"If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?" - Darth Vader, Star Wars
A consul is similar or identical to an ambassador. Consular is an adjective, used to describe something that is doing a consul's duties or similar to a consul.
A counselor is someone who gives advice.
Spelling makes a difference, people. If you're not sure, look it up.
(I knew that. I actually had a small disclaimer up for a bit about the difference between consular and counselor, but it kinda detracted from the comic.)
Oh, not trying to imply that you don't know that. Just pointing out that if that misspelling hadn't been in the original, Void's answer would have been very different. Probably equally funny, but different.
I didn't intend a personal attack on anyone - more of a comment on how the Internet is dissolving our collective ability to spell and use readable English. The question wasn't bad, but the misspelling was of a rather crucial word, and it's sort of emblematic of the rampant language abuse you'll find almost anywhere online.
You just earned about fifty respect points from me. It's always a pleasant surprise seeing fellow lovers-of-grammar outside of communities like grammarpolice. :)
Haha, actually, I wrote a paper on that for Writing and Lit a few weeks ago-- how the internet is slowly degrading the English language. My professor loved it. I left the opening paragraph on my LJ, if you want to dig it up.
On that note--I was just typing a dialogue-y sort of post (somewhere over the rainbow, where I can stand in it! Fannie Flagg, my friends!) and the computer did not automatically say "um" was spelled wrong.
This is a sad, sad moment for English grammar and spelling. Let us have several minutes of silence so we can remember the good ol' days of 'Yes ma'am' and no 'alright', 'all right' mix-ups. Let us ponder what we can do to fight, to right this tragedy, and let us sing the old Sesame Street songs which emphasize letters and numbers, spelling and grammar, not frighteningly sappy hairy "things" which do not compare to Snuffy and Big Bird.
Because yes. Yes I am insane. However, unlike the sane bit of this country, I do my insane rantings with mostly correct capital letters, punctuation, grammar and, often, a dictionary handy, thank you very much.
I will take my leave now. *walks away, humming Protein Synthesis 2000, because that is an Officially Cool Song*
The sentence structure is modified, however, by the preceding "Yes." Because the Yes preceding it ends with a period, it plays all kinds of merry heck with the structure and the grammar.
i agree with the grammar soapbox thing, even if i'm not a grammar freak. i have no mind for grammar. it gives me a headache. by the way, thankyou, person who wrote that letter to void (since i don't know who you are)! you sent me scurrying to a dictionary to figure out what that word meant(sp?), something that's not very common for me. i thank you immensely. i may not be a grammar freak, but i am a word freak! :P
Now that rememinded me of Lynn Truss's book, Eats, Shoots and Leaves. I actually heard her speak a week ago. The entire book is about the slowly deteriorating standards for English spelling and grammar. It's very entertaining. The comic was hilarious. Void seems to have a tendancy towards violence...but I already knew that.
A consul is similar or identical to an ambassador. Consular is an adjective, used to describe something that is doing a consul's duties or similar to a consul.
A counselor is someone who gives advice.
Spelling makes a difference, people. If you're not sure, look it up.
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I didn't intend a personal attack on anyone - more of a comment on how the Internet is dissolving our collective ability to spell and use readable English. The question wasn't bad, but the misspelling was of a rather crucial word, and it's sort of emblematic of the rampant language abuse you'll find almost anywhere online.
*steps off the soapbox*
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This is a sad, sad moment for English grammar and spelling. Let us have several minutes of silence so we can remember the good ol' days of 'Yes ma'am' and no 'alright', 'all right' mix-ups. Let us ponder what we can do to fight, to right this tragedy, and let us sing the old Sesame Street songs which emphasize letters and numbers, spelling and grammar, not frighteningly sappy hairy "things" which do not compare to Snuffy and Big Bird.
Because yes. Yes I am insane. However, unlike the sane bit of this country, I do my insane rantings with mostly correct capital letters, punctuation, grammar and, often, a dictionary handy, thank you very much.
I will take my leave now. *walks away, humming Protein Synthesis 2000, because that is an Officially Cool Song*
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Shouldn't it be "Yes, I am insane"?
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The entire book is about the slowly deteriorating standards for English spelling and grammar. It's very entertaining.
The comic was hilarious. Void seems to have a tendancy towards violence...but I already knew that.
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*confused*
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