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Post by watcher56 on Jul 17, 2014 3:34:37 GMT
After spending lots of time on the old MythBusters Board, and the occasional perusal of the new substitute, thought this was appropriate to describe some of the posters.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 17, 2014 21:40:12 GMT
He may be getting old, but Weird Al's still got it Thanks for sharing
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jul 18, 2014 0:17:52 GMT
That is a great video! It's part of Weird Al's #8videos8days projects. So far, everyday this week he has released a new video via a different source.
Monday: "Tacky" (Pharell Williams' "Happy") via Nerdist Tuesday: "Word Crimes" (Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines") via YouTube Wednesday: "Foils" (Lordes' "Royals") via CollegeHumor today: "Handy" (Iggy Azalea's "Fancy") via Yahoo! Screen
I can't wait to see what he has in store for the next four days. I've been a fan since he put out "Eat It", which was 30 years ago believe it or not...
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Post by the light works on Jul 18, 2014 13:27:05 GMT
"its/it's" is one of the ones I have a legitimate problem remembering. my beef is all the other places where they think the letter s is spelled "'s"
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jul 18, 2014 14:03:42 GMT
be, see, are, you are words not letters...
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Post by craighudson on Jul 18, 2014 15:06:29 GMT
"its/it's" is one of the ones I have a legitimate problem remembering. my beef is all the other places where they think the letter s is spelled "'s" How else can you spell the letter s?
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jul 18, 2014 15:26:15 GMT
Today's video is "Sports Song" (Original) via FunnyOrDie
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 18, 2014 19:31:04 GMT
That is a great video! It's part of Weird Al's #8videos8days projects. So far, everyday this week he has released a new video via a different source. Monday: "Tacky" (Pharell Williams' "Happy") via Nerdist Tuesday: "Word Crimes" (Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines") via YouTube Wednesday: "Foils" (Lordes' "Royals") via CollegeHumor today: "Handy" (Iggy Azalea's "Fancy") via Yahoo! Screen I can't wait to see what he has in store for the next four days. I've been a fan since he put out "Eat It", which was 30 years ago believe it or not... Links? Not that I'm too lazy to find them myself, but it would be cool to have the entire collection in the thread. Plus, you know... I'm too lazy to find them myself...
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jul 18, 2014 19:34:01 GMT
That is a great video! It's part of Weird Al's #8videos8days projects. So far, everyday this week he has released a new video via a different source. Monday: "Tacky" (Pharell Williams' "Happy") via Nerdist Tuesday: "Word Crimes" (Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines") via YouTube Wednesday: "Foils" (Lordes' "Royals") via CollegeHumor today: "Handy" (Iggy Azalea's "Fancy") via Yahoo! Screen I can't wait to see what he has in store for the next four days. I've been a fan since he put out "Eat It", which was 30 years ago believe it or not... Links? Not that I'm too lazy to find them myself, but it would be cool to have the entire collection in the thread. Plus, you know... I'm too lazy to find them myself... Weird Al has all of them on the homepage of his website: www.weirdal.com (I suppose I could've started by saying that...)
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Post by the light works on Jul 18, 2014 23:49:47 GMT
"its/it's" is one of the ones I have a legitimate problem remembering. my beef is all the other places where they think the letter s is spelled "'s" How else can you spell the letter s? the way you did. In'stead of the common habit of putting an apo'strophe in front of every 'single 's you write.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 19, 2014 10:40:36 GMT
"its/it's" is one of the ones I have a legitimate problem remembering. my beef is all the other places where they think the letter s is spelled "'s" I used to have trouble with that one too, until I realized that the quickest way to figure out if I should use "it's" or "its" is to swap the word out with a "his" or "her". If it makes sense, I use "its", if it doesn't, the correct word is "it's". I don't really think about it anymore, since I've done it for so long that it comes naturally now, but that was the way I learned. Let's use the cat again: "The cat is cute, her fur is fluffy" makes just as much sense as "The cat is cute, its fur is fluffy", right? Now, slightly different: "The cat is cute. Her got fluffy fur" - Not so much. Should have been "The cat is cute. It's got fluffy fur" And remember, it's not so much if it makes sense to say "his" or "her" about something. After all, a watermelon or a bicycle don't have a gender to speak of (at least not in English). It's more about if the sentence still sounds right.
