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[Shadow_Hunter]

Originally Posted by GuidoHunter

@Reaper: If you get a warning and keep doing it, you can get banned. Just because the punishment isn't an outright ban doesn't mean it's any less of a rule, anyway.

And I DO PM people if they use excessively bad speech. Typically it never gets to the ban stage (though it has before, especially in CT, where it's more heavily enforced).

@Pscho: Yeah, Squeek does love all the formalities of written English. =)

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

Woah wait....correct me if I'm wrong.

You ban people for spelling bad, or having bad grammar?

[pntballa18]

Originally Posted by RandomPscho

Squeak's

oh, no

[TheRapingDragon]

Originally Posted by Shadow_Hunter

Woah wait....correct me if I'm wrong.

You ban people for spelling bad, or having bad grammar?

You're wrong.

He warns them, then if they continue then he bans them for failing to follow what the moderator has told them to do.

They are being banned for ignoring moderators.

[Shadow_Hunter]

Originally Posted by TheRapingDragon

You're wrong.

He warns them, then if they continue then he bans them for failing to follow what the moderator has told them to do.

They are being banned for ignoring moderators.

Oh...but what if they have bad english...if their from a different country or something.

I don't find that very fair, no offense.

[stretchypanda]

Originally Posted by Shadow_Hunter

Oh...but what if they have bad english...if their from a different country or something.

I don't find that very fair, no offense.

We take every situation into account. We're not going to ban some guy just for not speaking English as his first language.

Not helping your argument is the fact that several people from countries where English is NOT the primary language get along just fine on our forums. There's a significant difference between making occasional errors because you learned another language first, and just typing like a moron because properly typing out words is some how horribly time-consuming and inconvenient. The latter is what we are trying to prevent.

Also, we don't just ban people because they rape English. As has been previously stated, people are warned for certain offenses, and if those people choose to ignore their warning, we ban them.

[Shadow_Hunter]

Originally Posted by stretchypanda

We take every situation into account. We're not going to ban some guy just for not speaking English as his first language.

Not helping your argument is the fact that several people from countries where English is NOT the primary language get along just fine on our forums. There's a significant difference between making occasional errors because you learned another language first, and just typing like a moron because properly typing out words is some how horribly time-consuming and inconvenient. The latter is what we are trying to prevent.

Also, we don't just ban people because they rape English. As has been previously stated, people are warned for certain offenses, and if those people choose to ignore their warning, we ban them.

Sorry, I didn't mean any offense, I know MOD's are just doing their job alright?

I thought you were very frail though, I didn't think you MOD's meant a BIG grammatical period of time which the user has driven. I guess I took it the wrong way. Most people I know from other countries have trouble spelling words like "Weird" and "Friends" so I assumed you banned cause of that, my bad.

[Skilas]

I be damned if Mods ban cause of poor grammar. I know they don't though.

[Squeek]

It's never a primary reason.

In my state, you can get a ticket for not having a seatbelt on, but a police officer can't pull you over for that reason. It's a secondary offense.

Think about it that way.

[purevil]

I learned something today, lol...

[graper77]

Does this particular english lesson involve the explanation of literary devices:
irony
metaphor
mood/atmosphere
ect....
Because it honestly should.

[stretchypanda]

Originally Posted by graper77

Does this particular english lesson involve the explanation of literary devices:
irony
metaphor
mood/atmosphere
ect....
Because it honestly should.

Grammar =/= literary devices.

[GuidoHunter]

Originally Posted by graper77

Does this particular english lesson involve the explanation of literary devices:

ect....

No, but it does cover "ec tetera".

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

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[jessica94]

hi i need help can any of you boys help me

[RandomPscho]

Squeek, could you write this in Spanish please. It would really help me out, and I am sure you would be very good at picking up a second language if you don't already know one.

[GuidoHunter]

What, you're not going to ask the coauthor who speaks Spanish?

@jessica: possibly. PM me to find out.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[RandomPscho]

You speak Spanish Guido?

In that case,
could you possibly make a Spanish version for an aspiring student?

[GuidoHunter]

Maybe. Direct translation is tough considering how the same words are considered different parts of speech in the two languages. I'll see what I can do, though. I wouldn't expect it any time soon, though. That's a long post and I've got other things to do.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Squeek]

Wait, so, we have to write an entire guide on a language with completely different sets of rules and guidelines?

Mmm... I was only a part of the Spanish language for three years and only to get my high school diploma. I've forgotten everything but the greatest phrase I have ever seen in a school textbook's glossary:

"Se lanzo al abismo: To hurl oneself into the abyss"

[jellygod]

yo voy a comer pizza- i am going to eat pizza, i took spanish for a few years got by with like a C or a D lol, im in german now and since im actually interested in learning it ive gotten an A the whole year so far.