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Arry said:
Said the poster; who hasn't used any, at all? No wait. You started with a capital letter.
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Eh, less punctuation is still better than schizophrenic punctuation.

Also, you dun goofed, kid.

Here, see: I'm an actual, honest-to-god linguist, lemme teach you some of the basics.

Commas in English are used to separate clauses, with the exception of defining dependent clauses. Those don't get separated. There's a little more to it, naturally, and it depends on which manual of style you want to follow, but overall - that's the basic rule.

Now, let's take your first sentence (or, rather, utterance, since a sentence this ain't) : "Said the poster; who hasn't used any, at all?". Several mistakes there.

First of all, that semicolon. Semicolons aren't used to continue your sentence past its end - that's a gross misconception and an error that kids in 3rd grade usually grow out of making.

Here's what you should remember: semicolons are mostly used as either a "supercomma", with all that implies, or to narrow the cognitive distance between two independent clauses/sentences.

That's the simple version. Moving on: the comma between "any" and "at all" is entirely superfluous. I think you were going for a reflection of a spoken cadence, but we don't do that in writing. See, writing is a secondary form of language expression which, per force, forces it to lose some of its attributes. There's no need to put a comma there. Remember that bit about commas separating clauses, etc. ? Well, "at all" should have been part of the previous clause, there's no need to make it its own thing - unless you really, really want to look stupid.

That said, since you apparently don't possess the mental capacity to form anything more complex than a piece of gibberish, the point is moot. No matter how we rearrange the preceeding words, you still fail at making the comma relevant there. The best we can do here to make the whole sentence readable is this:

Said the poster who hasn't used any at all.

We remove most punctuation marks, in other words. Also, we must change that trailing question mark to a period - there's zero reason to use a question mark there, as the sentence does not feature the necessary AV/S inversion.

Let's take care of the second sentence now: "No wait." Ehhh. Commas separate clauses. "Wait" is, in this case, an imperative, thus making it its own independent clause. This should have been "Wait, no." Also, an exclamation mark would have been good here, or a dash to connect it with the next sentence.

The final sentence is, for once, correct. Color me surprised!

Tl;dr (See, that's how we use semicolons!) :

If you were one of my students, I'd send you to a remedial course in a heartbeat. Within the space of 17 words, you managed to make a total of 5 mistakes - that's almost one every third word. Here's the corrected version:

"Says the poster who hasn't used any at all. No, wait - you started with a capital letter."

EDIT: "I think, in the case you are citing; they do."

Dear lord, save me from this 21st-century Shakespeare. I'm going to use your posts during a lesson tomorrow as an example of what not to do, ever.
 
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Arry

Arry
thebattlepope said:
Eh, less punctuation is still better than schizophrenic punctuation.

Also, you dun goofed, kid.

Here, see: I'm an actual, honest-to-god linguist, lemme teach you some of the basics.

Commas in English are used to separate clauses, with the exception of defining dependent clauses. Those don't get separated. There's a little more to it, naturally, and it depends on which manual of style you want to follow, but overall - that's the basic rule.

Now, let's take your first sentence (or, rather, utterance, since a sentence this ain't) : "Said the poster; who hasn't used any, at all?". Several mistakes there.

First of all, that semicolon. Semicolons aren't used to continue your sentence past its end - that's a gross misconception and an error that kids in 3rd grade usually grow out of making.

Here's what you should remember: semicolons are mostly used as either a "supercomma", with all that implies, or to narrow the cognitive distance between two independent clauses/sentences.

That's the simple version. Moving on: the comma between "any" and "at all" is entirely superfluous. I think you were going for a reflection of a spoken cadence, but we don't do that in writing. See, writing is a secondary form of language expression which, per force, forces it to lose some of its attributes. There's no need to put a comma there. Remember that bit about commas separating clauses, etc. ? Well, "at all" should have been part of the previous clause, there's no need to make it its own thing - unless you really, really want to look stupid.

That said, since you apparently don't possess the mental capacity to form anything more complex than a piece of gibberish, the point is moot. No matter how we rearrange the preceeding words, you still fail at making the comma relevant there. The best we can do here to make the whole sentence readable is this:

Said the poster who hasn't used any at all.

