Learn Proper Grammar or Die [Archive]

Archaic_Avenger

April 18th, 2005, 04:41 PM

Everyday in the afternoon at school we watch this 15 minute news show called Channel One. Awhile back it had reports shown that the grammar for teens is getting worse and worse in school assignments, and they blame the Internet. Well hey, the Internet probably is doing it. All my "non-cyberspace" friends that I talk to from my area "takl like dis" on AIM.

But really, it is mostly the younger folks my age that have the occasional illegible post around here.

Channel One! i saw that thing. i have to sit there and watch the show every day, too. did you see the guy with the orange face and the glow in the dark teeth on student produced week? ahh, he was fun to make fun of.

anywuhs, i always try to use gud speling nd grammmer on the intranet? the unly think dat me no gud @ is captalizootion.

sorry about that. couldn't resist.

Rodan2000

PS. "and i dont want to hear any of those hippidy hoppidy songs with the names all spelled funny" -The Lady Killers. (i only saw the preveiw)

Bruticus

April 18th, 2005, 06:37 PM

Bd speelin maykz u luk liek a stoopd idot lol!!!111*

But yeah, I really do have to agree. When I see illiterate people talking on message boards and posting stuff on websites, it makes me want to kick their asses. Seriously, if you can't even spell ne off teh baysic Eglnish wurdz*, you should go back to Grade 1 and stay there.

*Yes, that is a joke. And yes, this is how some people type.

Zearatul

April 18th, 2005, 07:02 PM

....I blame my keyboard, and lack of Spell Checker on this thing...(Looking back, I have improved in spelling and grammar....)Use Google. Or Microsoft Word.

Seer235

April 18th, 2005, 07:03 PM

If you want a spell checker, here's a novel idea: type your messages on Word. That has a spell checker, and it takes only a few seconds to check it. Think about it, it only takes a few seconds to get people to actually attempt to read and understand your posts (this isn’t referring to Blue Devil; he just brought up the spell checker fact).

Raptor

April 18th, 2005, 07:18 PM

Everyday in the afternoon at school we watch this 15 minute news show called Channel One. Awhile back it had reports shown that the grammar for teens is getting worse and worse in school assignments, and they blame the Internet. Well hey, the Internet probably is doing it. All my "non-cyberspace" friends that I talk to from my area "takl like dis" on AIM.I can't believe what is supposed to be an EDUCATIONAL show would make a statement like that. I can show you a bunch of turkeys who DO NOT spend ANY time on the internet, whom not only their teachers must struggle at deciphering their written assignments, you can't understand half of what they're saying. Those folks up in their ivory tower apparently haven't been anywhere near truly "under-achieving" students or whatever the current buzz word is for DUMMY. :angry:

BTW, u rite lik dis, u cum of as a idiot so dere!!!!

Zearatul

April 18th, 2005, 08:04 PM

I can't believe what is supposed to be an EDUCATIONAL show would make a statement like that. I can show you a bunch of turkeys who DO NOT spend ANY time on the internet, whom not only their teachers must struggle at deciphering their written assignments, you can't understand half of what they're saying. Those folks up in their ivory tower apparently haven't been anywhere near truly "under-achieving" students or whatever the current buzz word is for DUMMY. :angry:Exactly, writting is only a reflection of your reading. The less you read, the worse you write.

Archaic_Avenger

April 18th, 2005, 08:15 PM

and not only that, Raptor, but a lot of us who are online, dont even talk like that while we're online. let alone offline. i for one have benifited greatly in my writing from spending time here (and by that i mean my fictitious writing, Roostville is a great help in getting better story and gripping-writing-wise.)

Rodan2000

PS, and Zearatul, when i mentioned that i am lax on capitalization, that wasn't a joke. the spelling was, but the capitalization is just how i write internet wise. i'll capitalize names, and when i want to look more proffesional, or when it'll be less confusing in the long run, but when its relaxation i just kick off on it. it makes me a bit more unique. well, at least lazily unique.

Cookson

April 18th, 2005, 11:39 PM

I noticed that some other types of forums have a spell check. Is it possible to add a Spell Check to KP?

