Terrible things people call their childrenFollow

Ya'all need to spend some time in Maine if you want to hear some crazy-*** word usage.

Just sayin'

***-words?

Doing something on purpose isn't a mistake.

It's nice that you don't actually understand what words mean. I appreciate you going to such great lengths to make it clear to everyone.

Do you now understand smashes point, because earlier you didn't seem to.

You were responding to smash saying he wasn't being fair, because other people had made mistakes as well. He replied that he was being fair because a mistake is different then choosing to do something incorrectly. You then became unable to understand words for a while. Do you understand why someone who chooses to be wrong is different than someone who makes a typo or types in a grammatically incorrect sentence by mistake?

If I had said "I think that's unfair. If you're of the prescriptive disposition and you think his use of non-standard english is laughable, you ought to have picked up on the non standard english of the other users in the thread first, given that some of the instances are much worse.", he would have still gotten hung up on a single word and avoided the actual argument, much like you're both still doing.

Edited, Jun 12th 2014 4:27pm by Demoncard

You ought to get on with them then.

More fool me for overestimating certain Asylumites' grasp of the English language.

You don't seem to understand the difference between a mistake, something that's wrong, an error, and wilfully doing something wrong, and both you and Smasharoo oversimplified my argument to something along the lines of "the asylumites were being unfair because a mistake isn't different then choosing to do something incorrectly", rather than Gbagi's usage of the verb phrase "end out" being fine because they understood what he meant when he wrote it.


I'll simplify it for you further. For instance,

...that's a mistake, but I still know what you mean. You might have over-applied the rule for possessive apostrophes, or you might've made a typo. On the internet, that's acceptable english, because it doesn't significantly hinder understanding. It wouldn't be acceptable on a CV, what you'd call a "resume". Looking down non-standard elements on the internet is backward, given the nature of electronic means of communication.

Edited, Jun 12th 2014 5:08pm by Demoncard

I like how this is a syntax argument being made by someone going out of their way to write in a completely unnatural sounding way.

If you're wondering, Demoncard, everyone thinks you're a ******.

Well for what it's worth this is more interesting than work right now. But I suppose doing billings isn't hard to top...

"End up" isn't a literal phrase, so I don't think you can really call one way more correct when they both come to the same meaning.

What does it matter?

Or more correctly, who cares?

It doesn't really matter, obviously. It doesn't matter if people use "literally" to mean "figuratively", or "affect" instead of "effect"; or say "for all intensive purposes", or "cut and dry" or whatever. I understand what they mean. It also doesn't matter if someone shows up to a job interview in shorts and flip flops. If you want to be taken seriously, however, you might dress more formally. If you want me to take your writing more seriously, use more formal language.

I realize the guy can't write. He's operating at a 5th grade reading level, who would really expect his extemporaneous thoughts to be well written? The least he could do, though, is make a simple correction when asked repeatedly. That's the point. Not the actual error. The fact that he refuses to correct it...because....spite? I guess? I intentionally don't use quotes. It's a choice. People sometimes comment on it. I'll just clarify that it's a choice. If Gbaji wants to clarify why he's created a brand new phrase in English to replace one that's worked for hundreds of years (probably, I have no idea of the etymology of "end up"), then I won't care. Until then, it seems a needless and churlish thing for him to do.



Edited, Jun 12th 2014 6:12pm by Smasharoo