We remove most punctuation marks, in other words. Also, we must change that trailing question mark to a period - there's zero reason to use a question mark there, as the sentence does not feature the necessary AV/S inversion.

Let's take care of the second sentence now: "No wait." Ehhh. Commas separate clauses. "Wait" is, in this case, an imperative, thus making it its own independent clause. This should have been "Wait, no." Also, an exclamation mark would have been good here, or a dash to connect it with the next sentence.

The final sentence is, for once, correct. Color me surprised!

Tl;dr (See, that's how we use semicolons!) :

If you were one of my students, I'd send you to a remedial course in a heartbeat. Within the space of 17 words, you managed to make a total of 5 mistakes - that's almost one every third word. Here's the corrected version:

"Says the poster who hasn't used any at all. No, wait - you started with a capital letter."

EDIT: "I think, in the case you are citing; they do."

Dear lord, save me from this 21st-century Shakespeare. I'm going to use your posts during a lesson tomorrow as an example of what not to do, ever.
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I'm not schizophrenic: I'm a sociopath.

You dun goofed kid? A very nice example: Of assumption, spelling and choice of words. It nicely sets the reader up; for looking at their shoes and wondering. If they really wish to continue, or take notice, of the 'lecture' below.

Nice, copy and paste. Not 100% of course, you have added, some of your own touches; of course.

I write as I think. I string my words together; with care. I have issues with spelling, but that, did not stop me getting an 'O' level in English grammar and an 'A' level in English Literature: Both results, I worked very, very hard for. To be honest: After all the grief etc., I received from teachers and adults, who took pleasure in ridiculing; my spelling and general writing. The opinion of others, about how they feel, I should put words onto the page; becomes, just noise, to me.

It is nice to hear, that you have the privileged; of teaching and inspiring the young. When you have finished your lesson tomorrow. Remind them, that it is far less important, how you put words onto the page; than, what you put, onto that page.
 
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thebattlepope

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Arry said:
I'm not schizophrenic: I'm a sociopath.

You dun goofed kid? A very nice example: Of assumption, spelling and choice of words. It nicely sets the reader up; for looking at their shoes and wondering. If they really wish to continue, or take notice, of the 'lecture' below.

Nice, copy and paste. Not 100% of course, you have added, some of your own touches; of course.

I write as I think. I string my words together; with care. I have issues with spelling, but that, did not stop me getting an 'O' level in English grammar and an 'A' level in English Literature: Both results, I worked very, very hard for. To be honest: After all the grief etc., I received from teachers and adults, who took pleasure in ridiculing; my spelling and general writing. The opinion of others, about how they feel, I should put words onto the page; becomes, just noise, to me.

It is nice to hear, that you have the privileged; of teaching and inspiring the young. When you have finished your lesson tomorrow. Remind them, that it is far less important, how you put words onto the page; than, what you put, onto that page.
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I wish I could respond, but your spelling, grammar, and punctuation make this completely impossible to parse. It makes for such atrocious reading that my brain just stalls out on all those horrendous semicolons.

All I got from that was an incomprehensible accusation of copy and pasting my post and something about you putting your thoughts as they go. If you ran out of arguments and can't attack mine, don't resort to ad hominem and cheap, crappy excuses for your own glaring inadequacies. That's just bad form.

Just putting your thoughts to paper with no regard for anything results in pure , not good writing, much less effective communication. The fact that you've told yourself it's fine to have failed to master writing in a comprehensible way - a skill that's been a basic necessity for the past several hundred years - doesn't actually say anything positive about you. Being a loser and telling yourself that's a-ok is, as the orange man would put it, "SAD".

Perhaps seek the help of a proofreader before you post again? You're clearly struggling, and it's getting worse by the sentence. There are classes to help with this, man.

This kind of posting is basically the internet version of suicide by cop, and I implore you to stop.

Or not. After all, every time you post we get a free bump, which, at the end of the day, is fine by us! That said, from here on out, I'm just gonna mark up your gibberish, grade it, and repost it. Maybe you'll learn at some point, and this will be something more than an exercise in humiliation.
 

