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(05-28-2021, 07:10 PM)felis tigris Wrote: Recognizing this to be excessively pedantic, I believe there should be a comma after "Nazi," "made up" should be hyphenated, and "contentless" is, in fact, recognized by both Merriam-Webster and Oxford Dictionaries as a legitimate word.



Wrong about the comma but correct about hyphenating "made-up" and "contentless" being a word.

But the point is I never address grammar on a message board except when pointing out errors made by people attacking others' grammar.  So I basically got hoisted on my own petard.
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But the kicker is you didn't. You said "I could OF done better" instead of, "I could have done better." and to make matters worse you omitted punctuation.

Dammit! I love being a grammar field marshal! ThumbsUp
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(05-28-2021, 07:10 PM)felis tigris Wrote: Recognizing this to be excessively pedantic, I believe there should be a comma after "Nazi," "made up" should be hyphenated, and "contentless" is, in fact, recognized by both Merriam-Webster and Oxford Dictionaries as a legitimate word.

But did he mean contentious....
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(05-28-2021, 08:38 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: But did he mean contentious....

I'm pretty sure it was content-less spelled contentless. Personally I would have used , without content or better yet just said nothing, but this has become quite fun.. I may have been a complete dolt in mathematics, but by golly I could ace a college English term paper by bullshitting my way through it.   Smirk
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(05-28-2021, 08:50 PM)grampahol Wrote: I'm pretty sure it was content-less spelled contentless. Personally I would have used , without content or better yet just said nothing, but this has become quite fun.. I may have been a complete dolt in mathematics, but by golly I could ace a college English term paper by bullshitting my way through it.   Smirk

Yeah it was that Algebra that always gave me probs. Mellow
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