Saruman

April 18th, 2005, 11:54 PM

As far as I know they don't have one for our type of forum yet. It would be a nice feature, but like others have said, if your that worried about it then just type your post into something with a spell and grammar checker first, then just copy it over.

Raptor

April 19th, 2005, 05:11 AM

As far as I know they don't have one for our type of forum yet. Yes, they do. It's that mushy grey cauliflower thing taking up space in our heads called a BRAIN. :p It is the most sophisticated computer ever, being able to remember stuff, choose options, add to its database and run quality control checks internally. They come as standard equipment with all makes and models of members, whether of organic, alien or mechanical origin. There is one catch: You have to have it turned ON for it to work properly. :laugh:

ShawntallicA

April 19th, 2005, 05:13 AM

Y'know, complaining about someones use of grammar and spelling on a message board is an up hill battle not even RoboCop could win. It will exist no matter how hard you protest against it. Thing is, a lot of the time it's not even KIDS with this appauling display of typing-retardation... It's adults between 25-50 too. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!? When did our culture get so poor that a 30 year old man types out a sentence in a Yahoo! chat room that reads like a farmer in horrific combine accident trying to write his biography by hand!?

"type 494 fi u lik fletewood mac?"

I just copied and pasted that right off a room on Yahoo right now! The person putting that is 29 years of age! I can probably blame a lot of his problems on Fleetwood Mac, but the rest that can not be put on the shoulders of Stevie Nicks is hardly from the internet like the bastion of educated news that is Channel One claims it is. It stems from multiple reasons, the biggest one being straight up laziness.

What I wrote above took me about 5 minutes. Now I'm gonna just say everything I did AGAIN! But this time turning my brain off and doing it in the simplest way possible:

yno, complaning abot gammer and speling on the indernet is an up holl battel not even robocop could win. itll exit no matter wut how hard u protest again st it. im so nut futter congrator for all teh stuf i learne d form my fletemac recerds, goober twap. infonet is cheese n rice xomparced to the pwr fro hell stevie nicks. i cum so far, sthat moons suck. dat volcon relly hurt my toe. channel one hosted no gramar n splling prolem from computer machina. wooo... keanu reeve what do he way kung0fu. money, they live 10 miute fight seen. qoo. dfoji owers kp hahaha!

See, look at that. I got my point across in under a minute of typing! So really, people who lack in this department are able to move on from the topic at a rate so fast that not even RoboCop could sense it.

Raptor

April 19th, 2005, 07:37 AM

Y'know, complaining about someones use of grammar and spelling on a message board is an up hill battle not even RoboCop could win.
So really, people who lack in this department are able to move on from the topic at a rate so fast that not even RoboCop could sense it.
Prime Directive while on the Internet: Abort Spell-Check and language use protocol. Failure to do so can result in organic CPU component meltdown. :laugh:

state alchemist

April 19th, 2005, 09:18 AM

it's most especially annoying when people talk l33t; replacing letters with numbers. i try to keep track of my writing. i don't want to get used to certain things like spelling people as ppl. only thing i don't care about is capitalisation. as you'll notice none of the letters beginning my sentences are capitalised. i do that on purpose.

RyougaSaotome

April 19th, 2005, 04:48 PM

Incorrect or correct, you're coming with me.

So, actually making a meaningful statement, I can't even begin to tell the stories I have about forum members who seem to lack the abilities to spell. It's irritating for me (Yeah, I'm selfish. :P ) and I'm sure it's also a bit aggrivating for others as well. But as Shawn said, it's hardly something that you can get rid of completely, at least not if you want to keep the same atmosphere. I know over at Megatokyo MessageBoards, in the Story Discussions section, we tend to advise people to just put their posts through word spell check, so reading those long posts doesn't give us a headache.

Ben-H

April 19th, 2005, 06:10 PM

This is a good idea to post errors and correct them in this thread. But I know I ultimately won't bother to do it for the sake of time. Do you have any idea how long it would take to post and correct every grammatical/spelling error that I see on this board?

I do have another idea. I presented it at Godzilla Stomp, but people there didn't like it for some reason. In any case, here it is:

Looking around on the forum, it's safe to say that a lot of users frequently misspell words. It's not usually due to dumbness, but rather slipping of the fingers while typing, causing letters to be out of place in words. For example, spelling "that" as "taht". That kind of thing.

