Literally... :(

Plankton · 05-21-2014, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

we should totally meet up in person and post a picture of us looking at ourselves in a mirror

Chicago is calling for you.

DwnWthVwls · 05-21-2014, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Because if every single pair of shoes were ruined you could literally tell by the fact he was barefooted when he told the story.

Lol? Cmon man that's a cop-out. Or maybe, just maybe it was a week later and they got new shoes? Or since we are gonna make silly arguments, maybe they were wearing slippers or sandals which aren't shoes...

I was genuinely asking to clarify for me what makes that statement a hyperbole, I have always been more science and math oriented. I was expecting something a little stronger based on your previous post.

Neapolitan · 05-21-2014, 09:46 PM

This whole debate about the proper use of grammar must be more far reaching than I previously thought. This is what I witness happen in the shoutbox:

Paul Smeenus: plug.dj – MusicBanter
djchameleon: I'm busy building a lego set or I would
Paul Smeenus: You mean you're building something *with* a lego set?

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 05-21-2014, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

This whole debate about the proper use of grammar must be more far reaching than I previously thought. This is what I witness happen in the shoutbox:

Paul Smeenus: plug.dj – MusicBanter
djchameleon: I'm busy building a lego set or I would
Paul Smeenus: You mean you're building something *with* a lego set?

*Facepalm*

That's irritating.

Neapolitan · 05-21-2014, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

*Facepalm*

That's irritating.

I thought what Paul said was harmless and funny, because their is some truth... dj wasn't literally building a Lego set. I only thought that occasional noticing of how things are said and whether proper grammar is used. I guess it is one of those things you don't notice until someone points it out.

I had a friend that whenever I ended sentence with a preposition would flip out! I wouldn't know how notice such things so quickly, usually whenever a grammatical error is made it takes me a while to figure it out.

Carpe Mortem · 05-21-2014, 10:55 PM

I like to write the way I talk.

Also, Mark Twain, and Chuck Palahalawalnakik. **** someone else's rules about grammar.

Neapolitan · 05-21-2014, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem

I like to write the way I talk.

Also, Mark Twain, and Chuck Palahalawalnakik. **** someone else's rules about grammar.

Chuck Palahalawalnakik had zero returns on Google.

Mark Twain wrote the way people talk to capture their regional dialects to add depth and veritas to his characters. So if a character said something with a grammatical mistake, it should not be attribute to Mark Twain making the grammatical mistake. In a way you can think of Twain as a real life American version of George Bernard Shaw's fictional character, Alfred P. Doolittle.

Carpe Mortem · 05-21-2014, 11:13 PM

I don't remember how to spell his aggravating name but he's the dude who wrote Fight Club and a bunch of other artsy grammatically incorrect novels.

Neapolitan · 05-21-2014, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Carpe Mortem

I don't remember how to spell his aggravating name but he's the dude who wrote Fight Club and a bunch of other artsy grammatically incorrect novels.

I quickly googled that for you

and his name is Chuck Palahniuk.

~~butthead aka 216~~ · 05-22-2014, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

How is one of MB's biggest and least funny trolls complaining about unfunny trolls not ironic?

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05-21-2014, 11:13 PM	#48 (permalink)
Carpe Mortem Crusher of tiny Nords Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Ugly Bag of Mostly Water Posts: 1,363	I don't remember how to spell his aggravating name but he's the dude who wrote Fight Club and a bunch of other artsy grammatically incorrect novels. __________________ [SIG][/SIG] Mirth is King Be Loving & Open With My Emotions