Minichan

That's what they told E. E. Cummings, and look where he ended up. Dead. In Boston.

Throw out your wicked occult books, by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien!

It's actually in the rules for this website that you use punctuation. Thanks.

@previous (Grover !rS0yiji4ic)

It's also in the rules that you make quality posts. Where are yours???????

@1,040,701 (Grover !rS0yiji4ic)
> Like everything else here, that's a random rule without a very good reason behind it.

The punctuation is indeed running out we have to start rationing it a good start is to just use one full stop per post.

ninjj and dw were onto something a while ago when they began to ration capital letters which is why we still have those but nobody else did something similar with punctuation hence our current predicament.

@previous (Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE)
hey ive been conserving punctuation for years buddy
no full stops here
all aboard the line break train
next stop proseville
choo choo

@1,040,802 (Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE)

What the Fuck is this shit all about

@1,040,701 (Grover !rS0yiji4ic)

> It's actually in the rules for this website that you use punctuation. Thanks.

Ah you mean this rule


That is almost perfect CopyPasta of Anon Talk aka AnT - The Crap Shoot operation Run by a Crazy as all fuck Kimmo Alm, no longer around or relevant and besides he demanded this site shut self down along with tinychan and there used to be lots of chans - Of course 4Chan is still somewhat active.

I do my very best to do as ee cummings does/did and wood continue 2do if he were not 6 feet under.



Yes Yes sum may say "deliberatley confused" S/B deliberately confused. I CopyPasted that ''Exaztly as it appears on a Poets Website.

If Only Syntax wood pay more attention to eE cUmMiNgs AND Grover, Mark Twain has much to say about how it's totally OK To Miss-Sprel words and use unconventionel Grammer

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The Rules of Grammar

"I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules---knew them by heart, word for word, though not their meanings---and I still know one of them: the one which says---but never mind, it will come back to me presently."

"Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter, and not the trimmings and shadings of their grammar."

"The Queen's English"
"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares."

"Adjectives"
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out."

"Verbosity"
"I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English---it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them---then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice."
(Letter to D. W. Bowser, March 1880)"

"SPELLING"

"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow."

"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home---where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."

"I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."


"...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime."

@previous (Mark Twain II)
did you notice that Mark Twain can form a coherent sentence tho

@previous (jodi !RwordOooFE)
Trust me on this - If I have too and I have. I have replied to you in most perfect Inglish on occasions but as Anon. That wayyy you have no clue it be me.

IT Ain't easy to do that but I sure can if pressed. That is why I pay a couple3 Editors to clean up my Inglish before submission to clients - Includes Email on occasions because some of my stuff is parsed in2 legal documents and in NO Way do I want attorneys to view my unclean Dyslexic English -

I actually get more decent replies from you to those hard to do Anon posts.

@previous (Syntax)
> That wayyy you have no clue it be me.
tbh I can usually tell when it's you but I don't really care. appreciate the effort

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