Why is this the cool new thing in grammar?

[Perknose]

Well, quotation marks are hard on a condensed touch-screen keyboard!

Do0d, there are any number of ways your bro could and should have acknowledged the grammatically butchered post he made trying to one-up another poster in a grammar thread!

Sorry, but my phone just won't let me buy into your excuse. :biggrin:

^^^ Not that srs.

 

[Leros]

Yay‽

 

[Ichinisan]

Do0d, there are any number of ways your bro could and should have acknowledged the grammatically butchered post he made trying to one-up another poster in a grammar thread!

Sorry, but my phone just won't let me buy into your excuse. :biggrin:

^^^ Not that srs.

I don't think he was trying to one-up me. He was theorizing about what produced the double periods in the email message I quoted.

 

[CZroe]

D: Grammar fail while trying to one-up another poster in a grammar thread.



"Well, he may have used a period on acct. of it being an abbreviation."

OR

"Well, he may have used a period on "acct." because it is an abbreviation."


So sad.

You can't blame this one on your phone.

I didn't blame the last one on my phone. My brother (Ichinisan) made that excuse for me and I didn't object. I had used and spelled the word correctly earlier in the thread and did not need to prove anything.

PSST! I wasn't on my phone for that specific post though I had been just prior and I am right now.

Here, I was only pointing out what may have legitimately resulted in one of those double sets of periods so the remaining one could be a simple typo. He was implying that it was more than a typo.

This error is a punctuation fail because the intention was that which was shown in your second example. Your example is also a punctuation fail in a similar way for not distinguishing the quotation marks inside your quoted text by switching to apostrophes or something.

I certainly wasn't trying to one-up my brother as I made no excuses for the man's first set of periods in the message he was quoting.

That was the long answer. Here's the short one:

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Excellent thread in all respects, OP. May I compliment you on your command of the English language? I really appreciate that and it will hopefully stand you in good stead when you progress beyond Security Guard.
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You seem like a good guy IRL. I truly wish you well! :thumbsup:

 

[Ichinisan]

Your Freindly BroadBand Techinian [REDACTED] IE.. Tighty !!

I think it was a different tech this time. It looks like it was used instead of a colon.

"A colon is two dots?" I can do that! '..' <-- See? A colon. "

Also, "IE" should have been "AKA" in this case.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's not cool or new. JEDIYoda has just been posting more frequently.