Haha Damn Margaret Perrin


Ahem, have you heard about the agnostic, dislexic, insomniac?

He spent all night awake, wondering if there was a Dog.
 
lubidog posted on Mar 1 2006 at 10:54 PM said:
Ahem, have you heard about the agnostic, dislexic, insomniac?

He spent all night awake, wondering if there was a Dog.
Your joke didn't make me laugh because I was thinking about your misspelling of dyslexic.

Call me a Grammar Nazi if you will, I don't care.
 
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nickspoon posted on Mar 2 2006 at 01:47 PM said:
lubidog posted on Mar 1 2006 at 10:54 PM said:
Ahem, have you heard about the agnostic, dislexic, insomniac?

He spent all night awake, wondering if there was a Dog.
Your joke didn't make me laugh because I was thinking about your misspelling of dyslexic.

Call me a Grammar Nazi if you will, I don't care.

That would be a Spelling Nazi.

His grammar appears fine to me.
 
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WrongEyedJesus posted on Mar 2 2006 at 12:55 PM said:
nickspoon posted on Mar 2 2006 at 01:47 PM said:
lubidog posted on Mar 1 2006 at 10:54 PM said:
Ahem, have you heard about the agnostic, dislexic, insomniac?

He spent all night awake, wondering if there was a Dog.
Your joke didn't make me laugh because I was thinking about your misspelling of dyslexic.

Call me a Grammar Nazi if you will, I don't care.

That would be a Spelling Nazi.

His grammar appears fine to me.
Grammar Nazi is a general term covering all aspects of proper English.

Besides, Spelling Nazi sounds a bit silly.
 
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nickspoon posted on Mar 2 2006 at 02:03 PM said:
WrongEyedJesus posted on Mar 2 2006 at 12:55 PM said:
nickspoon posted on Mar 2 2006 at 01:47 PM said:
lubidog posted on Mar 1 2006 at 10:54 PM said:
Ahem, have you heard about the agnostic, dislexic, insomniac?

He spent all night awake, wondering if there was a Dog.
Your joke didn't make me laugh because I was thinking about your misspelling of dyslexic.

Call me a Grammar Nazi if you will, I don't care.

That would be a Spelling Nazi.

His grammar appears fine to me.
Grammar Nazi is a general term covering all aspects of proper English.

Besides, Spelling Nazi sounds a bit silly.

Where have you got the term Grammar Nazi from? Seeing as how spelling and grammar are two distinct areas of language it would seem somewhat of a paradox.
 
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WrongEyedJesus posted on Mar 2 2006 at 01:15 PM said:
nickspoon posted on Mar 2 2006 at 02:03 PM said:
Grammar Nazi is a general term covering all aspects of proper English.

Besides, Spelling Nazi sounds a bit silly.

Where have you got the term Grammar Nazi from? Seeing as how spelling and grammar are two distinct areas of language it would seem somewhat of a paradox.
I used to be a regular on the Weebl's Stuff forums. Huge Grammar Nazism there. Nobody ever used the term 'Spelling Nazi', even when being fussy about spelling. It was used at one point, but eventually fell into disuse under the much mightier Grammar Nazi.

EDIT: His grammar isn't perfect, there shouldn't be a comma after "dyslexic"
 
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EDIT: His grammar isn't perfect, there shouldn't be a comma after "dyslexic"
I thought about that though I would suggest it depends on how you choose to read the sentance, without the comma you would really have to write:

"Ahem, have you heard about the agnostic, dyslexic who was also an insomniac?"

due to insomniac being both a noun and pronoun.

I dont really know.

Funnily enough I am an agnostic, dyslexic who suffers from insomnia. :huh:

I used to have a dog in my life too, but no longer do.
 
Ahem...

The word dyslexic was spelt wrong on purpose. It was a joke...(honest....)*

And as someone who is bilingual, and has had to learn another language in adulthood, don't talk to me about pronouns!!!!!!

And 'sentAnce'? Hey? HEEEYYYY????




*Not true, just thick.
 
Insomniac is being used as a noun. If you wanted to be certain about grammar, you would write:

"Have you heard about the insomniac who was agnostic and dyslexic?"

Or "the agnostic dyslexic who suffers from insomnia".

Has anyone here read "Eats, Shoots & Leaves?" Good book, indeed.

Edit: Lubidog: No need to take my English-fussiness personally. I'm like that to everybody :)
 
lubidog posted on Mar 2 2006 at 02:46 PM said:
Ahem...

The word dyslexic was spelt wrong on purpose. It was a joke...(honest....)*

And as someone who is bilingual, and has had to learn another language in adulthood, don't talk to me about pronouns!!!!!!

And 'sentAnce'? Hey? HEEEYYYY????




*Not true, just thick.

As I said:


"Funnily enough I am an agnostic, dyslexic who suffers from insomnia. :huh: "

No joke, believe me

Easy tiger.

The only reason I try to keep an interest in these things is so I make as few mistakes as possible.

I certainly don't jump down peoples throat about it.

Just a polite discusion, that's all it was.
 
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This is worse than trying to explain a joke to a German...
 
lubidog posted on Mar 2 2006 at 05:04 PM said:
This is worse than trying to explain a joke to a German...
"No, you see, the man was asking how the dog could smell without a nose, and the other man thought he was referring to how the dog smelt to him... Yes, it was funny ten minutes ago, when I told it."
 
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Mein Hund hat keine Nase. Wie kann Er riechen? Schrecklich!

What ever you do, don't mention Selbst Brauner.
 
lubidog posted on Mar 2 2006 at 05:04 PM said:
This is worse than trying to explain a joke to a German...

Ah. I don't get it.


And wtf do you mean with "Selbst Brauner"?
 
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Selbst Brauner

Fake tan - And i believe literally meaning "Self Browner".
 
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