Newbie here

[Abroad]

Hello Denizens

The handle was almost Innocent Abroad, but I decided I wasn't quite innocent enough for that any longer.

Followed a link from one of Steve Huff's websites earlier this week, and have read your front pages all the way back to February. I like your collective sense of humour and thought I might as well register and get it over with :)

See you on the boards!

[Kathy]

Welcome!:D

[Abroad]

I am reluctant to ask, but is "Welcome" the human equivalent of "Nice Doggie"?


;)

[Kathy]

Nah, Welcome means welcome.

I save my rocks for the Three Things threads, perps and their coddlers. :p

[impqueen]

Welcome to the site! :D

And yes, "welcome" means just that. If we meant "nice doggie", we'd totally say it that way. So welcome, and hope you'll stick around and post! :)

[Mom of 4]

Welcome Abroad. :)

[Abroad]

Having a look around at the moment. Found the Shaun Glassey thread......






You don't mince words here, do you? ;)

[Abroad]

Thanks Mo4!

[Nell]

Why no we don't. Ain't it great! Welcome, and watch out for gPrime.

[Abroad]

Thanks!


Who is gPrime? Resident bogeyman?

[TheLittleFriend]

Welcome to D'D! :D

[Death Angel]

Having a look around at the moment. Found the Shaun Glassey thread......






You don't mince words here, do you? ;)

welcome thats how i found the board

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/DeathAngelOfLight/DDsig-1.png

[Nell]

Gprime is the guy that randomly groans you, then refuses to say why. Look around and you will see. But I still wish he'd be my IBF. Sigh.

[dop]

Heya, Welcome to the board.

[swivel]

Nice Doggie!

*hunts for rock*

[mammasweets]

Welcome. I won't hit you with a rock. Maybe shank you, but never hit you with a rock.

[SoUncool]

Hi Abroad...I'm new here too. I got the pre-emptive groan before gprime got me. Telling it like it is on this site is actually quite an understatement... Just don't mis-spell anything. They're grammar nazis too. Ha ha!

[swivel]

Just don't mis-spell anything. They're grammar nazis too. Ha ha!

It's "MISSPELL", SoUncool.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/143/misspellnd4.jpg

And I resent you calling us grammar "nazis". "Nazis" should ALWAYS be capitalized.

[Mom of 4]

It's "MISSPELL", SoUncool.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/143/misspellnd4.jpg

And I resent you calling us grammar "nazis". "Nazis" should ALWAYS be capitalized.



ROFLMAO Swivel man you are going to scare new members away with your Nazi grammar humor. :rofl:

[Ruby]

Humor? I didn't see anything humorous about it. Grammar is very serious business. :cool:

[Becca]

Welcome to the funny farm!

[jlt080405]

welcome and thanks for the intro :)

[nurseronda]

Welcome to the forums. I hope you enjoy your stay here, like I have. :D

[~Absynthe~]

Welcome Aboard!!!:)

[Lizard]

And I resent you calling us grammar "nazis". "Nazis" should ALWAYS be capitalized.

We also are punctuation Nazis. The first sentence should end with the period inside the second double quotation mark.

[swivel]

ROFLMAO Swivel man you are going to scare new members away with your Nazi grammar humor. :rofl:

I think Lizard wants commas around "man":

ROFLMAO[PERIOD] Swivel[COMMA] man[COMMA] you are going to scare new members away with your Nazi grammar humor. :rofl:

I think Nazi-grammar should be hyphenated as well.

[Lizard]

I think Nazi-grammar should be hyphenated as well.

I concur.

[Athena]

We also are punctuation Nazis. The first sentence should end with the period inside the second double quotation mark.

While that is generally correct if you are an American or subscribe to American grammar rules, it is far from absolute. Personally, I prefer the British standard of placing the punctuation within or outside the quotation marks (depending on whether or not the punctuation is part of the quote).

It's more precise that way. :p

[Lizard]

While that is generally correct if you are an American or subscribe to American grammar rules, it is far from absolute. Personally, I prefer the British standard of placing the punctuation within or outside the quotation marks (depending on whether or not the punctuation is part of the quote).

It's more precise that way. :p

Duck, for I have just thrown The Chicago Manual of Style (hardback edition) at you.

[Athena]

Duck, for I have just thrown The Chicago Manual of Style (hardback edition) at you.

Don't need it. I've got Strunk & White's in the bookcase at home. Still, either version specifically addresses American style. You're talking to a girl who is still struggling to correct my tendency to use "-ise" in place of "-ize". It was only a couple of years ago that I definitively conquered by "u" habit (i.e."colour").

Weird fact #273: Athena's dad thought it would be funny to send her into school knowing an Americanized verion of The Queen's English. I never used contractions, for example. Teachers never criticized me and, as a result, I didn't develop particularly Americanized usage until high school, when my speech and writing style was perceived as pretentious.

A decade later, I'm much more chill, but I still contend with some British tendencies. :neutral:

[Lizard]

Don't need it. I've got Stunk & White's in the bookcase at home.

Oh, you thought I was trying to be HELPFUL!

You mean "Strunk & White," right?

[Nell]

Abroad, you still haven't been groaned? Slacker. Say hello to gPrime and maybe he'll get you. Show some love!

[Athena]

Oh, you thought I was trying to be HELPFUL!

You mean "Strunk & White," right?

