[quote who="Neilo" reply="1" id="2025788"]This Craption from the other day crakced me up..... http://www.cracked.com/craptions/craption/1103[/quote] i liked that one to SB and his reply was something like, "the thing that really scares me about craptions is that these are all real pictures." that one was really funny. i also liked the #5 craption, "Finally, homoerotic undertones in Batman!"
[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="25" id="2025654"]This is debatable-it's possible (though not particularly likely) he really meant cued rather than queued, which would have actually been a grammatical error.[/quote] but he wrote "qued", so no matter what it was improperly spelled. [quote who="Sole Soul" reply="25" id="2025654"]What would you categorize it as? Linguistics?[/quote] i'd say that's diction: choice of words to convey a particular meaning. but it
the hyper part of that link doesn't work, so you'll need to copy and paste the URL. that said, upped [e digicons]k1[/e]
i think McKean's Law was actually what i was thinking of. or should i say, of what i was thinking. to be fair, some of us actually are dyslexic. that's why i usually refrain from correcting others' speech, but in the case that actually started this (my part of it anyway), i just couldn't resist pointing out that the self-proclaimed grammar sherrif had in fact corrected spelling.
okay. i thought that might be the case, but i googled it and didn't get anything, but i didn't look increadibly hard.
[quote]Mruphy's Law:[/quote] i assume you mean Murphy's Law [e digicons]^_^[/e] and actually, murphy's law is "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
heh, that was pretty good. i recall once reading about... someone's law. i forgot the name. it was a social law that essentially follows: if you correct someone's language on the internet, you're exceedingly likely to make a spelling, grammar or other language error in that very correction. for the life of me i can't remember the proper name attached to this social law.
i'm sure it'll be reshown several times, and you can always catch it on sci fi rewind. but personally speaking, i'd have to put BSG ahead of friendship in this case [e digicons]o_O[/e]
so... 10 hours to go, my time. i've been seeing ads for BSG all over the f***ing place. i'm re-watching from season 3 onward until then. [e digicons]:cylon:[/e]
thanks kryo [e digicons]^_^'[/e] i've done that in the past; i guess i wasn't thinking. i'll be sure to always do that in the future.
damn it. i don't know if i made a linguistic spelling, grammar or diction error in that post, but i sure as heck committed a mistake with computational syntax, and i can't seem to find an edit button. yet again, stardock's unruly forum design strikes again. why does it copy over, and then hide, code from other websites? i can't even edit or delete that post... if it's annoying enough, i'll ask kryo if he can simply delete it. at any rate, my main point (if you can't tell through the u
[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="4" id="2021808"]As diction only refers to spoken word, I'll have to correct you on that.[/quote] you might want to tell that to several dictionaries... [quote]dic-tion [dik-shuhn] –noun 1. style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction. 2. the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judge
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[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="25" id="2021397"]This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Grammar Spelling Sheriff. [/quote] This message brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Diction Sheriff [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
LMAO good one loup
ahem, you mean we're not above bribes . charity is for goody-goodies.
[quote who="Noctilucus" reply="19" id="2020462"]I don't want to criticize anyone, but having spent 3.5 months in the US I can agree that on average you guys seem to have an even bigger problem than say the average Western European country when it comes to spending money: everything bought on loans, plenty of people living above their standards (cars, plasma tv's and other hardware, eating out, travel, holidays, ...). And so much advertising still on TV trying to convince people who are buried
[quote who="CaptainYar" reply="4" id="2020845"]Hey this is my 1000 th reply, and I gave it to the ToE.[/quote] aww, thanks! [e digicons]:*[/e] i don't think anyone's used that emoticon on these forums at all. @neilo, that was Brother Cavel (sp?), and yeah, that scene is awesome.
[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="13" id="2019584"]I'll take that as a compliment.[/quote] as it was meant to be [quote who="Sole Soul" reply="13" id="2019584"]I wasn't calling out names specifically, dys-just saying that in general that's what I observe.[/quote] i didn't mean to sound defensive, i was just continuing the topic. i don't consider myself exactly spend-thrift, except when i need to be, and i've certainly seen some people who throw money away so quickly you'd
heh. you and mumble are cut from the same cloth [e digicons];)[/e] personally speaking, i know how to spend money intelligently, but i chose not to. at least, not all the time. the amount i can save by pinching pennies doesn't add up to much over the short time frames i'm dealing with, and the sense of enjoyment i can get from spending a little frivolously really helps my day-to-day life be much more tolerable. but i guess my only real point is that it's a subjectiv
i actually do like the new theme music better. the original was just 'meh' to me. but i never got that into the original series (i'm only 26, so it was a little before my time). okay, as to part II... Boomer one of the 8s (the Asian model cylon). the other named 8 is Athena (Sharon Agathon, but she's married to Helo - i think Boomer was Sharon Valarie, but i'm not sure if they were both Valarie or what). the other 4 in the fleet are Tigh (the X.O..), Chief Tyril, Sam A
they only reported $3,800? that's barely enough for 2 months 'round these parts.
heh good find, Seth. that was funny. [quote who="CaptainYar" reply="23" id="2019482"]You have to admit the theme song was better.[/quote] um, no i don't [e digicons]:hrmph:[/e]
[quote who="Loupdinour" reply="5" id="2019183"]I've made jokes on how screwed-up the town I live in is and how low the avg IQ must be. This MSNBC article from my town only goes to prove it... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28654819/ Just as a caviat, there is FAR more information on this in the local paper...detailing that they were already in the process of moving when this happened.[/quote] hmm if that was the bank's fault, i think they should get to keep th
[quote who="CaptainYar" reply="20" id="2019009"]Who designed these cylons anyway? I mean look at the female versions, all pleasing enough (oo la la) . Now look at all of the male ones... Tigh--> lol[/quote] yeah, but then there's Anders [e digicons]:drool:[/e] a gay friend of mine also used to keep a picture of chief tyril on his desk, so i guess it's really subject to taste. and i think Leoban is kinda cute. in the backstory i'm prett
