Proper Grammar
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Whining about how many grammar Nazi's (sic) are annoying you simply points out how poor your grammar truly is.
Man, are you trolling for abuse or what? You shouldn't capitalize nazi because you're not talking about "The" nazis, and you shouldn't use an apostrophe in nazis because you're simply using the plural form, not the possessive.
You should have placed a comma after "annoying" to make the sentence more readable.
"Oh, snap!" Dude, you're not qualified to be a grammar nazi.
Move along, there's nothing to see here. . .
Oh yea, this is a freakin' car forum for God's sake. Let us speak amongst ourselves without the fear of ridicule. Unless, of course, you can't tell a brake disk from a dinner plate, then flame on.
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Like it or not...take a look as some Middle English in the likes of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to make a point that our language evolves over time. And as such, when there was *time* for Time...people could fully express their language with every vowel, consonant, and possible syllable.
As the world became more modern, and Time became compressed, English evolved into what many generations up to and including all [with the exception of this most recent generation] appreciated as Modern English.
But as Time again compresses on us with the pressures to multi-task and do so much more with even less Time we are to bear witness to English's further evolution. Text messaging is not a flight of fancy. It is a fact of current life. As is the Blackberry, chat, emoticons, and numerous as of yet untold means to communicate in a world with less and less Time.
Make no mistake. We *will* see the our precious Modern English further evolve. And along the way we as a society will come to accept its change in such a way as to view what I've written above as being verbose and extremely long-winded. But remember...as we read a few lines from Chaucer's time of Middle English below...to read *that* is to assume the same thing of their writing style as future generations will view our own
.
The Canterbury Tales
Prologue
Chapter 1: Lines 1-15 of 860
Middle English
Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury.
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
As the world became more modern, and Time became compressed, English evolved into what many generations up to and including all [with the exception of this most recent generation] appreciated as Modern English.
But as Time again compresses on us with the pressures to multi-task and do so much more with even less Time we are to bear witness to English's further evolution. Text messaging is not a flight of fancy. It is a fact of current life. As is the Blackberry, chat, emoticons, and numerous as of yet untold means to communicate in a world with less and less Time.
Make no mistake. We *will* see the our precious Modern English further evolve. And along the way we as a society will come to accept its change in such a way as to view what I've written above as being verbose and extremely long-winded. But remember...as we read a few lines from Chaucer's time of Middle English below...to read *that* is to assume the same thing of their writing style as future generations will view our own
. The Canterbury Tales
Prologue
Chapter 1: Lines 1-15 of 860
Middle English
Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury.
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
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Originally Posted by w1ngman,Jun 21 2008, 10:01 PM
Like it or not...take a look as some Middle English in the likes of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to make a point that our language evolves over time. And as such, when there was *time* for Time...people could fully express their language with every vowel, consonant, and possible syllable.
As the world became more modern, and Time became compressed, English evolved into what many generations up to and including all [with the exception of this most recent generation] appreciated as Modern English.
But as Time again compresses on us with the pressures to multi-task and do so much more with even less Time we are to bear witness to English's further evolution. Text messaging is not a flight of fancy. It is a fact of current life. As is the Blackberry, chat, emoticons, and numerous as of yet untold means to communicate in a world with less and less Time.
Make no mistake. We *will* see the our precious Modern English further evolve. And along the way we as a society will come to accept its change in such a way as to view what I've written above as being verbose and extremely long-winded. But remember...as we read a few lines from Chaucer's time of Middle English below...to read *that* is to assume the same thing of their writing style as future generations will view our own.
The Canterbury Tales
Prologue
Chapter 1: Lines 1-15 of 860
Middle English
Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury.
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
As the world became more modern, and Time became compressed, English evolved into what many generations up to and including all [with the exception of this most recent generation] appreciated as Modern English.
But as Time again compresses on us with the pressures to multi-task and do so much more with even less Time we are to bear witness to English's further evolution. Text messaging is not a flight of fancy. It is a fact of current life. As is the Blackberry, chat, emoticons, and numerous as of yet untold means to communicate in a world with less and less Time.
Make no mistake. We *will* see the our precious Modern English further evolve. And along the way we as a society will come to accept its change in such a way as to view what I've written above as being verbose and extremely long-winded. But remember...as we read a few lines from Chaucer's time of Middle English below...to read *that* is to assume the same thing of their writing style as future generations will view our own
. The Canterbury Tales
Prologue
Chapter 1: Lines 1-15 of 860
Middle English
Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury.
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
You must be bored Dave!
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We are all on this site because of a car... different people with different educations, upbrings, nationalities etc all coming together to discuss an S2000.
Someones always got to bitch about something.
Someones always got to bitch about something.
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Dave, I hope you actually typed that excerpt instead of cutting and pasting it! That would have at least made up for the pain you put me through by forcing me to read and interpret it!
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Originally Posted by w1ngman,Jun 21 2008, 10:01 PM
Like it or not...take a look as some Middle English in the likes of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to make a point that our language evolves over time. And as such, when there was *time* for Time...people could fully express their language with every vowel, consonant, and possible syllable.
As the world became more modern, and Time became compressed, English evolved into what many generations up to and including all [with the exception of this most recent generation] appreciated as Modern English.
But as Time again compresses on us with the pressures to multi-task and do so much more with even less Time we are to bear witness to English's further evolution. Text messaging is not a flight of fancy. It is a fact of current life. As is the Blackberry, chat, emoticons, and numerous as of yet untold means to communicate in a world with less and less Time.
Make no mistake. We *will* see the our precious Modern English further evolve. And along the way we as a society will come to accept its change in such a way as to view what I've written above as being verbose and extremely long-winded. But remember...as we read a few lines from Chaucer's time of Middle English below...to read *that* is to assume the same thing of their writing style as future generations will view our own.
The Canterbury Tales
Prologue
Chapter 1: Lines 1-15 of 860
Middle English
Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury.
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
As the world became more modern, and Time became compressed, English evolved into what many generations up to and including all [with the exception of this most recent generation] appreciated as Modern English.
But as Time again compresses on us with the pressures to multi-task and do so much more with even less Time we are to bear witness to English's further evolution. Text messaging is not a flight of fancy. It is a fact of current life. As is the Blackberry, chat, emoticons, and numerous as of yet untold means to communicate in a world with less and less Time.
Make no mistake. We *will* see the our precious Modern English further evolve. And along the way we as a society will come to accept its change in such a way as to view what I've written above as being verbose and extremely long-winded. But remember...as we read a few lines from Chaucer's time of Middle English below...to read *that* is to assume the same thing of their writing style as future generations will view our own
. The Canterbury Tales
Prologue
Chapter 1: Lines 1-15 of 860
Middle English
Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury.
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
The lesson today - "The Evolution of Modern English in a Computer-Based, Mobile Device Driven, I could be drive the Banana - but I am not." was very enlightening.
The reach back to Chaucer was outstanding. I expected Yates, or Keates, or even Shakespeare, but the Canterbury Tales was perfect.
Our homework for the weekend will be to take the excerpt provided by our professor and convert it into I/M text. Use of emoticons is optional and originality will be give extra credit.