That's why I think it would be a good idea to use the word filter to correct spelling. You could take common misspellings of words and put them in the word filter to be posted as their correct spelling. You could have the word filter change all occurances of "taht" to "that", and so on.

I think it would be great and make a lot of posts become more readable. I was thinking this would be good so we wouldn't have to go back and edit our posts to correct our errors. And plus, most of the people that frequently use improper grammar and/or spelling are either too dumb or too lazy to correct their own errors. We can't make them correct their errors, but we can make the word filter correct it for them. And I don't see any point at all in making words intentionally misspelled.

I wasn't thinking a spell checker where you have to use it yourself on each post. I mean like how the word filter can censor swears, it can also correct spelling. For example, if you post the F word here at Kaijuphile, the word filter automatically turns it into "****". I'm saying that we could have the filter automatically turn "teh" into "the", "Ghiodrah" into "Ghidorah", "Boilante" into "Biollante", and so on and so forth.

KP admins, if you want to use my idea, I strongly encourage it.

Saruman

April 19th, 2005, 06:17 PM

it's most especially annoying when people talk l33t; replacing letters with numbers.

If I see that in any post I skip that post completely as it's not worth reading.

I don't mind some bad spelling or grammar in posts, everyone makes mistakes while writing/typing a post and they can be missed with spell and grammar checkers. What makes me cringe is something like Bruce wrote out above for his example.

"Bd speelin maykz u luk liek a stoopd idot lol!!!111*."

Something like that is just really sad to see.

Oh and Shawn is completely correct, I work in Higher Education. When I first started there I was in our mailroom. Part of our job was to open all mail, read it and make sure it went to the correct departments in our corp. Well needless to say alot of the letters we get are from college students. I would say that 75% of all the letters I saw were so horribly written that it wanted to make you cry, and it sure as hell made you wonder how these people were getting through college. It was great reading though, we had alot of laughs over most of them.

Saruman

July 25th, 2005, 02:34 AM

I have mostly skimmed through most of your useless talk about kids blah blah blah.

So wanting people to write intelligently instead of looking like they don't even have a 2nd grade education is useless?

Wonderful, you should go far with that type of an attitude.:sarcasm:

Oh and usually when you see responses like the one you just typed, it is because the person typing the response knows the flaw is within themselves, so the first thing they do is to act out against it.

Anyways this is a perfect time say, my cousin know as Space gojira has like 20 mistakes in each of his posts.

I think we already know that.

The future is very bleak indeed.:(

Emperor Violenjiger

July 27th, 2005, 03:54 AM

The future is only bleak because everyone is giving up hope... No one wants to believe we can make this a better world, even if it takes us a thousand years or more.

Kaiser Kronos

July 27th, 2005, 05:12 PM

The question is: Can we make it better? I for one believe that the forces of human history: War, Brutality, and destruction of all that people hold dear, cannot be altered by human hands. This world will destroy itself long before 1,000 years are up. That's my view anyway. Not everyone in the Collective agrees.

Jet Jaguar

July 27th, 2005, 07:31 PM

This isn't a #### chat room people
TAKE THE TIME to correctly spell and puctuate your posts
You may actually be considered above the level of "Moron" if you do!

Oh, who am I kidding? It would take a LOT more than correct spelling for SOME of you...

:jaguar:

Bruticus

November 12th, 2005, 12:03 PM

Kaijuphiles,

I have noticed lately that many of you are blatantly disregarding the basic rules of grammar and spelling in your posts. Such posts look like they are the victims of vicious animals, such as grizzly bears or lawyers. Please refrain from being lazy when it comes to grammar. It is a pain in the neck for all people who have to read your posts, and makes the moderators and administrators of this site want to ban you, or worse.

Or, if you just ignored that whole paragraph: if you don't use good grammar...

http://roostfighter.kaijuphile.com/graphics/stupid_dead.JPG

Got that? Good. Now, allow me to lecture you on three finer points of good grammar, the three that are most often ignored.

(Before I continue, though, thanks to those who continue to use acceptable grammar. You guys rule.)

