Vatch your step! Grammar Veek is coming!

RoxyRollah · 09-15-2014, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Did this go beyond the "Lounge" section?

No not passed the lounge but there was enough annoyance for it to an issue in other threads.

TheBig3 · 09-15-2014, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Did this go beyond the "Lounge" section?

No idea. I just don't think much of Pet_Sounds, so I'm glad this failed.

The Batlord · 09-15-2014, 09:22 AM

I kind of saw this coming, but I figured the hooplah would just die down in a day or two and people would go back about their business.

Trollheart · 09-15-2014, 10:15 AM

I must admit, Grammar Nazi though I am, even I got bored with this. To be fair, Batty kept it fun for me, but the rest turned out to be a little, er, po-faced. I quickly realised that I had better things to do than constantly checking threads for new posts to see who had misspelled or used wrong grammar, and I did voice a worry in our group that this could make people uncomfortable.

I wouldn't agree with Big3's idea that it was "kids who had nothing better to do" --- I'm far from a kid and I have plenty to do. But I thought it would be fun. The problem is I think a) too many people took it way too seriously and conversely b) a lot of people didn't take it seriously enough. Honestly, there is no way I could have seen me carrying this on for a week: a day felt like a week.

I think it was a good idea in principle, but perhaps one day might have been enough and we definitely ended up spamming the other threads, as the lovely Roxy pointed out. We had fun, but others did not, and in fact felt sort of threatened by or annoyed at the fun we were having (which is not surprising, as we were really having it at their expense) so it was time to call a halt.

I would have preferred a PM to Pet Sounds asking him to cut the thing short rather than an out-and-out UberNazi Urban "this ends now", but point taken. I did learn some things from it though, most interesting of which was that I am not perfect. This is something I will have to ruminate (I said RUMINATE, you dirty...!) upon and contemplate in the coming days. It has come as a shock to me, I can tell you.

On behalf of I think/hope all* the Sturmgruppens of the Grammar Nazis I would like to offer our apologies if we offended anyone. I'm sure it was not intentional, though the was badly executed (oops! Bad choice of words!) and if we were to do this again I think it's taken as read that we would have to be a lot more circumspect.

Anyway, certainly for my part I'm sorry if we overstepped and I'm sure I can rely on you all as character witnesses at our upcoming trials at Nuremberg ... what's that you say? When Satan is what to work?

Oxfordis in extremis, my friends. Oxfordis moderatus.
Peace.
TH

* Obviously, this is unlikely to include Batty, who loves annoying and getting a rise out of people and was probably in his element here.

Oh, and anyone (I'm looking at you Batty!) who thinks it might be funny to grammatically correct this, please don't. The joke has worn wafer thin and I think we all agree it's now over. Let it lie, menschen und frauleins!

The Batlord · 09-15-2014, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

* Obviously, this is unlikely to include Batty, who loves annoying and getting a rise out of people and was probably in his element here.

Who, me?

Plankton · 09-15-2014, 10:36 AM

As soon as the grammar arguments broke out in the Forum Boards, I figured it was screwed. Keeping things in the Group Board would have been a good rule. It did make things a bit detrimental to the health of the community, and I like reading things as they are posted which is the character of the poster. Grammar is mainly a guideline for standardization. I was a bit perplexed as to why I even signed on for it, but I made a commitment and did what I could. At least I got one on Batty.

RoxyRollah · 09-15-2014, 11:20 AM

Maybe Urban was paraphrasing GW Sr. "The buck stops here." That was GW Sr, right? Who can recall I can't.

Pet_Sounds · 09-15-2014, 11:23 AM

TBH, all the fun went out of it for me as soon I had to keep track of scores. I extend my apologies to anyone we may have offended. If this was to ever happen again, we'd have to keep it completely separate from the forums. Briks was a perfect example of how this should have been done. Roxy, I hope you don't think any less of me after this. Big3, that's unfortunate, because I happen to think highly of you. DwnWthVwls, you are now one of my favourite users.

Anyways, I apologize again, and I hope nobody thinks any less of me or the others because of this.

Pet_Sounds · 09-15-2014, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

Maybe Urban was paraphrasing GW Sr. "The buck stops here." That was GW Sr, right? Who can recall I can't.

I think it was Truman, right?

RoxyRollah · 09-15-2014, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds

I think it was Truman, right?

Ass!

09-15-2014, 10:15 AM	#144 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	I must admit, Grammar Nazi though I am, even I got bored with this. To be fair, Batty kept it fun for me, but the rest turned out to be a little, er, po-faced. I quickly realised that I had better things to do than constantly checking threads for new posts to see who had misspelled or used wrong grammar, and I did voice a worry in our group that this could make people uncomfortable. I wouldn't agree with Big3's idea that it was "kids who had nothing better to do" --- I'm far from a kid and I have plenty to do. But I thought it would be fun. The problem is I think a) too many people took it way too seriously and conversely b) a lot of people didn't take it seriously enough. Honestly, there is no way I could have seen me carrying this on for a week: a day felt like a week. I think it was a good idea in principle, but perhaps one day might have been enough and we definitely ended up spamming the other threads, as the lovely Roxy pointed out. We had fun, but others did not, and in fact felt sort of threatened by or annoyed at the fun we were having (which is not surprising, as we were really having it at their expense) so it was time to call a halt. I would have preferred a PM to Pet Sounds asking him to cut the thing short rather than an out-and-out UberNazi Urban "this ends now", but point taken. I did learn some things from it though, most interesting of which was that I am not perfect. This is something I will have to ruminate (I said RUMINATE, you dirty...!) upon and contemplate in the coming days. It has come as a shock to me, I can tell you. On behalf of I think/hope all* the Sturmgruppens of the Grammar Nazis I would like to offer our apologies if we offended anyone. I'm sure it was not intentional, though the was badly executed (oops! Bad choice of words!) and if we were to do this again I think it's taken as read that we would have to be a lot more circumspect. Anyway, certainly for my part I'm sorry if we overstepped and I'm sure I can rely on you all as character witnesses at our upcoming trials at Nuremberg ... what's that you say? When Satan is what to work? Oxfordis in extremis, my friends. Oxfordis moderatus. Peace. TH * Obviously, this is unlikely to include Batty, who loves annoying and getting a rise out of people and was probably in his element here. Oh, and anyone (I'm looking at you Batty!) who thinks it might be funny to grammatically correct this, please don't. The joke has worn wafer thin and I think we all agree it's now over. Let it lie, menschen und frauleins! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

09-15-2014, 10:36 AM	#146 (permalink)
Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,766	As soon as the grammar arguments broke out in the Forum Boards, I figured it was screwed. Keeping things in the Group Board would have been a good rule. It did make things a bit detrimental to the health of the community, and I like reading things as they are posted which is the character of the poster. Grammar is mainly a guideline for standardization. I was a bit perplexed as to why I even signed on for it, but I made a commitment and did what I could. At least I got one on Batty. __________________ See location...

09-15-2014, 11:23 AM	#148 (permalink)
Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,489	TBH, all the fun went out of it for me as soon I had to keep track of scores. I extend my apologies to anyone we may have offended. If this was to ever happen again, we'd have to keep it completely separate from the forums. Briks was a perfect example of how this should have been done. Roxy, I hope you don't think any less of me after this. Big3, that's unfortunate, because I happen to think highly of you. DwnWthVwls, you are now one of my favourite users. Anyways, I apologize again, and I hope nobody thinks any less of me or the others because of this. __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease