Title: A Few Minor Changes
kaytee83 - October 5, 2005 04:31 PM (GMT)
Noticing a bit of a slope in the quality of posting, I'm going to ask you guys to remember that nouns and pronouns are your friends.
Dude, it's been years since I've done those. What are they?
Well, a noun is generally what we describe as a "person, place or thing". In this case, we're talking people. Take KT or Vince - these are nouns. Woo them.
A pronoun is a sort of substitute for a noun. It includes words such as 'he', 'she' and 'they'.
Okay. I was being sarcastic before. I'm not that stupid, you patronising bi- oh, wait, you're admin, I mean, nice Kit...
Well, I should bloody well hope so!
Onto why we're bringing this up, well, we've seen an increase in posts that seem to forgot about these valuable grammatical gems. Let's pick on Andrea as an example name to use because it's fun to pick on her.
Think which one reads better.
| QUOTE (Andrea) |
::Walks over to the news desk, picks up paper, reads, thinks about how silly and Irish she is, leaves.:: |
| QUOTE (Andrea) |
::Andrea walks over to the news desk and picks up a paper. She reads it and thinks about how silly and Irish she is. She then leaves.:: |
Okay so they're crap posts, but the bottom one is better, isn't it? Yes, it is. It really is.
Fine. I'll do it more.
Cool. I don't mind using them for effect; that's perfectly fine. I do that myself. But it's always for effect and usually the action only contains one word. Laziness isn't an excuse.
*sighs* Anything else?
Yes, actually. The use of cellular phones isn't permitted.
But you used one before.
I know. And I've changed the rules since then. Ha.
Fine then!
FINE!
FINE!
FINE!
And so on.
That could be all for now, folks! Feel free to comment but I think I captured the suitable reactions in bold ^_^ No, I don't think you're stupid, and yes I know I did some of this myself, but note the 'did'. ACW changes and so must we all. It's always getting better! Yay it! Almost two years old!
Feel free to comment :)
Sharon - October 5, 2005 04:33 PM (GMT)
kaytee83 - October 5, 2005 04:36 PM (GMT)
Don't even get me started on how close I am to banning you missy :angry:
Sharon - October 5, 2005 04:41 PM (GMT)
=/ Nouns suck?
Also, I have to back up the no cell phones thing, doing telephone posts is boring enough as it is.
Trix - October 5, 2005 04:43 PM (GMT)
Xerxes - October 6, 2005 07:08 AM (GMT)
Josie - October 6, 2005 04:14 PM (GMT)
::Snickers.::
I'm glad you were at least nice about this Kit.
Andrea - October 6, 2005 04:21 PM (GMT)
Yeah. It got a little hairy towards the end, though... :unsure:
Trix - October 7, 2005 09:35 PM (GMT)
So, when you say 'a few minor changes', do you actually mean 'nothing's actually changing, but use good grammar h00r.'
Valerie - October 7, 2005 09:42 PM (GMT)
Heh. Basicly looks like it.
Bartender - October 8, 2005 01:53 PM (GMT)
Changes as in 'we'll start punishing for abusing what we've asked you to do'.