CWJones411
IRR
Since this seems to be the Nuremberg Rally of Grammar Nazis, I have to point out that the title should be "AW Grammar Smackdown '08".
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Aw Grammar Smackdown 08!
- Thread starter Beans
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The Coherent Police might think he meant to say, "Awwwww Grammar Smackdown 2008!"
CWJones411
IRR
The Coherence Gestapo sounds better.
/threadjack
I HATED my grading job. I got yelled at one time for giving 2 people 0s without consulting my instructor (ya, I know I should have, but I was still right) because the two students' (NOTE the correct grammar there!
) code was IDENTICAL. I am not talking the same code, I am also talking IDENTICAL code and pseudocode (commentary after code explaining the code WITH IDENTICAL spelling mistakes!). Same font. Not even an attempt to hide the copy/paste job. Professor yelled at me saying "How dare you accuse my students of cheating. I allow them to work together". I didn't challenge him. I took my lumps, but I wanted to ask if he thought having identical spelling mistakes was a bit beyond "working together"?NEVER AGAIN will I grade unless I have the authority to give 0s to cheaters.
/threadjack
Dammit, Webster was on "Webster." Arnold was on "Diff'rent Strokes."
...kids these days. They don't know one whacked-out '80s child star from another.
Weren't both the characters played by Gary Coleman? Or am I now gonna get called a racist... cuz really I'm anything but that.
And this is what the Grammar Smackdown comes down to...that is, that Johnny Utah is a racist. I always had my suspicions....
//***************************************/threadjack
I HATED my grading job. I got yelled at one time for giving 2 people 0s without consulting my instructor (ya, I know I should have, but I was still right) because the two students' (NOTE the correct grammar there!
NEVER AGAIN will I grade unless I have the authority to give 0s to cheaters.
/threadjack __________________
//Revenge Subprogram
//***************************************
int Revenge()
{
user ottowrote8.status = "threadjacker"; //sets otto's status
user Kickflip89.status = "bored threadjacker";
user grammaristas.status = "angry with vengeance";
if (ottowrote8.grammar >= Kickflip89.grammer)
grammaristas.attack(ottowrote8);
else
grammaristas.attack(Kickflip89);
//too tired to think of anything more interesting...carry on. Keep in mind
// program was written without reference to code or pubs.
return 0;
}//end of Revenge
NEEEEERRRRRDDDSSS!!!!!
You are correct to a certain point here. You have to remember that Shakespeare wrote prose in iambic pentameter so that his actors could remember their lines a bit easer. In Shakespeare's day people did not speak in prose, nor did they speak in iambic. In reality what has happened is that screenwriters (and some playwrights) have written in the way that people speak in their normal lives.
If you go see a Shakespearian play performed by a good production company with well trained actors (not some high school or local community college production) you will find that Shakespeare is in fact fairly easy to comprehend.