Earlier in the twentieth century, grammarians and linguists proclaimed the subjunctive's death and argued that this was no big loss, as its historical role in English had been weak and inconsistent; some even went so far as to say that in Modern English its usage is "pretentious".
Curses - I've been tricked into using pretentious grammar, so must retaliate against this educated menace by ending this sentence with a preposition!
Really, this is just getting silly. Slashdot is becoming one of the most unprofessional tech discussion sites out here. It's one thing to be biased, but another to consistently repeat bitchy comments that have already been posted by dozens of people in the same thread.
I see posts like this almost every other day. (Not as newbie as my user number suggests, just got fed up hiding behing an infantile pseudonym (though I have only been visiting Slashdot for a few months)). Anything anti-Microsoft in particular gets multiple pro-Microsoft-anti-Slashdot replies without the poster seeming to have checked to see if someone else had made exactly the same point. How can anyone keep doing this without getting constantly modded "redundant" until they end up in Karma hell? Because of the anonymous posting option that means people can just copy-and-past over and over again, hoping that people won't bother wasting their mod points on people who are obviously refusing to play "by the rules". (I am not specifically targeting the parent here, it was just the one that pushed me over breaking point (though it's probably the least offensive redundant post in this thread)).
There seems to be the attitude of "Hey! There's a discussion going on that's anti-Microsoft! Instead of ignoring it like grown-ups, let's try to swamp it with comments about how much people who aren't pro-Microsoft suck, and how infantile they are! And let's post laughably exaggerated anti-Microsoft remarks so that people will forced to be pro-Microsoft to avoid being on the same side as an Anonymous Coward who writes "yoo suk BIll Gaits, suk my cok! Linux is teh SHit!". If nothing else, we can provoke people into attacking us, which'll makes us look really superior to them!"
... jeez, see what happens when you let yourself be provoked? Their ploy works! Now I really do look inferior to them!
Well, I may be infantile but I don't care, I'm not one of those nasty old Commie-Nazis:P.
(Apologies for any errors in spelling and grammer, English isn't my native language and I'm writing in a bad mood (could you tell?). But I refuse to apologise for any logical or factual errors in my post, though I know I may need to return to my old pseudonym when this username gets blasted into the aforementioned Karma Hell! I do however apologise for my poor punctuation, which is due to my aformentioned infantileness).
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I did! I did end my sentence with "a prepositon"!
Curses, owned again. If English were my native language I'd be upset. I FAIL IT!
I see posts like this almost every other day. (Not as newbie as my user number suggests, just got fed up hiding behing an infantile pseudonym (though I have only been visiting Slashdot for a few months)). Anything anti-Microsoft in particular gets multiple pro-Microsoft-anti-Slashdot replies without the poster seeming to have checked to see if someone else had made exactly the same point. How can anyone keep doing this without getting constantly modded "redundant" until they end up in Karma hell? Because of the anonymous posting option that means people can just copy-and-past over and over again, hoping that people won't bother wasting their mod points on people who are obviously refusing to play "by the rules". (I am not specifically targeting the parent here, it was just the one that pushed me over breaking point (though it's probably the least offensive redundant post in this thread)).
There seems to be the attitude of "Hey! There's a discussion going on that's anti-Microsoft! Instead of ignoring it like grown-ups, let's try to swamp it with comments about how much people who aren't pro-Microsoft suck, and how infantile they are! And let's post laughably exaggerated anti-Microsoft remarks so that people will forced to be pro-Microsoft to avoid being on the same side as an Anonymous Coward who writes "yoo suk BIll Gaits, suk my cok! Linux is teh SHit!". If nothing else, we can provoke people into attacking us, which'll makes us look really superior to them!"
... jeez, see what happens when you let yourself be provoked? Their ploy works! Now I really do look inferior to them!
Well, I may be infantile but I don't care, I'm not one of those nasty old Commie-Nazis :P.
(Apologies for any errors in spelling and grammer, English isn't my native language and I'm writing in a bad mood (could you tell?). But I refuse to apologise for any logical or factual errors in my post, though I know I may need to return to my old pseudonym when this username gets blasted into the aforementioned Karma Hell! I do however apologise for my poor punctuation, which is due to my aformentioned infantileness).
I wish there was one fewer grammar Nazi...