Grammar is infectious.

[black lincon]

Since my inception into this site my grammar outside of the confines of this section of tubing has gotten better, to the point where my natural sense of superiority kicks in and demands that I begin pointing out the flaws of others. It started out small by correcting peoples misuse of words like "ironic" and "karma." It soon grew into correcting anything typed on anyplace else where I typed. If you'd humor me for a moment I'd like to share with you a story of one fellow who took the news of his bad grammar a bit too serious, although I guess you could just skip to the bottom to find out my dam point.

First off a bit of back story; recently I've been playing the gears 2 story with random people online, this has set me up with people of various skill, but that wasn't really my concern, so long as they live, and shoot, I don't care. However, one fellow couldn't seem to do either particularly well.

We came to a boss (the giant fish for those concerned, sorry if that spoiled it for anyone) when trying to explain the strategy he didn't seem to want to listen, and I ended up beating the boss by myself. And then he sent me this, "COOL MOVE WE DID IT DUDE"

We did it? No, I did it. I wasn't allowing this guy to take any credit for what I had done. I decided to send him a semi-scathing response, "No, I did it. You didn't follow my instructions and sat around like an idiot, please listen or leave."

And leave he did, thinking my troubles were over I went on with my game, got a new partner, and got halfway through the next level when I got sent a message by guess who, it read, "U SHOULD WATCH UR MOUTH N WAT U SAY KID"

Seeing this guy was clearly keen on criticism, and as he so boldly claims in his bio that he's in collage I decided to go for the jugular, "You should learn proper grammar."

It worked and in five minutes I had a new message to criticize, "I GUESS U NEVER HEARD OF SLANG TALK HUH WELL MAYBE ITS EITHER U HAVE INSUFFICENT BRAIN CELLS 2 INTERPRET WHAT IM SAYIN OR YOUR MIND IS 2 MANIFESTED WITH REVOLTING MANNERS"

That one made me laugh, saying I was stupid for using proper grammar, I'd never heard of something so stupid. I decided that this wasn't to be the end of this odyssey and so I replied, "I've heard of it, I just choose not to use it because I have a brain larger than a pea. By the way saying "2" instead of "to" isn't slang it's netspeak."

While I'm quite sure I made up the word "netspeak" I was sticking to my superiority guns, and he might as well have handed me a shotgun and let me shoot him point-blank in the chest with his next comment, "YEA I ONLY TEXT IT NOT SAY IT AND MAYBE IF MY BRAIN WAS A PEA I WOULD HAVE 2 BE PRETTY DAMN SMART 2 BE IN COLLEGE WITH A GRADE STUDENTS RIGHT !!! MAYBE IF U WASNT ANTAGONISM I WOULDNT BE WASTIN TIME NOW RIGHT !!!!!!!!! SO GO RUN ALONG AND PLAY YOUR GAME"

Although humbled by his mastery of the English language I wasn't just done yet, and I sent him this simple message, "could you rewrite that so you don't butcher the English language?"

Unfortunately he was in fact done "WASTIN TIME NOW RIGHT." I sent another message giving suggestions on how he could edit it but I never got a message back.

This is more the epitome of what I was talking about. It tends to be to lesser extents than this.

So, I ask you the fine members of this tube, has being a member of the escapist community changed your grammar habits at all? Also, to what extent of a grammar Nazi are you?

 

[perfectimo]

Being on the escapist has changed my messenger habits. Could somebody else please rank me on grammar Nazi-ism?

 

[Rednog]

So in the end why do you sound like the jerk?

 

[Labyrinth]

I wouldn't say it's changed my habits, as I've typed like this for years, far longer than I've been here. It's just that I get away with whining about other's atrocities much more easily here than in other places.

 

[black lincon]

So in the end why do you sound like the jerk?

The term grammar Nazi comes to mind.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

You didn't make up "netspeak"

 

[Slayer_2]

Well, if some dude is running his mouth about how dumb I am in "leetspeak", I can't resist, and give in to the little nazi-ism in all us grammar/spelling fanatics have somewhere inside us. I mean it really is an instance of the kettle calling the pot black.

 

[Rednog]

So in the end why do you sound like the jerk?

The term grammar Nazi comes to mind.

It didn't start out as a grammar problem. The problem is that people screw up in games, and instead of just shrugging off his message and continue you replied like a jerk. Hell I know when I played the first Gears I kept getting slaughtered in the caves when at the part where the players split up. I think we had to restart the area like 6 times and we eventually did it and when we finally beat the general I sent the guy a message, "hey man thanks for a fun game, gg." He could've replied "would've been a better game if you didn't suck" or something along those lines, instead he replied "yea gg."
In your case, as you explain it, it wasn't standing up for grammar you just prodded him into an argument.

