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#27 May 24 2011 at 8:07 PM Rating: Good
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Why would anyone double-space sentences? I mean, is that actually common anywhere?


It's for school papers that have to be a certain length. My single page of blabbering now becomes two. Less work and the teachers can grade it faster. Probably an F anyways, but everybody gets through it faster.
#28 May 24 2011 at 8:15 PM Rating: Good
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except that gear doesnt equal skill.if you cant down current content without nerfs(especially a fight like halfus.which is pretty easy already),how do you expect to down anything in firelands without nerfs in firelands

not everything can be solved with getting better gear

They'll kill Firelands when the next raid tier comes out. Or they just might be able to make it to Cho'gall and Nef where they were stuck before. These nerfs don't affect heroic mode T11 IIRC, and most raiding guilds are working on heroics currently.
#29 May 24 2011 at 9:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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although this is 4.2 so im sure any guild that isnt fail will be working on firelands anyway


And with the above quote said: Why they heck does it matter to you then? Obviously you're in an uber quild, an awesome player that a lot of us should model ourselves after, and to boot, have cleared all raid content to date and got your shinies to be able to move on to Firelands the day 4.2 drops. So really, who the Hell cares?

Was your post for informational purposes?
Was it to insult "bad" players and guilds?
Was it to stroke your e-peen?

I'm guessing 2 out of 3! Can you pick which two?


Your second point about skill and gear: It's part true, it's part false. Some guilds are still building their core, good guilds at that, so once 4.2 drops, getting gear from nerfed raids (once those guilds finally get going), will be able to help them enter Firelands and probably do well with said gear and skill. So your point isn't fully true as gear can and will help some guilds enter Frielands. It has nothing to do with fully clearing content now, cos if they are still building, it's a little hard to clear said content. Doing it this way, they will be able to catch up quite easily once the guild is fully prepared and the synergy is golden.

Deep down I believe, cos you see these posts all the time, that it's the whole purple envy thing. He got his purples the "harder" way and in a couple months there will be people getting his purples an easier way. So they must be baddies, suck, fail, etc., etc.

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Edited, May 24th 2011 10:38pm by Seculartwo
#30 May 24 2011 at 10:11 PM Rating: Good
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MentalFrog wrote:
Mazra wrote:
Why would anyone double-space sentences? I mean, is that actually common anywhere?


It's for school papers that have to be a certain length. My single page of blabbering now becomes two. Less work and the teachers can grade it faster. Probably an F anyways, but everybody gets through it faster.


I'll have to remember that.

Shame I already did all the written exams. Smiley: frown
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#31 May 24 2011 at 10:45 PM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:
Why would anyone double-space sentences? I mean, is that actually common anywhere?


It's for school papers that have to be a certain length. My single page of blabbering now becomes two. Less work and the teachers can grade it faster. Probably an F anyways, but everybody gets through it faster.


That's double-spacing an entire paper. The big idea is it gives the teacher space to write comments/corrections. Mazra was asking about putting two spaces after the end of a sentence, which doesn't pad a paper nearly as much. I find that two spaces can help break up long paragraphs, reduce the Wall o'Text factor, but I'm pretty sure web page formatting eats the spaces anyway.

This is a test. This is only a test. (1 space)
This is a test. This is only a test. (2 spaces)
This is a test. This is only a test. (5 spaces)
#32 May 25 2011 at 4:10 AM Rating: Good
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MentalFrog wrote:
Mazra wrote:
Why would anyone double-space sentences? I mean, is that actually common anywhere?


It's for school papers that have to be a certain length. My single page of blabbering now becomes two. Less work and the teachers can grade it faster. Probably an F anyways, but everybody gets through it faster.


Double spacing =/= two spaces after a period
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#33 May 25 2011 at 8:12 AM Rating: Good
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If you put 2 spaces after a sentence to try and make a paper longer then you're doing it wrong.

Edited, May 25th 2011 9:12am by Hyolith
#34 May 25 2011 at 10:20 AM Rating: Good
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I was taught to put two spaces after the ending punctuation of a sentence. This is the first I've heard that the 'rule' has been changed. Of course I'm also a bit older than a lot of the posters on this site so finding out something has changed in the almost 30 years since I graduated from high school isn't that surprising.



