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Not saying I don’t fall into the category ?Pipe dweebs...that made me laugh!
I agree. One of the best things about this board is that the writing, and people's commentary, is generally at least mostly coherent and somewhat carefully considered. I hate the general trend (accelerated by the web) towards not only a lack of formality in writing, but also a lack of cohesive, easy to decipher thought. If you're an English speaker, and I can't in any way follow what the heck you've written, then you need to think about a better way to write it.
I'm embarrassed when I make a typo or editing mistake in my writing. I feel that self-editing one's writing, even online posts, is the writing equivalent to thinking before you speak, a principle which too many people these days ignore as well!
I should add that I edited this post three times. Once before posting, and twice after. That's what you call practicing what you preach!
I occasionally rage about native English speakers talking and writing worse than I do. And then I get called a boomer, despite being the offspring of boomers
I'm the same about editing, I always edit my posts on this forum once or twice.
My father was an English teacher at my High School for awhile, he would make me give him my assignments from other classes before I turned them in. He would give them back to me covered in red ink and tell me to fix it before I turned it in. Man, I still have PTSD over that shit?
I got PTSD from my dad once asking me to tell him what's the cost of one soldier from a box of toy soldiers before he'd buy me the box...
Gettin kinda boring with Starcat being so long gone.
That's a perfect post....Not that I am agreeing with your self-nominated inability to write well!
Hmmm. Does a half dozen halfwits make up for it?? That'd be three....
And there are two run-on sentences above! Zounds!
I can not unthink the same. English, hard. riting hard . me glad... 2. help too make me think bigger better. Brain growing. smart.
You I like, the rest have got to go!
Oh...ehem... You me like rest gas gotta go!
Nope. Just over educated and anal.....
I'm sure his thinking was: "I'm the English teacher! I can't have my own son turning these assignments in to my colleagues!"
My achilles heel. About 50 percent of my self-editing process for any formal document is spent breaking apart run-ons.
Since the site was upgraded, it seems like we have six or eight new members every week. Some post regularly and some don't. Compared to most of the internet, Forums is practically the Sorbonne (fancy French university). We have our up days and down, but it is an actual conversation. Sometimes the depth of information is jolting. It feels like small talk, and then someone comes up with some serious specifics on a pipe identification, the history of a blend, brands of pipes, etc., and it's jaw-dropping. Some of you guys are downright scholars and experts. And I learn all kinds of other information, like how sugar cane is planted.
I’ve been enjoying the forum as part of my recent move to an iPad for browsing and news. One silver-lining of the current pandemic is that it has forced me out of my usual social circles to engage with individuals I‘d likely never have “met” otherwise. I’ve learned so much on this forum in just a matter of months, and have the added bonus of being able to cellar even more tobacco that I don’t need.
...now if you’ll excuse me, I have some terrible music to post in another thread.
...now if you’ll excuse me, I have some terrible music to post in another thread.
I've always been a fan of mordant humor.
Just rite moor and your gonna get better at it. All it is is practice! Do u c?
I loved Agnes Mordant in Bewitched. A sex symbol of the Swinging Sixties if there ever was one.
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