OMG your icon is a corsetttttttttttttttt *dies* LMAO I'm obsessed with corsets since I had to wear one in a play, I think their so funny. Though I wouldn't want to wear one again.
Watch out Jessica, you said "Their" instead of "They're", rabid grammar nazis armed with their dictionaries and their self-righteousness may pounce on you and eat your soul.
Eeeeeugh, I dislike the grammar_whores community... haha, I just dislike grammar nazis in general. Good grammar is important but I am scared of people who are... are...
REALLY NITPICKY.
It is annoying when people type like utter morons but when it's something like, "Oh, you did not put this absolutely obscure thing in the right place and nobody knows about this thing but me look at me I am an English major," I kick them in the virtual nads.
Heh. My main gripes are "netspeak" and stupid errors like mixing up homophones. My only real show of nitpicking is with the possessive gerund. I'm cured of constantly correcting people, though ;)
No, sorry. A gerund is basically a verb used as a noun. For example, in the sentence "His swimming landed the team first place at the meet," "swimming is a gerund; it's the subject of the sentence. My gripe there is that it must be "his swimming," not "him swimming." "Swimming" is a noun, so it has to be preceded by something possessive.
And fyi, I'm not an English major or anything, just a quirky high-schooler with a love for proper English. Don't take me too seriously.
Aye, I see. "Gerund" to me sounds more like a breed of dog. I'm a high-schooler too. We just spend more time on Shakespeare than actual grammar. I swear to God, if I see one more mention of hubris or blah blah blah-eth-forsooth-tadaaa, I will vomit all over the world. And next year we do MacScottishPlay. Huzzah.
"Him swimming landed the team first place" just sounds absolutely retarded, and has anyone actually said that?
Not that I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure you can imagine similar examples. Very annoying.
Ah, Shakespeare's fun, at least, though I can see how you could end up with too much of a good thing. The best parts are when you're in freshman year or so, and the immature boys think that "give me my sword, ho!" is hysterical.
As for Macbeth, you either love it or hate it. If ever you're in London, go to Picadilly Circus and see the Reduced Shakespeare Company's parody of all 30-odd plays. The Macbeth section features the thickest, most awfully fake Scottish accents you've ever heard, guaranteed :)
*keeps quiet about the fact that I had to stifle laughter when I had to read "Where is my fool, ho? Ho! Ho!" in King Lear...*
Aye, I saw MacBeth in theatre recently... my English teacher thought it was Godawful and half the class fell asleep. Haha, though the rest of the plays we saw in Stratford were great.
Unfortunately it wasn't a parody of it, and therefore was boring, boring boring.
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*dies* LMAO
I'm obsessed with corsets since I had to wear one in a play, I think their so funny. Though I wouldn't want to wear one again.
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REALLY NITPICKY.
It is annoying when people type like utter morons but when it's something like, "Oh, you did not put this absolutely obscure thing in the right place and nobody knows about this thing but me look at me I am an English major," I kick them in the virtual nads.
...Yay for good grammar, though!
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And fyi, I'm not an English major or anything, just a quirky high-schooler with a love for proper English. Don't take me too seriously.
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"Gerund" to me sounds more like a breed of dog. I'm a high-schooler too. We just spend more time on Shakespeare than actual grammar. I swear to God, if I see one more mention of hubris or blah blah blah-eth-forsooth-tadaaa, I will vomit all over the world.
And next year we do MacScottishPlay. Huzzah.
"Him swimming landed the team first place" just sounds absolutely retarded, and has anyone actually said that?
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Ah, Shakespeare's fun, at least, though I can see how you could end up with too much of a good thing. The best parts are when you're in freshman year or so, and the immature boys think that "give me my sword, ho!" is hysterical.
As for Macbeth, you either love it or hate it. If ever you're in London, go to Picadilly Circus and see the Reduced Shakespeare Company's parody of all 30-odd plays. The Macbeth section features the thickest, most awfully fake Scottish accents you've ever heard, guaranteed :)
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Aye, I saw MacBeth in theatre recently... my English teacher thought it was Godawful and half the class fell asleep. Haha, though the rest of the plays we saw in Stratford were great.
Unfortunately it wasn't a parody of it, and therefore was boring, boring boring.
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Watching Titus as a cooking show, however, was much more entertaining.
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i wish i could wear a real one, 'cause it would make me look thinner haha... but they are so uncomfortable, i hear.. <3
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