Tom Cashel
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Why do Hong and Mythusmage look exactly alike?
It's just plain wrong.
It's just plain wrong.
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[pet peeve/rant] Grammar, people!!
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We're a bilocating small cat who really lives in Roanake VA and runs a long term Powers and Perils campaign for a flock of pre-med ravens. 
You want to know the truth, in my case the little chap is a kitten having an epiphany. In Hong's case he's drunk. In the case of cats it's often the same thing.
Tom Cashel
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Cats that can bi-locate, have epiphanies, get drunk and look like any cat they want?
shudder
I have to go lock the doors and windows now.
shudder
I have to go lock the doors and windows now.
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Hypersmurf
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Tom Cashel said:
Didn't you ever hear of the Cat Who Walks Through Walls?
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Dakkareth
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While it's true, that orthographic and grammatical errors can severely impede the understanding, I'd have you consider, that for a considerable number of people here English *isn't* their native language. It's no excuse for completely mangling sentences and expecting to be understood, but you should be aware of this added difficulty. No matter how much time I spend reading English books and visiting English boards, I still make mistakes.
Also it should be noted, that typos happen and that it's often hard to find one's own mistakes. I used to look down upon people using 'their' instead of 'they're', 'than' instead of 'then', etc until I noticed, that it happened to me, too. If I'm typing quickly it simply happens and I can't find and correct every single instance.
That said, I adore the person with the 'Department of Internet Education' signature explaining the difference between 'lose' and 'loose' - this is constructive action, complaining about the decline of language isn't.
No complains about bacteriae, but the plural of 'katana' and 'ninja' (coming from the Japanese language and not from Latin) should be 'katana' and 'ninja'. 'Ninjatachi' also might be a valid plural, but I'm not sure on this. 'Data' is technically speaking a plural word (the singular being 'datum'), thus 'datae' is nonsensical.
Also it should be noted, that typos happen and that it's often hard to find one's own mistakes. I used to look down upon people using 'their' instead of 'they're', 'than' instead of 'then', etc until I noticed, that it happened to me, too. If I'm typing quickly it simply happens and I can't find and correct every single instance.
That said, I adore the person with the 'Department of Internet Education' signature explaining the difference between 'lose' and 'loose' - this is constructive action, complaining about the decline of language isn't.
No complains about bacteriae, but the plural of 'katana' and 'ninja' (coming from the Japanese language and not from Latin) should be 'katana' and 'ninja'. 'Ninjatachi' also might be a valid plural, but I'm not sure on this. 'Data' is technically speaking a plural word (the singular being 'datum'), thus 'datae' is nonsensical.
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Christopher Lambert
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I blame the education system. Where I went to school, they stopped teaching spelling at grade 7 and grammar at grade 9. From grade 10 onwards they wanted to teach us literature ... often the boring kind.
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