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Post by marmotstew on Sept 4, 2022 20:14:18 GMT -8
Well, Ernest Hemingway is the mostest boring writer that ever written. And I’m not even drunk yet. Just getting that out there.
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Post by reuben on Sept 5, 2022 3:08:00 GMT -8
Well, Ernest Hemingway is the mostest boring writer that ever written. And I’m not even drunk yet. Just getting that out there. hes like, older than a boomer. realz.
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Post by texasbb on Sept 5, 2022 5:17:59 GMT -8
Who cares about apostrophes these days? The real abomination is saying amount when you mean number. (I'm like putting the like 21st-century version of like audible pauses in like a whole 'nother category.)
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 5, 2022 7:07:30 GMT -8
You know, that’s kind of a funny thing. As we shift more and more of our conversation to writing, we try more and more to find ways for the writing to “sound” like we are talking. Like using emphasis and punctuating the pauses.
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Post by Travis on Sept 5, 2022 7:11:49 GMT -8
But hasn't texting created the greatest abomination the English language ever suffered?
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 5, 2022 7:13:44 GMT -8
But hasn't texting created the greatest abomination the English language ever suffered? The emoji? The abandonment of punctuation and capital letters? Or all those abbreviations? (In other news, the spell-check for all its faults is a godsend to someone like me).
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Post by Travis on Sept 5, 2022 7:13:47 GMT -8
You know, that’s kind of a funny thing. As we shift more and more of our conversation to writing, we try more and more to find ways for the writing to “sounds” like we are talking. Like using emphasis and punctuating the pauses. Agreed. My life has been dedicated to the overuse of commas.
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 5, 2022 7:16:54 GMT -8
You know, that’s kind of a funny thing. As we shift more and more of our conversation to writing, we try more and more to find ways for the writing to “sounds” like we are talking. Like using emphasis and punctuating the pauses. Agreed. My life has been dedicated to the overuse of commas. Thanks to editors, I’m gradually learning when to ditch them. But I still like the comma too well. Maybe comes of growing up in a period when we didn’t learn rules for writing, so I just kind of absorbed the “feel” of it. I don’t always feel the way the pros do.
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Post by franco on Sept 5, 2022 14:18:00 GMT -8
You know, that’s kind of a funny thing. As we shift more and more of our conversation to writing, we try more and more to find ways for the writing to “sounds” like we are talking. Like using emphasis and punctuating the pauses. Agreed. My life has been dedicated to the overuse of commas. When I was growing up we had commas under the bed
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Post by desert dweller on Sept 6, 2022 6:49:34 GMT -8
But hasn't texting created the greatest abomination the English language ever suffered? Not for me, I guess. I don't use emojies and I text using complete sentences. Probably my most biggest offense is using "prolly" for "probably".
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Post by marmotstew on Sept 6, 2022 7:15:24 GMT -8
But hasn't texting created the greatest abomination the English language ever suffered? Not for me, I guess. I don't use emojies and I text using complete sentences. Probably my most biggest offense is using "prolly" for "probably". K That one annoys me. Just type the damn O.
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Post by desert dweller on Sept 6, 2022 9:05:44 GMT -8
That one annoys me. Just type the damn O. I would prolly do it. But, I'm pretty sure you meant to type the "bab". Already got the O down.
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Sept 6, 2022 9:53:08 GMT -8
I am a serial chronic ellipsis abuser.
I confess and submit to my punishment.........
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Post by swiftdream on Sept 6, 2022 11:30:08 GMT -8
Well, Ernest Hemingway is the mostest boring writer that ever written. And I’m not even drunk yet. Just getting that out there. hes like, older than a boomer. realz. Gertrude Stein called them the Lost Generation always wandering drunk. Hemingway was a lush, an absolute fall down drunk who didn’t set any rules for his drinking that he kept. Read one of his more famous books, The Sun Also Rises. All they did was drink or try to find drink, find more to cure the sickness they felt from too much drinking. Champagne for breakfast was not considered drinking by that bunch. This was a common theme for him.
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Post by cweston on Sept 6, 2022 13:01:54 GMT -8
Agreed. My life has been dedicated to the overuse of commas. Interesting. As an official old fart, I find that commas are criminally underused in a lot of the writing that I see.
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