#1. The Period
The period is your friend. See that little dot at the end of my sentence? That is a period. It allows you to properly end sentences. Please do not ignore the period. If you do, your posts will look like this:

I like pears and apples and by the way my friend was killed by a flying watermelon lollerskates

That still looks better than many posts I have seen on this forum, which is sad. But we can make it better yet, by using a period and adjusting the grammar slightly:

I like pears and apples. By the way, my friend was killed by a flying watermelon. Lollerskates.

Feel that? Your head doesn't hurt anymore, and it's mostly because a period was used!

In Summary: Use a period, or be prepared to suffer migraines the rest of your life.

#2. The Comma
The comma is used to separate thoughts, words, and other things. Ignoring it can also lead to a sensation in the reader that feels like diarrhea. Take this, for example:

i dnt now i only want to eat lemon juice kick you adss chew gum and please teh ladiesd

My bowels are shifting uncomfortably just looking at that. Using a comma and adjusting the grammar for good measure, it can look much better:

I don't know. I only want to drink lemon juice, kick your ***, chew gum, and please the ladies.

See? Now your post doesn't look like the ramblings of a new-age barbarian. Now it looks like the ramblings of a new-age barbarian who learned to use a keyboard.

In Summary: Without the comma, the world would reek.

#3. Capitalization
Here's a quick quiz for you all. When should you capitalize?

a) At the beginning of a sentence
b) When referring to someone/something by name
c) Both of the above
d None of the above

If you answered either a), b), or d), you'd better go back to grammar school. The correct answer is c). You should always capitalize at the beginning of a sentence, and when referring to someone by name, such as Skeletor. Do Not Capitalize Every Word in a Sentence, or Else You Will Look Stupid. And remember what the Doom Guy says about stupid people?

http://roostfighter.kaijuphile.com/graphics/stupid_dead.JPG

In Summary: Learn to use proper capitalization, or you will be stupid and dead.

There are plenty more grammar errors I could go on about, such as sentence fragments. However, by now most of you people who think you are too cool for grammar are probably brain-dead by this point, so I won't bother. I will, however, ask one more thing of you...

Use a spell/grammar checker. Every word processor out there has one, except Notepad, which is a useless program anyway. Make use of it, or risk being beaten with sticks by the rest of us.

If you have ignored this whole post up to now, here is my advice...

Learn proper grammar or die.

Raptor

November 12th, 2005, 04:44 PM

#2. The Comma
The comma is used to separate thoughts, words, and other things. Ignoring it can also lead to a sensation in the reader that feels like diarrhea. Take this, for example:
i dnt now i only want to eat lemon juice kick you adss chew gum and please teh ladiesd
Where did you find that?! It's not Mega Godzilla's... :eh:

Use a spell/grammar checker. Every word processor out there has one, except Notepad, which is a useless program anyway. Make use of it, or risk being beaten with sticks by the rest of us. If you haven't figured out how to find the thing (much less use it), there is always that old stand-by: YOUR BRAIN. As with Spell-Check, you will have to "load" your "personal dictionary" with additional words, like all those kaiju names and Japanese locations.
If you don't learn to spell, you will continue to have mush for brains. THAT is where the diagnosis came from. Unlike acute stupidity, bad spelling and other online communications boners can be dealth with. LEARNING and PRACTICE are quite effective. In the meanwhile,
It's "Heisei", you dummy!

Please DO NOT start a collection of the 1001 different ways you've seen it MIS-spelled on this forum alone. No, we DO NOT care if they are all your own private/unique/random/copyrighted ways of spelling it.
A much simpler method would be to program the forum to delete every post in which the term is mis-spelled.
Rather than give you the easy way out, how about using the opportunity for a little practice instead? Go back and correct all your mis-spelled "Heisei" (the first letter is CAPITALIZED also, BTW) usage. You get some solid mileage out of the effort and all your posts won't disappear. :evilglow:

Bruticus

November 12th, 2005, 04:46 PM

I made all the examples up myself, actually. Of course, there are many real examples just around KP, but no matter.

Wiz

November 12th, 2005, 05:01 PM

Ya' know, it's really sad that it's gotten so out of control that we have had to make a thread about bad grammer. Tsk, tsk. :nonono2:

Tokyo VigilanteX

November 12th, 2005, 06:22 PM

"Joke"? The real deal is far more believable IMO. Then again, maybe not if it gets beyond a certain point of comprehension.

