Language Nazis Unite!

[AngelicAssassin]

Dobeduebedew Doo-doo

You do work before the due date, regardless of the morning dew, before you find yourself in deep doo-doo.

 

[bouquiniste]

Though it's your right to write about that rite, doing, "do-do," is a no-no, even for a Dodo; you may both find yourself fined, a deux, à la pres dieu, lamenting, "mon Dieu," if you do not do your knot work when it's due, the dew notwithstanding. Adieu.

If the dear deer are does, does it follow that they're Fallow Deer, dear?

 

[Marquis]

Damn, a wordsmith indeed.

 

[bouquiniste]

Here's one which seems to be cropping (DOWN! Not that kind of cropping!) up with increasing frequency: "congradulations." In a reversion to the Vulcan Word Meld, what, precisely, would congradulations suggest?

1.) An accolade for a great climax (from the Latin, "gradationis," being the 'climax' in a rhetorical oratorio).

2.) Approval after watching someone successfully walk and chew gum (from the Latin, "gradior," or, "gradius," meaning, "step by step").

3.) An expression of surprise - or perhaps a congratulatory exclamation, depending upon the alien in question - spoken to the bride at an Human-Martian wedding (from the Latin, "Gradivus:" Mars' surname).

4.) An ejaculation (Again, DOWN! Not that kind of ejaculation!) uttered during a suspension scene¹ (from the Latin, "suspenso gradu" - literally, "held on tiptoes).

5.) The sentiment on a Dom/me's birthday cake, as a reminder that they're not getting older, they're getting better (from the Latin, "gradum inferre," suggesting advancement by dint of seniority).

6.) Plaudits given upon the occasion of one's degree being conferred (from the Greek, "ßaΘµós," to be graduated from a University.).

7.) An empathic sigh of relief that a friend's laxative has served its purpose (from the Middle English, "greiðr," [later, "gradely"] meaning, "with regularity").

8.) A felicitation offered when one has convinced a flea market dealer to drop his price (from the Middle French, "gradin," being a chisel.)

9.) Approbation spoken to a choir member who remained on key (from the Spanish, "graduale," being the antiphon sung between the Epistle and the Gospel during the Sacrament of Eucharist in Medieval churches).

10.) An expression of wonder spoken to a contractor after finishing your kitchen cabinets (from the Italian, "gradino," being the ornamented shelf behind the Altar).

¹Yes, yes... that kind of suspension scene.

 

[Marquis]

bouquiniste, I hope you stick around man. We could use someone like you around here.

 

[FungiUg]

Thank you. Two words: "Thank" and "you". Not one word. Two. One is too few, I expect two. Got it?

 

[bouquiniste]

Lotta 2s in there FungiUg. Sorta reminiscent of the coverage requirements for two pair of uncircumcised crossdressing ballerinas: two tutus is two tutus too few for four foreskins!

 

[AngelicAssassin]

"do-do," is a no-no, even for a Dodo

Webster's disagrees with you ... click me ... and i'll take an established authority over a used book selling alt any day of the week ... http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-8/363868/2cool2.gif

 

[bouquiniste]

Webster's disagrees with you ... click me ... and i'll take an established authority over a used book selling alt any day of the week ... http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-8/363868/2cool2.gif

Respectfully, you've missed the fact that, "do-do," was intended as an homonym, an homophone, and an homograph, in addition to utilising both homoeoteleuton and epanalepsis. As to Webster's being, "an established authority," one supposes that to be a matter of opinion. As English is not my native language, I find the O.E.D. rather more helpful than Webster's.

Current Language Nazi peeves: posters who find it impossible to employ the shift key when typing the first person subjective personal pronoun, and who employ the ellipsis as their sole means of punctuation.

 

[FungiUg]

Oh, but the Oxford English Dictionary (we had a copy in our school library which I remember fondly -- more volumes than the Encyclopædia!) is English. We're mostly American speakers here.

 

[AngelicAssassin]

Respectfully, you've missed the fact ... .

i missed nothing, including your bastardizing this thread from simple spelling mistakes into a personal agenda.

I find the O.E.D. ... .

Some of us know the abbreviation for the Oxford English Dictionary, but for the remainder (whom you seem so intent to impress), try the simple courtesy and generally accepted common practice of writing out any abbreviation prior to its use. Only a pretentious snob with elitist airs would do otherwise.

Current and longstanding BDSM Forum pet peeve: Textual chiggers that post under other than their usual name disingenuously.

 

[CutieMouse]

*****

 

[Marquis]

The man's got 13 posts soldier, why don't you let him get his feet wet before you pull the ruler out.

 

[bouquiniste]

why don't you let him get his feet wet before you pull the ruler out.

Marquis - Thanks, but I shouldn't worry over much; it looks like a pretty short ruler, actually.

 

[snowy ciara]

Another 1 that bugs me. I hate it when u r 2 laZ to rite good.

<start rant>

In a pure geek mood tonight, so I'm doing a search for sonnets. How to write them, that is. One website is comparing Shakespearian style sonnets to Italian Renaissance style sonnets, so I go looking for examples. I go to google and put in, "Shakespeare's sonnets" Check out the name of this site:

Have some respect for the Bard already!

The Place 2 Be? Let's just rewrite the whole damn lexicon, 2!

