Grammar Nazis On the Attack!!

[zinfamous]

The fine I can see. Vandalism is vandalism.
The banning from speaking about fixing typos though? WTF is that?

Oh and you grammar Nazis should start using a double space after punctuation.

Also BoomerD, I don't think "bolded" is technically a word...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bolded

double spacing between sentences has been officially "out of favor" for many years now.

 

[QueBert]

owning Grammar Nazis is always entertaining


Summer School in parts of California canceled - me

Topic Title: Summer School in parts of California canceled




Hopefully it wasnt one of the schools in your district.

 

[BoomerD]

The fine I can see. Vandalism is vandalism.
The banning from speaking about fixing typos though? WTF is that?

Oh and you grammar Nazis should start using a double space after punctuation.

Also BoomerD, I don't think "bolded" is technically a word...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bolded

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bold

"to bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)

1. To make a selected portion of text have a typeface with thicker and heavier strokes.

 

[Homerboy]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bold

"to bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)

1. To make a selected portion of text have a typeface with thicker and heavier strokes.

Oh come now... Wikitionary? The USER EDITED dictionary? That's like citing wikipedia in a doctoral thesis

 

[BoomerD]

Oh come now... Wikitionary? The USER EDITED dictionary? That's like citing wikipedia in a doctoral thesis

 

[Homerboy]

I'll counter your wikitionary.com with some urandictionary.com
http://www.urbandictionary.com/browse.php?word=bolded

CLEARLY not a word.

 

[Homerboy]

Also, just for fun:

Edna Krabappel: "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before I came to Springfield.
Miss Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

 

[BoomerD]

OK, in spite of my protestations...I'll concede that "bolded" is not a proper word. "Bold" is (in most uses) an adjective, not a verb...so there can be no proper past participle for its use.

(see the bolded part above)

 

[Homerboy]

ok, in spite of my protestations...i'll concede that "bolded" is not a proper word. "bold" is (in most uses) an adjective, not a verb...so there can be no proper past participle for its use.

(see the bolded part above)

lol

 

[Paperdoc]

Double space is obsolete with proportional fonts.

On the contrary, that's exactly where the double space practice is useful. The problem is that a plain period "." is considered a character of very small width. The reduced width it is given in proportionally-spaced fonts, plus the "normal" width of a blank space following, appears to many people to be too small to serve as an adequate visual gap between two sentences. Using a double space may not be "correct" grammatically, but has greater visual appeal.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Wait until they get hold of this guy:

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Don't listen to this Anti-Capitalist.

:awe:

 

[Turin39789]

I'm all for these shennanigans, but why did they choose a name whose acronym is TEAL?

 

[NinjaTech]

The world is now a better place.