Long-Haired Hot Men (real and/or fictional)

pumpkinlessidjit:

jadedgalvanizer:

timelordsatan:

ambular-d:

pumpkinlessidjit:

i want there to be an angel that descends from the heavens only when someone is being stupid

and the angel just gently places their hand over the person’s mouth

and whispers in a voice filled with heavenly beauty and love

“no”

ANABIEL

LOOK IT UP

IM SCREECHING LOOK LOOK AT THE ART LOOK HOW PRETTY IT IS OH MY GOSH <33333333333

(via worthyourweightinfanfiction)

waycest:

living-life-18:

waycest:

i dont understand why people call out grammar in arguments

ive known plenty of ppl with proper grammar that were stupid as shit

capitalization and periods dont make u special ur scum like the rest of us

*don’t *I’ve *people *don’t *you *you’re :)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there we go

Pointing out bad grammar to prove that the other person is wrong (unless it’s a misuse of an important word and the grammar person is confused about what the other person is saying, or realizes that the proper use of the word proves their point), is kind of silly. But you’re a bit narrow-minded about what they’re doing it for. If it’s a typed/written argument (since you’re referring to periods and capitalization) and you’re typing in your first language, you don’t have much of an excuse to get it wrong, simply because of how easy it is to get most things right. For English speakers, at least, you could just go to dictionary.com or wiktionary.org if you’re confused about proper spelling. Typing into Google or Wikipedia, at the least (my point being that you don’t need to attend a language seminar or go through lots of websites for information), is an easy way to learn about different kinds of sentence structure and their proper usage. I also know that English isn’t the only language you can find dictionaries or grammar guides for, so if you’re a non-English speaker, I’m pretty sure you still don’t have an excuse for screwing up in your own language. I also know that grammar nerds are not English-only, so people still care in other languages. If the problem is the more complicated sentence structures or words that are over two syllables in length, I can promise you that it is relatively easy to make a good argument in “simple” words, using simple language. Those are often the best ones, because they’re so easily accessible to a large audience. So you don’t have to overstep your capabilities to make your point.

Pointing out bad grammar in general, even in arguments, especially in written/typed arguments can have many reasons behind it. For instance, when I do it, it’s with the hope that the other person has learned from the experience and will be able to communicate better in the future. If it’s something simple like why “its” and “it’s” are different and when you use them, it’s easily fixable. If you take the lesson to heart, you will look smarter when you make the same argument in the future, because you’ll be using the language correctly. Bad grammar isn’t just something “OCD grammar nazis” get annoyed about. It makes you look stupid. Just look at speeches given by public speakers like Sarah Palin and George W. Bush, or Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” series.

It’s also because, despite all its flaws, a lot of English-speakers like English and using English and when someone who speaks English as a first language misuses it just because they’re too lazy to use it correctly (which is more often than not the reason I see it used incorrectly online), people get a little annoyed. Language exists to aid communication between people, whether it be in simple conversation, discussion, or its numerous art forms. It doesn’t work correctly if one end of that communication is screwed up for no purpose other than laziness and a childish anger at people for daring to make rules of any sort. From my experience speaking to multiple speakers of other languages, including German, Spanish, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Gaelic, and Russian, they value their languages as much as we do.

Don’t forget the confusion problem. If I can’t understand what you’re trying to say, you don’t automatically win the argument, and we can’t really make any progress when at least part of your message is lost (unless your point is simply to win and not share discourse on a topic). I seek clarification in this situation. If I recognize the word and know that it’s been used incorrectly, I don’t always know why. Maybe it was a typo, maybe you don’t speak my language well and either don’t know how to type the word properly or don’t know how to use it properly, or maybe you’re over-reaching your writing capabilities. Offering the fix to the problem is just one step in helping you and bettering our communication. Or maybe I’ll learn something from the conversation. Any language is large and diverse, and there’s always something new to learn, whether it’s a word or sentence structure.

So yes, being nit-picky about grammar in an argument that is not about grammar as a means to prove one’s argument is rather silly. But when you act like using proper grammar or correcting someone else’s grammar is simply about proving that the speaker is a better person than you, you are most likely wrong, and just come off sounding arrogant.

(via worthyourweightinfanfiction)

oddpicturesoddpeople:

barbie-wears-pink-aviators:

BECAUSE

AND ALSO

JUST

LET ME JUST SAY

IF YOU DON’T ALREADY THINK THIS WOMAN IS AN AMAZONIAN PRINCESS

YOU ARE DOING IT TOO WRONG FOR WORDS.

I didn’t know I needed this, but now I do.

That is an AMAZING idea! I LOVE IT!

(via toughtink)

fishingboatproceeds:

(Like, in say AP English or your freshman in college lit class.)

I am asking because we are thinking about the future of Crash Course and stuff. Okay thanks.

I’m counting plays because we read them as books, and, well… short stories and collections.

AP English Language: “The Scarlet Letter”, “Huckleberry Finn”, “The Grapes of Wrath”, “The Great Gatsby”, “Cold Mountain”, and we were supposed to read “Death of a Salesman”, but ran out of time.

AP English Literature: “The Awakening”, “Hamlet”, “Macbeth” <3, “A Streetcar Named Desire”, “Much Ado About Nothing”, “Sense and Sensibility”, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, “Heart of Darkness”, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, and a lot of poetry, since one semester was a poetry unit and the other was a non-poetry literature unit.

And college:

Detective Fiction: Sarah Paretsky’s “Indemnity Only”, Linda Hogan’s “Mean Spirit”, Chang-rae Lee’s “Native Speaker” (the best spy novel I’ve read), Dashell Hammett’s “Red Harvest”, Rudolph Fisher’s “The Conjure-Man Dies” (the best detective fiction work I’ve read), “The Dead Letter”

British Fiction: “Great Expectations”, E.M. Forster’s “Howard’s End”, “Jane Eyre”, Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”, “Northanger Abbey”, “Pride and Prejudice”, Ann Radcliffe’s “Romance of the Forest”

Literary Analysis: “Twelfth Night”, Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”.

Science Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Cuckoo’s Egg” and “The Dispossessed”, Frank Herbert’s “Dune”.

Dickens: “Bleak House”, “David Copperfield”, “Hard Times”, “Oliver Twist”.

Creative Writing I: Roxanne Gay’s “Ayiti” (the second best book/ best collection of short stories I’ve read in college), Alissa Nutting’s “Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls”, Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried”

Lit Resistance: Maria Edgeworth’s “Castle Rackrent”

Graphic Novel: “A Contract With God”, “Asterios Polyp”, “Underwater Welder”, “Swallow Me Whole”

Global Issues in Literature: Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony” <3, Ghassan Kanafani’s “Men in the Sun”, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (again), Barbara Kingsolver’s “The Poisonwood Bible” (my favorite book in college thus far), Luis Valdez’s “Zoot Suit”

American Realism: Theodore Dreiser’s “Sister Carrie”, Sarah Orne Jewett’s “The Country of Pointed Firs”, Charless W. Chesnutt’s “The Marrow of Tradition”, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ “The Story of Avis”, William Dean Howells’ “Editha”, “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets”

tarkadaal:

Long-Haired Hot Men (real and/or fictional): levitus: burst-of-giggles: quazza: i am reminded that english is a…

levitus:

burst-of-giggles:

quazza:

i am reminded that english is a flawed language every time I am forced to use “that that” in a sentence

when i had to memorize the Gettysburg Address i got so pissed at “and that that nation might live” that i screamed in my teachers face. and…

“The pub Landlord told the sign painter to leave plenty of room between ‘The Pig’ and ‘and’, and ‘and’ and ‘Whistle’”.