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In case you're still confused about the structure I was using:

The first paragraph is a description of what I did: Responded to link by using google searches to find other sources which debunked said link.

The second paragraph is an explanation as to why the actions described in the first paragraph disprove Joph's claim: I don't need to google to learn how to cook steak. I only used google to debunk a specific claim.


It's not that hard to read if you aren't looking for it to be illogically structured.

It's hilarious that not only do you know **** about steak and have to Google it but that you've spent this many words trying to deny that this is the case. This thread is one win after another.

Why would I need to? When someone is as desperate as you to change the subject by inventing fantasies, I've already won

So you acknowledge that by inventing fantasies like me not knowing the difference between a grill and a pan, or that I was "furiously googling" to learn about cooking steak, you automatically handed me victory?

Yay! I won!!! Yippee... Is there like a prize? It's a pony, right?


Lol! What the hell do you think you're trying to "win" here? Um... At the risk of being obvious, you're free to eat your steak whatever the hell way you want (even though every sane person knows it's just wrong wrong wrong!). I suppose what we've determined here is that you're incredibly thin skinned about your steak and apparently terrified that someone might mention your childhood predilection for ketchup. Oh... And Iddigory seems overly focused on sentence and paragraph structure to a nearly unhealthy level.

That's about it, right? And I educated a bunch of people about the whole "searing seals juices in". So I'll call it a victory on that score. Yay!

He also puts ketchup on his scrabbled eggs. That's just nasty.

Now you're just being pathetic, ketchup boy.

See! Unhealthy obsession.

Sigh. They were structured well enough for anyone who wasn't intentionally looking for ways to misinterpret what was said in the most illogical and absurd way possible to have been able to follow what was being said. You honestly thought that I immediately followed up a sentence saying that I didn't need to google to learn how to properly cook steak with another sentence saying that by googling I proved that my method of cooking steak was the proper one?

Really? You didn't think that maybe that wasn't correct? It didn't occur to you to read the previous paragraph where I clearly explained what exactly I did google and why and make the somewhat obvious connection that I was talking about that and not for some bizarre reason contradicting the preceding sentence? You honestly couldn't noodle that out? It was just two paragraphs, with 2-3 sentences each. We're not talking Chaucer here or anything.


Hah. Just had a funny memory pop up. Senior year in High School, we did a section on poetry interpretation, and we each had to do a presentation in front of the class about our poem. One girl in the class finished her presentation on "The Fly". She had somehow completely failed to realize that the poem isn't actually about a fly. It's about sex. Specifically some pretty racy sexual desires. Don't get me wrong, her presentation was amusing and all, but it was just wrong. Humorously wrong. I remember because I was the one who shot his hand up when the teacher asked if anyone could tell the class what the poem was actually about. That and the girl's face going beet red.


Um... Your inability to noodle out a relatively simple couple of paragraphs is similar, just not nearly as funny.

Edited, Jul 6th 2011 6:28pm by gbaji

What a truly pathetic argument. Don't you twits have anything better to do?

There's no more room in this circle.

And, again, you don't understand the purpose of a paragraph. They are intended to separate specific ideas. You seem to have arbitrarily created a new one and began it with a sentence that was completely off topic.

Really? You're going to try to argue the specifics of the use of paragraphs because you failed to read what I wrote correctly? Most of the people on this forum can't structure their posts at all, but you chose this moment and that one sentence in that one paragraph to whine? Your own ignorance of paragraph use within a larger text doesn't equate to me "doing it wrong".

par·a·graph 
n. 
1. A distinct division of written or printed matter that begins on a new, 
usually indented line, consists of one or more sentences, and typically 
deals with a single thought or topic or quotes one speaker's continuous 
words. 

It "typically" deals with a single thought or topic. It is not dogmatically limited to a "single idea" as you seem to think. Paragraphs are about structuring the flow of what you are writing. As I have explained repeatedly, the structure I used was a very basic response-style structure. First paragraph: describe what you did. Second paragraph: Explain how what you did relates to whatever you're responding to.


In this case, Joph claimed that I was "googling furiously" to learn how to cook steak. Thus, the second paragraph should contain both an explanation of why I did what I did *and* how what I did doesn't support Joph's claim. And in case you're wondering, the reason I ordered the sentences the way I did is because I intended to write just one negation (I didn't google to learn how to cook steak properly), but might write several sentences explaining why I did use google. It would have been awkward to write it the other way around. Better to start with the negation in the first sentence, then follow with the description which supports the negation.


I really have to explain this to you? Have you ever taken a writing course? Ever?

Edited, Jul 7th 2011 5:15pm by gbaji