Marth8880 wrote:Twilight_Warrior wrote:using the fact that "this is the Internet" as an excuse for adapting bad English is such a fallacious copout, such a foolish, petty strawman that it isn't even funny.
You're missing a comma at the end of your appositive phrase (after the word "strawman"), as the phrase is interrupting the sentence.
Nope; a comma after "that" is the choice of the author, whereas a comma after "which" is required. Also, I'm not the idiot who you seem to see me as half the time; I know what an appositive phrase is.
You're still misunderstanding.
"such a foolish, petty strawman" (the appositive phrase) needs to have a comma both before and after it in order to signal returning to the original thought. You have the one before. You are missing the one after. The word "that" has nothing to do with it, and could even be left out of the sentence entirely. But my point remains that mistakes are made, even when you try so hard to use proper grammar, and we shouldn't be holding each other accountable for every little one.
Marth8880 wrote:Twilight_Warrior wrote:However, I do not expect you to fix these things, because this is a forum on the internet. I give you the common courtesy of ignoring these mistakes because, based on where I am, it is expected that the use of the English language (or any language, for that matter) will not be totally accurate.
For Christ's sake, I was talking about when people don't use any spelling/grammar/punctuation
at all in the first place, the whole globe-wide argument about whether or not correct English actually matters
at all on the Internet, even if this thread is specifically about comma splices (which it pretty much transitioned to the aforementioned topic either way).
Yes, YOU are talking about whether proper grammar matters at all.
I was talking about how proper grammar does not matter so much that we should be spending out time pointing out everyone's little mistakes. You accused me of the former. I defended my statement. Because proper grammar does matter, but not so much that mistakes are
intolerable for the sake of our non-native English speaking members.
Marth8880 wrote:Twilight_Warrior wrote:You also need to chill out.
Um, what? You don't even know me, nor can you conclude that I need to "chill out" over a wall of text.
No, I don't know you, but I can conclude with phrases such as "such a fallacious copout, such a foolish, petty strawman that it isn't even funny," " like idiots who can't even speak or type our own native language," "
So what?," and the blatant sarcasm in "Please, tell me; I would love to know," that your stress levels were heightened during that response. And I know emotions can run high on the internet, especially when conflicting opinions are present. So if you believe you typed that response in a completely calm manner, I apologize, but it certainly did not come across that way.