Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[DrunkonDuty]

It is important, when talking about the possibility of cats counting, to consider that we are talking about an animal that will carefully stalk and eagerly pounce upon a dustmop.

My little guy, Dorian, has taken to hunting beanies but only if they have a pom-pom on top.

 

[MoonSong]

His greatest intellectual achievement was the time he figured out how to open a pizza box. He failed to replicate it because he didn't understand he can't do that while also sitting on top of the box.

My puppy would turn down the sheets at night when he wanted to sleep. He didn't sleep under the sheets, but he associated the act of turning down the bed with the time to sleep.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

One, two, eleven, Arkansas, goldfish, zed

And then the center hikes the football…

 

[el-remmen]

Morrus should make the entire site ad free or grant everyone a free membership but then just charge a dollar for every post about alignment or arguing about THAC0.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Morris should make the entire site ad free or grant everyone a free membership but then just charge a dollar for every post about alignment or arguing about THAC0.

Just so long as I can still bang on about Damage-on-a-Miss, I'm fine!

 

[Velderan]

Morris should make the entire site ad free or grant everyone a free membership but then just charge a dollar for every post about alignment or arguing about THAC0.

Or if he could figure out how to bill for posts about how WotC has ruined people's lives to their insurance as therapy sessions, there would be no need for ads and he could probably retire from game design work.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Today, I resisted the urge to go full grammar pedant.

I am so proud of myself!

I guess I'll just have to be pedantic about something else?

 

[overgeeked]

A lot of people skip words when they speak or write. It’s okay. We all do it. But if those skipped words are the key to understanding the whole, you’ve failed at clearly communicating. Part of being an editor is pointing out when words are skipped, rendering the communication unintelligible. It’s something of a common trick to intentionally leave out important words or obscure them with jargon, thereby intentionally failing to communicate, then blaming the reader or listener for not understanding. People who do that aren’t communicating in good faith. Stop engaging with them.

 

[Scribe]

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Feels like an infraction day. So peace.

 

[CleverNickName]

"It's good to remember that the whole point of communicating is to send a message to someone else. Everything else--including the so-called 'proper rules for grammar'--is beside that point. If you can gain clarity or understanding by breaking the rules (of grammar), you should break them." - my writing professor

"The goal of publication, on the other hand, is to sell what you've written. If you think you need to break (a rule of) grammar in an academic paper or a published work, just rework the entire sentence. There's 'being correct' and there's 'being clear,' and surely you've read enough academic papers by now to understand which is most important." - the same writing professor