Handy Grammar Guide

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RIVERDANCER

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:43 PM

Please don't take offense, Rallem, but your signature is rather overwhelming. It makes me a little dizzy.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:

The only downside is, those who need this thread most desperately, are least likely to invest the time reading it...

Why is it that our self-identified Conservative friends here have the most need of this thread? Is it cause us Ivory-Tower Libs all graduated from Harvard & Berkley & s**t?

The laughing Chrisisall

RIVERDANCER

Thursday, April 9, 2009 6:45 PM

I haven't graduated... yet.

RALLEM

Thursday, April 9, 2009 8:25 PM

I am going to try going back to school to get a Bachelors degree in Movie Making. The part that most interests me right now is script writing, but I have to admit that some camera work, editing, and special effects are exciting too. I have to set things up with the Vocational Rehabilitation at the V.A.

http://www.swyzzlestyx.com/index.html

ANOTHERSKY

Monday, April 20, 2009 7:29 AM

"NOT MANDATORY" Ha ha!

Therefore this pat on the back shall blue your mind, in a manner of speakin'. :D

--
Another Sky
(just another ivory-tower conservative...we think too ya know. Everybody's makin' a fuss--no need to get your knickers in a twist.)

RIVERDANCER

Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:24 AM

Felt the urge to give this a bump.

RIVERDANCER

Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:06 PM

Urge to bump this up again...

BYTEMITE

Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:20 PM

I think some slight clarification is needed on effect/affect.

According to dictionary.com...

Quote:
Affect and effect, each both noun and verb, share the sense of “influence,” and because of their similarity in pronunciation are sometimes confused in writing. As a verb affect means “to act on” or “to move” (His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept); affect can also mean “to pretend” or “to assume” (new students affecting a nonchalance they didn't feel). The verb effect means “to bring about, accomplish”: Her administration effected radical changes. The noun effect means “result, consequence”: the serious effects of the oil spill. The noun affect pronounced with the stress on the first syllable is a technical term in psychology and psychiatry.

I note that "effects" are also possessions that someone can carry on their person.

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:28 PM

Thanks, Bytemite, those two gave us some tangled issues in the last thread, and we thought we'd gotten it solved. Guess we missed a couple things!

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ECGORDON

Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:51 PM

This doesn't apply to fanfic, since I never read any of it, and it's not really about grammar either, but rather about spelling. I'm not sure why most people aren't concerned that they do not know how to spell correctly, but when I see something wrong it bugs the hell out of me.

One word in particular I have seen misspelled several times lately in various posts.

People, nothing can PEAK your interest. Your interest may peak when you finally experience the event in question, but until then your interest has been PIQUED.

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