Thrusted is not a word

[Rainbow Skin]

I sometimes wonder whether there are parallel communities of writers. We get good feedback for our subtlety and realism and put detailed commentary on it here.

Meanwhile the vast majority of readers are using a chipped flint to bash the 5 button on the ones we don't like, and would put commentary on it here like DOOD THE ONS WERE THE BLOND FUKCS THE READHED ARE BEST if they could get beyond SDF IOP IOP SDF.

 

[Shhh]

Thrusted

Likewise, "grinded."

'She grinded against me...'

Don't even get me started on the difference between process and stative verbs!

Tangentally, can anyone explain the growing use of chat slang that DOESN'T save a keystroke or three? I mean, I understand subbing "BRB" for "Be right back", but what's the deal with "iz" instead of "is"?

Fair warning, anyone who ever types "NUFFIN" in place of "nothing" had better never let me find out where they live. I favour improving the average level of proficiency in English grammar through eugenics.

 

[XicotencatlSmith]

Gramar chekked

I wish I could feel sympathy for a person aware of the difference between process and stative verbs, but I fail to understand why you might care. After all, standardized rules for spelling and grammar are a rather recent development, and you are dealing with a species still struggling to digest dairy products several thousand years after the domestication of the cow.

As for the rise of a dictatorship of Literature Majors, what good would it do? You, the literate, have forgotten your Achilles heel: Common Usage. In fifty years, or less, Killer Muffin's objection will be thrusted aside.

Winston Churchill put it best when he sent a note to an editor with the cheek to correct a sentence in his memoirs that ended with a preposition:

"This is the sort of impertinence up with which I will not put."

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Re: Gramar chekked

I wish I could feel sympathy for a person aware of the difference between process and stative verbs,

XicotencatlSmith,

If you never do anything else on this site, that one line will be enough to keep you forever high in my admiration. Of course, I'm just proud to be hanging around the same joint as someone who can spell, "stative."

You might enjoy checking out the ongoing discussion of "that" over at the SDC on TheEarl's latest thread.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[*Catbabe*]

Allot is a word that means to distribute or assign by lot.

The expression, "a lot", as in many, is always two words.

 

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[openthighs_sarah]

Re: Gramar chekked

After all, standardized rules for spelling and grammar are a rather recent development, and you are dealing with a species still struggling to digest dairy products several thousand years after the domestication of the cow.

As for the rise of a dictatorship of Literature Majors, what good would it do? You, the literate, have forgotten your Achilles heel: Common Usage. In fifty years, or less, Killer Muffin's objection will be thrusted aside.

I agree in principle -- if Shakespeare had been a Lit writer, he would have been blasted on the forums here for all those "non-words" he coined.

I have no problem with writers taking liberties or being creative for poetic or artistic effect; I just dislike sloppynesse borne of apathey or lazinesse.

And I actually prefer "grinded" to "ground". "She grinded against him, wailing all the while like a rageful beast" sounds better, to me, than "she ground against him..." That makes me think of beef, and not in a good way. The English language is so wonderfully arbitrary...

 

[XicotencatlSmith]

I ave to side with the grammar cops. There's nothing that detracts from a story than the distractions created by poor usage. It makes me give up on a story after the first few sentences.


The Lime in Jersey

Lime, you might enjoy my effort in this regard. "The Worst Story Ever"

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=73267

(This story has been around a few months, and I've been made aware that it is not, after all, the worst story ever. But, like all of us, I'm trying to be the best worst writer I can be, and I can only get worse with time and practice.)

 

[ubertroll]

Occult is an adjective.
A cult is the noun.

Not ENTIRELY accurate.

Occult can also be a verb--it is the term for when the moon blocks the view of a star or other celestial object. The moon is then said to OCCULT the object in question. :-D

 

[MNGuy]

Thrust is both past and present tense of the word. There is no such thing as thrusted. Look it up.

For the fun of it, I search all my written work, and have never thrusted that word on any reader.

Whew! Don't want to be on KM's bad side.