As for the nerf...
I don't think the current raids are 'too hard'. My guild isn't a top notch raiding guild but we are making our way through the content and it doesn't really feel any tougher than the struggle through other tiers of content while they were current.

That being said, a friend whispered me the other night complaining about the raid he had gotten himself talked into. He was helping out another guild who apparently been wiping for 3 weeks on Magmaw before they talked him into helping. I think it took him a few hours but he said they finally got Magmaw down for the first time. So, yeah, there really are guilds that are 'that bad' who still want to feel the accomplishment of getting a raid boss down and I think that's great and if nerfing the newest old content lets more beginning raiders feel that sense of accomplishment then I think it's a good thing for the game overall. Sometimes those beginning raiders find the experience to be so rewarding that they start spending more time reading about their class and raiding and go on to become better raiders.
#35 May 25 2011 at 10:32 AM Rating: Good
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I remember the 2 spaces after a period when I had a green monitor. What was the name of the program....Wordstar?

Yeah, I think it was that. Man, I'm getting old.
#37 May 25 2011 at 10:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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Like some of the other old-timers in here, I also learned to put 2 spaces after a period. I prefer to see the extra bit of space after periods in print, since it helps me read long paragraphs more quickly. (Speed readers see whole phrases and/or whole sentences at at time, rather than reading word by word.) This spacing used to be more obvious with non-proportional fonts, but less so with proportional fonts that shrink the space and web pages that remove extra spacing, making a lot of text available today slower to read for me.

Ah well, some day all of us old folk will be dead, and the remaining twitterati can gut whatever grammar and spelling rules remain.

;)

#38 May 25 2011 at 10:58 AM Rating: Excellent
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ur funni spoookz lol i no wat ur mean :((( <3
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#39 May 25 2011 at 11:14 AM Rating: Good
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This is what people are having to deal with now.
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I don't know which is worse. The fact that the only thing that person recognizes as being misspelled is "playse" or the fact that I was able to read that. :l
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He wrote:
Massive weeknd with my family n my 2 nieces,ths weeknd im sure they wnt 4get,lov u my girls,hope u all had a cool weknd with ur uncle,aunty n kuzin:-)


I don't know if it's a slang thing or what (he's Maori), but it makes my brain claw my skull whenever I read his updates.
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#42 May 25 2011 at 12:22 PM Rating: Good
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Sweet jesus, we are doomed. That hurt my face trying to read it.
#43 May 25 2011 at 12:50 PM Rating: Good
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This is what people are having to deal with now.


I have no words to describe how painful and hilarious it was to read that.

Honestly I have no idea if the 1 space rule is new or not. I was taught in high school to do 2 spaces, then when I came to college they said forget that ****, you're only doing 1 space now. Of course they also didn't like it when I turned in a five paragraph paper that was 4 pages long.
Okay I didn't really do that, but I'm sure some people have with how much they push the 5 paragraph paper on kids in high school these days.
#44 May 25 2011 at 1:43 PM Rating: Good
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I know with passion how bad Kiwi / Aussie grammar is.
It's legally and socially acceptable to type or write like an idiot over there.
U / ur is commonplace, even in legal letters. Cuz may well be in their dictionary. B4, Str8, ALL of it is used by professionals and children alike.
They also have trouble finishing statements. Whereas us Americans would say "Hahaha, that was funny as ****!" the Aussies will say "Hahaha, that was funny as"
You know that episode of Family Guy where Stewie is trying to teach the little Limey girl how to speak properly?
He goes "This is what I sound like. And this is what YOU sound like" and he gets that little kids thing that makes the cow noise when you flip it over.
That is my life, people.
#45 May 25 2011 at 3:12 PM Rating: Good
Well hey, at least she's hot right? Smiley: tongue
#46 May 25 2011 at 3:29 PM Rating: Good
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jaysgsl wrote:
I know with passion how bad Kiwi / Aussie grammar is.
It's legally and socially acceptable to type or write like an idiot over there.
U / ur is commonplace, even in legal letters. Cuz may well be in their dictionary. B4, Str8, ALL of it is used by professionals and children alike.
They also have trouble finishing statements. Whereas us Americans would say "Hahaha, that was funny as sh*t!" the Aussies will say "Hahaha, that was funny as"
You know that episode of Family Guy where Stewie is trying to teach the little Limey girl how to speak properly?
He goes "This is what I sound like. And this is what YOU sound like" and he gets that little kids thing that makes the cow noise when you flip it over.
That is my life, people.