LMAO. Cut me some slack. I work for a company populated by Canadians. That certainly doesn't help in my rehabilitation.

And, yes, I must not have made successful contact with the "r".

[Lizard]

LMAO. Cut me some slack. I work for a company populated by Canadians. That certainly doesn't help in my rehabilitation.

And, yes, I must not have made successful contact with the "r".

Sounds like next time we need Canadian impressions on a podcast, someone might want to give you a call. (Being an actual Canadian, Mo4 is ineligible.)

I'm sure many, many Rhetoric 101 students would agree that "Stunk & White" is a more appropriate title.

[Abroad]

Gprime is the guy that randomly groans you, then refuses to say why. Look around and you will see. But I still wish he'd be my IBF. Sigh.

Nothing quite like unrequited love, is there :wink:

[Abroad]

Nice Doggie!

*hunts for rock*



I found a whole load of them. See: :peep:

[Abroad]

Welcome. I won't hit you with a rock. Maybe shank you, but never hit you with a rock.

That is ... err ... good to know. *tense smile*



:wink:

[Abroad]

Just don't mis-spell anything. They're grammar nazis too. Ha ha!

My kind of place, this is.

I do not understand why some people deliberately share their opinions in a way that makes it impossible to follow their argument. One assumes if they go to the trouble of posting they would want people to understand?

[Abroad]

scare new members away

Au contraire! I think I am in love already. ;-)

[Nell]

Trashcat says Tards don't want you to understand, they want to confuse you and make your eyes bleed with their lack of puncuation.

[Abroad]

:wave:

[Abroad]

Welcome Aboard!!!:)

Very punny :nod:

[Abroad]

We also are punctuation Nazis. The first sentence should end with the period inside the second double quotation mark.

Not necessarily. If the entire rest of the sentence had been in quotation marks I would have been with you. Since it is only a single word in this case, it is not strictly speaking a mistake to have the punctuation mark after the second double quotation mark. At least it would not be in the UK.......








Not trying to pick a fight here, by the way :happy3:

[Abroad]

Abroad, you still haven't been groaned? Slacker. Say hello to gPrime and maybe he'll get you. Show some love!

Why don't you groan me yourself, if it is so imperative that I get it over with?





I was never one to hurry into things......

[Nell]

No no no! I get my pleasure out of poking Gprime! And I rarely groan. It is just plain rude. But now that you have asked, someone will oblige!:happy3:

[Abroad]

Trashcat says Tards don't want you to understand, they want to confuse you and make your eyes bleed with their lack of puncuation.

Language wielded as an offensive weapon? Too bad one cannot succesfully prosecute them for obfuscation.

[Abroad]

And I rarely groan. It is just plain rude.

Pardon my asking, but what did you do to earn your five (5) groans?

[Nell]

I groaned Lieman. A couple times. He deserved it! And I think gPrime, just to get him back. But I am really not entirely positive. If you go in my profile it will list all my groaned at posts. You have to really, really spazz out for me to groan you. Athena never groans. She is way more patient then I.

And to the 5 groans I have thanked 674 times. I think it is balanced.

[Abroad]

And to the 5 groans I have thanked 674 times. I think it is balanced.

I think you are right.

On a related subject: How many Thanks do we have to hand out? I keep seeing reply posts saying just "Thanks" with an explanation that the poster has "run out of Thanks". (Shades of Hemingway, - or was it Miller?)

[Nell]

You get ten thanks a day. It used to be unlimited in the early days, but it ups your points and levels. So when Morbid saw we were all thanks whores he lowered and capped it. Before it was just an orgy of thanks all day long. But we obviously got around it by just spelling out thanks in posts. And the more you post the more your points and levels go up. So we did an end run around it. We are like his naughty, naughty children.:hug:

[Abroad]

Ah, well in that case I must be getting low for today.

Thanks for warning me. I would have worried I broke something :dance:

[MISSanthropic]

What kind of world is this where we run out of thanks.

[Abroad]

What kind of world is this where we run out of thanks.

Quite.









Though I must say I am pretty certain I have thanked more than ten people today. Maybe I have found some sort of loop-hole?

[Nell]

Morbid!! Did you break something else and not fix it? Well go for it then! Be the thanks whore you always wanted to be.:eyebrows:

[Lizard]

Not necessarily. If the entire rest of the sentence had been in quotation marks I would have been with you. Since it is only a single word in this case, it is not strictly speaking a mistake to have the punctuation mark after the second double quotation mark. At least it would not be in the UK.......

You're absolutely right! However, since D'D's home base is in the U.S., I figure American English standards apply in general. Of course, I would never whomp on a UK or Australian member for using their own spelling and grammar standards!

I got this close to groaning you, but, eh, I don't wanna pick no fight neither!:yield:

[What Would Satan Do]

What kind of world is this where we run out of thanks.

Why, it's Morbid's World my dear! :laugh:

[Abroad]

Why, it's Morbid's World my dear! :laugh:

Well, he's doing something wrong. I used way more than ten thanks yesterday.





Maybe there are exceptions made for newbies? *flutters eyelashes*

[petrina]

shhhh dont tell about the extra thanks or we will all have to go on thanks-down - forced to draw a secret symbol for thanks in the dirt. im not a tard, but i dont use caps and rarely punctuate in chat/IM/forums. well, i guess you can be the judge of the tardness. and welcome! -petrina