stupid first world problems you're dealing with

[chenGOD]

7 hours ago, dingformung said:

The problem here is that @chenGOD's grammatical explanations were very off, nonsensical even. Maybe for someone who has no clue about grammar whatsoever the things he wrote might have seemed as if he knew what he was talking about, but for everyone else it looked like a typical Dunning Kruger situation: He knows so little that he is incapable of seeing how little.

This is ridiculous. You called an interjection an imperative, are trying to defend the use of punctuation in a vocative case when you have admitted yourself that English does not use the vocative case anymore (yes, nouns of direct address are the vocative case). The comma usage suggested adds no clarity and is completely unnecessary. 
 

German may be a strictly prescriptive language (I don’t know, I don’t speak German) but English isn’t. Sorry if the evolution of the language bothers you.  

[dingformung]

19 minutes ago, chenGOD said:

The comma usage suggested adds no clarity and is completely unnecessary. 

It's still technically correct, though, sorry (though I wouldn't use the comma myself because it reads as a pause). I was hoping to add clarity by mentioning the vocative case English used to have (to illustrate the grammatical situation) but it seems I have confused you even further, my bad. Also, you're on the wrong path with prescriptive/descriptive, it has nothing to do with that.

[brian trageskin]

[chenGOD]

14 minutes ago, dingformung said:

It's still technically correct, though, sorry (though I wouldn't use the comma myself because it reads as a pause). I was hoping to add clarity by mentioning the vocative case English used to have (to illustrate the grammatical situation) but it seems I have confused you even further, my bad. Also, you're on the wrong path with prescriptive/descriptive, it has nothing to do with that.

Do you know what linguistic prescription means?  

As nouns of direct address are in the vocative case, you further strengthened the argument that the use of the comma to mark that case is archaic. No confusion about it. 
 

It’s clunky, doesn’t add any additional clarity, and breaks up the flow of speech unnecessarily. Given the German love of beautiful engineering, I’m surprised any German would make the argument for using it. 

[Zephyr_Nova]

Guys, I knew my sentence was fine in the first place.  I was just trying to goad Google into sending me ads for grammar apps.  I didn't realize their influence was big enough to actually convert watmm into one, and am quite impressed.  Nice one, Google.

[dingformung]

Don't try any further, @chenGOD, you're clearly out of your element.

In principle I agree with you that it's not necessary to use the comma, but, you know, technically it's the correct way to do it.

[kakapo]

These last couple of pages have been the worst experience of my life.  

[chenGOD]

17 minutes ago, dingformung said:

Don't try any further, @chenGOD, you're clearly out of your element.

In principle I agree with you that it's not necessary to use the comma, but, you know, technically it's the correct way to do it.

Fuck outta here with your linguistic prescriptivism. Both ways are correct and that’s it. One is more elegant and the other is archaic even if technically correct. 
 

If you ever study Japanese or Korean your head is going to explode. 

12 minutes ago, kakapo said:

These last couple of pages have been the worst experience of my life.  

Worse than your velvet lilac chinos phase? Or were they velour?

[drillkicker]

15 hours ago, chenGOD said:

Luxardos are also like $25 a jar.

$18 at Blackwell's

[chenGOD]

3 minutes ago, drillkicker said:

$18 at Blackwell's

I’m in Canada though. It’s all our unbridled socialism. But if I’m in the states I’ll swing by a Blackwell’s...

[dingformung]

20 minutes ago, chenGOD said:

technically correct

I'm glad we finally agree

 

[chenGOD]

1 minute ago, dingformung said:

I'm glad we finally agree

 

I never disagreed that it was technically correct. I argued that he shouldn’t use it. That form being technically correct doesn’t make the other incorrect.  And you agreed with me earlier when you said you wouldn’t use it  

SFWP: the guy who sits a level above me at work (he’s not a manager) thinks he needs me to CC him on every email conversation I have with various colleagues. He also has a propensity to attach documents to emails as opposed to saving them in the shared drive for our team, which fucks up my email inbox regularly (we have limited space for email). He also won’t shut up about driving his BMW. I really hope he gets castrated so he can’t pass on his genes. 

[drillkicker]

1 hour ago, chenGOD said:

I’m in Canada though. It’s all our unbridled socialism. But if I’m in the states I’ll swing by a Blackwell’s...

I don't like mixed drinks personally and I don't eat maraschino cherries, I was just trying to help out.  Take my advice with a grain of salt.