Arry

Arry
thebattlepope said:
I wish I could respond, but your spelling, grammar, and punctuation make this completely impossible to parse. It makes for such atrocious reading that my brain just stalls out on all those horrendous semicolons.

All I got from that was an incomprehensible accusation of copy and pasting my post and something about you putting your thoughts as they go. If you ran out of arguments and can't attack mine, don't resort to ad hominem and cheap, crappy excuses for your own glaring inadequacies. That's just bad form.

Just putting your thoughts to paper with no regard for anything results in pure poopoo, not good writing, much less effective communication. The fact that you've told yourself it's fine to have failed to master writing in a comprehensible way - a skill that's been a basic necessity for the past several hundred years - doesn't actually say anything positive about you. Being a loser and telling yourself that's a-ok is, as the orange man would put it, "SAD".

Perhaps seek the help of a proofreader before you post again? You're clearly struggling, and it's getting worse by the sentence. There are classes to help with this, man.

This kind of posting is basically the internet version of suicide by cop, and I implore you to stop.

Or not. After all, every time you post we get a free bump, which, at the end of the day, is fine by us! That said, from here on out, I'm just gonna mark up your gibberish, grade it, and repost it. Maybe you'll learn at some point, and this will be something more than an exercise in humiliation.
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Nice adult and constructive response there. As I said: Just noise.

Enjoy your bump.
 

VaapCloud9

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I was a peaceful hippie but when I said one day that there are only 2 genders in the Thargoid race my political party called me a Transgoidaphobe, and a Human Galaxicist! (I have friends that are not human!) they got me fired from my job growing industrial beryllium hybrid Hemp and doxed me!! I was a man without a political party so I started to stream holograms about the conservative movement and I gotta say they are making a lot of sense.. After taking the red pill I am ashamed of my previous political party.. they have lost their minds and become everything they used to stand against. Hippie puritans who think they are better than everybody else, banning and canceling everything they deem unacceptable to their fractured and authoritarian ideology! Zachary Trump truly cares about the human race and has the balls to stand up to these socialist traitors who would give free health care to the same criminal thargoids who so ruthlessly attacked us. MAKE THE GALAXY GREAT AGAIN! Free speech is the cornerstone of Democracy!!! STOP the bombings of the Galactic Comedy Hubs!! JOKES ARE NOT A CRIME!!!
 

Arry

Arry
VaapCloud9 said:
I was a peaceful hippie but when I said one day that there are only 2 genders in the Thargoid race my political party called me a Transgoidaphobe, and a Human Galaxicist! (I have friends that are not human!) they got me fired from my job growing industrial beryllium hybrid Hemp and doxed me!! I was a man without a political party so I started to stream holograms about the conservative movement and I gotta say they are making a lot of sense.. After taking the red pill I am ashamed of my previous political party.. they have lost their minds and become everything they used to stand against. Hippie puritans who think they are better than everybody else, banning and canceling everything they deem unacceptable to their fractured and authoritarian ideology! Zachary Trump truly cares about the human race and has the balls to stand up to these socialist traitors who would give free health care to the same criminal thargoids who so ruthlessly attacked us. MAKE THE GALAXY GREAT AGAIN! Free speech is the cornerstone of Democracy!!! STOP the bombings of the Galactic Comedy Hubs!! JOKES ARE NOT A CRIME!!!
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Great covfete there buddy.
 

thebattlepope

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ATTN: All surviving MGGA membership.

It has come to our attention that LHS 492 has come under the influence of Yuri Grom, of all the possible vile communists.

We will therefore be gathering for a festive reunion/Yuri welcoming festival on May 16 at 2000hrs GMT, at Lem Dock, in Zach's PG.

Bring your ship and full hardpoints. Injectable hand sanitizer and internal uv disinfection lamps will be forcibly provided and rectally administered by Dixon, along with hydroxchloroquine inhalations. (Warning: hydroxchloroquine may contain Dixon's Patent® nerve agent mixture. Results may vary. Consult your President before inhaling Dixon's Patent® nerve agent mixture. Do not inhale Dixon's Patent® nerve agent mixture of you are sensitive to nerve agents or suffer from having a central nervous system. Other nerve agent mixtures are available. )

Fly bigly, cmdrs.
 
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