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Aqizzar

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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #30 on: March 11, 2010, 10:03:38 am »

But hey, you want funny ask Milly about fording rivers. That slipped her up bad in grade school when she played Oregon Trail.

Wait wait wait.  Was fording rivers somehow important to the schooling?  ...Was she being graded on Oregon Trail performance?  Damn that'd be scary.

Or did she just come away from Oregon Trail with a warped impression of the Old West as a wagon-devouring gauntlet of deceptively shallow rivers?  Because ever since, anytime I see water on a road, no matter how high, I think to myself, "eh, I can make it."
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #31 on: March 11, 2010, 10:38:08 am »

Actually she thought "Ford" meant the type of truck and she got really confused.

She was soooo embarrased.
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #32 on: March 11, 2010, 10:41:51 am »

Spoiler: Built Ford Tough (click to show/hide)

Hey, it's only thanks to Oregon Trail that I ever knew "ford" was also a word and a verb.  Funny the things you actually learn.

Anyone else only know the words "affirmative" and "acknowledge" from Command & Conquer?
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #33 on: March 11, 2010, 11:05:07 am »

What's the "Grocer's Comma?"
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2010, 12:53:59 pm »

Anyone else only know the words "affirmative" and "acknowledge" from Command & Conquer?
I've picked those up from Dune II.
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #35 on: March 11, 2010, 12:58:36 pm »

Anyone else only know the words "affirmative" and "acknowledge" from Command & Conquer?
I've picked those up from Dune II.
Oh television, is there anything you can't teach me?
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« Reply #36 on: March 11, 2010, 01:27:34 pm »

What's the "Grocer's Comma?"

It's when they advertise their wares with something like:

FRESH RED, APPLES ON, SALE!

With random commas.
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #37 on: March 11, 2010, 01:28:15 pm »

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

It's an example of something fun for a Grammar Nazi to get all worked up about. Double and triple contractions are often spoken, but hardly ever written.
Should not have not?
I do not see how somebody would say that pertaining to this thread, as this thread is clearly a thread.
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« Reply #38 on: March 11, 2010, 02:20:48 pm »

Oh. I've never seen that "Grocer's Comma" except in illiterate craigslist ads, you know, the ones where they're like "SHIMANO ROAD BIKE $500" and it's a piece of shit Huffy mountain bike with a taco'd wheel
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #39 on: March 11, 2010, 02:27:09 pm »

In X2: The Threat, when a docking request is granted the computer says "Positive' instead of "Affirmative"

That always bugged me.
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #40 on: March 11, 2010, 02:39:06 pm »

-Are you positive?
-Positive, positive, POSITIVE!!!
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #41 on: March 11, 2010, 02:49:45 pm »

No, Elaborate. Elaborate hard.
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #42 on: March 11, 2010, 03:25:12 pm »

Who, me? It's a DWD reference.
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #43 on: March 12, 2010, 12:16:03 am »

The thing that bothers me the most is when advertisements add an apostrophe to any word that ends in an "s." That kind of error makes me want to slam the designer's fingers in a dictionary until he/she gets it right.

When I was in 9th grade, my English teacher told us that a few decades ago, someone wanted to make a possessive pronoun to use in place of it, she, or he (and to avoid "sexist" pronouns.) This group of people came up with the universal pronoun. It combined all three pronouns to make the new ultra pronoun:

s/h/it('s)

Took them a while before someone caught it.
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Re: At the risk of looking like a gramma Nazi.
« Reply #44 on: March 12, 2010, 12:18:18 am »

What the hell is a "gramma" Nazi?

I have heard of "grammar" Nazis but never "gramma" Nazis.
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