I really think there should be an age limit here. This place used to be very professinal, fun, and much more mature then it is now. TohoKingdom has a rule where you have to be at least 13 to join, or if your younger, have written permission. As a result, theres a much less strict level of enforcment. You'd really have to bash somebody inorder to get banned, and stupidity is appropriatly punished!

Raptor

November 12th, 2005, 07:15 PM

This place used to be very professinal, fun, and much more mature then it is now. TohoKingdom has a rule where you have to be at least 13 to join, or if your younger, have written permission. You'd really have to bash somebody inorder to get banned, and stupidity is appropriatly punished!And how does one become "professional"? SKILL and PUTTING IT IN PRACTICE. Why do you thnk some jobs have "Pro Pay"? It stands for PROFICIENCY. Get better at what you do, you get a bonus. I'll tell you right now, you also need to have a certain degree of skill up front or you'll never get where you wish to be in about anything.
Fill out a job application like some of you post here, what does that tell the hiring authority about how you're going to be able to interpret written orders, make reports, etc.? And don't give me that, "Oh, but this is the INTERNET..." Guess what? We use that also, as well as email and instant messaging. "Cereleon, MDT, MRDS, APRS, AFIS and GPS" might not ring any bells but the same principles apply: you're transmitting to a remote device. You could also be generating OFFICIAL/PUBLIC RECORDS. Lawyers can have a field day with some of that stuff. Even "field notes" can be subpoenaed for open court. Both accountants and dispatchers have enough headaches without needing to try and decipher what some of these messages look like.
How many secretaries have to cover their bosse's butt to keep him (and the outfit they represent) from looking like idiots in their correspondence? I had occasion to refer to our own Chamber of Commerce's website. Oops! :blush: Great job showing the town off and trying to lure new industry and tourists...

Age is no excuse either. By 10, you should be able to post a coherent sentence. About every state has those "Benchmark" evaluations to see how well you're learning in school. Thus, certain EXPECTATIONS. I'm thoroughly against "dumbing down" to the lowest common denominator so don't even try that route. :evilglow: You want to be a member of the best kaiju forum on the Internet? Clean up those posts. Simply put,
,
GET IT RIGHT, PEOPLE!!!

Bruticus

November 12th, 2005, 08:26 PM

If worst came to worst with the grammar issue, I would actually consider leaving Kaijuphile - no joke. I simply cannot stand the recent rash of newcomers who think that it's okay to type like 5-year-olds, only less coherently. There are exceptions of course, but they are few and far between. Of course, I became a moderator because I wanted to eradicate these n00bs - that's my job.

When these seemingly illiterate people come to a site like this, everybody involved loses. It's because of people like these that we've lost major members of our site over the past year or so, such as Jimifulss and Metal Zombie (trust me on that - I've talked to them both in the past year, and neither would consider coming back here again). If this site were smaller and more private, we wouldn't have the problems we do now. Frick, even the Spammerites back in the day were smarter; I give credit to some of them for being able to type a coherent sentence. If I could, I would get rid of almost every person who joined after December 2003, but that's not possible. Even then, the problem goes back further than last year, and so putting into action such a banning wouldn't solve all of the problems.

I would make a list of people on this site who can't spell and post it for everyone to see. However, I do not feel like it. I also can't stand inquisitions, so I won't send anyone 'spell-checking.' Instead, I will wait and see if anyone changes their spelling habits.

Raptor

November 12th, 2005, 09:04 PM

Well.... You dont have to be so mean about !:( :cry: :snivel: :down:Actually, that's pretty mild, as well as a take-off on the G98 line, "It's GOJIRA, you moron!"
While I have a post at hand, I'll add a link to the CHOPPING BLOCK Discussion thread (http://www.kaijuphile.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9461). I was personally unaware of why Jimifulss and Metal Zombie had "disappeared" from KP but can darn well understand DEP's (and other's) frustration with trying to figure out what someone is talking about.
Just look at KAIJU KARNAGE battles that don't have CLEAR AND SPECIFIC conditions/kaiju lined out in the INITIAL POST. The Internet is for COMMUNICATING, right? And how do we best do that? See the first post of this topic. :dozing:

Tokyo VigilanteX

November 12th, 2005, 10:14 PM

Age is no excuse either. By 10, you should be able to post a coherent sentence.
Thats the problem. 10 year olds don't want to check for mistakes or try to improve grammar, thats whats school is for! And this isn't school, this is just a playground to them.

