Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Suggestions Box => Topic started by: Entsuropi on October 22, 2003, 09:06:52 PM
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Werewolf does not contain a "h".
Shintoism is not a word i reckon. It "looks" like it should just be "Shinto".
Reenact should have a hyphen. Re-enact.
I expect better from a frontpage review. They should be... perfect.
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Show me a reference on Shinto/Shintoism. I don't know which is correct, so I'll leave the author's usage until I do. I fixed the other two.
Good review though. i thought it addressed all the right points.
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I'm gonna have to say that those are minor things, especially for Sprig. Shintoism is close enough, and re-enact is difficult enough that most people wouldn't even notice it.
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Here's another minor thing: on the front page the icon next to the review is that of the video game section, not the rpg one.
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Shintoism is correct. It's like Jewdism. It's in the dictonary. Reenact is the correct spelling according to websters as well. And don't get on my case, if you cannot even spell the words your complaning about.
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Shintoism is correct. It's like Jewdism. It's in the dictonary.
That is the funniest thing I've ever read.
Judaism.
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If you want me to stop highlighting your spelling errors, try using a gash darn spellchecker already. Not like there isn't a hojillion of the little guys on the internet.
Also, I promise never to swear again.
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I do use spell checkers on my articles, and Fell proofs everthing. I just don't here because there's no real reason why I should spend the extra time to do so for the forum.
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So the spellchecker failed to pick up "Wherewolf"? That isn't a word i recognize.
And i am not talking about forums. I only bother to point out errors in articles.
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nothing's perfect
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I think you mean no one Sprig. No one's perfect.
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nope, my PC made the mistake in that case not me.
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I want to see your CUSTOM.DIC
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Hey, be nice to my brother. Otherwise I'll have to start playing Mr. Evil English Grad Student and start pointing out everyone's grammatical mistakes.
(Of course, that would only last until Stacer pulled the ol' "Evil Professional Editor" card on me.)
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I think the immediate response would be for everyone to pull out the "we don't care stupid English professor" card.
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Exactly. What do you teach, Eng 115?
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That and 318. I didn't say anything about being a professor, however. My intention was to note that all of us make grammatical mistakes. In the post directly above mine, for instance, MoD used a comma where she probably should have used a question mark. I began my paragraph with a fragment. We all do it, so why make excessive mockery of my brother? There are an unusual number of people with English degrees (or Comp Lit, or editing, blah blah blah. . .) on this board. Poor Sprig should be commended for dealing so well with our exaggerated sensibilities. We tease him, that's okay, but let's not get on his back too much, okay?
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Hear hear.
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But if everyone's not teasing someone else, they might start teasing ME
.... more
... than they already do.
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Why don't we just tease MoD as usual? After all all, she's our official Teaseee.
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Hear hear.
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Heh. Seeing as how i am
a) The stupidest person on this board
b) The least educated person
and c) the worst at english
then i find it funny that spriggan has the bad spelling whereas i have the moderate spelling.
(I had to retake GCSE english - a very important subject critical for any uni or decent job, as i failed it at the age of 16. I then failed it on the first resit, but just scraped it on the second resit. I don't go to university, and everyone else does or has so that takes care of both cleverness and education.)
Eh, spriggan, don't you check stuff you type before you hit the send button?
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I think you underestimate your potential Entropy. You are actually a bright guy. That doesn't mean you have to go to college if you have another path you want to take, but you denigrate your self when it's not true.
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The university system is not an end-all means of determining intelligence. There are many bright, even brilliant, people who do poorly in a standardized environment. I agree with SE; You're no fool, Entropy. Even if you decide that formal education isn't for you, that's no reason to presume yourself less capable than others.
It may sound hypocritical, but I think one of the things I've learned from getting a degree is how subjective an achievement that little piece of paper is.
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I agree. I suck at standardized tests. I always do average on them. I think they are just stupid things. Stupid stupid stupid. I hate them. Every last one.
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It may sound hypocritical, but I think one of the things I've learned from getting a degree is how subjective an achievement that little piece of paper is.
At the risk of playing too much like Ed McMahon to everyone's Johnny Carson in this thread, I agree completely. I've got two little pieces of paper. A person can learn just as well outside of school as they can in. It's a different kind of approach, but it's just as valid.
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Despite my claims of focussing on medieval and heroic literature, only one such class has been offered in the CmLit curricula at BYU, the Romance, and that was NOT offered at any time I was there and had taken the prerequisite 310.
So, my "expertise" in Arthuriana (and for that matter, comic books, in which I have presented at a symposium) comes from my own independent study and research in histories and criticism.
Which is all just to say that you can just learn what ya wants on your own, and often have to.
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No, EUOL, I meant that comma to be there. Yes, we shouldn't bother Sprig as much as we sometimes do (though I was mocking his big brother). I think the point is, that articles require greater attention to spelling and grammer than do posts to a message board.
And, just to stand up for the universities of the world, it is a great place to learn for those of us who would never do research on our own. Grades are a better modivator for me than desire to learn about a certain subject. I tend to remember more from auditory lectures than I do from reading. I have more respect for Entropy taking another route, because to me, that's harder.
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I wasn't knocking on universities. Just saying that there are other ways of going about it.
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And you're right there are other ways. They are harder, and I have a lot of respect for people who can manage it.
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I don't think "harder" is appropriate either, except in subjective circumstances. It may be harder for you. But it certainly isn't for me. I deal a lot better without the schedule or pressure, and I retain more.
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I retain a shower, I retain a shower, I retain a shower in the morning!
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Having an enormous home library helps me for instance, if I need to know something I read a few books on it, I retain a great deal more after that process. I started doing that in highschool when we had those abominal anthologies that presented edited works of literature. Edited how you might ask? Edited to make them more accessible to challenged students. Edited to get rid of any objectional material. Edited to lose any flavor the original work may have had.
In response to that I went out and got all the books we had to read in the anthology and read them on my own.
But I also turned in every paper late and even let my girlfriend (now my wife) use my final paper as her own for AP english and I never turned in a final. When I saw the english teacher at graduation she said she gave me a B anyway because it was clear I understood the material (lots of class participation and high scores on the quizzes and tests)
Oh and my wife got an "A+"
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Point conceded Saint. I need the class discussions and lectures to help me care enough to finish a book. My best example is Red Badge of Courage, still only have
Jeffe, that sounds terrible! You were reading anthologies in 12th grade? We were on the straight books that year. Of course we were supposed to buy them on our own, but they were all very easy to find at a used books store. And our teacher was very good about using books that Dover published.
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yeah it was catholic school what are you gonna do.
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Oh. Not much I guess.
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yeah it was catholic school what are you gonna do.
Catholic school girls.
Oh, and don't worry, I've already been punished for that comment.
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I married one!
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(Of course, that would only last until Stacer pulled the ol' "Evil Professional Editor" card on me.)
Oooo--I go off and work on a paper for a couple days and come back to find I have achieve Evil Professional Editor status! 8) I mean, professional is one thing, but Evil.... heh heh heh *stacer rubs hands together maniacally
Shintoism is right, though. I did a project on Japan in 4th grade and remember reading about it. (Okay, so I think I've read about it since then, but that's the most significant project I ever did, so maybe I'm no expert.) Sprig is right--the "ism" is added like to Daoism or Judaism (though I suppose Judaism is an irregular one).
I agree that you can learn all sorts of great things on your own, and I have, but I must concur with MOD that the deadlines and assignments are a motivating factor for me. I rarely finish a writing assignment unless I (a) am getting paid for it, or (b) have a grade depending upon it.