Also, a lot of other people don't know how to properly use a semicolon, either.

Yeah, this is what's happening on Twitter at the moment, at least in my particular corner of it.

Here is Mr. Shatner's original tweet (absent of any context, since it's irrelevant to the semicolon issue):
I have no idea what this is about but if the secret service ( Read more... )

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The above video was one that I found in the comments under the Kotaku article that owsf2000 mentioned and which was linked to from the PC Gamer article he linked to.

I certainly haven't been the biggest fan of TotalBiscuit lately, but I thought I'd give this video a go, all the same.

( #1: Pay-2-win. )

AKA "beg the question" part two.

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This doesn't make sense to me at all, on a semantic level. Being an arm of a gigantic corporate publisher is not "indie," at least not by any definition of the term that I understand, anyway. Also, aside perhaps from way back at the very beginning when it was just called On-Line Systems and consisted of Ken and Roberta Williams making games out ( Read more... )

If you're attempting to talk about the officially recognized and sanctioned collection of writings or films or video games or other such things that pertain to a given fictional universe, the word you're looking for is "canon ( Read more... )

Here is a more generalized follow-up to the previous peeve post in which I talked about "doe" being substituted for "though."

To whom it may concern (though it apparently doesn't concern very many),

The letter "d" is not, I repeat, not a valid substitute for the letters "th." Whether it's dis/this, dat/that, den/then or, yes, doe/though... if ( Read more... )

While I don't like it when people substitute "tho" for "though," I can live with it. Yes, it's irksome and stupid, but it's not a super big deal to me.

What really, really makes me want to set people on fire, however, is when they use "doe" instead of "though." I have to assume they do this because they think it's cute or cool or something. If ( Read more... )

Yeah.

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Hey, a CollegeHumor list instead of a Cracked one for a change ( Read more... )

It's "etc." not "ect."

I'm seeing that repeatedly in something I'm currently reading and it's kind of a little bit annoying.