Sometimes I have to release my inner grammar nazi

[MmmSkyscraper]

That is a well good sentence what he have written.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
The whole thing sounds horrible, who the hell made that up? And Im not even english

Campus Dinning Services, the pinnacle of human intelligence on campus.

Dinning?

 

[alkemyst]

They put these up in public places to watch the nerds blow a vein.

Look for the one table that's laughing at you once you get done spasming on the floor.

 

[xeemzor]

Originally posted by: Steve

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
The whole thing sounds horrible, who the hell made that up? And Im not even english

Campus Dinning Services, the pinnacle of human intelligence on campus.

Dinning?

Yea, I added an extra n. What are you going to do about it?

Originally posted by: alkemyst
They put these up in public places to watch the nerds blow a vein.

Look for the one table that's laughing at you once you get done spasming on the floor.

Do you feel the need to crap in every thread you post in?

 

[OutHouse]

** note to self** Don't let my kids go to Ohio State for higher education.

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: Citrix
** note to self** Don't let my kids go to Ohio State for higher education.

Yeah, becuase I'm sure all the professors are trained by Dining Services. :roll:

 

[RichUK]

Lol, so many edited posts in a grammar thread. :laugh:

 

[xeemzor]

Originally posted by: RichUK
Lol, so many edited posts in a grammar thread. :laugh:

We need more threads like this one to increase the quality of writing within the forum

 

[Steve]

XEEMZOR: ELITE MEMBER OF THE NAZI GRAMMAR SQUAD THAT

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: herm0016
i agree, i was helping someone with a resume the other day. their grammar was very bad, could not even use has/have correctly.

I can has McJob?

lol. I was gonna post something similar. :laugh:

 

[PepePeru]

'have gotten' FTL

 

[rh71]

Phiur still wins.

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: rh71
Phiur still wins.

I don't care to loose as long as I get a laugh :laugh:

 

[xeemzor]

Originally posted by: Steve
XEEMZOR: ELITE MEMBER OF THE NAZI GRAMMAR SQUAD THAT

Thanks, I try. Eventually I'll be able to have "Grammar Nazi" as a custom title.

Originally posted by: CorCentral

Originally posted by: rh71
Phiur still wins.

I don't care to loose as long as I get a laugh :laugh:

Only because this is a grammar thread: lose

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: CorCentral
I don't care to loose as long as I get a laugh :laugh:

Only because this is a grammar thread: lose

Well keep it going, as most here need to be taught. Someone in this thread stated something about kids getting out of High School without even having basic language skills.

With all the abbreviating, texting and spell checking programs, I'm really not that surprised.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Meh, that's nothing. I went and grabbed an unopened soldering iron the other day to do some soldering and happened to take a look at the back. Here are just a snippet of the instructions. This is an exact quote. I couldn't even make this shit up.

- Initial Use, there is some smoke temporary but it will soon be diminished then, no smoke after all. -Don't make coil with water as it may causes damage of heater. Request for natural cooling. - After use the tip may still the hot. Allow to cool sufficiently before touching or store or may occur burns or fires.

Kind of sounds like W wrote that, doesn't it?

or translated to english from another language.

as far as the sign goes, if you replace the "at" with "and" it sounds much better, until you get to would. move the never in front of would and it would flow much better, correct or not.

"I enjoy working at campus dining services because I have gotten to meet and work with people i otherwise never would have met."

the never move is optional, it should work either way i guess. i probably would have said "..i otherwise wouldnt have ever met". but im not much of a grammar nazi.

 

[antyler]

One time at college I saw a flyer that said

: Roommate Wanted.
Male or Female Preferred.

 

[natto fire]

Also at the bottom:

"Enjoy where you work and join the Campus Dining Team!" Doesn't really make any sense to someone who reads that sign and already works elsewhere.

 

[acole1]

In a side note, a local mayoral candidate butchered the English language on a flier that was send around to most everyone in the town.

Well at least I know who I'm not going to vote for.

 

[alkemyst]

don't invite xeemzor to your party.
/thread.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: xeemzor
WTH is your problem? "I have gotten the chance to meet at work with people." is obviously incorrect. The verb meet doesn't take a indirect object, it takes a direct object. That's why the use of a preposition sounds dumb.

You still need to read more novels.

 

[aphex]

Any thread that contains the word 'asshattery' is automatically an A+ in my book.

 

[xeemzor]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: xeemzor
WTH is your problem? "I have gotten the chance to meet at work with people." is obviously incorrect. The verb meet doesn't take a indirect object, it takes a direct object. That's why the use of a preposition sounds dumb.

You still need to read more novels.

I still don't see the relevance. How does me reading more books affect the poor grammar of the poster?

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: Summit
That's what happens when you go to Ohio St.

Way to generalize 60,000 people there buddy. Obviously, wehave our fair share of idiots, but we also have a great deal of nationally known academic programs. Regardless, it isn't really relevant to the topic at hand.

Fixed. Lol, the irony.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: xeemzor
WTH is your problem? "I have gotten the chance to meet at work with people." is obviously incorrect. The verb meet doesn't take a indirect object, it takes a direct object. That's why the use of a preposition sounds dumb.

Indirect objects don't come into it. There's nothing in the sentence you quoted that could be interpreted as an indirect object. We have "I", the subject. We have "have gotten", the perfect tense of get, using the variant past participle "gotten" instead of "got". We have "the chance", the direct object. We have "to meet", an infinitive, here using the intransitive form, which can't take an object. Instead a prepositional phrase is attached describing the circumstances of the intransitive action, "with people". Finally we have "at work", an adverbial construction describing the place where the action is performed. This last element would more conventionally be placed at the end of the clause, but it is still correct, albeit awkward.