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The use of grammar and punctuations.

Discussion in 'Old Threads' started by ghost521, May 9, 2011.

  1. ghost521

    ghost521 Lucent's name is Jeremy

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    [video=youtube;J7E-aoXLZGY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY&feature=feedlik[/video]

    Stephen Fry took the words out of my mouth with this speech, which is accompanied by a nice kinetic typographic animation.

    I know that grammar and punctuation are essential to successful communication, but gosh, that's rarely the point whenever I experience it. People either get so worked up on grammar or discard its importance to a point so extreme that it makes conversations really strict/boring/hard to understand.

    What's your take?​
     
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    Most people on this forum will watch this video and not understand a damn thing hes saying. x.x
     
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    ghost521 Lucent's name is Jeremy

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    I love his voice.

    If you can follow the text, great. If not, let his voice tickle your pickles and salami sandwiches.
     
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    For me It was hard to understand what he was talking about maybe cause its not my native language.

    I really like the way that he presented his video, it was entertaining.

    And about grammar, For me grammar is and always will be difficult. Dont know why but most of my mistakes are grammar mistakes, and most of those are stupids mistakes x.x
     
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    See if this means something to you.

    [video=youtube;LDDio4lN01M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDDio4lN01M[/video]
     
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    I absolutely hate pedants, low-life "educated individuals" who strive for the "proper use" of language.

    And to everything else that Stephen Fry said, I absolutely agree. Gone are the days where people used language creatively.

    It won't hurt to go have some enjoyable wordplay every now and then.
     
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    ghost521 Lucent's name is Jeremy

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    Do they ever yoke impossible words together for the sound-sex of it?

    Oooh, see how he made it sound so goooooood?
     
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    I think things are balance... its not that we need to use the full extent of a lenguage grammatical power to communicate to each other... but the other extreme of not using grammar at all, its quite annoying.
     
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    Wordgasm.

    /10char
     
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    ghost521 Lucent's name is Jeremy

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    Obviously that, without grammar, we can't understand anything most of the gamez players are saying.
     
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    bingo

    10 chars my ass
     
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    congratulations on 1k posts xD
     
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    That was interesting and I agree with what he said, grammatical correctness should just be observed depending on the situation hence we don't need to be grammatically correct all the time.
     
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    just exactly what you are doing.
     
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    ghost521 Lucent's name is Jeremy

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    Holy nuts, did I really?

    YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
     
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