[chenGOD]

Thanks for the assist  I’ve only started getting into cocktails in the last year or so. They’re fun to make, and make a nice change once in a while. 
I must be getting old lol

[Zephyr_Nova]

where can i convert mov to mpeg with no syncing issues?  I know there's at least one site that can do it, but I didn't make a note of which one like a fucking idiot... please help before I murder all my technology.

 

PS I hate instagram so much.

Edited December 16, 2020 by Zephyr_Nova

[Zephyr_Nova]

... and has a file size that exceeds 300megs (got 99% through the last conversion before the site made mention of this... JFC!!!!)!!!

Edited December 16, 2020 by Zephyr_Nova

[Alcofribas]

lol you're still trying to upload that vid to instagram

[Zephyr_Nova]

lol no, I've moved on to the next one.  I can't for the life of me remember what I did to actually get that one to work.  There is nothing in life that infuriates me more than this kind of bullshit.  

[Hugh Mughnus]

1 hour ago, Zephyr_Nova said:

lol no, I've moved on to the next one.  I can't for the life of me remember what I did to actually get that one to work.  There is nothing in life that infuriates me more than this kind of bullshit.  

Have you tried calling IT?

[ignatius]

had to go to the DMV yesterday to renew my license. made the appointment a month ago. more than a month ago i think. all by appointment. masked. stand outside until they let  you in then sit and wait until they call your number. didn't take long. once i got in i waited maybe 10 minutes. it was a basic renew so no test or any of that shit.. but had to take a new photo so had to take my masks off for like 45 seconds. i wore 2 masks. a cloth mask with filter in it and a medical mask over it. anyway.. sitting there for that 45 seconds or whatever it was.. no one within 10 or 12 ft of me. i was in and out of there in like 20 minutes or something. it's a pretty big open room. dividers up everywhere. but felt claustrophobic still. took my temp like 10 times today. it went up from 97.7 to 97.9 and i'm ready to go make out my will. 

rona stress is real. i'm fckn tired and want some red wine and a nice hand rolled cigarette with bali shag tobacco but all my vices are out the window because (insert helth meme guy). an ice tea big enough to swim in would be nice though. with equivalent sized xanax

if anyone has a time machine or teleportation device look me up yo. 

i'd like to a game system and to play cyberpunk 2077777 but i think it'd just make me more horny/lonely. also i haven't played a video game in like a century. 

can't imagine what it's like working in a hospital. fuck. 

Edited December 16, 2020 by ignatius

[J3FF3R00]

11 hours ago, user said:

There’s a belkin adapter that breaks out to a lightning port plus a minijack port so you can charge and play music simultaneously. 

Thanks for that! Much more helpful than telling me to get an android after dropping $1000. 

[IDEM]

9 hours ago, chenGOD said:

Do you know what linguistic prescription means?  

As nouns of direct address are in the vocative case, you further strengthened the argument that the use of the comma to mark that case is archaic. No confusion about it. 
 

It’s clunky, doesn’t add any additional clarity, and breaks up the flow of speech unnecessarily. Given the German love of beautiful engineering, I’m surprised any German would make the argument for using it. 

Oh, you're still going at it, are you? You know, I was going to let it slide because of your useful tips concerning the onion problem (thanks for that!), but perhaps you can regard this as a chance to enlighten yourself. So consider this: If you were to further maintain that you're actually not wrong, to which I would reply, "You tell yourself that son ...", would you see any room whatsoever to add "additional clarity" to that sentence? If not, go on your merry ways.

If you do, however, admit that there is the slightest room for ambiguity in that sentence, why on earth would you not strive to extinguish said ambiguity? Grammar is the most beautiful when it is at its most clear, there are no two ways about this, that is its function, and in this sentence, the comma does indeed add "additional clarity". Again, please just google "direct address comma" and get lost in that wonderful rabbit-hole. Happy trails! (By the way, I did the same with the Oxford comma (which I constantly forget to use myself), and Google tells me that it is not in any way "sacrosanct", but that "[u]se of the Oxford comma is stylistic, meaning that some style guides demand its use while others don't." It's literally the first Google hit I get. In other words, direct address comma > Oxford comma.) 

Lastly, how could you consider it even remotely okay to continually discriminate @dingformungand other members with regards to their alleged nationality? It is rude, offensive and just plainly disgraceful behavior, not only for a moderator of a public forum, but for any human being, and I would like to politely ask you to stop it. TIA!

[dingformung]

He might be rude and offensive (and even worse: wrong about grammar) but wishing him a transient ischemic attack (TIA) goes too far. Nobody should ever have temporary neurological dysfunctions that are also called "mini-strokes", ever. 

[user]

Mini strokes is how I usually come to orgasm. 
I have a small penis.

[dingformung]

I know