09-18-2003, 03:57 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Grammatical rules you like to break
Think of this as the optimist's version of Batman976's post.
I like to verb words. For instance: I'm Tilting Forum Projecting instead of homeworking. Well-crafted run-on sentences can be expressive as fuck; extra semicolons never hurt anybody. |
09-18-2003, 04:59 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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09-18-2003, 07:57 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Sometimes it's difficult to not end a sentence where the preposition is at!
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09-18-2003, 09:32 PM | #8 (permalink) |
is you wicked?
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Haha... One of my friends used to always add the word "for" to the end of his "why" questions. We started doing it just to make fun of him and it sorta stuck.
"Why are you doing that for?" Also "sorta," "kinda," "gotta," or any other similar words are in fact words.
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09-19-2003, 07:59 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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Location: Pacific NW
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Intentionally mispronouce words. Here's an example that really gets under the skin of one of my friends.
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09-19-2003, 07:39 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
Turn off your TV.
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"I've finally found a way to end a sentence with five prepositions. A boy is going to bed, and his father brings him a book from downstairs to read to him, but it's the wrong book. "The boy says, 'What did you bring that book that I don't want to be read to out of up for?'. "And how are you?"
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09-20-2003, 11:59 AM | #15 (permalink) | |
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09-21-2003, 11:13 PM | #17 (permalink) |
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Sometimes once I get started writing- that is, when I sit down in front of the computer (an altogether enjoyable experience, might I add)- I can go on these extremely long sentence runs in which very little or nothing at all happens except that the sheer number of words in it can baffle the mind; at other times, it seems as though my mind does this on purpose just to fuck with me and lead me to believe that one coherent thought can be expressed in one really long sentence when, in fact, it cannot, and I find, quite despite my best efforts, that the use of the comma, as handy as I find it, can become a hinderence to the writing process, as it causes me to use it, against my better judgement, too frequently.
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09-22-2003, 10:32 AM | #18 (permalink) |
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i use commas too much, usually where i would pause while talking and i pause a lot, for affect and all...
and i use ellipses a lot... i try to write just like i talk, sometimes running together, so people that know me can almost hear what i'm saying
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09-23-2003, 12:19 PM | #20 (permalink) | |
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Location: Ireland
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09-25-2003, 09:51 AM | #22 (permalink) | |
I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot!
Location: Upper Michigan
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My grammer problem is simply that my sentences are all to often verbose. That's the biggest problem that tend I continue. The one I'm trying to break is that I say "like" too often.
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