The Divine Thread.

[ParryRiposte]

Quality?!

Quality ensures people do not use the word, no wait... letters: "Nah," together in a sentence.

And ellipses have 3 dots, not four.

And what is "cause?" Do you mean to say, "because?"

And you mean to use "we," not "us," right?

And plus, I do believe you mean, "sabreurs."

And quantity is spelled incorrectly.

Where's the quality? Where's Inq? Where're his examples of quality?

'?!' is not correct standard punctuation.

You did understand what he meant, did you not? The purpose of language is to make somebody think something, not to see how close you can adhere to rules. As long as the general idea has been conveyed, there is nothing wrong with the language he uses.

[ParryRiposte]

Sabrists are cute.

Amen to that!

[Asprin]

Sabrists are cute.

You mean Sabreuse or Sabreur.

[UnorthodoxEpeeist]

Stop saying sabrist!

[ParryRiposte]

You mean Sabreuse or Sabreur.

No, it's sabrist. In my book. Just to have a uniform suffix; they don't say epeeur or foiler, do they? So then why say sabreur?

[Inquartata]

Well, how ELSE would we call him? That's his name!

By the title, I thought this thread was about a transvestite.

[Gav]

No, it's sabrist. In my book. Just to have a uniform suffix; they don't say epeeur or foiler, do they? So then why say sabreur?

oh dear ...

[Gav]

By the title, I thought this thread was about a transvestite.

ha ha ha ha

I might have had to mod that thread.

[Coldfire]

By the title, I thought this thread was about a transvestite.

I dont get the reference and dont think I want to.

[Rick Shellhouse]

Quality?!

Quality ensures people do not use the word, no wait... letters: "Nah," together in a sentence.

And ellipses have 3 dots, not four.

And what is "cause?" Do you mean to say, "because?"

And you mean to use "we," not "us," right?

And plus, I do believe you mean, "sabreurs."

And quantity is spelled incorrectly.

Where's the quality? Where's Inq? Where're his examples of quality?

OH NO ... it is not only a person who fences epee but a member of the spelling and grammar police. Whatever shall I do? I think perhaps I should explain stereotypes or acting in a stereotypical behavior pattern i.e. all people who fence sabre tend to fall on the low end of the intelligence pool. Perhaps I should explain sarcasm?

Nay, I say nay again, I should be dragged away from my keyboard and flogged in front of the general populace. Woe is me. I now hang my head in shame and slink off to whimper in the corner. I thank thee for that most rousing critique of my hastily written post.

Most humbly yours,

Rick

[notalent]

I dont get the reference and dont think I want to.

Google Divine John Waters. What you get will likely not be work safe.

[notalent]

Ultimatly swords come with edges, and I can still use my point

[Coldfire]

Ultimatly swords come with edges, and I can still use my point

Yes which is why sabre>than other pointy weapons as you can use the blade and the point

[ParryRiposte]

Yes which is why sabre>than other pointy weapons as you can use the blade and the point

Weel, you can do that in the point weapons too. Not that it would help at all, but you can. I guess the others don't realise the full potential of the blade.

[sabreur]

We don't need 4K+ of posts to prove our worth, anymore than we need three minutes of fencing time to score 5 points, or nine minutes to score 15... maybe.

Using the point and the edge is clearly more efficient than just using the point.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

(And ellipses have three dots when they come in the middle of a sentence... ...like this... .... and four dots when they come at the end of a sentence....)

[SSMSabreMN]

By the title, I thought this thread was about a transvestite.

This is one of the reasons I absolutely love the f.net forums! Ahaha oh yes.

[Zilverzmurfen]

(And ellipses have three dots when they come in the middle of a sentence... ...like this... .... and four dots when they come at the end of a sentence....)

Not in swedish.
You will never use more than three dots, in any situation. I guess english has different writing rules...

(There's also no space between the three dots and the following word, unless the following word is the first word of a new sentence, and thus should be spelled with a capital letter.)

[/wisenose mode]

[Coldfire]

This is one of the reasons I absolutely love the f.net forums! Ahaha oh yes.

I love it because we get to make fun of the other weapons

[ParryRiposte]

I love it because we get to make fun of the other weapons

Not that we get to. We really should be good "cyber citizens" (by God, I hate that word). We just arbitrarily decide to anyway.

[SSMSabreMN]

Not that we get to. We really should be good "cyber citizens" (by God, I hate that word). We just arbitrarily decide to anyway.

Because its fencing, and basically the sport comes with a centuries old "War of the Weapons" deal... So of course we shall bash other weapons.

Thats what I explain to people right away when they ask about fencing. "There are 3 weapons, any person of a particular weapon is going to hate those who fence the other 2 with a passion, thats just how it goes."

My family thinks I'm nuts now!