http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258 Anyone who's spent any time on the internet knows the world is made up of three types of people. The first two types are those who use proper grammar in expressing themselves and those who don't. The third type is commonly referred to as a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grammar+Nazi">Grammar Nazi</a>. Drifting from chat rooms to discussion sites, they jump all over misspellings, faulty diction, or violations of basic rules of grammar. Many people are less than app en-us Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:17 EST Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:38:42 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#25 A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Throw them all in jail!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:38:42 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#24 <i>"...an "editor" shouldn't be saying this, but language is fluid and grammar nazis need to get over themselves and get a life."</i><p> I'm something of a grammarian, and a former magazine editor (small magazine, only 1.4M issues/mo), but I try not to be Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:35:56 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#23 Of course, you quit arguing because I refused to concede the point, not because you understood anything that I was saying, which would have been completely out of character for you.  It is not surprising that you still do not agree that either of the Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:16:13 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#22 In spoken English, I simply cannot listen to people who insist on using "actually" every other world.  Usuaully you encounter this when somebody is recounting factual information.  I've had more than a few tour guides who've suffered from this af Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:16:11 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#21 It's a binary situation.  Either you are in one state (regret) or you are in another (no regret).  The regrets can have a degree of intensity, but no regrets?  That's all the same intensity.<p> All that metastudy showed is that there were a Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:44:55 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#20 <blockquote><i>...that metastudy showed that 80% of transexuals were not unhappy with the results</i></blockquote>No, James, it said that 1/5th of post-op transgender patients regretted changing their sex. It did not indicate that 80% "were not unhappy," w Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:26:36 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#19 <blockquote><i>Living in a state that secedes would not necessarily cause someone to stop being a citizen</i></blockquote>It would mean that your rights as a citizen would no longer be protected. Sure, you could still have a passport and all that, but not Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:21:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#18 <i>I actually cited an article about a meta study that countered your view.</i><p> Yeah, that metastudy showed that 80% of transexuals were not unhappy with the results.  I guess by your lights, that means they were insane. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:45:01 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#17 <blockquote>The right to remain a citizen is fundamental to that charge</blockquote><p> Living in a state that secedes would not necessarily cause someone to stop being a citizen. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:09:56 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#16 <blockquote><i>...you concluded not only that gender re-assignment surgery is useless...</i></blockquote>No, I argued that your assertion that <i>"after the gender re-assignment surgery, the resulting transsexual person is perfectly sane"</i> is not suppor Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:29:28 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#15 Most recently, on the basis of perfunctory research on your part, you concluded not only that gender re-assignment surgery is useless, but also that my own expressed confidence in it proves that everything I have ever said on this site is wrong.  No o Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:33:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#14 Really? Where did I have a careless argument? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:04:28 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#13 You may never be careless with your words, but you are very careless with your opinions, as our previous arguments clearly show. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:23:10 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#12 Phew...yer stinking up the room. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:22:53 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#11 * <---Joke<p> <br><br><br><br><p> Ә  <---Havok's thick head. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:10:08 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#10 <i>"Perversity" is a noun</i><p> "Perverse" is an adjective, and thus "perversely" is no perversion, but merely an adverb.<p> <i>I am never, ever careles with my words</i><p> Not never. No, no, no.  Nor yur spelin.g  Nuh uh.  Nope. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:06:54 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#9 <i> The inappropriate use of the word "real" as an adjective, for example ("he is a real good speller!") has become so widespread that it seems to be ineradicable.</i><p> It's a slight corruption of "rilly:" "he's a rilly gud spellr." Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:00:37 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#8 <blockquote><i>And no, I do not need to satisfy your criteria for being cool (whatever those may be), in order to start a paragraph with a conjunction</i></blockquote>Nothing prevents you from beginning a paragraph with a conjunction; that is true. You don Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:12:37 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#7 <blockquote><i>You probably think that you are perversely hunting me</i></blockquote>"Perversity" is a noun. Nice try, but I am never, ever careles with my words. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:04:33 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#6 Actually, you must have deliberatedly changed the title from haunted to hunted.  You probably think that you are perversely hunting me.  But I think that it would be more accurate to describe your activities as perverse haunting. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:59:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#5 You forgot to correct the subject line, which should have read "haunted by perversity" not "hunted".  I was going to comment that I am being haunted by zxywvutsr, but then I realized that the reference fails, due to the typographical error in the subj Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:38:57 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#4 <blockquote><i>The inappropriate use of the word "real" as an adjective, for example ("he is a real good speller!")</i></blockquote>Adverb.<p> <blockquote><i>But, in the face of all this error, the prudent course of action...</i></blockquote>Are you cool e Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:01:33 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#3 Standards of English usage are not very good these days.  The inappropriate use of the word "real" as an adjective, for example ("he is a real good speller!") has become so widespread that it seems to be ineradicable.  Important works of literatu Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:09:15 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#2 Not really.  As we touched on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/7/10210/44573">in a recent discussion of a similar topic</a>, it's really a mixed bag.  On the one hand, adherence to niggling grammatical and spelli Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:22:29 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/22/15836/0258#1 ...an "editor" shouldn't be saying this, but language is fluid and grammar nazis need to get over themselves and get a life.  Sure, we need a general set of rules so people can write and speak in mutually intelligible ways, but they should be viewed m Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:05:48 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/