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He either has me on ignore, or my post doesn't fit his world view, so therefore doesn't exist.

Anyway, Here is a link to the last discussion about this, where Gbaji said that Smash brought it up within the last couple months:


http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=4&mid=1377029244145411829#38



Where I linked that I had brought it up almost a year ago

So, yeah, people had commented on it. Despite your claim to the opposite.

Classic quantity vs quality trade off, market forces are at work everywhere.

Do you want a prize or something? What the hell difference does this make? None, right? So instead of just one person making a big deal out of nothing, we have two people doing it. Oh noes! Whatever could it mean? Um... Nothing.

You do understand that attacking someone's grammar in an online discussion is generally considered an admission that you've lost the argument, right? I normally ignore stuff like this (like I presumably ignored your initial comment) because unless that becomes the entirety of someone's argument (like when Smash does it) it doesn't really matter. I only respond when Smash does it because Smash has a long and consistent history of utterly ignoring anything remotely resembling an argument and zeroing in on personal attacks, attacks on grammar, spelling, etc. He's more or less mastered the post form of "I'm right because you misspelled that word over there".

Silly, but true. When you do it? I don't care because you normally make valid points to respond to, so I choose to respond to those points. You have to realize that I get so much BS tossed in my direction that I have to filter out about 90% of the responses people make in order to at least attempt to remain on topic and relevant to the discussion. And posts about grammar and spelling fall right at the bottom of that filter.

Ok. So instead of me saying "I've used the two phrases interchangeably my entire life and until a couple months ago when Smash suddenly started making a big deal out of it, no one has *ever* commented on it", we'll replace "a couple months ago" with "less than a year ago", and Smash with stupidmonkey. The point I was making remains unchanged. I've used this particular verb phrase my entire life, and until relatively recently no one has suggested to me that it was incorrect to do so.

I think that's less "proven wrong" as "mistaken about a minor detail". In any case, it's a silly thing to argue about. Not that that ever stops us.

You're implying what you present remotely resembles an argument.

Did what again?

I don't think your example is fitting. Don't get me wrong, I am defending gbajis use of a phrase here.

Generally speaking, 'end out' and 'end up' generally mean the same thing, and the general population will generally understand that.

That word you made up for '***' is not generally recognized by the general population as generally meaning what you say it means.

You guys are really making yourselves look like a bunch of gernbogatorish by continuing to harp on this.

There are plenty of choice gbaji tidbits lying around here to mock, I fail to understand this word-meaning witch hunt.

Not much to understand. Witch tied himself to a stake, set up a circle of torches, and is basking in the attention he craves.

Every time someone types 'end out', another torch gets lit and added to the circle.

I think that's less "proven wrong" as "mistaken about a minor detail". In any case, it's a silly thing to argue about.

It's silly that ever used the phrase. That you continue to use it after being proven wrong (quotes ABSOLUTELY not required) is less silly. It's a meaningful insight into how petty and weak you are at the core of your being.

Huggles!

Except that both "end" and "out" are actual words with meanings that are clear in the context in which the phrase is used. Just because you may have never heard or read the exact phrase "plaid pants wearing giraffes", doesn't make it grammatically incorrect. It is, at worst, unfamiliar. And if you can noodle out what the author means, then its unfamiliarity isn't a problem.

It's just strange to me that some of you feel like you have to make such a huge issue out of this. Whatever.

It's making me crazy...

I'm chair dancing.

Using bizarre neologisms conveys very little useful information, except in cases where it is well constructed enough to convey a lot more information.

I don't think either example you presented does that. Something like "The bulimic elephant in the room" might though.

Yes. In the same way you'd put up and put out with your family.