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Aug 10, 2002, 12:54am

[View Quote] > and spelling. It doesn't matter if there are 1 or 2 spaces after
> punctuation; I use 1 simply because it's more efficient and less typing.
> <shrug> I also put punctuation not originally in the quote OUTSIDE of the
> quotation marks because it too is more efficient and exact. Get over it and
> learn how to use words correctly--which is what this thread is about.
>
> Efficiency is your excuse for much, but it won't make it proper written
> English.
>
> That use of lame is slang by the way, that's not proper English.
>
> Hey if you want to nitpick, I'll nitpick back. You must spell out words
> that are less than or equal too ten, but not less than negative ten.

Oh puhleaze...now you're being REALLY lame--properly lame, even. You're talking about Analglish, not English. Informal English isn't so lame, but you had better know the difference between "worse" and "worst".

> That's fine, because if it wasn't there you usually don't put it in if it's
> a quote. Unless you're taking part of a quote, in which case you lead and
> end with an Ellipsis with no spaces.

Why did you capitalize "ellipsis"? Silly Bowen, English isn't for you.

> I was being efficient in my own terms though. I was simply saving myself a
> fraction of a second by reaching upward to hit the E rather than reaching
> upward and across to hit the T.

Uh huh...efficiently wrong, you mean.

> If he had just said to himself, hmm maybe he misspelt that, T and E are
> really close together and I understand what he's saying and so does every
> other person that speaks english. He didn't need to post that, which
> clearly would've have started this. That's obvious, even I would've noticed
> that doing that would've caused useless garbage.

Oh, so you admit you made a mistake now? How funny you expect other people to accept your mistakes when you in your hypocracy don't accept others. Drive through, hypocrite-boy!

> I'm sure you'll retort with something like, "You could've admitted you were
> wrong." But, I've yet to even see you do that when you're wrong.

When have I been wrong? ;)

> Or most other "men." Yes that is sexist because I notice most females admit they
> will, but most guys rarely do. Don't restate the obvious that that's a
> generalization, because I used most, not all.

Good god you're a geek. Get over it already.

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