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Re: barriers in la floresta
if you look at my signature you may or may not understandhickton wrote:but what is snork ?? honestly i dont know this word or abbreviation..is an american or canadian ritual, insult, something you inhale? fkd if i know.another of lifes great mysteries, like barriers of course . just to keep on topic...
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If the punctuation is correct, I don't understand.
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It's just a friendly, signature sign off for posts by Pedro in the form of an acronym.....
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Gamina wrote:If the punctuation is correct, I don't understand.
As he proudly proclaims that his education and intelligence are beyond the pale most have taken to not bothering to understand.
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Gamina wrote:If the punctuation is correct, I don't understand.
It isn't.
The semicolon is used improperly.
I've often thought of suggesting to him that he have his semicolon removed but then he'd have to punctuate into a plastic bag.
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the semi colon is correct;back to school for all a ya.Axixic wrote:Gamina wrote:If the punctuation is correct, I don't understand.
It isn't.
The semicolon is used improperly.
I've often thought of suggesting to him that he have his semicolon removed but then he'd have to punctuate into a plastic bag.
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Pedro,
A semicolon is used to join two independent clauses (clauses that could stand as a sentence in their own right) that are linked or which comment upon each other in some way.
Used properly in your sentence it would be:
"Naivete is a chronic disease; the afflicted never know they have it."
But you have introduced a dependent clause (which cannot stand as a sentence) "...and by its very nature..." invalidating the use of the semicolon.
Don't sweat it though - most people use them improperly. In fact, Kurt Vonnegut advised writers to avoid them entirely saying: "All they do is show you've been to college.”
A semicolon is used to join two independent clauses (clauses that could stand as a sentence in their own right) that are linked or which comment upon each other in some way.
Used properly in your sentence it would be:
"Naivete is a chronic disease; the afflicted never know they have it."
But you have introduced a dependent clause (which cannot stand as a sentence) "...and by its very nature..." invalidating the use of the semicolon.
Don't sweat it though - most people use them improperly. In fact, Kurt Vonnegut advised writers to avoid them entirely saying: "All they do is show you've been to college.”
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a "SNORK" is the sound a person with a stuffed up nose makes when they don't have a Kleenex available and proceed to inhale loudly order to clear their nasal passages. (Yuck) A SNORT goes in the opposite direction and usually involves a hmmph, vocally.
The exacting nuns who taught me grammar would have said it should be:
Naivete is a chronic disease. The afflicted never know they have it. (or) Naivete is a chronic disease: the afflicted never know they have it.
A "semi" colon is an incomplete ass.
The exacting nuns who taught me grammar would have said it should be:
Naivete is a chronic disease. The afflicted never know they have it. (or) Naivete is a chronic disease: the afflicted never know they have it.
A "semi" colon is an incomplete ass.
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looneytick -useless mean nothing attack post;999. useful posts on this board;0.999lunateak wrote:Axixic - 1 ; me!me! - 0
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heavens;i'll run with the nuns and ahichic. i have now changed it-using a common pedrospeak punctuation device SNORK! [which involves a snear and a sound similar to the telephone lady aka lily thomlin.]gringal wrote:a "SNORK" is the sound a person with a stuffed up nose makes when they don't have a Kleenex available and proceed to inhale loudly order to clear their nasal passages. (Yuck) A SNORT goes in the opposite direction and usually involves a hmmph, vocally.
The exacting nuns who taught me grammar would have said it should be:
Naivete is a chronic disease. The afflicted never know they have it. (or) Naivete is a chronic disease: the afflicted never know they have it.
A "semi" colon is an imcomplete ass.
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YES! Lily had it down, but it was included as part of her general sentences; not used as an emphatic conclusion.
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Put a feathered hat on it....
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since i am an innovator/elevator-i use that particular sound at the end of a sentax- and i actually do make a sound in real life like i write it if something amuses me,especially if it's something really stupid. my SNORK! is entirely difernt from lily's.
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ffs. back to the barriers please..double snork...
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So ends another day of supreme digression.
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sure;why not!hickton wrote:ffs. back to the barriers please..double snork...
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Axixic wrote:
lunateak wrote:Put a feathered hat on it....
Big or small it still looks like an anal orifice.
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Since you dug out Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most funniest things in my early reading rampage "(So and so) was an asshole. Here is a picture of an asshole *" The poor, old asterix was never the same after that!
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CHILLIN wrote:Since you dug out Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most funniest things in my early reading rampage "(So and so) was an asshole. Here is a picture of an asshole *" The poor, old asterix was never the same after that!
Breakfast of Champions
Vonnegut himself did not think highly of the novel (grading it a "C" in his self-ratings) but I always thought it was brilliant. They made a horrible movie of it a few years back. Whatever you do, don't watch the movie.
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