I think that by the age of 13 you'd have enough interest in being a positive, and important member of any web-community that they'd want to check for proper grammer and mature enough to act properly and understand what a Moderator or Administrator is (I find it halarious when dumbass n00bs start yelling at Mods).

As I mentioned above, TK is a more mature place, and I find more enjoyable from there way of weeding out stupid people early. And I have no doubt that has something to do with there age limit.

Raptor

November 12th, 2005, 11:54 PM

Everyone familiar with the term "empowerment"? It's like when Goji has just paid a visit to Nuclear One for a little pick-me-up before hitting Tokyo. Popeye has his spinach and we all eat our Wheaties, right? Those are a lot more fun ways of describing what is also used in social services to get people up to speed despite everything from poverty to natural disasters. You have to have certain "tools" to work with. Language skills are one of the things that put humans at the top of the food chain. There are a bunch of us running around so it gets rather competitive. See my comments above about filling out job applications.
You can also do some amazing things with language skills. Just ask EM, DEP, Morgoth, CII, M74, G2K, Darkside, Z., Shadow, BD/Burkion, PH, Juan and all the other writers right here on this forum. Who do you admire as storytellers and film makers? They are also COMMUNICATORS. They have mastered these basic TOOLS and opened many new worlds for themselves as well as others.
Simply put, not being in command of the BASICS, you're going to be left behind. Is that "mean"? Nope, just realistic.

Emperor Violenjiger

November 13th, 2005, 09:42 AM

Learn proper grammar or die.srry bi i jus cooldnt help muh self ya no eh it no muh fallt im a teen in da modrn wrld wat do u expct fr me shakespeare no no noooo dis aint eng class its da net so take a chill pill n relax bi

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PS, (If anyone can translate that, I'll be amazed!)

EternalMothra

November 13th, 2005, 01:24 PM

Thank goodness someone started this thread. Latley, I've felt like I need an English-Kaijuphile/Kaijuphile-English dictionary. I simply cannot stand the computer-geek-jibberish I've seen latley. Sometimes, it would actually be easier to type the word in it's proper context, for example, I've seen the word 'cool' typed as 'Keewl'. These people deliberatley try to sound choppy, and it drives me nuts! Any way, that's my opinion on the matter.

Yeah, I know what you mean about the alternate words that people use. It does get kind of annoying after awhile. We have our own language and we should use it the way it should be used.;)

Emperor Violenjiger

November 13th, 2005, 05:01 PM

Translation: "Sorry but I just couldn't help myself, you know? It's not my fault, I'm a teen in the modern world. What do you expect from me, shakespeare? No no, this isn't english class, it's the internet so take a chill pill and relax. Bye."

Are you amazed yet?Obviously, I am amazed! :O You did pretty good at translating, Mr. Bio. One thing you got wrong was "bi" which is a Cape Breton slang, and has no official spelling... but it does "not" mean "bye."

Let me explain it to you the best I can, even though it has no revelance.... Saying, "hey bi" is like saying "hey man." So in the sentence, the use of bi, meant I was supposed to be speaking ditectly to someone. Otherwise, congrats!

Raptor

November 13th, 2005, 05:35 PM

Latley, I've felt like I need an English-Kaijuphile/Kaijuphile-English dictionary.Would "goat roper" be considered for inclusion? :p
I guess it would also have to include CANADIAN, RED NECK, ALASKAN and other SUPPLEMENTS, eh? ;)

Kaiser Kronos

November 13th, 2005, 06:56 PM

All I have to say is, "Don't ever ask my friend to write something for you. His spelling sucks."-me, after someone asked me what my friend wrote. I couldn't even translate. Relevance to topic, you ask? Bad spelling ain't just an Internet problem, it's also a real-world problem. Then, there's people like me, who's handwriting is so godawful I could mispell every damn word in the sentence, and yet no-one could read it. This tempts me to start one of my Morgoth-esque rants about the general ignorance of North American society, but I shall refrain.

