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Look buddy, I've worked as a writer and aside from missing an apostrophe on the 'it's' I didn't make a single mistake in my word usage or my punctuation, so don
by electromagnetic 17y ago
Look buddy, I've worked as a writer and aside from missing an apostrophe on the 'it's' I didn't make a single mistake in my word usage or my punctuation, so don't troll me on it. Commas are used however the writer sees fit and in the paragraph you take your third point from, they were elisions not clauses.
I wasn't talking about your paragraph either, I was talking about your use of block-capitals. I generally don't waste my time picking apart peoples sentences unless someone has offered to pay me for the service, perhaps you should consider doing the same.
As for my use of retarded, it isn't an offensive word, I know many if you'd prefer to hear one of them. However, I wasn't even using it in an offensive context. I'm fully aware retard is used as an insult, but I didn't call you a retard, I said we, as in the HN community, are not retarded. I was merely stating that you use of block-capitalization was insulting, because you assumed people on HN cannot understand basic grammar!
@2nd edit: Regardless, everyone has a reason for using block-capitalization, but it never justifies it.
- seertaak 17y ago> I was talking about your use of block-capitals It was obviously colloquial language. But since you were being so prickly about it, I decided to repay you in kind. > Look buddy, I've worked as a writer Look, buddy, you're not going to see expressions like "all the time", save from direct spoken-word quotations, in any newspaper worth its salt. > Commas are used however the writer sees fit and in the paragraph you take your third point from, they were elisions not clauses. For the comma issue I refer you to "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., page 8: "3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas." > I generally don't waste my time picking apart peoples sentences unless someone has offered to pay me for the service, perhaps you should consider doing the same. Nor do I; I just do it when someone gets pedantic about "basic" grammar in what was obvously a colloquial expression and then proceeds to make numerous -- admittedly minor -- similar "basic" grammar mistakes. And I didn't appreciate the vindictiveness and severity vis a vis a very small abuse of all-caps.