We want a teacher

[ICantSpellDawg]

I was reading something that I wrote and thought - Hey, maybe if we had a poster or two who enjoyed correcting writing and grammar, they could go over some of the longer or better posts and highlight incorrect usage?

It would help all of us write more convincingly on the forums, sure, but it would also aid us in our actual lives.

I'm a big enough nerd to sit around and memorize international capitals and facts - I'm sure that there are a few master grammar nerds out there who might get a kick out of sharpening their claws on us, eh?

[Prince Cobra]

I was reading something that I wrote and thought - Hey, maybe if we had a poster or two who enjoyed correcting writing and grammar, they could go over some of the longer or better posts and highlight incorrect usage?

It would help all of us write more convincingly on the forums, sure, but it would also aid us in our actual lives.

I'm a big enough nerd to sit around and memorize international capitals and facts - I'm sure that there are a few master grammar nerds out there who might get a kick out of sharpening their claws on us, eh?

I was also thinking of grammar section in the Mead Hall. The Problem is: who is ready to handle it.

[ICantSpellDawg]

I was also thinking of grammar section in the Mead Hall. The Problem is: who is ready to handle it.

I don't know. Who is ready to tackle the major geopolitical questions of our generation? Oh, that's right - nerds like us.

[LittleGrizzly]

As a university student i need significant help with my puncuation and spelling (something about incoherently written thoughts springs to mind as well) quite a few times on this board people have assumed english is not my first langauge....

So feel free to nitpick my grammar and spelling at all times... i shall consider it a personal favour!

Edit: who would have thought it possible... grammar has no e in it...

Edit 2: leave my overuse of full stops alone though, i think its makes me more sexually attractive to the opposite gender and thus is essential!

[yesdachi]

Personally I don’t mind poor grammar or spelling on the boards. I figure with all the different first and second languages here who needs to be all that specific. As long as the spirit of the post comes thru, who needs punctuation, grammar or spelling?

[ICantSpellDawg]

Personally I don’t mind poor grammar or spelling on the boards. I figure with all the different first and second languages here who needs to be all that specific. As long as the spirit of the post comes thru, who needs punctuation, grammar or spelling?

I don't mind the usage either, but somebody might enjoy correcting it and we will all write better because of it.

I'm sure that a few people might enjoy having a special title on the boards that allows them to provide a service that they might otherwise like to do anyway.

Anyone aspiring to be a teacher might hone their skill on their off time with no pressure.

[yesdachi]

I don't mind the usage either, but somebody might enjoy correcting it and we will all write better because of it.

I'm sure that a few people might enjoy having a special title on the boards that allows them to provide a service that they might otherwise like to do anyway.

Anyone aspiring to be a teacher might hone their skill on their off time with no pressure.

For that purpose, knock your selves out aspiring teachers!
Perhaps I will start writing worser to help you practice.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I was reading something that I wrote and thought - Hey, maybe if we had a poster or two who enjoyed correcting writing and grammar, they could go over some of the longer or better posts and highlight incorrect usage?

sure, il'l help a lending hand if some of you struggling width writing coherent sentenses or forming you're grammer.

[ajaxfetish]

I don't much mind ungrammatical posts, but if you really want someone to go over some, I'm willing.

I just finished up my BA (in history) and have been working at my college writing center for 3 years. I'm currently applying to linguistics graduate programs. Grammar has long been a passion of mine (not so much in the grammar-nazi sense, but more in the desire to understand the underlying workings of the English language), and it's a pleasure for me to work with words.

Ajax

[Sasaki Kojiro]

All of my speling mistakes are intentional.

[Strike For The South]

I'm no nerd

I fight bears for Christ's sake

[Rhyfelwyr]

I don't mind how accurate the grammar is in a post, so long as it's intelligible. It would be a bit boring if we all wrote absolutedly perfectly.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Sounds like you lads need Evelyn Woodhead...

[Yoyoma1910]

Proper grammar is a tool of imperialist pigs!!!!!


I shall never surrender my right to write poorly!

Never!


Is that what my ancestors fought for in the American revolution? So that one day we would have to write proper English? No, they fought to move the British as far away from us as possible. So that we would never have to write proper English.

And then what happened? An Emperor born of Corsican blood sold us off like an old sweater to the thrift store that is the United States.

Never!






Unless of course someone can help me with Chicago Style... so I can do well on this dang 15 page term paper. I'm really only familiar with MLA.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

As a university student i need significant help with my puncuation and spelling (something about incoherently written thoughts springs to mind as well) quite a few times on this board people have assumed english is not my first langauge....

