A small note about punctuation
Not by any stretch of the imagination could I be described as a punctuation or spelling Nazi. I for example, never fully understood all I was tuaght about grammar at school. I am happy enough spelling the correct there/their/they're so don't worry too much about other people grammar and spelling.
Well that was until Facebook came along with Attack (I may have mentioned this game before). There is a place for players to chat while the game is going on, normally this is banal, although it can be useful in trying to convince players to attack someone else rather than me. However, the other night a guy is on the chat part spouting crap and whilst it normally washes over me, he decided to say the following" Nick your a sad man". Now the sentiment is agreeable - I am indeed a very sad man - that is evidenced by me playing Attack on Facebook, but I decided to point out that in fact it should be you're a sad man, not your. Now I guess this proved his point again, but he responded with "were playing a game I'm not going to be grammatically right". Now I had to point out that it was "we're" and using the word right was not, um, er, right. Correct would be much nicer. He flipped his lid and said some choice words, only to storm out of the game. Well I say storm - obviously I couldn't see him leave but he left the game and I like to imagine him in a huff.
By the way if you find any grammatical errors in this piece, I placed it there on purpose.
Well that was until Facebook came along with Attack (I may have mentioned this game before). There is a place for players to chat while the game is going on, normally this is banal, although it can be useful in trying to convince players to attack someone else rather than me. However, the other night a guy is on the chat part spouting crap and whilst it normally washes over me, he decided to say the following" Nick your a sad man". Now the sentiment is agreeable - I am indeed a very sad man - that is evidenced by me playing Attack on Facebook, but I decided to point out that in fact it should be you're a sad man, not your. Now I guess this proved his point again, but he responded with "were playing a game I'm not going to be grammatically right". Now I had to point out that it was "we're" and using the word right was not, um, er, right. Correct would be much nicer. He flipped his lid and said some choice words, only to storm out of the game. Well I say storm - obviously I couldn't see him leave but he left the game and I like to imagine him in a huff.
By the way if you find any grammatical errors in this piece, I placed it there on purpose.
posted by Nick at 10:53 AM
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