Bruticus

November 15th, 2005, 10:14 PM

Okay folks, listen up. See that ABC with the checkmark in the right-hand corner of the screen when you're replying to a thread? That's the board's new spell checker. There's no excuse not to use it, unless you are being attacked by wild hyenas and must make a desperate call for help. Don't be afraid to click on that button and correct your spelling - it won't kill you.

Raptor

November 16th, 2005, 05:53 AM

Don't be afraid to click on that button and correct your spelling - it won't kill you.But DEP will! :darklord: It works for checking your TYPING also so no excuses. If you're not using Internet Explorer and need the Spell Check option (like NOW), GET IT!
Consider Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, etc. a PRIVILEGE, not a given. Kind of like a driver's license.

Emperor Violenjiger

November 16th, 2005, 01:33 PM

What's wrong with children these days? Spelling, and grammar are at the worst they've ever been. Hell, I am no expert at grammar myself... but nonetheless I can spell some pretty challenging words, and when it comes to place a comma in the right spot, at least I try! ;) If I ever end up with a wife who gives birth to my children, then I'll be sure to train those kids in the ancient arts of English...

then again who nos realy dis primitive form ov eng mite affect da future ov da eng dictinary it coold b da begin ov da shape ov thins 2 cum n/or may b it will b da downfall ov society whos 2 say i dont realy care edder way

Goji Son

November 16th, 2005, 08:44 PM

That's Why they left? Man, they were the guys I really looked up to when I first joint Kaijuphile.

Damn it sucks to know that they probably won't be coming back.

They have been gone for well over a year now and there has been no real fuss about it. Spelling doesn't bother me because I realize that some people have a gift of gab and others have the literacy level equated to Stevie Wonder. As long as I don't have to read your hand writing, I am good but now that there is a spell check activated, there should really be no excuse for pitiful spelling.

Burkion

November 17th, 2005, 11:53 AM

I'll try to download it tonight...I just hope my computer will let me. Man we sound like children here...

Orga777

November 17th, 2005, 01:12 PM

Worked fine for me, and it only took like less than a minute to do it. My computer isn't the greatest either. But yea, it is good to have a spell checker which makes life easier for just about everyone that wants to post a huge post in kaiju debates that arn't riddled with spelling errors from typing so much in a short period.... You know who you are....:p

EternalMothra

November 20th, 2005, 09:48 PM

Hey, NEWBIE:

Now then: Imagine having just read a whole PARAGRAPH without a single period in it.

HITTING "ENTER" TWICE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE PUNCTUATION!!!

Maybe I should just include a link to the post right here or is that being "mean"? I will give you a hint: It's right here in this very forum. :evilglow:

I just hate it when people don't put periods and such at the end of their sentences, it is so un-organized. Plus, people who don't use commas are equally annoying when they write.

Raptor

November 20th, 2005, 10:13 PM

Since we can't just go and shoot bad spellers and those who have no sense of punctuation (even with a Super Soaker), I think vBulletin's next upgrade should have a built-in bad spelling/grammar detector.
Maybe it could bold and turn the text purple or something to warn visitors that the post could be hazardous to their sanity...

Raptor

March 6th, 2006, 11:03 PM

Mondays are a bad day for inane, off topic, repetitive, incomprehensible, badly executed posts and memos.
Maybe there should be a sign-off provision on this topic for all new members... :eh:

After 30 days, those who are still around have to pass the KP Benchmark Posting Test, created by the Administration. Like vegetables, it would be GOOD for many people. There is also a correlation between the food chain and the gene pool IMO. With neither should one aspire to be at the bottom. :p

Dr. Strangelove

August 4th, 2006, 01:51 PM

i cant spell good on forums cause i type fast...:confused:

another thing that annoys me is rap music(not r&b) and minya's roar(he used to say squidward in the 60's).:laugh:
I type fast too, and I can almost spell perfectly. You just need to learn how to type better, without messing up your words, or you could be lazy and write your posts in MS Word.

Dr. Strangelove

August 4th, 2006, 01:59 PM

i have'nt learned how to fully type yet.i still have to look at the key pad.:( )

i dont have ms word and i most definitely am not lazy anyway.
Teach yourself, it isn't that hard. I'm 14 and can type better then most college grad-students.

