01-05-2005, 04:21 AM
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#41 | | Senior Member
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| It's called punctuation, a novel concept that goes with spelling and proper grammar to aid in communication.
You do realize, do you not, that you can...
Maybe one day language will be a complete impediment to understanding. | 
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01-05-2005, 04:51 AM
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#42 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| And if you can show me when punctuation in a certain way, and ONLY that way, became mandatory in English I will grant you the point. Literature is rife with lengthy sentences which are NOT broken up with commas into nice convenient phrases for the assistance of the limited reader... | |
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01-05-2005, 03:56 PM
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#43 | | Senior Member
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| Woman without her man is nothing.
Woman: without her, man is nothing. | |
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01-05-2005, 04:40 PM
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#44 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by MHS Fencer Woman without her man is nothing.
Woman: without her, man is nothing. | which one is true?
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01-05-2005, 05:22 PM
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#45 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Cough....um....
Maybe in whatever language it is you guys are speaking, but not in English...  | Oh. Wow. :feels stupid:. I looked a few times, but I couldn't find myself saying n00b. I thought you were referring to the post closer to yours, in which I didn't say n00b.
Anyway, this IS English. It's not pronounced "newb", it's pronounced "enzerozerobee". It's derived from the Latin "enzerozerobeeare", which means "to be a n00b." | |
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01-05-2005, 06:31 PM
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#46 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! which one is true? | i'll tell you after you tell me whether it was the egg or the chicken that came first.  | |
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01-05-2005, 09:41 PM
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#47 | | Boom!
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada
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Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken! pretty much most of the n00bs at my club.... you know the kind. They fence dry foil with french grips and hold them like sabres, they wear khakis, and they wear clogs to fence. They usually wear a backzip jacket, and they dont know what ROW is. They dont have any intention of ever competing...... they say that they're "recreational" fencers.... feh. I hate them all. | Two things:
1) What's wrong with backzip jackets? Do I want to fork out another hundred bucks just so I don't need someone else to help me into and out of my... oh, I see what you mean. Well, I'm still not spending another hundred bucks. It all has to sit under a lame anyway.
2) Don't the "recreational" fencers give you a warmup? They're just there for fun, they won't mind getting whupped... | |
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01-05-2005, 09:53 PM
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#48 | | Senior Member
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| I owned a backzip jacket untill....Christmas. As in two weeks ago. I didn't really mind; I have flexible shoulders so I could get in and out of it without help.
I realize DFP's complaint, though. I mean, it's nice that they're there, but it can be frustrating to have people who have no interest in improving themselves fencing. Especially if it hurts. For example, n00bs who hold their French grips like sabres. | |
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01-05-2005, 10:08 PM
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#49 | | Boom!
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs I mean, it's nice that they're there, but it can be frustrating to have people who have no interest in improving themselves fencing. Especially if it hurts. For example, n00bs who hold their French grips like sabres. | Okay, yeah, I can see that. I hadn't thought of it in the "painful" way, but I totally see that (and will probably see it again when fencing starts back up). | |
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01-06-2005, 03:51 AM
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#50 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by Hurriranger i'll tell you after you tell me whether it was the egg or the chicken that came first. |
Depends upon whether you accept creationism or evolution. In the former case, the chicken came first, because God created the beasts and birds, not the embryos and eggs. In the latter case, the egg came first, because at some point there was a creature that was NOT a chicken and through it laid an egg from which via mutation came a creature that WAS a chicken... | |
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