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Post by the light works on Jul 19, 2014 11:08:54 GMT
"its/it's" is one of the ones I have a legitimate problem remembering. my beef is all the other places where they think the letter s is spelled "'s" I used to have trouble with that one too, until I realized that the quickest way to figure out if I should use "it's" or "its" is to swap the word out with a "his" or "her". If it makes sense, I use "its", if it doesn't, the correct word is "it's". I don't really think about it anymore, since I've done it for so long that it comes naturally now, but that was the way I learned. Let's use the cat again: "The cat is cute, her fur is fluffy" makes just as much sense as "The cat is cute, its fur is fluffy", right? Now, slightly different: "The cat is cute. Her got fluffy fur" - Not so much. Should have been "The cat is cute. It's got fluffy fur" And remember, it's not so much if it makes sense to say "his" or "her" about something. After all, a watermelon or a bicycle don't have a gender to speak of (at least not in English). It's more about if the sentence still sounds right. I'll see if that sticks in mind. it's a simple enough rule.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 19, 2014 15:04:57 GMT
I used to have trouble with that one too, until I realized that the quickest way to figure out if I should use "it's" or "its" is to swap the word out with a "his" or "her". If it makes sense, I use "its", if it doesn't, the correct word is "it's". I don't really think about it anymore, since I've done it for so long that it comes naturally now, but that was the way I learned. Let's use the cat again: "The cat is cute, her fur is fluffy" makes just as much sense as "The cat is cute, its fur is fluffy", right? Now, slightly different: "The cat is cute. Her got fluffy fur" - Not so much. Should have been "The cat is cute. It's got fluffy fur" And remember, it's not so much if it makes sense to say "his" or "her" about something. After all, a watermelon or a bicycle don't have a gender to speak of (at least not in English). It's more about if the sentence still sounds right. I'll see if that sticks in mind. it's a simple enough rule. That's why it worked so well for me. If it makes sense to switch with his/her, there's no use for an apostrophe. If it doesn't, that's because the apostrophe is missing.
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Post by mrfatso on Jul 19, 2014 15:16:21 GMT
How else can you spell the letter s? the way you did. In'stead of the common habit of putting an apo'strophe in front of every 'single 's you write. I get that problem all the time on the device I use to post on, due to the predictive text functions, sometimes I spot it other times my train of thought is on what I am trying to write.
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Post by the light works on Jul 19, 2014 18:29:34 GMT
I'll see if that sticks in mind. it's a simple enough rule. That's why it worked so well for me. If it makes sense to switch with his/her, there's no use for an apostrophe. If it doesn't, that's because the apostrophe is missing. I will keep in mind that its is like his, which streamlines the guideline slightly further.
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Post by OziRiS on Jul 19, 2014 20:06:57 GMT
That's why it worked so well for me. If it makes sense to switch with his/her, there's no use for an apostrophe. If it doesn't, that's because the apostrophe is missing. I will keep in mind that its is like his, which streamlines the guideline slightly further. Whatever works for you The trick with these things is always to keep it as simple as possible, but not so simple you forget what it meant to begin with.
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Post by freegan on Jul 21, 2014 7:45:17 GMT
Also seen on these boards; "Boarders" when "Borders" was meant. You know who you are and you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Post by silverdragon on Jul 22, 2014 7:25:25 GMT
Not sure of what to say here. If the dictionary on Firefox doesnt underline with a red squiggly line, spelling mistakes, there they're, their, which one is it?... I is dislexic. Deslexis... diesle... awwww crud, I cant spull propper.....
Doesn't matter how technically correct I make a post, some people will belittle the whole post because I spulled a wurd rong...?... I had that complete argument on an old board on AOL, and had a right blast taking on someone who believed that word blindness and dyslexia were proof of illiteracy and made the poster a Welsh Carrot.(..*..) They were not aware at that point on my dependency on "Correct as I type" feature of Firefox dictionary. They were aware of my encyclopaedic knowledge of Asperger syndrome and other Autism spectrum disorders, had respect for my other knowledge, but had no idea I was dyslexic myself.....
However. Gender assignments in certain foreign languages..... Just HOW do you assign a gender to a Bike. There are many cycles in our shed, one is a ladies bike, for the Wife, one is a gents Mountain thing for me, is the ladies nike a him and the gents bike a her?...
And just when did a Cat become gender dependant when it isnt?... how do you make a him cat a her by language?...
Deliberately miss spelling a word.. #C-U-L8tr, hash-tag-your-taking-the-pizza.
[... (..*..) Welsh Carrot... go google it.... the welsh word for Carrot is Moron. I kid you not. Go google it.]
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Post by freegan on Jul 22, 2014 7:55:06 GMT
Not having a pop at you, SD.
I used to be a bit of a grammar and spelling "nazi" but nowadays, if the meaning is clear what's the problem?
Sometimes a little ambiguity may prompt a gentle ribbing and we mustn't forget that English is not only a mongrel language with various 'pups' in the litter but is also not the native tongue of all board members.
It's also a 'living' language and subject to evolving under the influence of its users.
Yes modern tactics in written communication may be a little annoying to us old fogeys but it does give the inventors and users a sense of belonging and even ownership of their inherited 'mother tongue'.
No doubt, when the issue of their loins adopt their own simplified spelling, syntax and grammar 'rules', our current irritators will have as much to say as us and probably in the same derisory tones.
Such is progress; ever changing and always the same.
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Post by the light works on Jul 22, 2014 8:08:01 GMT
fact of the matter is... in the days of our founders (not so long ago as other countries reckon time) there was no such thing as formalized spelling rules, and some prominent person was even heard to say "I have no respect for a man who is so unimaginative he can only think of one way to spell a word." so we felt it was progress when spelling got sort of uniformified - and now the next generation feels they are making progress be getting away from all these restrictive rules.
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