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dirtbag
climber
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May 19, 2009 - 08:25pm PT
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Oh F*#kin-A Chaz, of all the dumb ass posts I've seen, yours and TIG's take the cake. It's a goddamned internet forum posting, nit pickers, not Strunk and White's "Elements of Style."
Lame.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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May 19, 2009 - 08:32pm PT
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You've got it wrong, Graniteclimber.
I WANT people to nitpick my grammar. I take it as an oportunity to learn something.
Allez doesn't like it, though. Maybe he feels as if he's learned enough.
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dirtbag
climber
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May 19, 2009 - 08:36pm PT
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Well, we learned something about you and TIG.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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May 19, 2009 - 08:36pm PT
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lots of grammar cops over at rc. they're really into it there.
maybe tig and chaz would feel more at home in that crowd.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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May 19, 2009 - 08:40pm PT
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I spotted a grammatical mistake or two in my last post.
See if any of the school teachers here can spot them.
Maybe there's a reason y'all are being laid off.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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May 19, 2009 - 08:41pm PT
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pick your own nits.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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May 19, 2009 - 08:45pm PT
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There is a reason why they're being laid off. The Republican wingnuts bankrupted the country and now the schools afford to pay all the teachers they need.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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May 19, 2009 - 08:46pm PT
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" Well, we learned something about you and TIG."
We didn't learn anything new about Chaz and TIG that we didn't already know.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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May 19, 2009 - 08:50pm PT
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The colloquial have got for have should not be used in writing.
Any person doing so should voluntarily leave his/her job and never work again.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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May 19, 2009 - 08:52pm PT
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There's at least one more, Mr Roehl.
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Dapper Dan
climber
Menlo Park
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May 19, 2009 - 10:49pm PT
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Tradisgood:
One night your mom went to take a big sh#t, and out came you .
Congrats on being the turd of the day .
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IntheFog
climber
Mostly the next place
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May 20, 2009 - 12:22am PT
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I'm all for good grammar, and good teachers. I orginally thought TIG was right about the grammar, but now I'm not so sure. Using the internuts, I found a bunch of examples of respected (and respectable) writers using a plural pronoun after a singular pronoun. Being a grammar nerd, I had to share:
in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Everyone, to rest themselves betake.
(Interestingly, this guy -- Shakespeare -- originally wrote "himself" and then changed it.)
God send every one their heart's desire!
Poor Julia, the only one out of the nine not tolerably satisfied with their lot
Who makes you their confidant?
that every one may be at liberty to fix their own...
And yes, many of these come from Jane Austen. I got them here:
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austhlis.html
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/sgtheirl.html
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WBraun
climber
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May 20, 2009 - 12:56am PT
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You should be happy that Tradisgood made his now infamous post up thread so that you could start your own slander/backstabing run out on him.
makes you all feel real good, huh?
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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May 20, 2009 - 01:35am PT
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Jesus Jumping Christ on a Stick!
Don't you SOBs have a wife to beat or a dog to kick...or is being a pompous prick on the Internet your only outlet?
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Dapper Dan
climber
Menlo Park
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May 20, 2009 - 01:55am PT
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When I see some chump like tradisgood make a comment like, "We can only hope that the students now will have a teacher who knows and uses better English, and teaches them better as well", it feels like a low blow to a guy who is already pretty down about losing his job. It seems unnecessary and it makes me upset , not only as a person, but as a fellow teacher.
Hence the slander. Can you understand that WBraun?
Imagine someone disparaging one of your fellow SAR colleagues who had just been laid off...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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May 20, 2009 - 02:11am PT
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This just in from the Pedants’ Agains’t Apos’trophe, Adjective and Alliteration Abus’e and As’s’orted Grammatical Atros’ities’:
AA510: Sorry about your news - hopefully another, better, door will open elsewhere soon. And you do have three threads in the top five at the moment, which is a rare feat.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 20, 2009 - 07:25am PT
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Lazy eye, The point is that this internet posting crap is a colossal waste of time and any fool who actually goes back and spell checks their posts has too much of that time to waste. Heck i waste as much time as anyone else on here but I will certainly not lose any sleep over typos.
I contest that any internet poster who calls an oponent on spelling or gramer has lost the argument and is resorting to diversionary tactics. YMMV
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 20, 2009 - 08:01am PT
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The shallow, bitter, angry self richous and mean spirited old white guys strike again. And they wonder why it not cool to be a republican these days,,,
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