Orga777

August 4th, 2006, 02:00 PM

I just want everyone to know.... Kaijuphile HAS a spell check.:laugh:

Zillaman

August 4th, 2006, 02:06 PM

Teach yourself, it isn't that hard. I'm 14 and can type better then most college grad-students.
ill probably have learned by the end of next year.;)

Retro_Metroid

August 4th, 2006, 02:16 PM

well i dont need to use it as long as people know what i mean when i type words in.;)

And that would probably be the number one reason people don't use spell-check.

And the ironicy of this moment is that I misspelled about half my words before fixing them. :laugh:

Archaic_Avenger

August 4th, 2006, 02:34 PM

it bugged me a lot when my typing class teacher got mad at me for typing with just my index fingers. i still do anyways. i mean seriously, i had very high accurasy ratings, if i messed up i'd simply backspace and it'd be fine, and even with the backspacing i got up to 90 words per minute. if i can say it about myself, that's impressive.

Rodan2000

Raptor

May 31st, 2008, 01:12 PM

Anyone who has a story in the Kaiju Story Showcase (http://www.kaijuphile.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=111), get over there and EDIT unless your work can pass muster for publication in the real world. Read it out loud and see how it goes over. :crazy: That forum is supposed to be a SHOWCASE, not a flea market. :angry:
Just because a tale has THE END at the bottom doesn't mean it's finished. ;)

Zardac the Great

May 31st, 2008, 01:48 PM

This thread makes me think of a certain someone at the cncden forums...

EternalMothra

May 31st, 2008, 02:10 PM

I may have a story I wrote long ago that has poor grammar. But I wasn't going to edit it due to the fact that I thought that leaving it as it is would show how much my writing has improved over the years.

Raptor

May 31st, 2008, 02:33 PM

Would you mind using it as an EXAMPLE of how PRACTICE can improve writing, both storytelling and English skills? The Kaiju Lit 101 (http://www.kaijuphile.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=58) forum also covers punctuation and grammar.
A lot of folks probably got a chuckle when they first read the title of this topic but as far as the Showcase, and especially the MAIN SITE's Fan Fiction section (http://www.kaijuphile.com/fannest/fiction/fiction.shtml), it should make perfect sense. ;)

EternalMothra

May 31st, 2008, 02:40 PM

Mecha74

May 31st, 2008, 04:51 PM

Well, Raptor, to be fair, when I posted my first story 'KAIJU WARS: The Undertaker trilogy' back when I first joined I asked for it to remain in Kaiju Lit, but you moved it to the Showcase anyway.:p

EternalMothra

May 31st, 2008, 05:03 PM

Well that obviously means that it was perfect for the Showcase. ;)

Mecha74

May 31st, 2008, 05:06 PM

^Oh I wish! LOL:laugh:

Raptor

May 31st, 2008, 06:18 PM

Then get busy editing! ;) There's a big Kaiju Story Competition ready to kick off.

Mecha74

May 31st, 2008, 06:59 PM

But Raptor...even *I* wouldn't nominate 'KAIJU WARS: The Undertaker trilogy' for the contest.:laugh:

No, I think it can stay good and buried.:blush:

Objectively speaking of all the stories that I have posted in the Fan Nest there are only a couple that I would even think to be worthy of a shot IMHO.

EternalMothra

May 31st, 2008, 09:05 PM

OH! You are so underrating your own work! lol

XtremeD63

August 13th, 2008, 06:14 AM

Ok, I know I'm not really one to complain too loudly.
However, it seems grammar is slowly slipping on this board, so, I decided to create this topic as more or less of a way to check each other's grammar.

For instance, if you notice a ghastly error, then perhaps you can post that error here. (WITHOUT naming names/using exact examples!)
I.E.:
Someone post: "i'm so sick of capitilisachun. it toetaly sucks. hoo needs it anyways?"

Then someone might post here:
"When the letter 'i' is used as a noun, then it is capitilized."
Or, "not all words are pronounced as they sound. For example, civillization is not pronounced with an s."

Thank you for reading.

I agree with what you wrote, but I also noticed your misspelling of "civilization".
One 'l', not two. No big deal, I just have an eye for that kind of thing.

:)