 

[black lincon]

So in the end why do you sound like the jerk?

The term grammar Nazi comes to mind.

It didn't start out as a grammar problem. The problem is that people screw up in games, and instead of just shrugging off his message and continue you replied like a jerk. Hell I know when I played the first Gears I kept getting slaughtered in the caves when at the part where the players split up. I think we had to restart the area like 6 times and we eventually did it and when we finally beat the general I sent the guy a message, "hey man thanks for a fun game, gg." He could've replied "would've been a better game if you didn't suck" or something along those lines, instead he replied "yea gg."
In your case, as you explain it, it wasn't standing up for grammar you just prodded him into an argument.

It wasn't his skill that bothered me it was his inability to follow directions. On top of that it taught him a lesson, or it should have, that people don't take you seriously when you have bad grammar.

 

[qbert4ever]

The only words I get anal about are swears. Either spell the thing out the right way without using any stars or such, or don't use it at all. Aside from that, I don't give two shits how you use grammar, as long as your point is clear and not retarded.

That being the case, it's "damn", not "dam".

 

[perfectimo]

I just read the bulk of the story and basically you were trolling, wow.

 

[Aardvark]

I've already been called out on it once today, so I might as well wear my manji with pride.

 

[The Kind Cannibal]

I could give a rats ass what you type like, as long as I can translate it into legible English in my mind.

But in real life I'm a Pronunciation Nazi, as in when people like to add nonexistent syllables and letters into a word I point it out immediately.

 

[DangerChimp]

Wow, that's terrifying. I hope I never run across anyone even remotely resembling you on Live. You don't sound like a grammar Nazi. You sound like a huge a--hole.

 

[black lincon]

I could give a rats ass what you type like, as long as I can translate it into legible English in my mind.

But in real life I'm a Pronunciation Nazi, as in when people like to add nonexistent syllables and letters into a word I point it out immediately.

I do the same thing in lit class, especially to the teacher who has problems pronouncing almost everything.

Wow, that's terrifying. I hope I never run across anyone even remotely resembling you on Live. You don't sound like a grammar Nazi. You sound like a huge a--hole.

I prefer the term condescending.

EDIT:

I just read the bulk of the story and basically you were trolling, wow.

Wow, that's terrifying. I hope I never run across anyone even remotely resembling you on Live. You don't sound like a grammar Nazi. You sound like a huge a--hole.

So in the end why do you sound like the jerk?

Wow, I for one agreed with him.

their not entirely wrong they just cant differentiate between being a jerk and being a grammar Nazi.

 

[DangerChimp]

I prefer the term condescending.

"Pompous" also works. Enjoy your nerd cave, my man.

 

[black lincon]

I prefer the term condescending.

"Pompous" also works. Enjoy your nerd cave, my man.

My what now? How does having a larger vernacular than the average bear make it so I live in a "nerd cave"?

 

[perfectimo]

I just read the bulk of the story and basically you were trolling, wow.

Wow, that's terrifying. I hope I never run across anyone even remotely resembling you on Live. You don't sound like a grammar Nazi. You sound like a huge a--hole.

So in the end why do you sound like the jerk?

Wow, I for one agreed with him.

their not entirely wrong they just cant differentiate between being a jerk and being a grammar Nazi.

I can tell the difference.

We did it? No, I did it. I wasn't allowing this guy to take any credit for what I had done. I decided to send him a semi-scathing response, "No, I did it. You didn't follow my instructions and sat around like an idiot, please listen or leave."

Seeing this guy was clearly keen on criticism, and as he so boldly claims in his bio that he's in collage I decided to go for the jugular, "You should learn proper grammar."

For a self-proclaimed grammar Nazi you have made a few noticeable errors in this thread.

 

[Aardvark]

Simple. You must spend your days writing out things correctly on the walls and spend your nights reading them, as you stomp around your fire in your bearskin.

 

[black lincon]

For a self-proclaimed grammar Nazi you have made a few noticeable errors in this thread.

Have I made any grammatical errors? You might want to consider that we just have different definitions of grammar Nazi. Your also not looking at the grammar of his messages, the first message he sent me has 3 errors, if you count the capitalization as one. His second message has 6, again counting capitalization as one, and is redundant. Could that be why my tune changed? Not because I'm vindictive, but because this guys grammar got twice as bad in a few minutes.

EDIT: His second message has 7 grammar errors not 6.