The life of the wife is ended by the knife.

I stopped with the shorthand stuff when I was about 12. I accidentally wrote "u" in a paper in 6th grade. I never wrote shorthand again. The only time I shorthand is if I have a limited space say a text message box and I want to try and fit it all in.
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Well hey, at least she's hot right? Smiley: tongue

Damn spiffy ^_^
#48 May 26 2011 at 11:52 AM Rating: Good
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Hyolith wrote:
This is what people are having to deal with now.



Of course, that has more to do with extra space between the ears, than after punctuation.
#49 May 27 2011 at 2:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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I know with passion how bad Kiwi / Aussie grammar is.
It's legally and socially acceptable to type or write like an idiot over there.
U / ur is commonplace, even in legal letters. Cuz may well be in their dictionary. B4, Str8, ALL of it is used by professionals and children alike.

As an Australian, I call bullsh*t on this one. First of all, it's not illegal anywhere in the world (as far as I know) to type those expressions, so it's legally acceptable anywhere. I also agree that there are people of various professions that do chat or type using expressions such as "U" or "b4" but I have two things to say about this:

1) You don't need to be among the intelligentsia to gain or hold a job.
2) Show me an example of an employee using these terms in an official document representing their company or law firm and not being reprimanded for it or losing their job.

I know quite a few people who use very precise English grammar in their work but use chat speak online or in text messages over the phone. I don't use it myself, since my intestines would probably crawl up and throttle my brain if I tried. And there's a clear kind of class distinction here (at least in my sphere of observation and living) between people who type that way and people who don't. There are kids who don't think (surprise, surprise!) and then try to write that way in school. Their work is graded accordingly and they are thought of as morons (also accordingly). It is merely socially accepted by the people who do it but that's the case with anything. And I would say it's impossible for you to provide an example of someone using it in a formal, professional context while keeping the respect of their peers.
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jaysgsl wrote:
I know with passion how bad Kiwi / Aussie grammar is.
It's legally and socially acceptable to type or write like an idiot over there.
U / ur is commonplace, even in legal letters. Cuz may well be in their dictionary. B4, Str8, ALL of it is used by professionals and children alike.

As an Australian, I call bullsh*t on this one. First of all, it's not illegal anywhere in the world (as far as I know) to type those expressions, so it's legally acceptable anywhere. I also agree that there are people of various professions that do chat or type using expressions such as "U" or "b4" but I have two things to say about this:

1) You don't need to be among the intelligentsia to gain or hold a job.
2) Show me an example of an employee using these terms in an official document representing their company or law firm and not being reprimanded for it or losing their job.

I know quite a few people who use very precise English grammar in their work but use chat speak online or in text messages over the phone. I don't use it myself, since my intestines would probably crawl up and throttle my brain if I tried. And there's a clear kind of class distinction here (at least in my sphere of observation and living) between people who type that way and people who don't. There are kids who don't think (surprise, surprise!) and then try to write that way in school. Their work is graded accordingly and they are thought of as morons (also accordingly). It is merely socially accepted by the people who do it but that's the case with anything. And I would say it's impossible for you to provide an example of someone using it in a formal, professional context while keeping the respect of their peers.


I type real good 90% of the time, 90 might be one exaggeration. I talk real good 90% of the time at work, maybe around 40% when not at work.

Also 'cuz' is a good word along with 'brah', 'chutz', 'bromigo', 'ya' (used for everything especially in "ya ya" form), 'wellden', 'eh', 'puinsai', randomly saying what and of course just saying 'da kine'.

Which is the best verbal expression ever. I use 'da kine' a shit load, it has no meaning, is entirely contextual and always makes sense.

A good example is, 'Ho brah its da kine.' People understand these things.
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