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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Aug 31, 2004 22:03:44 GMT -5
That's right! Here in the service of the public! If you have a spelling and/or grammar issue or question, ask yours truly and I'll do my best to get you on track. English only, please, though I can tell you how to ask if you can go to the bathroom in German. Heh.
So ask away, and don't be embarrassed. Even I make mistakes. Realy, I doo. Al the tyme.
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Post by Vanacoriel on Aug 31, 2004 22:59:41 GMT -5
All right, how do you spell bannana? I honestly have no idea so it would be nice if you could tell me. By the way, how do you say i have to go to the bathroom in german?
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Sept 1, 2004 2:04:33 GMT -5
It's spelt banana-- I am merely answering because I am online here, trying to get Jandalf a new signature. And, yes, how does one say 'I have to go to the bathroom' in German? I must find out 'It's a conspiracy', in German as well... No comment on the fact that I'm not really suppose to begin a sentence with 'and', because I do, actually, know that as a fact. JANDALF'S ANIMATED SIGNATURE: [IMG]http://images5.theimagehosting.com/Animsig1.gif[/IMG]
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Post by Vanacoriel on Sept 1, 2004 2:15:41 GMT -5
THANK YOU!! something I have never been able to figure out was the spelling of that word! sheesh! you'd think eventually i'd figure it out but i had to ask...pathetic.
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Post by Thorongil on Sept 1, 2004 7:41:58 GMT -5
It's a conspiracy = Es ist ein konspiration. The last word may be spelled wrong, but I'm 99% sure this is it. But I don't know about the bathroom.
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Sept 1, 2004 17:53:48 GMT -5
Heyyyy!!! YOU'RE DOING MY JOB FOR ME!!! NOOO!! (smacks head)
In German: Darf ich zur Toilette? Literally translated, May I the toilet? But, yeah.
I think it's okay to break a couple of grammatical rules--after all, it happens all the time in professionally published novels. Develop your own style...but not to the point where other people can't understand at a glance what you're trying to say.
(faints at the amazing new siggy she has) It's not moving...but who cares...
EDIT: Oh, never mind. I see it now.
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Post by Lady Maeggaladiel on Sept 2, 2004 0:50:13 GMT -5
OOH! I can say "Beware of Dog" in Latin! "Cave Canem!"
And here's "Freak of Nature" in Latin: "Lusus Naturae!"
And "Kiss My Backside" in Celtic: "Pog mo Thoin!" (Ahem, it's not really "backside," but I don't want the PG faerie to kick my "thoin" for language content. But I thought you'd all like to know how to be rude in Celtic. I know I did. But then again, I'm odd.)
Sorry for imposing upon the sanctity of this hallowed thread, Jedi Master Jandalf. I couldn't help myself. Please forgive my impudence and do not hire the PG Faerie to kick my thoin.
"Cead Mil Failte!" ("A hundred thousand welcomes" in Celtic. I don't know how to say "pardons," so pretend "welcomes" is "pardons." Then it's me asking for forgiveness. Yeah.)
Maeg
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Post by Thorongil on Sept 2, 2004 1:39:33 GMT -5
Another Final Fantasy character in a siggy!! They're multiplying.
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Sept 2, 2004 2:25:55 GMT -5
Jandalf won't hire the P.G. Faerie against you... she was the one who KILLED her!!!!
But she'll be back... just you wait... mwha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!
Anyhow, Jandalf, you have just voiced near to my exact words to Jaina when she informed me of that rule. Interesting... it's almost weird how we do that! However, I do wonder if people can understand anything I say these days...
Glad you like your signature... but is it really amazing? It's merely a signature! But I do admit that it looks fairly cool.
Does the word the have a replacement? Or is it impossible to escape the word the in everyday life?
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Post by Trinity on Sept 2, 2004 8:39:24 GMT -5
Trinity: Hmm... *thinks for a moment*
Agent Vader: Don't hurt yourself.
Trinity: *SMACK*
Agent Vader: OW!!!
Trinity: Anyway, I think it's impossible to escape the word 'the'. It's just a part of our launguage. Personally, though, I am trying to stop using the word 'like' so much... But that's just me...
Agent Vader: Like, totally dude...
Trinity: *SMACK*
Agent Vader: OW!!! Point taken, I'll, like, shut up...
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Sept 2, 2004 10:45:42 GMT -5
NOOOO!!! ATTACK OF THE...umm...what do you call those people, anyway? The ones that say "like" and "totally" way too often?
Yeah, I'll shut up now. About that, anyway.
Maeg, I can't really hire the P.G. Faerie to kick anybody's thoin, as there isn't enough left of her to do so. Heh heh heh.
And no, there is no way to escape the almighty THE. Unless one speaks Latin, of course, which is pretty much completely absent of articles, as one might see from the examples Maeggaladiel has so graciously given us. Literally, "Lusus Naturae" would be "Freak Nature", I believe. Heh.
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Post by Thorongil on Sept 2, 2004 11:41:43 GMT -5
We put the articles at the end of the words. And we have three of them. It isn't quite as bothersome as "The".
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Sept 2, 2004 18:55:24 GMT -5
*mutters something about how she actually succeeded in writing a whole page without the letter 'T' in it, therefore escaping the word the... very challenging*
Is that not a fragment? Ah, never mind me, I'm just in a bad mood. Sigh. *mutters something incoherent about... wait, it was incoherent, mind me not*
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Post by Trinity on Sept 2, 2004 21:23:53 GMT -5
Hmmm... Maybe if she had made that a part of the sentence and separated it with a comma...
I AM BEING TAKEN OVER BY THE GRAMMAR POLICE!!!!!! BODY SNATCHERS!!!!
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Post by Thorongil on Sept 3, 2004 9:32:18 GMT -5
That...can't be good.
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Sept 3, 2004 14:14:38 GMT -5
Pppppbbbttthhh. I write and speak in fragments all the time. I consider that rule to be one of the more bendy ones, as it were. Heh heh...
Grammar police? Body snatchers? (looks around in confusion) Errr...
So, anyone else have an issue with something related to this thread for me to fix?
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Post by BEHIND YOU!!! on Sept 7, 2004 18:06:04 GMT -5
You shouldn't stick your tongue out. It's improper grammer. Snrk.
Hey! I'm a Sith! I'm suppose to act like that!
Is frequent useage of '...' proper grammer?
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Sept 7, 2004 22:32:38 GMT -5
(rolls eyes)
If one were to use an ellipse (which is the triple dot) on its own, as we frequently tend to do, no, that would not be grammatically correct. Isolated punctuation and all that. But since I'm just here to say what's right and what's wrong, and not necessarily enforce one or the other upon someone...what the heck. Go nuts. Heh heh.
Oh, look at all the fragmentations Jandalf wrote! Bad Jandalf!
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Post by Tahiri the Purple (likes cake) on Sept 7, 2004 22:44:13 GMT -5
what is the correct spelling for probly? is it probably, probly, what?!!!!!!!!! <doesnt spell too weell> <normally>
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Sept 8, 2004 9:23:27 GMT -5
It's "probably". We run it together when we say it and it comes out sounding like "probly" too much for our own good... (shrugs) But yeah, that's how it is. An alternative is "likely", if that word's any easier.
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