMG

WTF

LOL

Things must be good in the world with everyone spending their time worrying about such trivial things.

 

[Carnivore]

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Johnny Stiletto wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out what "rocket surgery" is.

No Doubt!! I think thats the dept. across the hall from Brain science. He oughtsta be tooterin sum skool ajed keids, insted ov werrien bout gunz and Opin Karrien firarmz..

 

[Darroll]

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Carnivore wrote:

Johnny Stiletto wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out what "rocket surgery" is.

No Doubt!! I think thats the dept. across the hall from Brain science. He oughtsta be tooterin sum skool ajed keids, insted ov werrien bout gunz and Opin Karrien firarmz..

Its sad I could read that the first time through. Nice though.

 

[The Norseman]

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old dog wrote:

Something simple and obvious is said to be "not rocket science" or "not brain surgery" meaning anyone should be able to grasp it without explanation.

"Rocket surgery" is a humorous play on the terms employed as a device of emphasis. This is understood by people who read something other than gun magazines. And before you attack me further, I read and enjoy all the popular firearms periodicals.

I always say, "It ain't rocket scientry!" myself. (or should that be "meself"?)

 

[grumpycoconut]

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If'n y'all wants I gots a rocket for sell. Must sale fast! It's got a nukular thing on it and everything. I'll even give ya the book on it so you can orientate yourself right.

This is a must has item. The next time them strawmen come at you and you feel the're dragging the country str8 down the slippery slope into cummanardism you can blast em butt good. Because if you don't then thei'r gonna take away our guns.

 

[Alexcabbie]

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Gretings, I am a staff of large bank in Nigeria. Recently a rocket explodings causing death of famous Nigerian rocket expert resulted in him having no next of kin and large sum eighteen million dollaars in bank. I am contacting you in hopes of you having many dollars and wanting more but having no cents so to speak, so that you could stand for next of kin to claiming this large monies. to the arranging of this please supply your banking account number for fcilitaate the transfer of estate. Thanking you in advance for your cooperatings,

Kareem Awheet

First Very Largest Bank of Nigeria LTD.