Damn, I was doing really well containing my ad hominem attacks to a select few who genuinely deserve it.
Hansen, I understand that it is not germane to the thread topic, but do you see anything wrong with the sentence below? Or perhaps something a little ironic?
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>first of all, take a english class prior to posting in this forum; your writing skills are....juvenile (misuse of verbs and fragmented sentences).<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
1) Capitalisation errors (i.e., "
First of all" and "
English class")
2) Improper indefinite article use ("take
an english [sic] class")
3) Improper placement of an ellipsis (and wrong number of dots!)
4) Improper end punctuation (should be "
.)" when ending a sentence in a parenthetical phrase.)
Everybody makes typos, but to bury a suggestion that another poster needs to take an English class in grammatical and punctuation errors is fukcing hilarious.
This probably pisses you off and I am sorry; just riding the high from having dealt with an almost identical attack on myself personally in another forum. In that case the respondent was so desperate to poke a hole in my argument that he leapt on a simple typo: I misspelled the word
non sequitur as
non-sequitor and didn't catch it when I proofed it (a cursory glance of any of my posts here will tell you that I am neither the world's best typist nor the world's most astute proofreader.)
At any rate, the respondent, rather than point out the error (which would have been silly anyway) actually said, something along the lines of "Nobody believes you're as smart as you do, but if you're going to throw around fancy terms you don't really understand, at least spell them right. It's
non-sequiter." Which is, of course, also incorrect.
Needless to say, I had a field day with that, and coming off of that to this just tickled me.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>
first of all, you need to take a english class. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>You need to learn to spell: it's
non-sequiter.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Phaedrus
Edited for spelling and punctuation.