With you they assume it's not, but since I'm an American they're sure mine isn't.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Unless of course someone can help me with Chicago Style... so I can do well on this dang 15 page term paper. I'm really only familiar with MLA.

See if this works for you: http://citationmachine.net/

[CountArach]

I was also thinking of grammar section in the Mead Hall. The Problem is: who is ready to handle it.

You forgot to put a question mark at the end of your sentence.

[Husar]

I can point out those I notice, and sometimes there are many, but I cannot guarantee for anything as it's my second language only, I'll take corrections if anyone knows better.

You better look twice whether you have to put apostrophes or not from now on.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Can some big-whig appoint a few official "Grammar Correctors"?

Give them editing rights or a small forum where they can take posts that they are impressed by and make them professional looking. It might be fun to have an area of well thought out and well written gems of the ORG chosen by judges.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Tuff, this kind of suggestion would be best made in the Watchtower for wider consideration. It strikes me that such a forum would fit in well to the Mead Hall.

In fact, you might want to post some material for correction in the Mead Hall and ask its learned patrons for support and help. If it proves popular, a sub-forum might naturally grow out of the exercise.

[pevergreen]

I'd love to. But then again, sometimes it is out of laziness/slang/intentional for humour.

Then again, you'd have multiple people correcting local use of language. Grey and gray and so forth.

[Fragony]

Being too picky on grammar isn't very fair towards us non-english speakers, a grammar-nazi is a bad idea imho. It is bound to become a running joke, scaring away fresh blood.

edit, scaring of <-see?

[LittleGrizzly]

Excellent grammar by the way fragony, i was desperatly seeking a mistake to jump on!

In the right places i think it could be good, obviously the person shouldn't be jumping every non-english speaker everytime they make a mistake. For others, like me, who want to improve thier grammar for various reasons it could be good.

^ That all looks right to me, grammar wise.

[Husar]

Being too picky on grammar isn't very fair towards us non-english speakers, a grammar-nazi is a bad idea imho. It is bound to become a running joke, scaring away fresh blood.

edit, scaring of <-see?

What i always wanted to tell you mia muca, to the point of almost writing a PM because it kills my heart...

It is than in a comparison, not then, then is chonological!!!

Thanks, I feel better now.

[Fragony]

What i always wanted to tell you mia muca, to the point of almost writing a PM because it kills my heart...

It is than in a comparison, not then, then is chonological!!!

Thanks, I feel better now.

Still haven't mastered dutch, which is impossible anyway, but nobody ever managed to teach me the difference between 'beter als/dan' (better then/ohmy). Language is complicated, english is really compact and logical compared to german and french and most of all dutch. But I will never be able to just write down a word such as 'dungeon'. I got it right in 3 attempts in this post.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Excellent grammar by the way fragony, i was desperatly seeking a mistake to jump on!

Personal names are capitalized: 'Fragony'.
'i' is always capitalized: 'I'.
'desperatly' is correctly spelled as 'desperately'.

Your syntax leaves a lot to be desired as well.

Being too picky on grammar isn't very fair towards us non-english speakers, a grammar-nazi is a bad idea imho. It is bound to become a running joke, scaring away fresh blood.

edit, scaring of <-see?

Mind your capitalization: 'non-English', 'Nazi'.
'New blood' is the standard phrase.
'imho' has no place outside of a text message.
One is picky 'about' something, not 'on' something.

'isn't very fair' is a typical Euro-English construction. More natural is 'unfair'.

It is than in a comparison, not then, then is chonological!!!

'Chonological' misses an 'r'. More importantly, your construction is so crude as to render the sentence almost incomprehensible. A more natural English construction would be: ''Than' is a conjunction used in comparisons. 'Then' is an adverb pertaining to time'.




*runs *

[InsaneApache]

I vote Louis, I do. Now he will learn us all to type proper, like what I do. So lets boldy go where no one has gone before.

[Fragony]

POne is picky 'about' something, not 'on' something.

May the rats eat your eyes

[Louis VI the Fat]

May the rats eat your eyes

English sentences are always ended with a full stop. A full stop consists of a small dot placed at the end of a line of text, such as at the end of this sentence.

[Hosakawa Tito]

I vote Louis, I do. Now he will learn us all to type proper, like what I do. So lets boldy go where no one has gone before.

Now all he needs is a virtual ruler to rap offender's knuckles with. Those Catholic school nuns knew a thing or two about focusing young minds on their lessons.