Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4

Author Topic: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.  (Read 4052 times)

Jude

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2010, 08:24:21 pm »

That's supposed to be just a light-hearted riposte, albeit a true one.

I'm a spelling Nazi.


In other news, I hate when people say "this car needs washed" or "this bike needs restored"

People say that?  What the hell... I've certainly never heard it.

It's supposed to be a western PA thing, but I hear it from time to time.
Logged
Quote from: Raphite1
I once started with a dwarf that was "belarded by great hanging sacks of fat."

Oh Jesus

Lord Dakoth

  • Bay Watcher
  • That's a hammerin'.
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2010, 01:19:59 am »

Don't fight the urge to be a grammar Nazi. Embrace it. You'll feel much better afterwards.

...Lawful Evil, you know you want to...
Logged
Avatar by legendary engraver /u/Redicno of reddit.

Grakelin

  • Bay Watcher
  • Stay thirsty, my friends
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2010, 01:23:34 am »

Stay away from my grandmother.
Logged
I am have extensive knowledge of philosophy and a strong morality
Okay, so, today this girl I know-Lauren, just took a sudden dis-interest in talking to me. Is she just on her period or something?

bombcar

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2010, 01:26:29 am »

You shouldn't've brought it up. Then again, someone may say you shouldn't'ven't.
Logged

Cthulhu

  • Bay Watcher
  • A squid
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2010, 01:27:06 am »

That's supposed to be just a light-hearted riposte, albeit a true one.

I'm a spelling Nazi.


In other news, I hate when people say "this car needs washed" or "this bike needs restored"

People say that?  What the hell... I've certainly never heard it.

It's supposed to be a western PA thing, but I hear it from time to time.

That's pretty common here in Ohio too.  It's also very common around here to make business names possessive, even when they're not.  Kroger's, Meijer's, if you're really out in the sticks people start calling it Wal-Mart's.  Some places further south (Not south Ohio, south US) call everything Coke. 

We also call soda "pop".  This bothers some people to no end.
Logged
Shoes...

Cheeetar

  • Bay Watcher
  • Spaceghost Perpetrator
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2010, 01:28:14 am »

You shouldn't've brought it up. Then again, someone may say you shouldn't'ven't.
Should not have not?
I do not see how somebody would say that pertaining to this thread, as this thread is clearly a thread.
Logged
I've played some mafia.

Most of the time when someone is described as politically correct they are simply correct.

Grakelin

  • Bay Watcher
  • Stay thirsty, my friends
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2010, 01:29:57 am »

In Canada, we say that 'soda' is 'pop' as well.
Logged
I am have extensive knowledge of philosophy and a strong morality
Okay, so, today this girl I know-Lauren, just took a sudden dis-interest in talking to me. Is she just on her period or something?

Cheeetar

  • Bay Watcher
  • Spaceghost Perpetrator
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2010, 01:30:48 am »

I don't even say soda or pop. I say soft drink.
Logged
I've played some mafia.

Most of the time when someone is described as politically correct they are simply correct.

Starver

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2010, 08:02:33 am »

Ah, now in the UK 'carbonated/fizzy drinks' are "pop".  And soda (except in the import brand-name "Soda-stream", and "soda water" itself) relates to various soaps, washing powders, baking powders and other things related to sodium hydroxide/carbonate/whatever.

And as you know, those pesky people from over your northern border have quite a few cultural things in common with us in the UK.  Apart from those that have more culture in common with them lot in France, anyhow. :)


Oh, and 'round these parts', the mains water supply is also sometimes called "council pop", for the obvious dry humour reasons. :)
Logged

Gunner-Chan

  • Bay Watcher
  • << IT'S TIME >>
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2010, 08:32:57 am »

Some places further south (Not south Ohio, south US) call everything Coke. 

I actually do that... If it's soda it's just referred to as Coke.

Imagine my surprise when Milly came back one day with nothing but Coke for soda. Speech mannerisms and shaky grasps on languages don't mix.
Logged
Diamonds are combustable, because they are made of Carbon.

Aqizzar

  • Bay Watcher
  • There is no 'U'.
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2010, 08:52:10 am »

Some places further south (Not south Ohio, south US) call everything Coke. 

I actually do that... If it's soda it's just referred to as Coke.

Ya bumpkin.  Giving the South a bad name with such brand association.  When I ask for a Coke I expect a Coke.  Elsewise it's always "soda".

I lived in Michigan when I was a little kid, and even by then, because my parents always talked like southerners, "pop" bugged the Hell out of me, and everyone thought I was an idiot for using words like "ain't".  Which is a word dammit.
Logged
And here is where my beef pops up like a looming awkward boner.
Please amplify your relaxed states.
Quote from: PTTG??
The ancients built these quote pyramids to forever store vast quantities of rage.

Gunner-Chan

  • Bay Watcher
  • << IT'S TIME >>
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2010, 08:57:45 am »

Funny story about that. I actually got so used to doing that because the only soda I was familiar with for years WAS coke. It sticks with you.

But hey, you want funny ask Milly about fording rivers. That slipped her up bad in grade school when she played Oregon Trail.
Logged
Diamonds are combustable, because they are made of Carbon.

Jreengus

  • Bay Watcher
  • Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #27 on: March 11, 2010, 09:00:21 am »

Ah, now in the UK 'carbonated/fizzy drinks' are "pop".  And soda (except in the import brand-name "Soda-stream", and "soda water" itself) relates to various soaps, washing powders, baking powders and other things related to sodium hydroxide/carbonate/whatever.

I have never referred to or met anyone who referred to fizzy drinks as pop. In fact I don't think ever refer to fizzy drinks as a whole but in the case I did I would just call them fizzy drinks or possibly just drinks.
Logged
Oh yeah baby, you know you like it.  Now stop crying and get in my lungs.
Boil your penis. I'm convinced that's how it happened.
My HoM.

Apostolic Nihilist

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #28 on: March 11, 2010, 09:11:13 am »

I usually use pop and soda interchangeably, but fizzy drinks? That's just ridiculous.

As for general grammar nazism? It tends to annoy me when people write things as they would speak, e.g the aforementioned "should of", but that's the only issue that really annoys me now.

I've taken toward believing that anyone who types badly is doing so in an entirely ironic fashion, which seems to have alleviated my condition.
Logged

Maggarg - Eater of chicke

  • Bay Watcher
  • His Maleficent Magnificence of Nur
    • View Profile
Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #29 on: March 11, 2010, 09:22:59 am »

Has anyone ever come across what I like to term "The Grocers' Comma"?
Logged
...I keep searching for my family's raw files, for modding them.
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4