"2 b, or not 2 b: that is the ???:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind 2 suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or 2 take arms against a c of troubles,
And by opposing end them? 2 die: 2 zzzz;
No more; and by a sleep 2 say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir 2, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly 2 b wish'd. 2 die, 2 sleep;
2 sleep: perchance 2 dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that zzz of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off dis mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly 2 others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With dis regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft u now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
b all my sins remember'd.



<end rant>

edited cause the stupid spell checker can't spell renaissance either!

 

[bridgeburner]

Back in those wacky college days I performed in a rather experimental version of Hamlet for which I was sure even unto this day the bard was still spinning furiously over. I'm fully satisfied now that he no longer cares that I performed his famous speech backwards when he's got that abomination to focus on.

Although, it's possible he'd find all kinds of new and interesting wordplay made available to him with the addition of this truncated punk-webspeak. Will wasn't quite the stickler for precise spelling, grammar and vocabulary that many of his admirers are.


-B

 

[AngelicAssassin]

If you believe blonde jokes

here's your definition of an oxymoron.

http://www.bodycaress.com/Shirleyof%20Hollywood/mesh%20t-shirt_thong%20set/mesh%20set1/images/sh6812_6813_jpg.jpg

 

[Guest]

As a dyslexic typo princess who absorbed gramatical rules through reading rather than ever actually learning them ("Teacher? WHY do I need to know how to diagram the sentence as long as it's well written?") may I say I am feeling a bit paranoid about ever ever ever posting again. Ever.

But I do try to remember dictionary.com if I have any hesitation about spelling. I get points for that... right?

*grin*

Don't sweat it..
Kick back, have some rum, and shoot a seagull or two off the back rail of the boat.
Don't forget your boxing gloves either..
Write the way you speak, and you are more likely to be remembered after you are gone. At least currently.

 

[DVS]

Hey, did we cover use and used? How do we use them in the correct way? I used to know.

 

[bridgeburner]

Hey, did we cover use and used? How do we use them in the correct way? I used to know.

Grammar isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when the words use or used appear in this forum.

-B

 

[Shadowsdream]

Uh O!

~~grin~~ shouldn't for = 4?

<start rant>

In a pure geek mood tonight, so I'm doing a search for sonnets. How to write them, that is. One website is comparing Shakespearian style sonnets to Italian Renaissance style sonnets, so I go looking for examples. I go to google and put in, "Shakespeare's sonnets" Check out the name of this site:

Have some respect for the Bard already!

The Place 2 Be? Let's just rewrite the whole damn lexicon, 2!

"2 b, or not 2 b: that is the ???:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind 2 suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or 2 take arms against a c of troubles,
And by opposing end them? 2 die: 2 zzzz;
No more; and by a sleep 2 say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir 2, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly 2 b wish'd. 2 die, 2 sleep;
2 sleep: perchance 2 dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that zzz of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off dis mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly 2 others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With dis regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft u now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
b all my sins remember'd.



<end rant>

edited cause the stupid spell checker can't spell renaissance either!

 

[DVS]

This isn't a double word thing, but I'm getting more confused about it, depending on who I talk to.

I'm wondering what the correct usage is, and if possible, a link explaining would be nice. My editor and I are going around with it.

Oh, and if it's something that is maybe different, depending on the side of the pond you're on, that would be nice to know, too.

The use of the word OF...such as:

She got up off OF the floor.

OR should it be:
She got up off the floor.

Another example:

She picked herself up off OF the dildo.

OR should it be:
She picked herself up off the dildo.

Thanks to the smart people.

 

[Aeroil]

Both those are syntactically correct. lol, in other words they both should work.

 

[Esclava]

This isn't a double word thing, but I'm getting more confused about it, depending on who I talk to.

I'm wondering what the correct usage is, and if possible, a link explaining would be nice. My editor and I are going around with it.

Oh, and if it's something that is maybe different, depending on the side of the pond you're on, that would be nice to know, too.

The use of the word OF...such as:

She got up off OF the floor.

OR should it be:
She got up off the floor.

Another example:

She picked herself up off OF the dildo.

OR should it be:
She picked herself up off the dildo.

Thanks to the smart people.

DVS,

I couldn't find anything that said it was incorrect to use "up off of the floor/dildo"; however, it is repetitive since "up", "off" and "of" are all prepositions.

Prepositions can be used to denote or clarify locations where the preposition explains something about the noun that follows it in the prepositional phrase. In the case of the above examples, the question becomes: What is the verb asking to be clarified? Look at these:

She picked herself up. (She was "down" somewhere-good sentence by itself.)

She picked herself up off ... (This begs for the location she picked herself up from. Because "off" is a preposition, you only need add a modifier and noun to complete the phrase that tells who or what she picked herself up off - i.e., "off the dildo.")

She picked herself up off ... of the dildo (If the object of the preposition "of" is the dildo, the verb should perform an action directly affecting the noun in the prep phrase. In this case, it does not. The verb is connected to the object "dildo" via "off" and the verb "picked" does not directly affect the dildo itself; therefore "of" is unnecessary.)

Now if you were to say: She orgasmed from the purring of the dildo, the verb "orgasmed" is directly connected to the dildo via the purring, which clarifies/explains the base cause of the orgasm.

Thinking about it like this has never steered me wrong: In a prepositional phrase, use "of" when a verb directly affects the noun in the phrase. As I said in the beginning, I cannot find where it is incorrect, but the rules that call for brevity of expression say the "of" is unnecessary and redundant. I hope this helps.

Esclava

 

[Aeroil]

umm...... what esclava said.......