Re: Free grammar lessons!
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Originally Posted by jewpinthethird[link]:
"If you get stung by enough bees you turn into a bee,
because the venom gets into the blood stream which
spreads bee DNA throughout your entire body...
changing your genetic structure into a bee's.
Every year roughly 125 people in America are turned into bees this way."
Originally Posted by MrRubix[link]:
"Do you basically bukkake-paint your walls every time you jack it?"
Originally Posted by All_That_Chaz[link]:
"My pity-sex depreciates at a rate of 5% annually."Comment
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A-L-L-O-W-E-D.Comment
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y in the world would some1 want grammar lessons!Comment
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I smell GENIUS!!!!
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Thank you Squeek! I just read your grammar lessons, and I find it very useful, especially chapter 4 "Common Misconceptions", chapter 5 "Same sound, different meaning?" and chapter 6 "Difficult Misconceptions".
I'm from the Netherlands, and it's hard for me to spell right and use the right words in English. I'll read this topic more often, so that I'll know those things more and more
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me no speak ingrish!
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I don't know if anyone has told you this Squeek, but your definition of an acronym is incorrect.
I'm currently attending a class in university dedicated to everything grammar related. In this class, we learned the difference between an acronym and an abbreviation. Almost every (at least I think it was almost all of them) example you have in the acronym chapter is an abbreviation. If you pay attention to the dictionary's description of an acronym, you'll notice that it says that an acronym is a word in itself; that is, it can be used alone as a noun. This means that a word such as CD, or RPG in your case, is in fact, not an acronym at all. The dictionary's examples work, as they are words in themselves (WAC = whack).
So, the more simple definition of an acronym would be:
A compounding of several words into a shorter word that is still able to be used as a word itself. Acronyms are said, not read.
Eg: NASA, MADD, RADAR.
An abbreviation is almost the same thing, except that it differs in the fact that it is not said, but read. You don't pronounce the abbreviation "CD" as "S-duh", you read the letters in the abbreviation, "see-dee".
When I discovered this, I was really surprised. It seems that acronyms are a lot less common than I expected. However, this fact was something I found rather interesting. I believe most of my class shared my interest, if that's what you want to call it, in learning this as well.
So, An abbreviation is:
A compounding of words into a shorter word that is not actually a word on its own. The letters of an abbreviation are not read as a word by the reader, but instead, said one-by-one.
Eg: CD, DVD, HIV, UFO.
I really hope this wasn't posted elsewhere in the thread. I'd never really looked through it before. I actually found it quite informative. Thanks for clearing up my Whose/Who's and Whoever/Whomever woes, Guido. And Squeek, very well organized, easy to read material has hopefully made for a lot of reads here. I know as well as the next guy, that this site needs something like this incredibly bad.Comment
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I'm pretty sure we settled that a few pages back, Dan, but it's always nice to have a condensed version.
--Guido
Originally posted by GrandiagodComment
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Also, this thread is nearly three years old. I've learned a lot since I wrote it and haven't bothered editing it back in because nobody reads it anyway.Comment
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